1940 TANFL season

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1940 TANFL season
Teams4
Premiers North Hobart
14th premiership
Minor premiers North Hobart
Wooden spooners New Town
William Leitch Medallist Geoff Kilmartin
(Cananore)
Leading goalkicker Jack Metherell
(North Hobart − 69 goals)
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The 1940 TANFL season was the 59th season of the Tasmanian Australian National Football League (TANFL), the highest-level senior Australian rules football competition in southern Tasmania. [1] [2]

Contents

North Hobart won the TSL premiership for the 14th time and the third year in a row, defeating Cananore by 57 points in the 1940 TANFL Grand Final. [3] [4]

Ladder

PosTeamPldWLDPFPAPPPtsQualification
1 North Hobart (P)15105046 Finals series
2 Cananore 1587038
3 Lefroy 1569032
4 New Town 1569028

Source: [5] [6] [7] [8]
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) percentage; 3) number of points for.
(P) Premiers

Finals

From 1929 until 1941, the TANFL home-and-away season featured three rounds played for 4 premiership points per win, and two rounds played for 6 premiership points per win. A three-team system with challenge was then played, with the initial 1–3 positions based on premiership points, and the right of challenge going only to the team with the strictly best home-and-away season win-loss record. [9]

Semi-final

Semi-final
Saturday, 31 August Cananore 13.6 (84)def. Lefroy 12.6 (78) North Hobart Oval (crowd: 3,990) [10] [11] [12]

Grand final

1940 TANFL grand final
Saturday, 17 September (3:00 pm) North Hobart def. Cananore North Hobart Oval (crowd: 5,420) [13] [14] [15]
5.2 (32)
8.2 (50)
15.6 (96)
18.8 (116)		Q1
Q2
Q3
Final		2.6 (18)
6.10 (46)
6.10 (46)
7.17 (59)
Metherell 6, Pye 4, T. Richardson 3, Gray 2, Manson, Gorman, JonesGoalsN. Richardson 2, Sproule, McDonald, Cooper, Tudor, Cook
Abbott, Metherell, Pye, Challender, T. Richardson, Collis, Jones, Taylor, Andrews, Hooper, Loring, GogginsBestWatkins, Turner, Sproule, Gaunt, Lette, Haley, Cashman, McDonald, Geappen, Clothier, Cooper, Tudor, Kelly
  • Had Cananore won, North Hobart (which had the best win-loss record) would have been entitled under the challenge rule to a rematch the following Saturday to decide the premiership.

Awards

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  5. ↑ "Victory For New Town May Give It Top Position". The Mercury. 9 August 1940. p. 8. Retrieved 24 November 2024.
  6. ↑ "Minor Premiership Contestants". The Examiner. 19 August 1940. p. 7. Retrieved 24 November 2024.
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  8. ↑ "MINOR PREMIERSHIP". The Mercury. 26 August 1940. p. 7. Retrieved 24 November 2024.
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