1941 VFA season

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1941 VFA premiership season
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Port Melbourne FC, premier team
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Premiers Port Melbourne
5th premiership
Minor premiers Port Melbourne
1st minor premiership
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The 1941 Victorian Football Association season was the 63rd season of the Australian rules football competition, and it was the last season before the Association went into recess during World War II. The premiership was won by the Port Melbourne Football Club, which defeated Coburg by 19 points in the Grand Final on 4 October. It was Port Melbourne's fifth VFA premiership, and its second in a row.

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Association membership

World War II had commenced in Europe in September 1939, and for the second consecutive season the Association opted to proceed with a full premiership season. [1] Many Association players had enlisted in the war effort, and the Sandringham Football Club elected to operate on an amateur basis for the season. [2]

Premiership

The home-and-home season was played over twenty matches, before the top four clubs contested a finals series under the Page–McIntyre system to determine the premiers for the season.

Ladder

1941 VFA ladder
PosTeamPldWLDPFPAPPPts
1 Port Melbourne (P)20164025461753145.264
2 Prahran 20164025451820139.864
3 Coburg 20155026411754150.660
4 Preston 20146024811928128.756
5 Brunswick 20137023531758133.852
6 Williamstown 20128023511973119.248
7 Camberwell 20128022652228101.748
8 Northcote 2071301860197894.028
9 Brighton 2061401933232883.024
10 Oakleigh 2051501960240381.620
11 Yarraville 2041601643262162.716
12 Sandringham 2002001245327938.00
Source: [3]
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) percentage; 3) number of points for.
(P) Premiers

Finals

Semifinals
Saturday, 13 September Coburg 16.21 (117)def. Preston 11.21 (87) Toorak Park (crowd: 12,000) [4] [5]
Saturday, 20 September Port Melbourne 15.19 (109)def. Prahran 15.17 (107) Toorak Park (crowd: 8,000) [6]
Preliminary Final
Saturday, 27 September Prahran 13.17 (95)def. by Coburg 19.12 (126) Toorak Park (crowd: 8,000) [7]
1941 VFA Grand Final
Saturday, 4 October Port Melbourne def. Coburg Melbourne Cricket Ground (crowd: 36,289) [8]
1.4 (10)
6.10 (46)
9.12 (66)
 15.18 (108)		Q1
Q2
Q3
 Final		3.10 (28)
3.14 (32)
9.20 (74)
 11.23 (89)		Umpires: Groves
Freyer 6, Robertson 6, Goldsmith, Hurley, LivingstoneGoals Pratt 4, Glenister 2, Beagley, Collins, Lonsdale, McLey, Turner

Awards

Notable events

See also

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References

  1. ↑ "Football to continue". The Argus. Melbourne. 1 March 1941. p. 13.
  2. ↑ "Association teams – Preston's haul". The Argus. Melbourne. 12 April 1941. p. 16.
  3. 1 2 Rover (8 September 1941). "Association final four not altered". The Argus. Melbourne. p. 8.
  4. 1 2 Rover (15 September 1941). "Coburg comfortably defeats Preston". The Argus. Melbourne. p. 8.
  5. ↑ "Southern code games". Cairns Post. Cairns, QLD. 15 September 1941. p. 1.
  6. ↑ Rover (22 September 1941). "Port defeats Prahran in close finish". The Argus. Melbourne. p. 8.
  7. ↑ Rover (29 September 1941). "Coburg easily wins Association pre-final". The Argus. Melbourne. p. 8.
  8. 1 2 3 Rover (6 October 1941). "Port too solid". The Argus. Melbourne. p. 8.
  9. ↑ Rover (1 September 1941). "No surprise in Association games". The Argus. Melbourne. p. 8.
  10. ↑ "3 Port players reregistered". The Argus. Melbourne. 25 September 1941. p. 10.
  11. ↑ "Coburg Football Club". Australian Football.com. Retrieved 26 July 2013.
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