1932 VFL season

Infobox VFL Premiership Season
year = 1932


imagesize = 150px
caption = Richmond coach Frank 'Checker' Hughes
teams = 12
premiers = AFL Ric
count = 3rd
minor premiers = AFL Car
mpcount = 8th
matches =
top goal scorer = Haydn Bunton, Sr. (AFL Fit)
brownlow medalist = Haydn Bunton, Sr. (AFL Fit)

Results and statistics for the Victorian Football League season of 1932.

Premiership season

In 1932, the VFL competition consisted of twelve teams of 18 on-the-field players each, plus one substitute player, known as the 19th 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 1932 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

Grand Final

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

Richmond defeated Carlton 13.14 (92) to 12.11 (83), in front of a crowd of 69,724 people. (For an explanation of scoring see Australian rules football).

Ladder

Awards

* The 1932 VFL Premiership team was Richmond.
* The VFL's leading goalkicker was George Moloney of Geelong with 109 goals (all scored during the home-and-away season).
* "The Argus" newspaper's "Player of the Year", Haydn Bunton, Sr of Fitzroy, was declared 1932 Champion of the Season.
* The winner of the 1932 Brownlow Medal was Haydn Bunton, Sr of Fitzroy with 23 votes.
* Hawthorn took the "wooden spoon" in 1932.

Notable Events

* In round 11, due to the effects of an extremely strong cross-wind that blew all day at the Lake Oval, the up-to-that-time-unbeaten South Melbourne lose to Collingwood, kicking an atrocious 5.17 (47) to Collinwood's far more accurate 7.8 (50).
* After the match was over, it was revealed that Richmond wingman Alan Geddes had played the entire second half of the Grand-Final with a broken jaw.

References

* Hogan, P., "The Tigers Of Old", The Richmond Football Club, (Richmond), 1996. ISBN 0-646-18748-1
* 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/1932.html 1932 Season - AFL Tables]