1912 VFL season

Infobox Victorian Football League season
year = 1912


imagesize = 150px
caption = Premiership player Paddy Shea
clubs = 10
home-and-away season = 18 rounds
premiership team = Essendon
count = 4th
minor premiers = South Melbourne
champion of the season = Ernie Cameron
top goal kicker = Harry Brereton (56)

Results and statistics for the Victorian Football League season of 1912.

Premiership season

In 1912, the VFL competition was comprised 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 1912 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

Grand Final

"See List of Australian Football League premiers for a complete list."

Essendon defeated South Melbourne 5.17 (47) to 4.9 (33), in front of a crowd of 54,463 people. (For an explanation of scoring see Australian rules football).

Ladder

Awards

* The 1912 VFL Premiership team was Essendon.
* The VFL's leading goalkicker was Harry Brereton of Melbourne with 56 goals.
* "The Argus" newspaper's "Player of the Year", Ernie "Ginger" Cameron of Essendon, was declared 1912 Champion of the Season.
* University took the "wooden spoon" in 1912.

Notable Events

* On 27 April 1912, the first issue of the VFL's "Football Record" is published.
* For the first time. all VFL players wear a number on the back of their guernsey. The number designates the player himself, rather than his position and, in most cases, he plays his entire career with the same number on his back (however, if he changed clubs, his number would also alter).
* South Australia defeat Victoria 9.8 (62) to 6.7 (43) in Adelaide on 10 August 1912.
* In a match against Collingwood, Essendon's Dan Hanley was impeded from taking part in a contest for the ball along one of the boundary lines, when a boundary umpire grasped him by the hand. There were no "official" witnesses to this incredible incident, and the boundary umpire went unpunished.
* The captains of the two 1912 Second Semi-Final teams, Alan Belcher of Essendon and Vic Belcher of South Melbourne, were brothers. This is a VFL/AFL record.
* VFL decides to appoint 2 stewards to each match. They have the power to report players.

References

* Maplestone, M., "Flying Higher: History of the Essendon Football Club 1872-1996", Essendon Football Club, (Melbourne), 1996. ISBN 0-959-17402-8
* 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

External links

* [http://stats.rleague.com/afl/seas/1912.html 1912 Season - AFL Tables]