1931 VFA season

53rd Victorian Football Association season December 2017 December 2017 VFA Premiership season 1931 VFA 12 Oakleigh 2 Oakleigh 2 113 446500 1930 1932 The 1931 Victorian Football Association season was the 53rd season of the Australian rules football competition. The premiership was won by the Oakleigh Football Club, after it defeated Northcote by three points in the Grand Final on 26 September. It was the club's second VFA premiership, achieved in only its third season of senior competition, and it was Oakleigh's second premiership in a row. Premiership After playing sectional games in 1930, the Association reverted to a simple season format, with each club playing eighteen home-and-home 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 1931 VFA ladder true points y 4 2 OAK Oakleigh PMB Port Melbourne NBU Preston NOR Northcote YAR Yarraville COB Coburg BRU Brunswick SAN Sandringham PRA Prahran WIL Williamstown BRI Brighton CAM Camberwell 14 4 0 1546 1047 P 14 4 0 1502 1089 12 5 1 1418 1273 12 6 0 1620 1171 11 6 1 1386 1328 11 7 0 1371 1342 9 9 0 1386 1236 8 10 0 1665 1796 7 11 0 1283 1492 5 13 0 1209 1476 2 16 0 1237 1798 2 16 0 1164 1734 Premiers #CCFFCC A A A A 1) points; 2) percentage; 3) number of points for. complete The Argus 28 September 1931 Association – Premiership decided 11 Melbourne Onlooker Finals Semifinals Saturday, 5 September Port Melbourne 5.8 (38) A Northcote 9.11 (65) Brunswick Cricket Ground 9,000 The Argus Melbourne Association – first semi-final 7 September 1931 12 Onlooker Saturday, 12 September Oakleigh 6.8 (44) A Preston 9.13 (67) Coburg Cricket Ground 7,000 The Argus Melbourne Association – second semi-final 14 September 1931 12 Onlooker Final Saturday, 19 September Preston 7.9 (51) A Northcote 11.22 (88) Coburg Cricket Ground 10,000 The Argus Melbourne Association – Northcote wins 21 September 1931 11 Onlooker 1931 VFA Grand Final Saturday, 26 September Oakleigh 2.3 (15) 3.7 (25) 7.11 (53) 10.14 (74) Fraser 3, Rodwell 3, Maher 2, Crameri, Dolan H Northcote 2.1 (13) 4.3 (27) 9.3 (57) 11.5 (71) Simmonds 4, Seymour 3, Byrne 2, Corrigan, Ross Humphries (groin), Pruser (concussion) Port Melbourne Cricket Ground 10,000 Stuart Awards Don Fraser, Sr. (Oakleigh) was the leading goalkicker for the season, kicking 77 goals in the home-and-home season and 83 goals overall. Bill Koop (Prahran) won the Recorder Cup as the Association's best and fairest, polling ten votes. Tom Lahiff (Port Melbourne) finished second with seven votes, and Doug Nicholls (Northcote) finished third with six votes. The seconds (Victorian Junior Football Association) premiership was won by Brunswick. Brunswick 12.10 (82) defeated Coburg 5.14 (44) in the Grand Final at Preston on 26 September to win the title. Notable events The Association and League re-established a permit agreement in 1931, meaning that players could not switch from one competition to the other without a clearance from his original competition. This was the first time a permit agreement had existed between the competitions since before the 1925 season.Seagulls over Williamstown Fiddian Marc 2003 Williamstown Football Club Williamstown, VIC 55 Following Coburg's 11-point victory against Port Melbourne on 30 May, Port Melbourne protested the result on the basis of a timekeeping error. The match was declared void, and in the replay on Wednesday 29 July, Coburg 11.15 (81) defeated Port Melbourne 8.17 (65) by 16 points.The Argus Melbourne Football – Association replay 30 July 1931 10 OnlookerThe Argus Melbourne Football – Association v. N.S.W. 23 June 1931 13 Onlooker On 15 August, a combined Association team 16.11 (107) defeated a combined New South Wales League team 13.17 (95) by twelve points at the Sydney Cricket Ground, before a crowd of 8,608 spectators.The Argus Melbourne Association wins – match in Sydney 17 August 1931 11 Northcote lodged a protest against the result of the Grand Final, requesting the result be quashed a replay be held. Northcote contended that the Oakleigh timekeeper had rung the bell to signal the end of the third quarter approximately five seconds early, and had done so without the permission of the Northcote timekeeper; the ball was in Northcote's forward line at the time, although Oakleigh had possession. The Association found that there was a three to five second discrepancy between the two timekeepers' clocks, but could not say for sure whether the quarter had been played short or long, so it upheld Oakleigh's victory.The Argus Melbourne Football – match in dispute 1 October 1931 10 See also List of VFA premiers References Bibliography The Argus 5 September 1932 Association – Northcote on top 12 Melbourne Onlooker Category:Victorian Football League seasons VFL