1952 VFA season
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1952 VFA premiership season | |
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Teams | 14 |
Premiers |
Oakleigh
4th premiership |
Minor premiers |
Port Melbourne
4th minor premiership |
The 1952 Victorian Football Association season was the 71st season of the Australian rules football competition. The premiership was won by the Oakleigh Football Club , after it defeated Port Melbourne by 21 points in the Grand Final on 4 October. It was Oakleigh's fourth VFA premiership.
Premiership
The home-and-home season was played over twenty matches, before the top four clubs contested a finals series under the Page–McIntyre system to determine the premiers for the season.
Ladder
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TEAM | P | W | L | D | PF | PA | Pct | PTS | |
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1 | Port Melbourne | 20 | 18 | 2 | 0 | 1911 | 1245 | 153.5 | 72 |
2 | Coburg | 20 | 15 | 5 | 0 | 1709 | 1272 | 134.4 | 60 |
3 | Oakleigh (P) | 20 | 13 | 7 | 0 | 1494 | 1226 | 121.9 | 52 |
4 | Yarraville | 20 | 13 | 7 | 0 | 1537 | 1434 | 107.2 | 52 |
5 | Brunswick | 20 | 12 | 8 | 0 | 1366 | 1278 | 106.9 | 48 |
6 | Camberwell | 20 | 11 | 8 | 1 | 1411 | 1363 | 103.6 | 46 |
7 | Prahran | 20 | 11 | 9 | 0 | 1511 | 1501 | 100.7 | 44 |
8 | Moorabbin | 20 | 10 | 10 | 0 | 1301 | 1326 | 98.1 | 40 |
9 | Northcote | 20 | 10 | 10 | 0 | 1270 | 1321 | 96.1 | 40 |
10 | Williamstown | 20 | 8 | 12 | 0 | 1767 | 1571 | 112.5 | 32 |
11 | Preston | 20 | 7 | 12 | 1 | 1495 | 1576 | 94.9 | 30 |
12 | Sandringham | 20 | 7 | 13 | 0 | 1393 | 1743 | 79.9 | 28 |
13 | Box Hill | 20 | 2 | 18 | 0 | 1228 | 1856 | 66.2 | 8 |
14 | Brighton | 20 | 2 | 18 | 0 | 1036 | 1717 | 60.3 | 8 |
Key: P = Played, W = Won, L = Lost, D = Drawn, PF = Points For, PA = Points Against, Pct = Percentage; (P) = Premiers, PTS = Premiership points | Source [1] |
Finals
Semifinals | |||||
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Saturday, 13 September | Oakleigh 14.19 (103) | def. | Yarraville 13.15 (93) | St Kilda Cricket Ground (crowd: 16,000) | [2] |
Saturday, 20 September | Port Melbourne 11.8 (74) | def. | Coburg 5.11 (41) | St Kilda Cricket Ground (crowd: 16,000) | [3] |
Preliminary Final | |||||
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Saturday, 27 September | Coburg 8.10 (58) | def. by | Oakleigh 11.13 (79) | St Kilda Cricket Ground (crowd: 17,000) | [4] |
1952 VFA Grand Final | |||||
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Saturday, 4 October | Port Melbourne | def. by | Oakleigh | St Kilda Cricket Ground (crowd: 39,500) | [5] [6] |
1.4 (10)
2.7 (19) 5.12 (42) 8.15 (63) |
Q1
Q2 Q3 Final |
2.5 (17)
5.9 (39) 9.12 (66) 11.18 (84) |
Umpires:
Merrington
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Bonnett 3, Caris 2, Bower, Houlihan, Murray | Goals | Scott 5, Wenn 3, Lambert, Newton, Watson | |||
Murray (ribs), Tucker (knee) | Injuries | Cunningham ( knee), Savory (cramp) | |||
Johnson
, for kicking Lambert in the second quarter
Murray, for unseemly conduct (interfering with the umpire) in the second quarter |
Reports | ||||
Awards
- The leading goalkicker for the season was Johnny Walker ( Williamstown ), who kicked 103 goals in the home-and-home season and did not participate in finals. [1]
- The J. J. Liston Trophy was won by Frank Johnson ( Port Melbourne ), who polled 47 votes. Jim Bohan ( Camberwell ) was second with 45 votes, and Bill Morris ( Box Hill ) was third with 23 votes. [7]
- Yarraville won the seconds premiership. Yarraville 14.13 (97) defeated Moorabbin 12.15 (87) in the Grand Final, played as a curtain raiser to the firsts Grand Final on 4 October. [5]
Notable events
- The Association's Thirds competition, contested by players under the age of 19, was established in 1952. [8] Most clubs already operated Thirds teams, but they were fielded in local leagues rather than a dedicated Association-operated competition.
