1891 VFA season

15th season of the Victorian Football Association December 2017 December 2017 1891 2 May – 26 September 1891Pennings Mark Tough times: Victorian football loses its way, 1891 to 1896 https://eprints.qut.edu.au/100083/18/Mark%27s%2BBook%2BVolume%2B4%2Br.pdf QUT Origins of Australian Football (Volume IV) 5 June 2025 https://web.archive.org/web/20250525004651/https://eprints.qut.edu.au/100083/18/Mark%27s%2BBook%2BVolume%2B4%2Br.pdf 25 May 2025 2016 Essendon fc 1891.jpg 250px Essendon – 1891 VFA premiers 12 1 white 1890 VFA season 1890 white 1892 VFA season 1892 The 1891 VFA season was the 15th season of the Victorian Football Association (VFA), the highest-level senior Australian rules football competition in Victoria. won the premiership for the first time, beginning a sequence of four consecutive premierships won from 1891 to 1894.1891 Premiership https://www.essendonfc.com.au/news/540019/1891-premiership Essendon Football Club 5 June 2025 https://web.archive.org/web/20250605173604/https://www.essendonfc.com.au/news/540019/1891-premiership 5 June 2025 9 December 2019Eddy Dan Greatest moments: The 1891-94 'Invincibles' https://www.essendonfc.com.au/news/1119188/greatest-moments-the-1891-94-invincibles Essendon Football Club 5 June 2025 https://web.archive.org/web/20250605173737/https://www.essendonfc.com.au/news/1119188/greatest-moments-the-1891-94-invincibles 5 June 2025 6 May 2022 Ladder thumb|Scenes from an 1891 VFA Premiership Match between Essendon and Carlton Teams did not play a uniform number of premiership matches during the season. As such, in the final standings, each team's premiership points were adjusted upwards proportionally to represent a 22-match season; e.g., Essendon played 20 matches, so its tally of premiership points was increased by a factor of 22/20. After this adjustment, there was no formal process for breaking a tie. main Custom 8 8 pld win loss draw gf ga points adj Adj pts Adjusted points 4 2 ESS P Premiers CAR FIT SM GEE MEL STK StK NOR WIL Williamstown FOO PMB Port Melbourne RIC 17 1 2 125 66 72 79.20 14 4 3 113 55 62 64.95 12 5 2 110 70 52 60.21 14 7 1 120 74 58 58.00 12 7 0 90 74 48 55.58 8 6 5 88 84 46 48.63 8 11 1 92 97 34 37.40 3 9 8 55 86 28 30.80 4 11 3 51 78 22 26.89 4 13 1 58 95 18 22.00 3 13 3 61 103 18 20.84 2 14 3 62 143 14 16.21 green1 P complete The Argus 28 September 1891 Close of the football season 10 Melbourne, VIC Notable events Prior to the season, the distance between each goalpost and its adjacent kick-off post (behind post) was reduced from ten yards to seven yards, making each behind face the same width as the goal face,Western Mail Perth, WA Football 22 November 1890 19 and establishing the modern measurements for the scoring area which have remained since. On 11 July, a torrential downpour from 3:00am saw the VFA grounds in Melbourne left at least partially underwater and made the conditions almost unplayable: The match between Williamstown and was drawn by mutual agreement without taking the field due to torrential rain and the ground being completely flooded. The match between StK and at the Junction Oval saw only twelve Footscray players appear, with the ground covered in pools of water. Despite both teams' players, captains and officials objections to playing, the umpire overruled them and the match proceeded, with St Kilda (who had a full team of 20 players) winning by 10.5 to nil.Bendigo Advertiser Football Bendigo, VIC 13 July 1891 3Barrier Miner Broken Hill, NSW 4 Football notes Follower 18 July 1891 References Category:Victorian Football League seasons VFA