1953 VFA season

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1953 VFA premiership season
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Port Melbourne, premier team
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Premiers Port Melbourne
(7th premiership)
Minor premiers Port Melbourne
(5th minor premiership)
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The 1953 Victorian Football Association season was the 72nd season of the Australian rules football competition. The premiership was won by the Port Melbourne Football Club, after it defeated Yarraville by 60 points in the Grand Final on 3 October. It was Port Melbourne's seventh VFA premiership, and it was the only premiership that the club won during a sequence of eight consecutive Grand Finals played from 1950 until 1957, and five consecutive minor premierships won from 1951 until 1955.

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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

1953 VFA ladder
TEAMPWLDPFPAPctPTS
1 Port Melbourne (P)20182020521047195.972
2 Williamstown 20163119391278151.766
3 Yarraville 20135215421361113.256
4 Prahran 20136117451403124.354
5 Oakleigh 20136116671354123.154
6 Coburg 20127116821413119.050
7 Brunswick 20101001383138599.840
8 Moorabbin 2091011436147797.238
9 Preston 2081201375148492.632
10 Box Hill 2071301370170480.328
11 Camberwell 2051411389173080.222
12 Northcote 2051501312148288.520
13 Sandringham 2051501237210358.820
14 Brighton 2021801138204655.68
Key: P = Played, W = Won, L = Lost, D = Drawn, PF = Points For, PA = Points Against, Pct = Percentage; (P) = Premiers, PTS = Premiership pointsSource [1]

Finals

Semifinals
Saturday, 12 September Yarraville 8.16 (64)def. Prahran 9.7 (61) St Kilda Cricket Ground (crowd: 16,000) [2]
Saturday, 19 September Port Melbourne 12.14 (86)def. Williamstown 12.4 (76) St Kilda Cricket Ground (crowd: 12,000) [3]
Preliminary Final
Saturday, 26 September Williamstown 11.13 (79)def. by Yarraville 12.11 (83) St Kilda Cricket Ground (crowd: 20,000) [4]
1953 VFA Grand Final
Saturday, 3 October Port Melbourne def. Yarraville St Kilda Cricket Ground (crowd: 40,000) [5]
2.4 (16)
7.9 (51)
12.10 (82)
 21.15 (141)		Q1
Q2
Q3
 Final		2.2 (14)
3.5 (23)
9.8 (62)
 12.9 (81)
Fraser 7, Bonnett 6, Miller 2, Murray 2, Atkinson, Bragg, Laffey, OwensGoalsSalt 3, Smallwood 3, Marchesi 2, H. Mason 2, N. Rohleder 2
InjuriesCook (ankle), Gwynn (thigh), Jones (concussion), Smith (back)

Awards

Notable events

Adelaide Carnival

The Association competed in the 1953 Adelaide Carnival, and finished in fourth place with a record of 1–3. [8] Two Association players were named in the inaugural All-Australian team, which was named based on performances at the carnival: Frank Johnson and Ted Henrys. [9]

1953 Adelaide Carnival
Wednesday, 8 July Victoria (VFA) 11.18 (84)def. Tasmania 5.11 (41) Adelaide Oval [10]
Monday, 13 July Victoria (VFL) 16.13 (109)def. Victoria (VFA) 11.10 (76) Adelaide Oval [11]
Wednesday, 15 July South Australia 16.16 (112)def. Victoria (VFA) 7.11 (53) Adelaide Oval [12]
Saturday, 18 July Western Australia 12.8 (80)def. Victoria (VFA) 8.14 (62) Adelaide Oval [8]

Other notable events

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References

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  2. ↑ Jack Dunn (14 September 1953). "Attack only weakness in win by Yarraville". The Sun News-Pictorial. Melbourne. p. 28.
  3. ↑ Jack Oates (21 September 1953). "Strong Williamstown final side". The Sun News-Pictorial. Melbourne. p. 29.
  4. ↑ Jack Oates (28 September 1953). "Yarraville's bid for V.F.A. title". The Sun News-Pictorial. Melbourne. p. 24.
  5. 1 2 Jack Oates (5 October 1953). "Port trounces Yarraville to win pennant". The Sun News-Pictorial. Melbourne. p. 29.
  6. ↑ Jack Dunn (7 September 1953). "Prahran takes 4th place from Coburg". The Sun News-Pictorial. Melbourne. p. 24.
  7. ↑ "Henrys, Preston, wins J. J. Liston Trophy". The Sun News-Pictorial. Melbourne. 10 September 1953. p. 28.
  8. 1 2 Kevin Hogan (20 July 1953). "League wins bitter title match". The Sun News-Pictorial. Melbourne. p. 24.
  9. ↑ Kevin Hogan (20 July 1953). "National line-uplacks balance". The Sun News-Pictorial. Melbourne. p. 23.
  10. ↑ Kevin Hogan (9 July 1953). "Fine display by Association in defeat of Tasmania". The Sun News-Pictorial. Melbourne. p. 25.
  11. ↑ Kevin Hogan (14 July 1953). "Confidence and spirit of young V.F.A. players". The Sun News-Pictorial. Melbourne. p. 26.
  12. ↑ Kevin Hogan (16 July 1953). "S.A. beats Association. Thompson impresses". The Sun News-Pictorial. Melbourne. p. 22.
  13. ↑ Ron Carter (6 June 1951). "And what a record!". The Argus. Melbourne. p. 12.
  14. ↑ "Jim Mahoney". Australian Football League Umpires Association. 2013. Retrieved 10 August 2013.
  15. ↑ Gavin Cook (8 September 1952). "Yarraville wins way to first V.F.A. semi-final". The Sun News-Pictorial. Melbourne. p. 25.
  16. ↑ "Oakleigh to play Port at Wagga". The Argus. Melbourne. 3 March 1953. p. 8.
  17. ↑ "Oakleigh down by 18 pts". The Argus. Melbourne. 18 May 1953. p. 11.
  18. ↑ Dave Andersen (5 December 1952). "V.F.A. plans unique game". The Argus. Melbourne. p. 10.
  19. ↑ Dave Andersen (3 June 1953). "VFA North men finish too well". The Argus. Melbourne. p. 10.
  20. ↑ "Vote granted to Football Association". The Canberra Times. Canberra, ACT. 8 July 1953. p. 4.
  21. ↑ Jack Dunn (17 July 1953). "Third VFA team to play as amateurs". The Sun News-Pictorial. Melbourne. p. 28.
  22. ↑ The Age , "Appeal For Box Hill Footballer", 10 September 1953, p. 16
  23. ↑ "Stars aid appeal". The Argus. Melbourne. 24 September 1953. p. 12.
  24. ↑ "Big crowd at charity game". The Age. Melbourne. 25 September 1953. p. 8.
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