- In its first match of the season on 19 April, Oakleigh 14.10 (94) comfortably defeated Brunswick 4.9 (33). However, two of Oakleigh's new recruits – Eric Guy and Bill Botten, both from the Carrum Football Club – were played before their clearances from the Mornington Peninsula Football League were formally lodged with the Association; as a result, on 5 May the Association awarded the match and the four premiership points to Brunswick, and Oakleigh was fined £10. Oakleigh argued that the paperwork error was made by the Permit Committee, not the club; but the Association found that the onus was on Oakleigh to ensure the paperwork was lodged correctly. [9] In August, the club took the Association to the Supreme Court of Victoria , seeking to overturn the penalties and injunct the Association from staging the finals if the penalty affected Oakleigh's finishing position, [10] but dropped the case prior to the final round of home-and-home matches after the injunction was refused and an unfavourable reserved judgement was delivered. [11] Ultimately, the club's third placing on the ladder was unaffected by the penalty, and it went on to win the premiership. The legal action cost the club an estimated £453. [12]
- On 3 May, Box Hill won its first senior match in the Association, defeating Brighton 12.14 (86) d. 12.12 (84), to end a 22-game winless streak which included one draw. [13]
External links
References
- 1 2 Gavin Cook (8 September 1952). "Yarraville wins way to first V.F.A. semi-final". The Sun News-Pictorial . Melbourne. p. 25.
- ↑ Gavin Cook (15 September 1952). "Oakleigh stamina must improve to have final chance". The Sun News-Pictorial . Melbourne. p. 25.
- ↑ Gavin Cook (22 September 1952). "Port is favoured for title in V.F.A.". The Sun News-Pictorial . Melbourne. p. 27.
- ↑ Gavin Cook (29 September 1952). "Oakleigh is big threat to Port for title". The Sun News-Pictorial . Melbourne. p. 25.
- 1 2 Gavin Cook (6 October 1952). "Pace, team-work, gives Oakleigh V.F.A. title win". The Sun News-Pictorial . Melbourne. p. 23.
- ↑ Ian McDonald (6 October 1952). "Fighting spirit gives Oakleigh third (sic) V.F.A. flag". The Argus . Melbourne. p. 10.
- ↑ "Port ruckman wins J. J. Liston Trophy". The Sun News-Pictorial . Melbourne. 11 September 1952. p. 24.
- ↑ Fiddian, Marc (2004), The VFA: a history of the Victorian Football Association, 1877–1995 , p. 36
- ↑ Ian McDonald (6 May 1952). "Oakleigh loses four points". The Argus . Melbourne. p. 8.
- ↑ "VFA named in writ". The Argus . Melbourne. 13 August 1952. p. 11.
- ↑ "Legal battle dropped". The West Australian . Perth, WA. 4 September 1952. p. 22.
- ↑ "V.F.A. recovery "in lap of Gods" ". The Argus . Melbourne. 2 December 1952. p. 8.
- ↑ Jack Oates (5 May 1952). "Box Hill's first win in V.F.A.". The Sun News-Pictorial . Melbourne. p. 20.
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