1962 VFL season

The 1962 VFL season was the 66th season of the Victorian Football League (VFL), the highest level senior Australian rules football competition in Victoria. The season featured twelve clubs, ran from 21 April until 29 September, and comprised an 18-game home-and-away season followed by a finals series featuring the top four clubs.

1962 VFL Premiership season
Teams12
PremiersEssendon
(11th premiership)
Minor premiersEssendon
(11th minor premiership)
Consolation seriesRichmond
(1st Consolation series win)
Matches played113
Highest attendance99,203
Coleman MedallistDoug Wade (Geelong)
Brownlow MedallistAlistair Lord (Geelong)

The premiership was won by the Essendon Football Club for the eleventh time, after it defeated Carlton by 32 points in the 1962 VFL Grand Final.

Premiership season

In 1962, 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 1962 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

1962 VFL ladder
Pos Team Pld W L D PF PA PP Pts
1 Essendon (P) 18 16 2 0 1574 1207 130.4 64 Finals
2 Geelong 18 14 4 0 1690 1213 139.3 56
3 Melbourne 18 14 4 0 1374 1092 125.8 56
4 Carlton 18 13 5 0 1361 1205 112.9 52
5 Footscray 18 11 7 0 1390 1281 108.5 44
6 St Kilda 18 9 9 0 1379 1267 108.8 36
7 Collingwood 18 9 9 0 1365 1386 98.5 36
8 Richmond 18 5 13 0 1308 1446 90.5 20
9 Hawthorn 18 5 13 0 1307 1510 86.6 20
10 Fitzroy 18 5 13 0 1222 1529 79.9 20
11 North Melbourne 18 4 14 0 1152 1575 73.1 16
12 South Melbourne 18 3 15 0 1193 1604 74.4 12
Source: VFL ladder
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) percentage; 3) number of points for.
(P) Premiers

Consolation Night Series Competition

The night series were held under the floodlights at Lake Oval, South Melbourne, for the teams (5th to 12th on ladder) out of the finals at the end of the season.

Final: Richmond 8.16 (64) defeated Hawthorn 9.6 (60)

Premiership Finals

First Semi-Final

Team 1 Qtr 2 Qtr 3 Qtr Final
Melbourne 2.4 6.4 11.9 11.10 (76)
Carlton 2.3 6.5 9.7 11.12 (78)
Attendance: 82,773

Second Semi-Final

Team 1 Qtr 2 Qtr 3 Qtr Final
Essendon 3.3 7.6 10.13 14.21 (105)
Geelong 2.8 6.13 7.15 7.17 (59)
Attendance: 95,393

Preliminary Final

Team 1 Qtr 2 Qtr 3 Qtr Final
Geelong 4.2 7.4 9.5 13.7 (85)
Carlton 3.3 4.4 8.9 12.13 (85)
Attendance: 87,824

Preliminary Final Replay

Team 1 Qtr 2 Qtr 3 Qtr Final
Geelong 3.2 5.9 7.12 10.13 (73)
Carlton 1.4 5.8 9.9 10.18 (78)
Attendance: 99,203

Grand final

Team 1 Qtr 2 Qtr 3 Qtr Final
Essendon 6.5 7.7 10.10 13.12 (90)
Carlton 1.1 5.6 7.8 8.10 (58)
Attendance: 98,385

Awards

Notable events

  • Having abandoned live telecasts of the last quarters of VFL matches at the end of 1960, and having forbidden Saturday evening replays during the 1961 season, the VFL agreed to allow television stations to broadcast one hour of replays each Saturday evening, provided no more than 30 minutes of any one match was broadcast. A separate arrangement was made to allow a replay of the entire Grand Final match.
  • St Kilda won its first match against Collingwood at Victoria Park since Round 2, 1919.
  • On Anzac Day, a representative match was played at the Melbourne Cricket Ground between the Victorian team from the 1961 Brisbane Carnival, and a team representing the rest of the league. The Rest 13.7 (85) defeated the Carnival team 10.17 (77) in front of a crowd of 17,068.[2]
  • In the Round 10 match between Carlton and Fitzroy at the Brunswick Street Oval, scores were level at 51 apiece when the final siren sounded; but, play was at the opposite end of the venue to the grandstand where the siren was located, and the umpire did not hear it. From the ensuing ball-up, Carlton's Martin Cross punched the ball through for a rushed behind, and Carlton won by that point. Fitzroy did not protest the result;[3] it did request that the Fitzroy Cricket Club install new sirens at the other end of the field, but the request was rejected.[4]
  • In September, the VFL purchased land to the east of Melbourne, at Mulgrave, upon which later built VFL Park.
  • The Preliminary Final replay between Carlton and Geelong was by Carlton won by 5 points. In the final moments of the match, Geelong full forward Doug Wade took a strong mark directly in front of the Geelong goals, but he was penalised for interfering with Carlton full-back Peter Barry.
  • In the Grand Final, a badly injured Geoff Leek played one of the best matches in his career to nullify Carlton's John Nicholls and pave the way for a sound 32 point win by Essendon.

References

  1. "Bulldogs subdue St Kilda's dash". The Age. Melbourne. 24 September 1962. p. 18.
  2. Kevin Hogan (26 April 1962). "Another dent for side's pride". The Sun News-Pictorial. Melbourne. p. 46.
  3. Rex Pullen (2 July 1962). "That "late" win – no protest". The Sun News-Pictorial. Melbourne. p. 34.
  4. "Lions fail to get sirens". The Sun News-Pictorial. Melbourne. 7 July 1962. p. 43.
  • 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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