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1915 VFA season


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1915 premiership season
Teams10
Premiers
North Melbourne
(5th premiership)

Minor premiers
North Melbourne
(4th minor premiership)


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The 1915 Victorian Football Association season was the 39th season of the Australian rules football competition.


The season was the first to be played while Australia was fighting in World War I, so the playing stocks of many teams were reduced by enlistments. The season itself was cut five weeks short to encourage more young men to enlist in the war effort. It was the last season played before the Association went into recess for two seasons during the peak of the war.


The premiership was won by the North Melbourne Football Club, after it defeated Brunswick by 48 points in the final on August 7. It was the club's fifth VFA premiership, and its second in a sequence of three premierships won consecutively between 1914 and 1918. North Melbourne won all fifteen premiership matches it played during 1915, becoming the first team to go undefeated through a season since Essendon (L.) in 1893;[1] the season was part of a 58-match winning streak for North Melbourne which lasted from 1914–1919.[2]




Contents





  • 1 Premiership

    • 1.1 Ladder


    • 1.2 Finals



  • 2 Notable events


  • 3 External links


  • 4 References




Premiership[edit]


The home-and-home season was to have been played over eighteen rounds, with each club playing the others twice. However, fighting was intensifying in Europe in World War I, and football was serving as a distraction which was dissuading men from enlisting to fight;[3] as a result, the Association decided on 14 July to end the home-and-home season early after 13 matches, and proceed directly to the finals.[4] The top four clubs contested a finals series under the amended Argus system to determine the premiers for the season.



Ladder[edit]

























































































































1915 VFA Ladder

TEAMPWLDPFPAPctPTS
1

North Melbourne (P)
13
13
0
0
883
490
55.5
52
2

Brunswick
13
10
3
0
815
610
74.8
40
3

Williamstown
13
9
4
0
774
593
76.6
36
4

Port Melbourne
13
9
4
0
895
719
80.3
36
5

Prahran
13
8
4
1
724
684
94.5
34
6

Footscray
13
7
6
0
816
616
75.5
28
7

Northcote
13
3
8
2
746
792
94.1
16
8

Essendon
13
2
11
0
627
833
132.9
8
9

Brighton
13
1
11
1
627
1072
171.0
6
10

Hawthorn
13
1
12
0
678
1152
169.9
4

Key: P = Played, W = Won, L = Lost, D = Drawn, PF = Points For, Pennsylvania = Points Against, Pct = Percentage; (P) = Premiers, PTS = Premiership points
Source[5]


Finals[edit]































Semi Finals


Saturday, 24 July

Brunswick 10.14 (74)
def.

Port Melbourne 8.8 (56)

North Melbourne Recreation Reserve (crowd: 6,000)
[6]
Saturday, 31 July

North Melbourne 11.14 (80)
def.

Williamstown 4.8 (32)

North Melbourne Recreation Reserve (crowd: 4,500)
[7]














































1915 VFA Final


Saturday, 7 August

North Melbourne
def.

Brunswick

North Melbourne Recreation Reserve (crowd: 8,000)

[1][8]

2.6 (18)
4.8 (32)
9.9 (63)
 11.10 (76)
Q1
Q2
Q3
 Final
0.1 (1)
0.7 (7)
1.7 (13)
 3.10 (28)

Umpires: Kendall



Miles 4, Hawkins 3, Dodemaide 2, Clarke, Rawle

Goals
Chase, Harker, O'Connor











  • Had Brunswick won, minor premiers North Melbourne would have been entitled to a rematch the following Saturday to decide the premiership.


Notable events[edit]


  • Over the off-season, the Association forced Northcote to move its playing base from Croxton Park to Northcote Park; the motion was approved by an 11–1 majority, and Northcote's delegate was the only vote against the move. The move was imposed because Croxton Park had been notorious for more than a decade for the unruly conduct of its patrons, which was generally blamed on the influence of the Croxton Park Hotel which adjoined the ground.[9][10]


  • North Melbourne organised to play a match on August 14 against League team St Kilda, which had a bye in its premiership schedule that week, at the St Kilda Cricket Ground to raise money for Lady Stanley's Fund for Australian Wounded Soldiers. It was only the second time that a match had been played between the League and the Association since the breakaway of the League in 1897.[11] Between 9,000–10,000 spectators attended, and £254/3/3 was raised. The football was played in bad spirit, and North Melbourne won 8.9 (57) to 4.7 (31) by 26 points.[12]


External links[edit]


  • List of VFA premiers


References[edit]




  1. ^ ab Old Boy (9 August 1915). "The Association – disappointing final game". The Argus. Melbourne. p. 11..mw-parser-output cite.citationfont-style:inherit.mw-parser-output .citation qquotes:"""""""'""'".mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-free abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-registration abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-subscription abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registrationcolor:#555.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration spanborder-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/12px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output code.cs1-codecolor:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-errordisplay:none;font-size:100%.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-errorfont-size:100%.mw-parser-output .cs1-maintdisplay:none;color:#33aa33;margin-left:0.3em.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-formatfont-size:95%.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-leftpadding-left:0.2em.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-rightpadding-right:0.2em


  2. ^ Old Boy (15 September 1919). "Association Semi-Final – North Melbourne's Waterloo". The Argus. Melbourne. p. 3.


  3. ^ Observer (12 July 1915). "Closing the season – an Association proposal". The Argus. Melbourne. p. 5.


  4. ^ "Association season curtailed". The Argus. Melbourne. 15 July 1915. p. 8.


  5. ^ J.W. (24 July 1915). "Premiership lists for 1915". The Australasian. XCIX (2573). Melbourne. p. 177.


  6. ^ Old Boy (26 July 1915). "The Association – first semi-final". The Argus. Melbourne. p. 11.


  7. ^ Observer (2 August 1915). "The Association – second semi-final". The Argus. Melbourne. p. 5.


  8. ^ "North Melbourne beats Brunswick". The Herald. Melbourne. 7 August 1915. p. 3.


  9. ^ "Ground disqualified". The Argus. Melbourne. 17 July 1903. p. 6.


  10. ^ "Who's the delegate – Football Association dilemma". The Argus. Melbourne. 13 October 1914. p. 10.


  11. ^ Old Boy (3 October 1924). "Football – Championship of Victoria". The Argus. Melbourne. p. 5.


  12. ^ Old Boy (16 August 1915). "Patriotic match". The Argus. Melbourne. p. 11.













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