1924 VFA season

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The 1924 Victorian Football Association season was the 46th season of the Australian rules football competition. The premiership was won by the Footscray Football Club, after it defeated Williamstown by 45 points in the final on 20 September. It was the club's ninth and last VFA premiership before it, along with North Melbourne and Hawthorn, joined the Victorian Football League the following year; this marked the end of a long period of dominance for Footscray, which had seen it win five minor premierships in a row and four major premierships in six years.

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Premiership

The home-and-home season was played over eighteen rounds, with each club playing the others twice; then, the top four clubs contested a finals series under the amended Argus system to determine the premiers for the season.

Ladder

1924 VFA ladder
TEAMPWLDPFPAPctPTS
1 Footscray (P)181611148491661.766
2 Williamstown 181350119794478.952
3 Northcote 1811611315117689.446
4 Brunswick 1811701380101673.644
5 North Melbourne 1810801282102580.040
6 Hawthorn 1810801283105882.640
7 Port Melbourne 1810801277117992.340
8 Geelong 1841409331485159.216
9 Brighton 18216010901422130.38
10 Prahran 1821607971818228.18
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, 6 September Williamstown 8.9 (57)def. Brunswick 5.16 (46) North Melbourne Recreation Reserve (crowd: 16,000) [2]
Saturday, 13 September Footscray 9.7 (61)def. Northcote 4.8 (32) North Melbourne Recreation Reserve (crowd: 16,000) [3]
1924 VFA Final
Saturday, 20 September Footscray def. Williamstown North Melbourne Recreation Reserve (crowd: 15,000) [4] [5]
3.5 (23)
4.6 (30)
9.9 (63)
 11.11 (77)		Q1
Q2
Q3
 Final		0.1 (1)
0.4 (4)
0.4 (4)
 3.4 (22)		Umpires: Leheny
Mullens 5, O'Brien 4, Hopkins 2,GoalsMunn 2, Britt

Had Williamstown won, minor premiers Footscray would have been entitled to a rematch the following Saturday to decide the premiership.

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Onlooker (1 September 1924). "The Association – End of home and home matches". The Argus. Melbourne. p. 14.
  2. ↑ Onlooker (8 September 1924). "Penalty of inaccuracy – Williamstown wins semi-final". The Argus. Melbourne. p. 18.
  3. ↑ Onlooker (15 September 1924). "Footscray prevails". The Argus. Melbourne. p. 5.
  4. ↑ Onlooker (22 September 1924). "The Association – Footscray's superiority". The Argus. Melbourne. pp. 6–7.
  5. ↑ "Association – W'mstown (sic) v. Footscray". The Herald. Melbourne. 20 September 1924. p. 4.
  6. ↑ "Victorian Association – Affiliation with junior body". The Argus. Melbourne. 25 March 1924. p. 6.
  7. ↑ "Victorian Junior Association". The Argus. Melbourne. 4 April 1924. p. 5.
  8. ↑ "Football – Perth team victorious". The Daily News. Perth, WA. 4 August 1924. p. 8.
  9. ↑ Old Boy (1 September 1924). "Football – Fourth place struggle". The Argus. Melbourne. p. 13.
  10. ↑ "Downes (sic) wins Woodham Cup". The Argus. Melbourne. 11 August 1925. p. 12.
  11. ↑ Marc Fiddian (28 May 1983). "Injury just the start for Mills". The Age. Melbourne. p. 29.
  12. ↑ Old Boy (6 October 1924). "Football – Footscray champions". The Argus. Melbourne. p. 7.
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