1937 VFL season

Infobox VFL Premiership Season
year = 1937


imagesize = 120px
caption = Geelong captain-coach Reg Hickey
teams = 12
premiers = AFL Gee
count = 2nd
minor premiers = AFL Gee
mpcount = 3rd
matches =
top goal scorer = Dick Harris (AFL Car)
brownlow medalist = Dick Reynolds (AFL Ess)

Results and statistics for the Victorian Football League season of 1937.

Premiership season

In 1937, the VFL competition consisted of twelve teams of 18 on-the-field players each, plus one substitute player, known as the 19th man. A player could be substituted for any reason; however, once substituted, a player could not return to the field of play under any circumstances.

Teams played each other in a home-and-away season of 18 rounds; matches 12 to 18 were the "home-and-way reverse" of matches 1 to 7.

Once the 18 round home-and-away season had finished, the 1937 VFL "Premiers" were determined by the specific format and conventions of the "Page-McIntyre 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."

Geelong defeated Collingwood 18.14 (122) to 12.18 (90), in front of a crowd of 88,540 people. (For an explanation of scoring see Australian rules football).

Ladder

Awards

* The 1937 VFL Premiership team was Geelong.
* The VFL's leading goalkicker was Dick Harris of Richmond with 64 goals.
* "The Argus" newspaper's "Player of the Year" was Dick Reynolds of Essendon.
* The winner of the 1937 Brownlow Medal was Dick Reynolds of Essendon with 27 votes.
* North Melbourne took the "wooden spoon" in 1937.

Notable Events

* Still struggling to recover from the injury that kept him out of the 1936 Grand Final, Bob Pratt only plays six matches (kicking 12 goals) for South Melbourne in the 1937 season.
* Having kicked Collingwood's only goal in the last quarter of the Grand Final, Gordon Coventry retires having played 306 senior VFL games and having scored 1299 goals.

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/1937.html 1937 Season - AFL Tables]