1888 VFA season

12th season of the Australian rules football competition December 2017 December 2017 1888 5 May – 29 September 1888 Southmelbourne fc 1888.jpg 250px South Melbourne – 1888 VFA premiers 16 3 Dinny McKay( – 50 goals) white 1887 VFA season 1887 white 1889 VFA season 1889 The 1888 VFA season was the twelfth season of the Victorian Football Association (VFA), the highest-level senior Australian rules football competition in Victoria.1888 VFA Premiership Season https://australianfootball.com/seasons/season/vfa/193/premiership%2Bseason/8/8/1888/advanced Australian Football 13 April 2025 https://web.archive.org/web/20250413041732/https://australianfootball.com/seasons/season/vfa/193/premiership%2Bseason/8/8/1888/advanced 13 April 2025 The season began on 5 May and concluded on 29 September.Game by Game for 1888 https://www.thevfaproject.org/pages/Season/1888.php The VFA Project 13 April 2025 https://web.archive.org/web/20240909114336/https://www.thevfaproject.org/pages/Season/1888.php 9 September 2024Victorian Football Association Season 1888 https://www.elitetograssroots.net/vfa/1888.htm Elite to Grassroots 13 April 2025 https://web.archive.org/web/20250413041250/https://www.elitetograssroots.net/vfa/1888.htm 13 April 2025 won the premiership after finishing the season with 15 wins from its 19 matches. It was the third VFA premiership in the club's history, and the first out of a sequence of three consecutive premierships won from 1888 to 1890. Association membership Prior to 1888, and amalgamated, with the merged entity considered a continuation of Williamstown. South Williamstown club had been established in 1886 as the result of a dispute between the Williamstown Football Club and Williamstown Cricket Club over the use of the Williamstown Cricket Ground for football;The Argus Melbourne, VIC 30 April 1886 The Football Season 6 this schism persisted for two seasons, with unsatisfactory outcomes, including poor onfield performances resulting from the fact that Williamstown, which was then a small fishing village, could not supply enough talented players to sustain two competitive senior teams. The football and cricket clubs came to agreeable terms over the 1887-88 summer, and formed a single entity which fielded one senior cricket team and one senior football team, both of which played at the cricket ground.The Argus 10 February 1888 5 Football – the amalgamation of the Williamstown and South Williamstown clubs Melbourne, VIC The amalgamated club went on to finish third for the season. Additionally, the neighbouring clubs of Prahran and StK, which had both begun competing as senior clubs in 1886, amalgamated into one club; the merged entity retained the name and history of St Kilda, and adopted St Kilda's red, white and black guernsey with Prahran's blue trousers as its uniform.The Telegraph, St Kilda, Prahran and South Yarra Guardian 7 7 April 1888 Football Rover As a result of these two amalgamations, the size of the Association contracted from eighteen senior teams to sixteen in 1889. The borough of Hotham was renamed North Melbourne, and the Hotham Football Club was accordingly renamed the North Melbourne Football Club. Premiership season Round 1 Round 1 Saturday, 5 May 4.10 A 7.18 Junction Oval Saturday, 5 May 3.6 H 1.2 Brunswick Street Oval Saturday, 5 May 3.9 H 2.4 East Melbourne Cricket Ground Saturday, 5 May 2.4 H 1.4 Williamstown Cricket Ground Saturday, 5 May 3.3 D 3.3 Arden Street Oval Saturday, 5 May 3.4 A 6.9 Melbourne Cricket Ground Saturday, 5 May 5.11 H 2.4 Ballarat City Oval , Round 2 Round 2 Saturday, 12 May 3.1 A 13.4 University Oval Saturday, 12 May 9.14 H 0.5 Punt Road Oval Saturday, 12 May 3.1 H 2.7 East Melbourne Cricket Ground Saturday, 12 May 5.14 H 1.4 Brunswick Street Oval Saturday, 12 May 6.12 H 3.3 Melbourne Cricket Ground Saturday, 12 May 3.4 A 4.11 Junction Oval Saturday, 12 May 4.10 A 6.9 Ballarat City Oval , Ladder For the first time, the senior clubs were formally ranked into a full premiership ladder of the type understood in the modern era. The teams were ranked under a new system designed by Theo Marshall:The Argus Opening of the Football Season 5 May 1888 14 Melbourne, VIC For all senior matches played against other Association clubs, four premiership points were awarded for a win and two for a draw. Teams did not play a uniform number of premiership matches during the season. Each team's premiership points were adjusted upwards proportionally to match that of the club which played the most matches during the season – e.g., in this season, South Melbourne played 19 matches and Port Melbourne played 22 matches, the most of any club; so, South Melbourne's tally of premiership points was increased by a factor of 22/19. After this adjustment, teams were ranked in order of adjusted points, and the top team was awarded the premiership. Teams were required to play at least eighteen senior games to qualify for the premiership. This system meant that for the first time, the premiership was an official title conferred and endorsed by the Association, replacing the previous approach whereby the premier club was determined by an unofficial consensus but was conventionally understood to be won by the club which suffered the fewest defeats for the season – a system which was flawed because it treated wins and draws as equal in value. The Association also instituted the awarding of a premiership cap – in the Association's navy blue and gold colours – to players of the premiership team.The Australasian 4 May 1889 Markwell Football Notes Melbourne, VIC 931 XLVI 1205 The full ladder is shown below. Of the sixteen clubs, Footscray, University and the three Ballarat-based clubs failed to play the minimum eighteen matches required to qualify for the premiership; they are still shown ranked by adjusted points, but are not given a finishing position. main Custom 8 8 pld win loss draw gf ga points adj Adj Pts Adjusted Points 4 2 SM P Premiers GEE WIL CAR BAL – SBA – RIC 5 PMB 6 NOR 7 STK 8 StK ESS 9 FIT 10 FOO – MEL 11 BIM – UNI – 15 2 2 138 45 64 74.10 12 3 4 97 73 56 64.84 13 8 1 77 57 54 59.40 11 5 3 103 74 50 57.89 9 5 2 61 45 40 55.00 6 4 3 47 38 30 50.76 11 8 2 86 76 48 50.28 12 9 1 97 80 50 50.00 8 7 5 80 80 42 46.20 8 10 3 87 78 38 39.80 7 11 1 60 80 30 34.73 6 10 2 64 71 28 29.33 5 10 0 33 70 20 29.33 4 14 1 52 117 18 20.84 2 11 1 38 75 10 15.71 0 14 1 16 77 2 2.93 #ccffcc P #CCCCCC I I I I I complete The Sportsman 10 October 1888 Football – the past season Goal Post 2 Melbourne, VIC Notable events The struggling University club failed to contest its last three scheduled matches, and dropped out of the VFA and folded at the end of the season. 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