1877 St Kilda Football Club season

1st St Kilda Football Club season February 2024 St Kilda Football Club 1877 170px Alpaca Paddock VFA 5th 1878 The 1877 St Kilda Football Club season was the inaugural season in the club's history competing in the 1877 VFA season.https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/143270959 Background The 1877 Victorian Football Association season was the first in which the Australian rules football competition in Victoria was run under a properly constituted administrative body; which was formed with the view to governing the sport via a collective body, made up of delegates representing the clubs.The Australasian Melbourne, VIC 12 May 1877 Peter Pindar Football Gossip 588 XXII 580 The association was made up of five inaugural metropolitan senior clubs (St Kilda being one of them), and a number of provincial senior teams from across the state.Leader Melbourne, VIC Football Notes Nomad 9 July 1877 12 VFA season 1877 VFA season League table The VFA did not officially endorse a system of ranking the clubs until the 1888 season.https://www.elitetograssroots.net/vfa/1877.htm VFA Season 1877 1877 VFA Results TEAM P W L D GF GA 1 (P) 21 14 3 4 56 11 2 23 16 3 4 47 21 3 Hotham 14 7 5 2 27 16 4 Albert Park 12 5 4 3 17 10 5 StK 17 5 7 5 25 35 Key: P = Played, W = Won, L = Lost, D = Drawn, GF = Goals For, GA = Goals Against, (P) = Premiers Source:The Australasian 13 October 1877 The Football Season of 1877 – Part 1 Peter Pindar 461 602 XXIII Melbourne, VIC http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article143270959 Matches Only matches not played at odds between the affiliated senior metropolitan and provincial clubs are listed. Matches were also played in halves, not quarters. D 2 2 June 1877 St Kilda 16px 20px Albert Park 1–1 Alpaca Paddock, St Kilda 11 11 Summary L 6 30 June 1877 St Kilda 16px 16px 0–4 Alpaca Paddock, St Kilda 00 04 Summary 700 L 9 14 July 1877 16px 16px St Kilda 2–0 Argyle Square Ground, Geelong 22 00 Summary 1,500 L 10 21 July 1877 St Kilda 16px 16px 0–7 Alpaca Paddock, St Kilda Summary L 17 8 September 1877 16px 16px St Kilda 3–0 Madeline Street Reserve, Carlton 33 00 Summary L 19 22 September 1877 16px 16px St Kilda 6–0 Melbourne Football Ground, Richmond 26 00 Summary 2,000 References External links saints.com.au VFA Season 1877 Category:St Kilda Football Club seasons St Kilda