1925 VFA season
1925 VFA premiership season | |
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Teams | 8 |
Premiers | Brunswick 2nd premiership |
Minor premiers | Brunswick 1st minor premiership |
Attendance | |
Matches played | 59 |
Total attendance | 465,500 (7,890 per match) |
The 1925
Association membership
During the 1924/25 offseason, the
The Association received applications from
The changes left the Association without three of its strongest clubs: on-field,
Melbourne Carnivals Ltd, which owned the Motordrome, was keen to stage top level football on its venue. At one stage, it considered an ambitious scheme to install floodlights and stage night matches at the Motordrome, to establish three new clubs into the Association – Public Service, Melbourne City and Richmond City – as well as admitting Coburg and Camberwell, and to bankroll enormous wages of £5 per week to lure the best players away from the League, in an attempt to make the Association the dominant football competition in the state.[8] Nothing ever came of the scheme;[3] but, fifty years later, a very similar set of circumstances played out when World Series Cricket changed the landscape of world cricket.
The Association secured the Motordrome as its finals venue, having lost the North Melbourne Recreation Reserve in the League's expansion. As a result of the changes, the size of the Association was reduced to eight clubs.[3]
Premiership
The home-and-home season was played over only fourteen rounds, compared with the eighteen matches that previous seasons had been played over, with each club playing the others twice; then, the top four clubs contested a finals series under the
Ladder
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TEAM | P | W | L | D | PF | PA | Pct | PTS | ||||
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1 | Brunswick (P) | 14 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 1138 | 704 | 61.9 | 48 | |||
2 | Northcote | 14 | 11 | 3 | 0 | 1108 | 870 | 86.3 | 44 | |||
3 | Coburg | 14 | 10 | 4 | 0 | 1061 | 850 | 80.1 | 40 | |||
4 | Port Melbourne | 14 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 1017 | 855 | 84.1 | 32 | |||
5 | Brighton | 14 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 930 | 890 | 95.7 | 28 | |||
6 | Williamstown | 14 | 4 | 10 | 0 | 702 | 929 | 132.3 | 12 | |||
7 | Prahran | 14 | 3 | 11 | 0 | 803 | 1091 | 135.9 | 12 | |||
8 | Geelong | 14 | 1 | 13 | 0 | 691 | 1161 | 168.0 | 4 | |||
Key: P = Played, W = Won, L = Lost, D = Drawn, PF = Points For, PA = Points Against, Pct = Percentage; (P) = Premiers, PTS = Premiership points | Source[9] |
Finals
Semifinals | |||||
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Saturday, 8 August | Northcote 9.12 (66) | def. by | Port Melbourne 14.12 (96) | Motordrome (crowd: 7,500) | [10] |
Saturday, 15 August | Brunswick 6.18 (54) | def. | Coburg 7.9 (51) | Motordrome (crowd: 17,300) | [11] |
1925 VFA Final | |||||
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Saturday, 29 August | Brunswick | def. | Port Melbourne | Motordrome (crowd: 15,000) | [12] |
1.3 (9) 7.5 (47) 8.8 (56) 10.9 (69) |
Q1 Q2 Q3 Final |
4.1 (25) 5.3 (33) 6.7 (43) 7.11 (53) |
Umpires: Leheny | ||
Hassett 4, McInerney 3, Fitzgerald, McLatchie, O'Connor | Goals | Froud 2, Lawson 2, Rees 2, Rudd | |||
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Notable events
- Leo McInerney (Brunswick) was the Association's leading goalscorer for the year, finishing with 75 goals in the home-and-home season,[9] and 79 goals overall.[12]
External links
- List of VFA premiers
References
- ^ "Football – increasing Association clubs". The Argus. Melbourne. 4 December 1924. p. 4.
- ^ "Association Football – Two new clubs". The Argus. Melbourne. 16 December 1924. p. 13.
- ^ a b c "Football – Position of Association". The Argus. Melbourne. 3 March 1925. p. 18.
- ^ a b "League Football – Three New Clubs". The Argus. Melbourne. 29 January 1925. p. 5.
- ^ "Football – Broken agreement". The Argus. Melbourne. 5 May 1925. p. 7.
- ^ "Football – More league clubs". The Australasian. Melbourne. 24 January 1925. p. 193.
- ^ Old Boy (28 January 1925). "Football prospects – the broken agreement". The Argus. Melbourne. p. 9.
- ^ Old Boy (13 February 1925). "Football Control – Night Games Proposed". The Argus. Melbourne. p. 5.
- ^ a b Old Boy (3 August 1925). "Football – sensational matches". The Argus. Melbourne. p. 16.
- ^ Onlooker (10 August 1925). "The Association – first semi-final decided". The Argus. Melbourne. p. 17.
- ^ Onlooker (17 August 1925). "The Association – second semi-final played". The Argus. Melbourne. p. 16.
- ^ a b Onlooker (31 August 1925). "The Association – Brunswick's premiership". The Argus. Melbourne. pp. 16–17.
- ^ Onlooker (24 August 1925). "The Association – final match postponed". The Argus. Melbourne. p. 12.
- ^ "Downes (sic) wins Woodham Cup". The Argus. Melbourne. 11 August 1925. p. 12.