1919 VFL season

Infobox Victorian Football League season
year = 1919


imagesize = 120px
caption = Vic Thorp
clubs = 9
home-and-away season = 18 rounds
premiership team = Collingwood
count = 5th
minor premiers = Collingwood
champion of the season = Vic Thorp
top goal kicker = Dick Lee (47)Results and statistics for the Victorian Football League season of 1919.

Premiership season

In 1919, the VFL competition was comprised of nine teams of 18 on-the-field players each, with no "reserves", although any of the 18 players who had left the playing field for any reason could later resume their place on the field at any time during the match.

Each team played each other twice in a home-and-away season of 18 rounds (i.e., 16 matches and 2 byes).

Once the 18 round home-and-away season had finished, the 1919 VFL "Premiers" were determined by the specific format and conventions of the amended "Argus" system".

Round 1

Round 2

Round 3

Round 4

Round 5

Round 6

Round 7

Round 8

Round 9

Round 10

Round 11

Round 12

Round 13

Round 14

Round 15

Round 16

Round 17

Round 18

Grand Final

"See List of Australian Football League premiers for a complete list."

Collingwood defeated Richmond 11.12 (78) to 7.11 (53), in front of a crowd of 45,413 people. (For an explanation of scoring see Australian rules football).

Ladder

Awards

* The 1919 VFL Premiership team was Collingwood.
* The VFL's leading goalkicker was Dick Lee of Collingwood with 56 goals.
* "The Argus" newspaper's "Player of the Year", Vic Thorp of Richmond, was declared 1919 Champion of the Season.
* Melbourne took the "wooden spoon" in 1919.

Notable Events

* Melbourne returned to the VFL competition.
* Unhappy that its nine-team competition brings one bye each week, the VFL seeks expressions of interest from clubs wishing to join the VFL. Whilst there was talk of an Ex-Servicemen's Club and a Public Servants' Club, an application was actually lodged on behalf of a combined Ballarat Football League team, as well applications on behalf of the VFA clubs Brunswick Football Club, Footscray, Hawthorn, North Melbourne, Port Melbourne, and Prahran.
* The VFL introduced a Second Eighteen competition between its constituent clubs.
* At to the start of the 1919 season, the VFL had already donated ₤9,436-0-0 to the Patriotic Fund since the start of the war.
* In their round 12 match against St Kilda, South Melbourne sets a record for highest score in a quarter, kicking 17.4 (106) in the last quarter of the match. No team has ever come within three goals of matching this record.
* Other records were set in that same match: South Melbourne full-forward Harold Robertson kicked a record 14 goals in the match (a record until 1929); South Melbourne also kicked a record match score of 29.15 (189) (a record until 1931), with a record winning margin of 171 points (record until 1979), breaking the records set by Geelong in 1899.
* In round 16, Collingwood defeat Carlton 17.11 (113) to 5.16 (46). No team had scored 100 points against Carlton since round 1 in 1904; thus Carlton had played 292 consecutive games without conceding 100 points.

References

* Rogers, S. & Brown, A., "Every Game Ever Played: VFL/AFL Results 1897-1997 (Sixth Edition)", Viking Books, (Ringwood), 1998. ISBN 0-670-90809-6
* Ross, J. (ed), "100 Years of Australian Football 1897-1996: The Complete Story of the AFL, All the Big Stories, All the Great Pictures, All the Champions, Every AFL Season Reported", Viking, (Ringwood), 1996. ISBN 0-670-86814-0

External links

* [http://stats.rleague.com/afl/seas/1919.html 1919 Season - AFL Tables]