1892 VFA season

16th season of the Victorian Football Association December 2017 December 2017 1892 Essendon fc 1892.jpg 250px Essendon – 1892 VFA premiers 13 2 white 1891 VFA season 1891 white 1893 VFA season 1893 The 1892 VFA season was the 16th season of the Victorian Football Association (VFA), the highest-level senior Australian rules football competition in Victoria. The premiership was won by the Essendon Football Club, which finished with a record of 15 wins, 1 draw and 3 losses from 19 matches. It was Essendon's second consecutive premiership, out of a sequence of four consecutive premierships won from 1891 to 1894. Association membership The size of the Association premiership increased to thirteen senior clubs in 1892, with the newly established Collingwood Football Club competing for the first time. The club was formed from the Britannia Football Club, which had been a leading junior club in the Collingwood area since the establishment of the VFA in 1877,The Argus Melbourne, VIC 26 September 1891 6 Victorian Football Association and had applied to enter the VFA since 1889.The Argus Melbourne, VIC 29 June 1889 12 The Victorian Football Association Ladder 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 21-match season – e.g., Essendon played 19 matches, so its tally of premiership points was increased by a factor of 21/19. 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 1892 VFA ladder 4 2 ESS P Premiers FIT GEE MEL CAR SM PMB Port Melbourne RIC STK StK FOO NOR COL WIL 12 Williamstown 15 1 3 131 53 72.95 15 4 2 141 63 64.00 12 4 2 113 71 60.67 10 5 3 103 79 53.67 12 7 1 83 71 52.50 9 8 4 91 85 44.00 9 10 1 76 77 39.90 8 10 1 87 104 37.58 7 9 2 89 84 37.33 6 13 1 59 107 27.30 4 14 2 55 114 21.00 3 14 1 48 105 16.33 3 14 1 50 113 16.33 green1 P complete The Argus 26 September 1892 Close of the Football Season 6 Melbourne, VIC Notable events Essendon's Albert Thurgood was leading goalkicker in premiership matches for the season, kicking 56 goals. He finished ahead of Fitzroy's Jim Grace (48 goals), Melbourne's Harry Graham (42 goals) and Port Melbourne's Bill Fraser (40 goals). Thurgood sealed the leading goalkicker title by kicking nine of Essendon's ten goals in the final round match against North Melbourne (Grace kicked three goals on the same day), and broke the season record of Phil McShane, who kicked 51 goals for Geelong in 1886. See also Victorian Football Association/Victorian Football League History (1877-2008) List of VFA/VFL Premiers (1877-2007) History of Australian rules football in Victoria (1853-1900) References Category:Victorian Football League seasons Vfa Season, 1892