1932 VFA season

none December 2017 December 2017 VFA Premiership season 1932 VFA 12 Northcote 2 Northcote 2 1931 1933 The 1932 Victorian Football Association season was the 54th season of the Australian rules football competition. The premiership was won by the Northcote Football Club, after it defeated Coburg by 26 points in the final on 24 September. It was the club's second VFA premiership, and the first in a sequence of three premierships won consecutively from 1932 until 1934. Premiership The home-and-home season was played over twenty matches, before the top four clubs contested a finals series under the amended Argus system to determine the premiers for the season. Ladder main WDL Q 1932 VFA ladder true points y 4 2 NOR Northcote COB Coburg CAM Camberwell NBU Preston PMB Port Melbourne SAN Sandringham BRU Brunswick WIL Williamstown PRA Prahran YAR Yarraville BRI Brighton OAK Oakleigh 15 5 0 2110 1524 P 15 5 0 1866 1416 14 6 0 1976 1548 14 6 0 1677 1548 12 8 0 1535 1488 12 8 0 1693 1617 9 10 1 1618 1746 9 11 0 1568 1611 7 13 0 1643 1831 5 15 0 1577 1861 4 15 1 1298 2033 3 17 0 1417 1805 Premiers #CCFFCC A A A A 1) points; 2) percentage; 3) number of points for. complete The Argus 5 September 1932 Association – Northcote on top 12 Melbourne Onlooker Finals Semi-finals Semi-finals Saturday, 10 September Coburg 11.9 (75) H Preston 8.20 (68) Coburg Cricket Ground 10,000 The Argus Melbourne Association – exciting semi-final 12 September 1931 12 Onlooker Saturday, 17 September Northcote 14.7 (91) H Camberwell 12.15 (87) Port Melbourne Cricket Ground 7,000 The Argus Melbourne Association – Victory with last kick 19 September 1931 12 Onlooker Final 1932 VFA Final Saturday, 24 September Northcote 1.2 (8) 5.9 (39) 8.9 (57) 13.11 (89) Seymour 8, Bray, Gray, Humphries, Ross, Rowe H Coburg 4.3 (27) 5.4 (34) 7.13 (55) 8.15 (63) Briggs 2, Elliott 2, Lowe 2, Mears 2, Coburg Cricket Ground 9,000 The Argus Melbourne Association – Premiership decided 26 September 1932 11 Onlooker Had Coburg won, minor premiers Northcote would have been entitled to a rematch the following Saturday to decide the premiership. Awards Frank Seymour (Northcote) was the leading goalkicker for the season, kicking 109 goals in the home-and-home season and 122 goals overall. Seymour's total set a new record for the most goals in a season, breaking his own record of 110 goals set in 1930. Bob Ross (Northcote) won the Recorder Cup as the Association's best and fairest, polling nine votes. Jim Jenkins (Coburg), H. Jones (Camberwell) and N. Driver (Oakleigh) tied for second with eight votes apiece. Brunswick won the seconds premiership. Brunswick 13.15 (93) defeated Coburg 4.13 (37) in the Grand Final at the Coburg Cricket Ground on 1 October.The Argus Melbourne Association Seconds 3 October 1932 13 Notable events After winning back-to-back premierships in 1930 and 1931, many of Oakleigh's players either retired or transferred to the League, weakening Oakleigh's playing list so significantly that it won only three matches and received the 1932 wooden spoon. A new semi-perpetual trophy was presented to the Association by Grant Hay, to be presented each year to the premiers then won permanently by the first club to win it three times.The Herald Melbourne, VIC News and gossip from the clubs 17 June 1932 4 Northcote, by winning the 1932, 1933 and 1934 premierships, became permanent holders of the trophy without any other club ever being presented it. See also List of VFA premiers References Category:Victorian Football League seasons VFA