1970 VFL premiership season | |
---|---|
Teams | 12 |
Premiers | Carlton 10th premiership |
Minor premiers | Collingwood 15th minor premiership |
Consolation series | Footscray 4th Consolation series win |
Brownlow Medallist | Peter Bedford (South Melbourne) |
Coleman Medallist | Peter Hudson (Hawthorn) |
Attendance | |
Matches played | 136 |
Total attendance | 3,321,925 (24,426 per match) |
Highest | 121,696 |
The 1970 VFL season was the 74th season of the Victorian Football League (VFL), the highest level senior Australian rules football competition in Victoria.
The season featured twelve clubs, and ran from 4 April until 26 September. It was the first season to play comprise a 22-game home-and-away season, which became the standard for the following fifty years, and which was followed by a finals series featuring the top four clubs. The season saw the opening of the league's privately owned stadium, VFL Park, in Mulgrave.
The premiership was won by the Carlton Football Club for the tenth time, after it defeated Collingwood by ten points in the 1970 VFL Grand Final. A crowd of 121,696 attended the match, the all-time record for the highest Australian rules football crowd.
In 1970, the VFL competition consisted of twelve teams of 18 on-the-field players each, plus two substitute players, known as the 19th man and the 20th man. A player could be substituted for any reason; however, once substituted, a player could not return to the field of play under any circumstances.
Teams played each other in a home-and-away season of 22 rounds; matches 12 to 22 were the "home-and-way reverse" of matches 1 to 11.
Once the 22 round home-and-away season had finished, the 1970 VFL Premiers were determined by the specific format and conventions of the Page–McIntyre system.
(P) | Premiers |
Qualified for finals |
# | Team | P | W | L | D | PF | PA | % | Pts |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Collingwood | 22 | 18 | 4 | 0 | 2333 | 1709 | 136.5 | 72 |
2 | Carlton (P) | 22 | 16 | 6 | 0 | 2146 | 1911 | 112.3 | 64 |
3 | St Kilda | 22 | 14 | 8 | 0 | 1926 | 1532 | 125.7 | 56 |
4 | South Melbourne | 22 | 14 | 8 | 0 | 1914 | 1828 | 104.7 | 56 |
5 | Geelong | 22 | 12 | 10 | 0 | 1949 | 1903 | 102.4 | 48 |
6 | Richmond | 22 | 12 | 10 | 0 | 2029 | 1998 | 101.6 | 48 |
7 | Footscray | 22 | 11 | 11 | 0 | 1728 | 1894 | 91.2 | 44 |
8 | Hawthorn | 22 | 10 | 12 | 0 | 2264 | 1986 | 114.0 | 40 |
9 | Fitzroy | 22 | 9 | 13 | 0 | 1774 | 2155 | 82.3 | 36 |
10 | Melbourne | 22 | 6 | 16 | 0 | 1705 | 2043 | 83.5 | 24 |
11 | Essendon | 22 | 6 | 16 | 0 | 1734 | 2128 | 81.5 | 24 |
12 | North Melbourne | 22 | 4 | 18 | 0 | 1574 | 1989 | 79.1 | 16 |
Rules for classification: 1. premiership points; 2. percentage; 3. points for
Average score: 87.4
Source: AFL Tables
Team | 1 Qtr | 2 Qtr | 3 Qtr | Final |
---|---|---|---|---|
St Kilda | 6.1 | 9.3 | 14.8 | 22.11 (143) |
South Melbourne | 2.5 | 9.8 | 10.10 | 13.12 (90) |
Attendance: 110.467 | ||||
Team | 1 Qtr | 2 Qtr | 3 Qtr | Final |
---|---|---|---|---|
Collingwood | 5.2 | 9.7 | 12.11 | 17.16 (118) |
Carlton | 5.0 | 9.2 | 14.3 | 17.6 (108) |
Attendance: 109.345 | ||||
Team | 1 Qtr | 2 Qtr | 3 Qtr | Final |
---|---|---|---|---|
Carlton | 2.6 | 6.12 | 13.16 | 17.21 (123) |
St Kilda | 1.4 | 4.12 | 6.16 | 7.19 (61) |
Attendance: 102.118 | ||||
Team | 1 Qtr | 2 Qtr | 3 Qtr | Final |
---|---|---|---|---|
Carlton | 0.3 | 4.5 | 12.5 | 17.9 (111) |
Collingwood | 4.8 | 10.13 | 13.16 | 14.17 (101) |
Attendance: 121,696 | ||||
The consolation night series were held under the floodlights at Lake Oval, South Melbourne, for the teams (5th to 12th on ladder) out of the finals at the end of the home and away rounds.
Player | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | SF | PF | GF | Total | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Peter Hudson | 88 | 412 | 820 | 323 | 629 | 837 | 340 | 1353 | 659 | 564 | 771 | 374 | 377 | 986 | 894 | 11105 | 2107 | 9116 | 6122 | 4126 | 9135 | 11146 | 146 | |||
2 | Peter McKenna | 1111 | 718 | 624 | 731 | 132 | DNP | DNP | 840 | 545 | 550 | 757 | 663 | 467 | 572 | 476 | 379 | 382 | 991 | 9100 | 12112 | 7119 | 9128 | 9137 | 6143 | 143 | |
3 | Alex Jesaulenko | 99 | 615 | 621 | 526 | 430 | 1040 | 343 | 447 | 350 | 656 | 763 | 366 | 066 | 167 | 269 | 978 | 381 | 485 | 186 | 490 | 595 | 5100 | 8108 | 412 | 3115 | 115 |
4 | Doug Wade | 66 | 39 | 716 | 420 | 525 | 530 | DNP | DNP | 333 | 336 | 541 | DNP | DNP | 748 | 250 | 959 | 463 | 265 | 267 | 370 | 474 | 074 | 74 | |||
5 | John Sudholz | DNP | DNP | DNP | 22 | 46 | 39 | 514 | 317 | 320 | 121 | 324 | 327 | 633 | 235 | 540 | 040 | 343 | 245 | 348 | 452 | 456 | 121 | 360 | 60 | ||
6 | Syd Jackson | DNP | DNP | 33 | 47 | 18 | 614 | 115 | 419 | 423 | 225 | 328 | 230 | 333 | 437 | 037 | DNP | DNP | 239 | 039 | 241 | 546 | 147 | 148 | 654 | 155 | 55 |
7 | Peter Bedford | 22 | 02 | 35 | 38 | 210 | 313 | 417 | 017 | 118 | 119 | 524 | 327 | 330 | 333 | 134 | 135 | 136 | 238 | 240 | 343 | 447 | 047 | 350 | 50 | ||
8 | Alex Ruscuklic | 22 | 13 | 14 | 48 | 08 | 19 | DNP | DNP | 716 | 824 | 327 | 128 | 129 | 231 | 233 | 538 | 139 | 342 | 345 | 247 | 047 | 249 | 49 | |||
9 | Bob Keddie | 22 | 13 | 03 | 36 | 17 | 29 | 09 | 312 | 315 | 015 | 318 | 422 | 325 | 025 | 328 | 432 | 234 | 135 | 237 | 441 | 344 | 347 | 47 | |||
10 | George Bisset | 33 | 58 | 210 | 111 | 314 | 115 | 318 | 220 | 424 | 024 | 226 | 329 | 130 | 232 | 032 | 133 | 336 | 339 | 039 | 544 | 145 | DNP | 45 |
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