1934 VFL premiership season | |
---|---|
Teams | 12 |
Premiers | Richmond 4th premiership |
Minor premiers | Richmond 3rd minor premiership |
Brownlow Medallist | Dick Reynolds (Essendon) |
Leading Goalkicker Medallist | Bob Pratt (South Melbourne) |
Matches played | 112 |
Highest | 65,335 |
The 1934 VFL season was the 38th season of the Victorian Football League (VFL), the highest level senior Australian rules football competition in Victoria. The season featured twelve clubs, ran from 5 May until 13 October, and comprised an 18-game home-and-away season followed by a finals series featuring the top four clubs.
The premiership was won by the Richmond Football Club for the fourth time, after it defeated South Melbourne by 39 points in the 1934 VFL Grand Final. South Melbourne full-forward Bob Pratt kicked 150 goals for the season, setting the all-time record which has since been matched only by Peter Hudson (Hawthorn) in 1971.
In 1934, the VFL competition consisted of twelve teams of 18 on-the-field players each, plus one substitute player, known as the 19th 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 18 rounds; matches 12 to 18 were the "home-and-way reverse" of matches 1 to 7.
Once the 18 round home-and-away season had finished, the 1934 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 |
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1 | Richmond (P) | 18 | 15 | 3 | 0 | 1618 | 1334 | 121.3 | 60 |
2 | Geelong | 18 | 14 | 3 | 1 | 1834 | 1355 | 135.4 | 58 |
3 | South Melbourne | 18 | 14 | 4 | 0 | 2187 | 1560 | 140.2 | 56 |
4 | Collingwood | 18 | 13 | 4 | 1 | 1915 | 1571 | 121.9 | 54 |
5 | Carlton | 18 | 12 | 6 | 0 | 1986 | 1707 | 116.3 | 48 |
6 | Melbourne | 18 | 9 | 9 | 0 | 1623 | 1670 | 97.2 | 36 |
7 | St Kilda | 18 | 9 | 9 | 0 | 1592 | 1661 | 95.8 | 36 |
8 | Fitzroy | 18 | 7 | 11 | 0 | 1589 | 1660 | 95.7 | 28 |
9 | Footscray | 18 | 6 | 12 | 0 | 1444 | 1699 | 85.0 | 24 |
10 | Essendon | 18 | 5 | 13 | 0 | 1635 | 1958 | 83.5 | 20 |
11 | Hawthorn | 18 | 3 | 15 | 0 | 1300 | 1917 | 67.8 | 12 |
12 | North Melbourne | 18 | 0 | 18 | 0 | 1245 | 1876 | 66.4 | 0 |
Rules for classification: 1. premiership points; 2. percentage; 3. points for
Average score: 92.4
Source: AFL Tables
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