1914 VFL season

The 1914 VFL season was the 18th season of the Victorian Football League (VFL), the highest level senior Australian rules football competition in Victoria. The season featured ten clubs, ran from 25 April until 26 September, and comprised an 18-game home-and-away season followed by a finals series featuring the top four clubs.

1914 VFL Premiership season
Carlton team that won its 4th Premiership
Teams10
PremiersCarlton
(4th premiership)
Minor premiersCarlton
(5th minor premiership)
Matches played94
Highest attendance30,495
Leading Goalkicker MedallistDick Lee (Collingwood)

The premiership was won by the Carlton Football Club for the fourth time, after it defeated South Melbourne by six points in the 1914 VFL Grand Final.

Premiership season

In 1914, the VFL competition consisted of ten teams of 18 on-the-field players each, with no "reserves", although any of the 18 players who had left the playing field for any reason could later resume their place on the field at any time during the match.

Each team played each other twice in a home-and-away season of 18 rounds.

Once the 18 round home-and-away season had finished, the 1914 VFL Premiers were determined by the specific format and conventions of the amended "Argus 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

Finals

All of the 1914 finals were played at the MCG so the home team in the Semi Finals and Preliminary Final is purely the higher ranked team from the ladder but in the Grand Final the home team was the team that won the Preliminary Final.

Semi finals

Preliminary final

Grand final
Main article: 1914 VFL Grand Final

Carlton defeated South Melbourne 6.9 (45) to 4.15 (39), in front of a crowd of 30427 people. (For an explanation of scoring see Australian rules football.)

Ladder
1914 VFL ladder
Pos Team Pld W L D PF PA PP Pts
1 Carlton (P) 18 13 3 2 1122 865 129.7 56 Finals
2 South Melbourne 18 12 5 1 1113 1017 109.4 50
3 Fitzroy 18 12 6 0 1177 858 137.2 48
4 Geelong 18 11 6 1 1122 874 128.4 46
5 Collingwood 18 10 7 1 1114 928 120.0 42
6 Essendon 18 9 7 2 1139 944 120.7 40
7 St Kilda 18 9 8 1 1243 1052 118.2 38
8 Richmond 18 8 10 0 1084 1077 100.6 32
9 Melbourne 18 2 16 0 922 1505 61.3 8
10 University 18 0 18 0 813 1729 47.0 0
Source: VFL ladder
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) percentage; 3) number of points for.
(P) Premiers

Awards

Notable events
  • A crowd of 2,000 angry Carlton fans mobbed the field umpire after Carlton lost to St Kilda in round 2.[1]
  • In Round 14, Collingwood full-forward Dick Lee kicked eleven goals in the victory over University, equalling the record set by Jim McShane in 1899 for the most goals by a player in a game.[1]
  • In Round 16, a spectator ran onto the ground during the Essendon and South Melbourne match and hit Essendon captain Alan Belcher behind the ear.[1] Belcher chased the spectator, struck him, and was reported for unseemly play.[1] Belcher was cleared by the VFL tribunal.
  • In Round 16, University lost its 49th consecutive match, breaking the record of 48 consecutive losses set by St Kilda in 1897–1899. University dropped out of the league and folded at the end of the season, having lost its last 51 matches. As of 2021, this remains the longest winless streak in VFL/AFL history.[2]
  • In his 27th and final game of VFL football in Round 18, Arthur Fitzroy Best kicked the entire Melbourne score of 5.5 (35).[3]

See also

Notes

:1.^ Geelong's score in the first semi-final is given in different sources as either 5.7 (37)[4][5] or 5.8 (38).[6][7]

References
  1. Ross, John (1996). 100 Years of Australian Football. Ringwood, Australia: Viking Books. p. 382. ISBN 9781854714343.
  2. "Streaks – All Teams". AFL Tables. Retrieved 28 March 2014.
  3. Rodgers, Stephen (1998). Every Game Ever Played VFL/AFL Results 1897-1997. Ringwood: Penguin Books Australia Pty Ltd. p. 850. ISBN 0670908096..
  4. "1914 Season Scores". AFL Tables. Retrieved 21 June 2012.
  5. VFL Football Record, 12 September 1914, p. 29
  6. Observer (7 September 1914). "FOOTBALL". The Argus. Melbourne. p. 13. Retrieved 14 October 2014 – via National Library of Australia.
  7. Rodgers, Stephen (1992), Every Game Ever Played – VFL/AFL Results 1897–1991, Ringwood, VIC: Viking O'Neil, p. 109
  • Hogan, P., The Tigers of Old, The Richmond Football Club, (Richmond), 1996. ISBN 0-646-18748-1
  • 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
  • Ross, J. (ed.), The Australian Football Hall of Fame, HarperCollinsPublishers, (Pymble), 1999. ISBN 0-7322-6426-X
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