1935 VFA season

57th season of the Victorian Football Association December 2017 December 2017 VFA Premiership season 1935 VFA 12 Yarraville 1 Northcote 5 1934 1936 The 1935 VFA season was the 57th season of the Victorian Football Association (VFA), an Australian rules football competition played in the state of Victoria. The premiership was won by the Yarraville Football Club, after it defeated Camberwell by nine points in the Grand Final on 7 September. It was the club's first VFA premiership, won in its eighth season of competition. Finals venue After having played finals at the central Olympic Park for the previous two seasons, the Association returned to the practice of playing finals at suburban Association grounds.The Argus Melbourne 30 April 1935 11 Association finals – play on own grounds Toorak Park, which had never previously hosted a final, was used for both a semi-final and the Grand Final. Premiership The home-and-home season was played over eighteen 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 1935 VFA ladder true points y 4 2 NOR Northcote YAR Yarraville CAM Camberwell COB Coburg PRA Prahran NBU Preston OAK Oakleigh BRU Brunswick PMB Port Melbourne BRI Brighton SAN Sandringham WIL Williamstown 16 2 0 1854 1274 12 6 0 1817 1302 P 12 6 0 1720 1271 11 6 1 1634 1457 11 7 0 1567 1139 10 7 1 1457 1457 9 8 1 1606 1710 9 9 0 1366 1293 7 10 1 1383 1564 3 15 0 1454 1869 3 15 0 1268 1947 3 15 0 1184 2023 Premiers #CCFFCC A A A A 1) points; 2) percentage; 3) number of points for. complete The Argus 12 August 1935 Association four decided 13 Melbourne Finals Semifinals Saturday, 17 August Camberwell 20.13 (133) H Coburg 11.10 (76) Toorak Park 8,000 The Argus Melbourne Association captains reported 19 August 1935 13 Saturday, 24 August Northcote 13.9 (87) A Yarraville 15.14 (104) Coburg Cricket Ground 5,000 The Argus Melbourne Yarraville enters Grand Final 16 August 1935 13 Preliminary Final Saturday, 31 August Northcote 10.10 (70) A Camberwell 9.18 (72) Brunswick Cricket Ground 6,500 The Argus Melbourne Northcote two points down 2 September 1935 13 1935 VFA Grand Final Saturday, 7 September Yarraville 0.0 (0) 4.4 (28) 6.6 (42) 10.10 (70) Buckley 3, McGrath 3, Cashman 2, Cave, Kenny R. Smith, for elbowing Mason H Camberwell 2.5 (17) 2.8 (20) 7.12 (54) 8.13 (61) Luff 2, Mason 2, Williams 2, Meehan, Tatham Clamp (concussion) Tatham, for striking StoreyMeehan, for charging Kenny Toorak Park 14,600 The Argus Melbourne Yarraville Association premiers 9 September 1935 13 Awards Bill Luff (Camberwell) was the leading goalkicker for the season; he kicked 64 goals in the home-and-home season and 75 goals overall. In the two parallel Association best-and-fairest awards: Les White (Prahran) won the Recorder Cup, polling six votes from only thirteen games, having missed five games due to injury. Allan Hopkins (Yarraville), L. Wedgwood (Yarraville), Len Pye (Northcote) and M. McFarlane (Coburg) finished equal-second with four votes apiece. Jim Dowling (Brunswick) and F. Brooks (Williamstown) were joint winners of the Association Medal, each polling 32 votes; it was Dowling's second consecutive Association Medal. Len Pye (Northcote) was third with 31 votes.The Argus Melbourne 20 August 1935 12 Football Medal: Brooks (Williamstown) and Dowling (Brunswick) Coburg won the seconds premiership. Coburg 6.11 (47) defeated Port Melbourne 3.9 (27) in the Grand Final on Saturday 7 September at the Brunswick Cricket Ground. Notable events Northcote, which lost both of its finals, was the first minor premier to fail to win the major premiership since in 1922. A Grand Final rematch was played as a night exhibition match at Olympic Park on Thursday 26 September (Show Day holiday). Yarraville 8.18 (66) defeated Camberwell 5.17 (47). The attendance of 3,000 was considered a disappointment. The floodlights were considered too dim to be entirely effective for the players or spectators.The Argus Melbourne 27 September 1935 12 Night match – Innovation unpopular See also List of VFA/VFL Premiers References Category:Victorian Football League seasons VFA