1966 VFA season

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1966 VFA premiership season
Division 1
Teams10
Premiers Port Melbourne
9th premiership
Minor premiers Port Melbourne
8th minor premiership
Division 2
Teams10
Premiers Prahran
1st D2 premiership
Minor premiers Northcote
2nd D2 minor premiership
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The 1966 Victorian Football Association season was the 85th season of the top division of the Australian rules football competition, and the sixth season of its second division. The Division 1 premiership was won by the Port Melbourne Football Club, after it defeated Waverley in the Grand Final on 25 September by 43 points; it was Port Melbourne's ninth premiership. The Division 2 premiership was won by Prahran.

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Association membership

In July 1965, the Frankston Football Club was admitted to Division 2 of the Association for the 1966 season. The Association had been in favour of admitting Frankston for 1965, but the club failed to get a clearance from the Mornington Peninsula Football League. It was not until its third appeal for a clearance that the MPFL allowed Frankston to transfer. [1]

Frankston's admission brought the Association to a then-record twenty clubs. It was the end of a ten-year expansion plan which the Association had first announced in 1956 to increase the size of the competition from fourteen clubs to twenty. [2] It was the last change to the Association membership until 1982.

Grounds

The following ground changes occurred in 1966:

Division 1

The Division 1 home-and-home season was played over 18 rounds; the top four then contested the finals under the Page–McIntyre system.

Ladder

1966 VFA Division 1 Ladder
TEAMPWLDPFPAPctPTS
1 Port Melbourne (P)18153015431139135.560
2 Waverley 18135016601283129.452
3 Yarraville 18126016051373116.848
4 Preston 18126015001405106.848
5 Sandringham 18108016321397116.840
6 Williamstown 189901265133794.636
7 Brunswick 1881001400148094.632
8 Dandenong 1851301331156185.320
9 Coburg 1841401226154279.516
10 Oakleigh 1821601227187265.58
Key: P = Played, W = Won, L = Lost, D = Drawn, PF = Points For, PA = Points Against, Pct = Percentage; (P) = Premiers, PTS = Premiership pointsSource [8]

Finals

Semi-finals
Saturday, 3 September Yarraville 12.15 (87)def. by Preston 13.11 (89) St Kilda Cricket Ground (crowd: 6,000) [9]
Saturday, 10 September Port Melbourne 7.13 (55)def. by Waverley 9.9 (63) St Kilda Cricket Ground (crowd: 7,000) [10]
Preliminary Final
Sunday, 18 September Port Melbourne 16.14 (110)def. Preston 11.6 (72) St Kilda Cricket Ground (crowd: 13,000) [11]
1966 VFA Division 1 Grand Final
Sunday, 25 September Waverley def. by Port Melbourne St Kilda Cricket Ground (crowd: 25,000) [12]
3.7 (25)
3.8 (26)
4.11 (35)
 6.11 (47)		Q1
Q2
Q3
 Final		2.4 (16)
7.6 (48)
8.8 (56)
 13.12 (90)		Umpires: Alan O'Neill
Gallus 2, Lawson 2, MacNamee 2GoalsAllen 3, Kerr 3, Bedford 2, Bollard, Bowen, Howell, Schmidt, Taggart
MacNamee (thigh), Rivis (calf)InjuriesGriffiths (shoulder)
ReportsBowen, for striking Rivis in the second quarter

Awards

Division 2

The Division 2 home-and-home season was played over eighteen rounds; the top four then contested the finals under the Page–McIntyre system. All finals were played on Sundays at Toorak Park.

Ladder

1966 VFA Division 2 Ladder
TEAMPWLDPFPAPctPTS
1 Northcote 18135017361413122.952
2 Geelong West 18125118771390135.050
3 Prahran (P)18126014941325112.948
4 Sunshine 18117014861421104.644
5 Box Hill 1897217011464116.240
6 Mordialloc 1898116801436117.038
7 Frankston 189901471158093.136
8 Caulfield 1861111324167878.924
9 Camberwell 1841401441192674.816
10 Werribee 1821511256188368.510
Key: P = Played, W = Won, L = Lost, D = Drawn, PF = Points For, PA = Points Against, Pct = Percentage; (P) = Premiers, PTS = Premiership pointsSource [14]

Finals

Semi-finals
Sunday, 21 August Prahran 11.15 (81)def. Sunshine 2.7 (19) Toorak Park (crowd: 5,000) [15]
Sunday, 28 August Northcote 8.19 (67)def. by Geelong West 15.15 (105) Toorak Park (crowd: 7,000) [16]
Preliminary Final
Sunday, 4 September Northcote 13.12 (90)def. by Prahran 13.13 (91) Toorak Park (crowd: 6,000) [17]
1966 VFA Division 2 Grand Final
Sunday, 11 September Geelong West def. by Prahran Toorak Park (crowd: 10,000) [18]
2.9 (21)
3.13 (31)
3.14 (32)
 5.15 (45)		Q1
Q2
Q3
 Final		1.0 (6)
6.4 (40)
9.9 (63)
 17.12 (114)		Umpires: R. Armstrong
Brushfield, Gibbons, Salter, Stacey, WilliamsGoalsPearson 6, Bartlett 4, Butler 3, Richardson 3, Kerley

