Australian rules football season
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The 1913 Victorian Football Association season was the 37th season of the Australian rules football competition. The premiership was won by the Footscray Football Club , after it defeated North Melbourne by one point in the final on 6 September. It was the club's fifth VFA premiership.
Premiership
The home-and-home season was played over eighteen rounds, with each club playing the others twice; then, the top four clubs contested a finals series under the amended Argus system to determine the premiers for the season.
Ladder
Source:
[ 1] Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) percentage; 3) number of points for.
(P) Premiers
Finals
1913 VFA Final
Saturday, 6 September
Footscray
def.
North Melbourne
East Melbourne Cricket Ground (crowd: 20,000)
[ 4] [ 5]
4.2 (26) 7.10 (52) 8.13 (61)10.14 (74)
Q1 Q2 Q3 Final
3.4 (22) 6.4 (40) 10.6 (66)11.7 (73)
Umpires: Hurley
Banbury 3, Grierson 2, Baxter, Cotton, Gregory, Holmes, Lawson
Goals
Carpenter 2, Freeman 2, Hardy 2, Hawkins 2, K. Johnson, McKay, Treloar
Harris (ankle)
Injuries
Had North Melbourne won, minor premiers Footscray would have been entitled to a rematch the following Saturday to decide the premiership.
Notable events
On June 9, Melbourne City lost to Port Melbourne despite having thirteen more scoring shots, by the score 4.24 (48) def. by 8.7 (55).[ 6] The seven-point loss was the closest Melbourne City came to winning a match in its two years in the Association.[ 7]
See also
References
^ J.W. (23 August 1913). "Premiership lists for 1913". The Australasian . Vol. XCV, no. 2473. Melbourne. p. 437.
^ Old Boy (25 August 1913). "Association Semi-Final – won by Footscray". The Argus . Melbourne. p. 10.
^ Old Boy (1 September 1913). "Association Semi-Final – North Melbourne win". The Argus . Melbourne. p. 7.
^ Old Boy (8 September 1913). "The Association Final – Magnificent Game". The Argus . Melbourne. p. 11.
^ Old Boy (6 September 1913). "Association Final – Footscray v. North Melb". The Argus . Melbourne. p. 17.
^ Old Boy (10 June 1913). "Association games". The Argus . Melbourne. p. 4.
^ "Melbourne City" . AustralianFootball.com. Retrieved 10 June 2013 .
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