1919 VFA season

none December 2017 December 2017 VFA Premiership season 1919 1919 VFA Premiership Team (Footscray).jpg 250px Footscray, premier team 10 6 6 1918 1920 The 1919 Victorian Football Association season was the 41st season of the Australian rules football competition. The season was the first to be played after hostilities ended in World War I, and saw a return to a full-length season featuring all ten clubs for the first time since 1914. The premiership was won by the Footscray Football Club, after it defeated by 22 points in the Grand Final on 27 September. It was the club's sixth VFA premiership. Footscray's premiership came after minor premier North Melbourne was undefeated through the home-and-home matches – and, in fact, undefeated since 1914 – before losing both finals matches it played. Association membership The four clubs which opted not to play during 1918 due to World War I – Brighton, Essendon, and Williamstown – returned to senior competition for the 1919 season. As a result, the Association returned to ten competing clubs, as it had been prior to the war. Rule changes After having played with each team fielding sixteen-a-side since 1912, the Association opted to return to fielding eighteen players on each team.The Australasian 3 May 1919 Football – the opening day 807 Melbourne J.W. CVI 2770 After a war-time agreement between the League and Association regarding player transfers between the two competitions expired in 1918, the Association introduced a rule which would see a player disqualified from the Association for two years if he transferred to a League club without a permit from the Association; but, as there was no longer a formal arrangement between the two competitions, such players remained free to play in the League during this period of disqualification. 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 main WDL Q 1919 VFA ladder true points y 4 2 Premiers NOR FOO BRU Brunswick NCT Northcote WIL Williamstown HAW PRA Prahran PMB Port Melbourne BRI Brighton ESS Essendon 18 0 0 1401 609 14 4 0 1385 700 P 12 6 0 1216 975 12 6 0 1031 900 9 9 0 916 937 8 10 0 974 1161 6 12 0 941 1234 5 13 0 923 1309 3 15 0 921 1421 3 15 0 793 1251 2 2 bonus points #CCFFCC A A A A 1) points; 2) percentage; 3) number of points for. complete The Argus 1 September 1919 The Association Clubs – first round ended 3 Melbourne Old BoyThe for-against records are published as in the Argus; there are some small differences (totalling only a few points) between the Australasian and the Argus. The Australasian 6 September 1919 Premiership list for 1919 489 Melbourne J.W. CVII 2788 Finals Semi-finals Saturday, 6 September 12.8 (80) H Northcote 4.9 (33) East Melbourne Cricket Ground 9,000 The Australasian 13 September 1919 Association – first semi-final 543 Melbourne J.W. CVII 2789 Saturday, 13 September 8.4 (52) A Brunswick 7.19 (61) East Melbourne Cricket Ground 9,000 The Age Melbourne Association semi-final 15 September 1919 9 Pivot Preliminary Final Saturday, 20 September 8.11 (59) H Brunswick 7.4 (46) East Melbourne Cricket Ground 17,000 The Australasian 27 September 1919 The Association – Brunswick beaten by Footscray 663–4 Melbourne J.W. CVII 2791 1919 VFA Grand Final Saturday, 27 September 1.1 (7) 4.6 (30) 4.7 (31) 6.7 (43) Barker, Forbes, Hawkins, Irwin, Rawle, Stevens A 4.5 (29) 4.8 (32) 6.16 (52) 8.17 (65) Craddock 4, Howell, Martin, Morgan, Samson East Melbourne Cricket Ground 20,000 The Argus Melbourne The Association – Footscray premiers 29 September 1919 9 Old BoyThe Australasian 4 October 1919 Association – the final 718 Melbourne J.W. CVII 2792 Hurley Notable events North Melbourne's record winning streak From 1914 until 1919, dominated the Association to compile a record winning streak. Between its two-point loss against on 17 July 1914The Argus 19 July 1915 4 Melbourne The Association – North Melbourne's year Old Boy and its nine-point loss against Brunswick in the semi-final on 13 September 1919, North Melbourne won a total of 58 consecutive matches – including 49 premiership matches and nine other matches, such as patriotic fund-raisers during the war.The Argus 15 September 1919 3 Melbourne Association semi Final – North Melbourne's Waterloo Old Boy During this time, North Melbourne won three premierships (1914, 1915 and 1918), and completed two (shortened) unbeaten seasons: 15–0 in 1915 and 12–0 in 1918 – it was the last time a team won every match in a season until Geelong West in 1972 (Division 2), and the last time a team achieved it in the top division until Port Melbourne in 2011. After losing the semi-final against Brunswick, North Melbourne also lost its next match – the Grand final against Footscray – to finish second for the season. See also List of VFA/VFL Premiers References Category:Victorian Football League seasons VFL