1891 VFA season
1891 premiership season | |
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![]() Essendon FC, Premier team | |
Teams | 12 |
Premiers | Essendon (1st premiership) |
The 1891 Victorian Football Association season was the 15th season of the Australian rules football competition.
The premiership was won by the Essendon Football Club. It was the first premiership in the club's history, and it was its first premiership out of a sequence of four consecutive premierships won from 1891 to 1894.
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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.
Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | D | GF | GA | Pts | Adj Pts |
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1 | Essendon (P) | 20 | 17 | 1 | 2 | 125 | 66 | 72 | 79.2 |
2 | Carlton | 21 | 14 | 4 | 3 | 113 | 55 | 62 | 65.0 |
3 | Fitzroy | 19 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 110 | 70 | 52 | 60.2 |
4 | South Melbourne | 22 | 14 | 7 | 1 | 120 | 74 | 58 | 58.0 |
5 | Geelong | 19 | 12 | 7 | 0 | 90 | 74 | 48 | 55.6 |
6 | Melbourne | 19 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 88 | 84 | 42 | 48.6 |
7 | St Kilda | 20 | 8 | 11 | 1 | 92 | 97 | 34 | 37.4 |
8 | North Melbourne | 20 | 3 | 9 | 8 | 55 | 86 | 28 | 30.8 |
9 | Williamstown | 18 | 4 | 11 | 3 | 51 | 78 | 22 | 26.8 |
10 | Footscray | 18 | 4 | 13 | 1 | 58 | 95 | 18 | 22.0 |
11 | Port Melbourne | 19 | 3 | 13 | 3 | 61 | 108 | 18 | 20.1 |
12 | Richmond | 19 | 2 | 14 | 3 | 62 | 148 | 14 | 16.2 |
Notable events[]
- On 11 July, a torrential downpour from 3:00am saw VFA most grounds partially underwater and made conditions almost unplayable. The match between North Melbourne and Williamstown was drawn by mutual agreement without taking the field, while only twelve Footscray players arrived for the match against St Kilda, which proceeded after the teams' objections to playing were overruled by the umpire. St Kilda won the match by 10.5 to nil.[2][3]
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[]
Categories:
- Victorian Football League seasons
- 1891 in Australian rules football