Awards

Notable events

Interstate matches

The Association contested the 1966 Hobart Carnival during June. The team was coached by Perc Bushby (Coburg) [20] and was captained by Keith Burns (Brunswick). [21] The Association had a poor tournament, finishing last and losing all four matches by large margins; and, no Association players were selected in the All-Australian team. [22]

1966 Hobart Carnival
Thursday, 9 June Western Australia 26.18 (174)def. Victoria (VFA) 5.11 (41) North Hobart Oval (crowd: 20,047 CR ) [20]
Saturday, 11 June Tasmania 19.27 (141)def. Victoria (VFA) 7.11 (53) North Hobart Oval (crowd: 23,764 CR ) [23]
Monday, 13 June Victoria (VFL) 14.17 (101)def. Victoria (VFA) 9.7 (61) North Hobart Oval (crowd: 13,969 CR ) [24]
Thursday, 16 June South Australia 21.20 (146)def. Victoria (VFA) 9.11 (65) North Hobart Oval (crowd: 10,199 CR ) [25]

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  2. ↑ Noel Carrick (2 July 1956). "Ballarat, Bendigo in V.F.A. plan to expand". The Sun News-Pictorial. Melbourne. p. 29.
  3. ↑ "Coburg has new ground". The Sun News-Pictorial. Melbourne. 25 March 1965. p. 58.
  4. ↑ "Sunshine likely to move in 1966". The Age. Melbourne. 7 July 1964. p. 10.
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  8. 1 2 Trevor Nash (29 August 1966). "Preston poses big challenge". The Sun News-Pictorial. Melbourne. p. 40.
  9. 1 2 Trevor Nash (5 September 1966). "Preston has narrow victory". The Sun News-Pictorial. Melbourne. p. 44.
  10. 1 2 Trevor Nash (12 September 1966). "Waverley lifts game, downs favourite". The Sun News-Pictorial. Melbourne. p. 40.
  11. 1 2 3 Trevor Nash (19 September 1966). "Port's strength told in the last quarter". The Sun News-Pictorial. Melbourne. p. 48.
  12. 1 2 Trevor Nash (26 September 1966). "Revenge... and flag for Port". The Sun News-Pictorial. Melbourne. p. 40.
  13. ↑ Trevor Nash (1 September 1966). "Liston for Poore, twice in a row". The Sun News-Pictorial. Melbourne. p. 64.
  14. 1 2 Trevor Nash (15 August 1966). "President has word to umpire". The Sun News-Pictorial. Melbourne. p. 52.
  15. ↑ Trevor Nash (22 August 1966). "Runaway win to Prahran". The Sun News-Pictorial. Melbourne. p. 44.
  16. 1 2 Trevor Nash (29 August 1966). "Geelong W. wins easily". The Sun News-Pictorial. Melbourne. p. 40.
  17. 1 2 Trevor Nash (5 September 1966). "Prahran in by a point". The Sun News-Pictorial. Melbourne. p. 44.
  18. 1 2 3 Trevor Nash (12 September 1966). "Prahran takes pennant". The Sun News-Pictorial. Melbourne. p. 40.
  19. ↑ "Geelong West player wins VFA award". The Sun News-Pictorial. Melbourne. 18 August 1966. p. 54.
  20. 1 2 Kevin Hogan (10 June 1966). "WA romps to victory". The Sun News-Pictorial. Melbourne. p. 47.
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  24. ↑ Kevin Hogan (14 June 1966). "Satisfaction for the VFA". The Sun News-Pictorial. Melbourne. p. 50.
  25. ↑ Kevin Hogan (17 June 1966). "SA soundly beats VFA". The Sun News-Pictorial. Melbourne. p. 49.
  26. ↑ "Benetti resigns from Oakleigh". The Sun News-Pictorial. Melbourne. 2 July 1966. p. 51.
  27. ↑ Trevor Nash (18 July 1966). "Dandenong protest on winning goal". The Sun News-Pictorial. Melbourne. p. 40.
  28. ↑ Trevor Nash (5 August 1966). "A Sunday game for Box Hill". The Sun News-Pictorial. Melbourne. p. 46.
  29. ↑ Paul Bartrop (1986). "The VFA and the search for an identity" (PDF). Sporting Traditions. The Australian Society for Sports History. 2 (2): 74–87.
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