1941 VFA season

none December 2017 December 2017 VFA Premiership season 1941 VFA Port melbourne fc 1941.jpg 250px Port Melbourne FC, premier team 12 Port Melbourne 5 Port Melbourne 1 1940 1942 The 1941 Victorian Football Association season was the 63rd season of the Australian rules football competition, and it was the last season before the Association went into recess during World War II. The premiership was won by the Port Melbourne Football Club, which defeated Coburg by 19 points in the Grand Final on 4 October. It was Port Melbourne's fifth VFA premiership, and its second in a row. Association membership World War II had commenced in Europe in September 1939, and for the second consecutive season the Association opted to proceed with a full premiership season.The Argus Melbourne Football to continue 1 March 1941 13 Many Association players had enlisted in the war effort, and the Sandringham Football Club elected to operate on an amateur basis for the season.The Argus Melbourne Association teams – Preston's haul 12 April 1941 16 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 main WDL Q 1941 VFA ladder true points y 4 2 PMB Port Melbourne PRA Prahran COB Coburg NBU Preston BRU Brunswick WIL Williamstown CAM Camberwell NOR Northcote BRI Brighton OAK Oakleigh YAR Yarraville SAN Sandringham 16 4 0 2546 1753 P 16 4 0 2545 1820 15 5 0 2641 1754 14 6 0 2481 1928 13 7 0 2353 1758 12 8 0 2351 1973 12 8 0 2265 2228 7 13 0 1860 1978 6 14 0 1933 2328 5 15 0 1960 2403 4 16 0 1643 2621 0 20 0 1245 3279 Premiers #CCFFCC A A A A 1) points; 2) percentage; 3) number of points for. complete The Argus 8 September 1941 Association final four not altered 8 Melbourne Rover Finals Semifinals Saturday, 13 September Coburg 16.21 (117) H Preston 11.21 (87) Toorak Park 12,000 The Argus Melbourne Coburg comfortably defeats Preston 15 September 1941 8 RoverCairns Post Cairns, QLD Southern code games 15 September 1941 1 Saturday, 20 September Port Melbourne 15.19 (109) H Prahran 15.17 (107) Toorak Park 8,000 The Argus Melbourne Port defeats Prahran in close finish 22 September 1941 8 Rover Preliminary Final Saturday, 27 September Prahran 13.17 (95) A Coburg 19.12 (126) Toorak Park 8,000 The Argus Melbourne Coburg easily wins Association pre-final 29 September 1941 8 Rover 1941 VFA Grand Final Saturday, 4 October Port Melbourne 1.4 (10) 6.10 (46) 9.12 (66) 15.18 (108) Freyer 6, Robertson 6, Goldsmith, Hurley, Livingstone H Coburg 3.10 (28) 3.14 (32) 9.20 (74) 11.23 (89) Pratt 4, Glenister 2, Beagley, Collins, Lonsdale, McLey, Turner Melbourne Cricket Ground 36,289 The Argus Melbourne Port too solid 6 October 1941 8 Rover Groves Awards Bob Pratt (Coburg) was the leading goalkicker for the season, kicking 165 goals in the home-and-home season and 183 goals overall. Pratt broke George Hawkins' Association record of 164 goals, achieved in 1939. The achievement meant that Pratt simultaneously held the season goalkicking record in both the Association and the Victorian Football League, in which he kicked 150 goals in 1934. Pratt's record exceeded Western Australian forward George Doig's national record of 152 goals in a season, but it was not recognised as a national record because the Association was not playing under ANFC rules at the time. Des Fothergill (Williamstown) won the Association best and fairest, receiving both the V.F.A. Medal and the Recorder Cup as trophies for the achievement. Fothergill polled a huge total of 62 votes – an average of 3.1 votes per game – and was a comfortable winner ahead of E. Fay (Brunswick) on 33 votes and Lance Collins (Coburg) on 32 votes. Fothergill had transferred to the Association from League club in 1941, and had shared the 1940 Brownlow Medal as best and fairest of that competition. Williamstown won the seconds premiership. Williamstown 18.17 (125) defeated Coburg in the Grand Final, played as a curtain raiser to the seniors Grand Final on Saturday 4 October at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. Notable events On 30 August, Port Melbourne 43.29 (287) defeated Sandringham 7.9 (51). Port Melbourne's score set a new record for the highest score in Association history, breaking Brunswick's record of 37.16 (238) set in 1939.The Argus Melbourne No surprise in Association games 1 September 1941 8 Rover Three Port Melbourne players – Ted Freyer, Austin Robertson, and R. Reynolds – were all initially suspended for the Grand Final, but successfully appealed to overturn the suspensions. In the Grand Final, Robertson and Freyer kicked twelve of Port Melbourne's fifteen goals between them.The Argus Melbourne 3 Port players reregistered 25 September 1941 10 Port Melbourne's win against Coburg in the Grand Final was the first time that Port Melbourne had defeated Coburg since July 1929.Australian Football.com Coburg Football Club 26 July 2013 http://australianfootball.com/clubs/bio/Coburg/82 See also List of VFA/VFL Premiers References Category:Victorian Football League seasons VFL