1884 Victorian football season

15th senior season of Australian rules football in Victoria June 2025 June 2025 1884 3 May – 27 September 1884Pennings Mark A Golden Era Begins: Football in 'Marvellous Melbourne', 1877 to 1885 https://eprints.qut.edu.au/74662/16/46666_MARK%27S_ORIGINS_OF_AUSTRALIAN_RULES_FOOTY_-_LOW_RES.pdf QUT Origins of Australian Football (Volume II) 3 June 2025 https://web.archive.org/web/20250521235327/https://eprints.qut.edu.au/74662/16/46666_MARK%27S_ORIGINS_OF_AUSTRALIAN_RULES_FOOTY_-_LOW_RES.pdf 21 May 2025 28 May 2014 vic white 1883 Victorian football season 1883 white 1885 Victorian football season 1885 The 1884 Victorian football season was the 15th senior season of Australian rules football in the colony of Victoria.Pindar Peter The football season of 1884 https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/138095916 The Australasian 5 June 2025 22 4 October 1884 Clubs Founded Club League Ref 15x15px Queenscliff Geelong District Coutas hope to hook the flag https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/coutas-hope-to-hook-the-flag-20110813-1is6o.html The Age 5 June 2025 https://web.archive.org/web/20250605134355/https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/coutas-hope-to-hook-the-flag-20110813-1is6o.html 5 June 2025 14 August 2011 VFA 1884 VFA season won the Victorian Football Association (VFA) premiership for the fifth time, making it the club's sixth VFA premiership in just seven seasons, and the third in a sequence of three consecutive premierships won from 1882 to 1884.Collings Tom Geelong's Premiership History https://www.geelongcats.com.au/news/241594/geelongs-premiership-history Geelong Football Club 3 June 2025 https://web.archive.org/web/20241206034152/https://www.geelongcats.com.au/news/241594/geelongs-premiership-history 6 December 2024 15 July 2019Riley Michael The Evolution of 'the Premiership' 1870−1888 https://hiddenfootyhistories.org/article137-The-Evolution-of-the-Premiership-1870-1888 3 June 2025 Hidden Footy Histories 11 August 2019 https://web.archive.org/web/20250603151201/https://hiddenfootyhistories.org/article137-The-Evolution-of-the-Premiership-1870-1888 3 June 2025 VJFA 1884 vjfa 3 May – 27 September 1884 StarCar 1 white 1883 Victorian football season#VJFA 1883 white 1885 Victorian football season#VJFA 1885 The 1884 VJFA season was the second season of the Victorian Junior Football Association (VJFA).At the time, the term "junior" was used to describe open age football of a lower standard than senior football, rather than under age football.Gigacz Andrew Still snarling: 140 years on https://www.westernbulldogs.com.au/news/1270716/still-snarling-140-years-on Western Bulldogs 4 June 2025 https://web.archive.org/web/20250604165235/https://www.westernbulldogs.com.au/news/1270716/still-snarling-140-years-on 4 June 2025 5 June 2023 StarCar was the premier club for the first time. Sandridge changed its name to during the season, in line with the renaming of the municipality.Seisman Street https://www.pmhps.org.au/2019/06/seisman-street/ Port Melbourne Historical and Preservation Society 5 June 2025 https://web.archive.org/web/20250605055903/https://www.pmhps.org.au/2019/06/seisman-street/ 5 June 2025 6 June 2019William 'Billy' Hannaysee https://blueseum.org/William+%27Billy%27+Hannaysee Blueseum 5 June 2025 https://web.archive.org/web/20250605060307/https://blueseum.org/William+%27Billy%27+Hannaysee 5 June 2025 Club records + Pos Position on ladder Team Pld Games played W Won L Lost D Drawn GF Goals for GA Goals against 1 StarCar (P) 20 14 1 5 51 11 2 19 13 2 4 46 10 3 WilJun 17 14 2 1 34 19 Britannia 16 10 1 5 16 9 2 5 29 13 SthYar 16 9 4 3 40 22 NorthPark 17 10 5 2 17 14 SMJun 18 9 6 3 24 30 StKRoyal 17 10 4 3 41 29 Avenue 16 9 5 2 31 18 Evansdale 17 5 8 4 29 52 Source:Football season, 1884 https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/229820666 Sportsman 5 June 2025 2 22 October 1884Evansdale Football Club statistics 1884 http://members.optushome.com.au/wardead/hawks/1884.htm Early History of the Hawthorn Football Club 1873–1935 16 August 2004 1998 https://web.archive.org/web/20040816060949/http://members.optushome.com.au/wardead/hawks/1884.htm 16 August 2004 1880s 24 June 2024 https://williamstownfc.com.au/through-the-decades/1880s-2/ Williamstown Football Club 5 June 2025 https://web.archive.org/web/20250605021744/https://williamstownfc.com.au/through-the-decades/1880s-2/ 5 June 2025 (P) Premiers Ballarat District BalImp was the premier club in the Ballarat District competition.FOOTBALL https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/267579057 The Ballarat Courier 5 June 2025 3 7 October 1884 This was disputed by (which had renamed itself from AlbImp at the start of the season).ALBION IMPERIAL FOOTBALL CLUB https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/202586215 The Ballarat Star 5 June 2025 2 3 April 1884THE GRAND FINAL https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/219317776 The Ballarat Star 4 June 2025 6 26 September 1921 Club records + Pos Position on ladder Team Pld Games played W Won L Lost D Drawn GF Goals for GA Goals against 1 BalImp (P) 8 6 2 0 27 15 2 13 8 5 0 43 33 Ballarat 14 0 13 1 9 59 Source: (P) Premiers Notes References Category:Victorian football seasons Victorian