1932 VFL season

The 1932 VFL season was the 36th season of the Victorian Football League (VFL), the highest level senior Australian rules football competition in Victoria. The season featured twelve clubs, ran from 30 April until 1 October, and comprised an 18-game home-and-away season followed by a finals series featuring the top four clubs.

1932 VFL Premiership season
Richmond Football Club, premiers
Teams12
PremiersRichmond
(3rd premiership)
Minor premiersCarlton
(8th minor premiership)
Matches played112
Highest attendance69,724
Leading Goalkicker MedallistGeorge Moloney (Geelong)
Brownlow MedallistHaydn Bunton Sr. (Fitzroy)

The premiership was won by the Richmond Football Club for the third time, after it defeated Carlton by nine points in the 1932 VFL Grand Final.

Premiership season

In 1932, 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 1932 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

Ladder
1932 VFL ladder
Pos Team Pld W L D PF PA PP Pts
1 Carlton 18 15 3 0 1803 1308 137.8 60 Finals
2 Richmond (P) 18 14 3 1 1526 1096 139.2 58
3 Collingwood 18 14 4 0 1644 1473 111.6 56
4 South Melbourne 18 13 5 0 1531 1297 118.0 52
5 Geelong 18 11 6 1 1825 1306 139.7 46
6 Essendon 18 10 8 0 1488 1444 103.0 40
7 Footscray 18 9 9 0 1229 1188 103.5 36
8 North Melbourne 18 8 10 0 1535 1581 97.1 32
9 Melbourne 18 4 14 0 1281 1675 76.5 16
10 Fitzroy 18 3 15 0 1361 1786 76.2 12
11 St Kilda 18 3 15 0 1263 1753 72.0 12
12 Hawthorn 18 3 15 0 1034 1613 64.1 12
Source: VFL Ladder
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) percentage; 3) number of points for.
(P) Premiers

Finals

Semi finals

Preliminary Final

Grand final
Main article: 1932 VFL Grand Final

Richmond defeated Carlton 13.14 (92) to 12.11 (83), in front of a crowd of 69,724 people. (For an explanation of scoring see Australian rules football).

Awards

Notable events
  • Rain had delayed the resurfacing of the Melbourne Cricket Ground, so Melbourne arranged to play its first three matches for the year at the Motordrome. These were the only three VFL matches ever staged at the venue.
  • In round 11, due to the effects of an extremely strong cross-wind that blew all day at the Lake Oval, the up-to-that-time-unbeaten South Melbourne lost to Collingwood, kicking 5.17 (47) to their opponent's more accurate 7.8 (50).
  • After the match was over, it was revealed that Richmond wingman Alan Geddes had played the entire second half of the Grand-Final with a broken jaw.

References
  1. "League seconds". The Argus. Melbourne. 3 October 1932. p. 13.
  • Hogan, P., The Tigers of Old, The Richmond Football Club, (Richmond), 1996. ISBN 0-646-18748-1
  • 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
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