1883 Victorian football season

14th senior season of Australian rules football in Victoria June 2025 June 2025 1883 21 April – 29 September 1883Pennings 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 1882 Victorian football season 1882 white 1884 Victorian football season 1884 The 1883 Victorian football season was the 14th senior season of Australian rules football in the colony of Victoria.Goal Post FOOTBALL https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/229814653 Sportsman 4 June 2025 4 10 October 1883 Clubs Founded Two future Australian Football League (AFL) clubs − and − were founded in 1883.Chronology https://www.afl.com.au/about-afl/chronology AFL.com.au 4 June 2025 https://web.archive.org/web/20250528194350/https://www.afl.com.au/about-afl/chronology 28 May 2025 Club League Ref 15x15px VJFA The Unofficial History of the Fitzroy Football Club https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/melbourne-drive/uh-of-fitzroy-lions/103888498 ABC Listen 4 June 2025 https://web.archive.org/web/20240715210100/https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/melbourne-drive/uh-of-fitzroy-lions/103888498 15 July 2024 23 May 2024 15x15px VJFA Western Bulldogs Hall of Fame event returns https://www.westernbulldogs.com.au/news/1320731/western-bulldogs-hall-of-fame-event-returns Western Bulldogs 4 June 2025 https://web.archive.org/web/20230507052106/https://www.westernbulldogs.com.au/news/1320731/western-bulldogs-hall-of-fame-event-returns 7 May 2023 1 May 2023 VFA 1883 VFA season won the Victorian Football Association (VFA) premiership for the fifth time, making it the club's fifth VFA premiership in just six seasons, and the second 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 1883 vjfa 21 April – 29 September 1883 WavOG 1 white 1882 Victorian football season#Juniors 1882 (pre-VJFA) white 1884 Victorian football season#VJFA 1884 The 1883 VJFA season was the inaugural 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 The competition was officially established on 26 April 1883, with eleven clubs − Albion, , EmeraldHill, , Fortrose, NorthPark, RicOG, SouthPark, SthYar, StarCar and WavOG − represented at the inaugural meeting.The Victorian Football Association https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/190603111 The Age 14 December 2024 3 27 April 1883Pindar Peter FOOTBALL GOSSIP https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/137587233 The Australasian 4 June 2025 14 28 April 1883 WavOG were the premiers, only losing two of its 20 matches for the season.Waverley v. Star of Carlton https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/137592687/11296668 The Australasian 4 June 2025 14 29 September 1883THE JUNIOR FOOTBALL CHAMPIONSHIP https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/241138652 The Herald R. M. G. 13 December 2024 2 1 October 1883 SouthPark secretary McKinery disputed this, saying his club was the only one entitled to the premiership.Victorian Junior Football Association https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/11828485 The Argus 4 June 2025 10 17 September 1883JUNIOR FOOTBALL https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/229814961 Sportsman 4 June 2025 4 3 October 1883 Britannia, , Clifton, Fortrose, Normanby, , NorthPark, Powlett, RoyalParkOG, Sandridge, StarCar, Toorak and were also named as the season's top clubs.Pindar Peter The football season of 1883 https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/137592896/11296724 The Australasian 5 June 2025 14 6 October 1883Victorian Junior Football Association (Vic) https://footypedia.info/00001339.htm Footypedia 3 June 2025 https://web.archive.org/web/20241217211533/https://www.footypedia.info/00001339.htm 17 December 2024 Club records + Pos Position on ladder Team Pld Games played W Won L Lost D Drawn 1 WavOG (P) 20 9 2 8 2 SouthPark 18 12 2 4 3 StarCar 16 9 2 5 19 13 5 1 Sandridge 17 11 5 1 20 7 7 5 Britannia Clifton Fortrose Normanby NorthPark Powlett RoyalParkOG Toorak Source:Foster J. THE JUNIOR FOOTBALL CHAMPIONSHIP https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/241140651 The Herald 4 June 2025 3 24 September 1883Pearson Charles THE JUNIOR FOOTBALL PREMIERSHIP https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/241137090 The Herald 25 July 2024 26 September 1883 I beg to state that the Waverley have not yet claimed the premiership. But if the Waverley is not defeated on Saturday next by Brunswick, I certainly claim that the Waverley are premiers on the ground that they will have played nineteen matches, and will have only suffered two defeats.Evansdale Football Club statistics 1883 http://members.optushome.com.au/wardead/hawks/1883.htm Early History of the Hawthorn Football Club 1873–1935 16 August 2004 1998 https://web.archive.org/web/20040816060834/http://members.optushome.com.au/wardead/hawks/1883.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 AlbImp was the premier club in the Ballarat District competition for the second consecutive season.THE GRAND FINAL https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/219317776 The Ballarat Star 4 June 2025 6 26 September 1921 VicImp was the premier junior club.JUNIOR FOOTBALL https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/229824976 Sportsman 5 June 2025 4 17 October 1883 During a match on 15 September 1883, BalImp captain John Williams Mills was struck in the abdomen, but played out the remainder of the match against AlbImp.A FATAL FOOTBALL ACCIDENT https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/202609970 The Age 6 June 2025 6 18 September 1883 However, he died the following morning.Another Death in the Football Field https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/220536082 Weekly Times 6 June 2025 5 22 September 1883 Club records + Pos Position on ladder Team Pld Games played W Won L Lost D Drawn GF Goals for GA Goals against 1 AlbImp (P) 8 4 4 0 24 23 2 Ballarat 9 1 6 2 16 24 BalImp 6 2 3 1 12 22 Source: (P) Premiers Notes References Category:Victorian football seasons Victorian