1950 VFL season

The 1950 VFL season was the 54th season of the Victorian Football League (VFL), the highest level senior Australian rules football competition in Victoria. The season featured twelve clubs, ran from 22 April until 23 September, and comprised an 18-game home-and-away season followed by a finals series featuring the top four clubs.

1950 VFL Premiership season
Essendon Football Club team, premiers
Teams12
PremiersEssendon
(10th premiership)
Minor premiersEssendon
(10th minor premiership)
Matches played112
Highest attendance85,869
Leading Goalkicker MedallistJohn Coleman (Essendon)
Brownlow MedallistAllan Ruthven (Fitzroy)

The premiership was won by the Essendon Football Club for the tenth time and second time consecutively, after it defeated North Melbourne by 38 points in the 1950 VFL Grand Final.

Premiership season

In 1950, the VFL competition consisted of twelve teams of 18 on-the-field players each, plus two substitute players, known as the 19th man and the 20th 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 1950 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
1950 VFL ladder
Pos Team Pld W L D PF PA PP Pts
1 Essendon (P) 18 17 1 0 1942 1197 162.2 68 Finals
2 North Melbourne 18 13 5 0 1595 1293 123.4 52
3 Melbourne 18 12 6 0 1485 1205 123.2 48
4 Geelong 18 10 8 0 1562 1256 124.4 40
5 Fitzroy 18 10 8 0 1452 1314 110.5 40
6 Richmond 18 10 8 0 1506 1476 102.0 40
7 Collingwood 18 9 9 0 1586 1437 110.4 36
8 Carlton 18 8 9 1 1528 1637 93.3 34
9 St Kilda 18 8 9 1 1341 1553 86.3 34
10 Footscray 18 5 13 0 1475 1608 91.7 20
11 South Melbourne 18 5 13 0 1438 1904 75.5 20
12 Hawthorn 18 0 18 0 1022 2052 49.8 0
Source: VFL ladder
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) percentage; 3) number of points for.
(P) Premiers

Finals

First Semi-Final
Team 1 Qtr 2 Qtr 3 Qtr Final
Melbourne 2.2 3.2 5.4 6.8 (44)
Geelong 1.1 4.5 8.6 13.10 (88)
Attendance: 54,817

Second Semi-Final
Team 1 Qtr 2 Qtr 3 Qtr Final
Essendon 5.5 6.8 9.11 11.14 (80)
North Melbourne 0.3 5.7 8.9 11.11 (77)
Attendance: 75,433

Preliminary Final
Team 1 Qtr 2 Qtr 3 Qtr Final
North Melbourne 1.0 4.8 10.11 14.16 (100)
Geelong 7.3 8.4 11.7 12.11 (83)
Attendance: 73,530

Grand final
Main article: 1950 VFL Grand Final
Team 1 Qtr 2 Qtr 3 Qtr Final
Essendon 7.3 7.6 10.11 13.14 (92)
North Melbourne 4.0 5.5 7.9 7.12 (54)
Attendance: 85,869

Awards

Notable events
  • In the early 1950 pre-season, veteran Collingwood coach Jock McHale announced his retirement after a then-record 714 senior games. Collingwood called for applications for a non-playing coach, and champion ruckman Phonse Kyne immediately announced his retirement and applied for the job. On 13 April, the Thursday before the last pre-season practice match, the Collingwood committee announced that it had appointed the (then) coach of the Collingwood Second Eighteen team, Bervyn Woods as coach,[1] by the casting vote of the President Harry Curtis. The announcement was greeted with anger, because it meant that Kyne would have to go elsewhere to realise his coaching ambitions. At Collingwood's final practice match, the crowd continuously booed and jeered Woods, the members of the Collingwood committee that had voted for him were threatened and abused, and Kyne was carried around the ground on the shoulders of the crowd at the end of the match. The following day, Woods withdrew his application[2] and reverted to coaching the Second Eighteen, and Kyne was appointed coach.[3] All committee members then resigned their positions, and Curtis did not seek re-election.[4] Former player Syd Coventry was elected the new president, unopposed.[5]
  • In Round 2, St Kilda recorded its first win by 100 points or more, defeating Hawthorn 20.24 (144) to 5.5 (35).
  • North Melbourne reached the Grand Final for the first time since joining the VFL in 1925.
  • In Round 9, North Melbourne won for the first time at Victoria Park, after having suffered 23 straight defeats at the ground.
  • Essendon won the First Eighteen, Second Eighteen, and Third Eighteen premierships in 1950.

References
  1. "Bervyn Woods is new coach at Collingwood". The Argus. Melbourne. 14 April 1950. p. 17. Retrieved 1 May 2013 – via National Library of Australia.
  2. "Another Collingwood sensation BERVYN WOODS RESIGNS AS NON-PLAYING COACH". The Argus. Melbourne. 17 April 1950. p. 20. Retrieved 1 May 2013 – via National Library of Australia.
  3. "Secretary hears news at 10 p.m. Phonse Kyne Says "Yes" To Coaching Offer". The Argus. Melbourne. 20 April 1950. p. 24. Retrieved 1 May 2013 – via National Library of Australia.
  4. "MAGPIE ELECTION Retiring will seek office". The Argus. Melbourne. 15 June 1950. p. 24. Retrieved 1 May 2013 – via National Library of Australia.
  5. "Player now leader". The Argus. Melbourne. 29 June 1950. p. 13. Retrieved 1 May 2013 – via National Library of Australia.
  • Maplestone, M., Flying Higher: History of the Essendon Football Club 1872–1996, Essendon Football Club, (Melbourne), 1996. ISBN 0-9591740-2-8
  • 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
  • Strevens, S., Bob Rose: A Dignified Life, Allen & Unwin, (Crows Nest), 2004. ISBN 1-74114-465-5
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