1948 VFL season

Infobox VFL Premiership Season
year = 1948


imagesize = 150px
caption = Melbourne premiership captain Don Cordner
teams = 12
premiers = AFL Mel
count = 6th
minor premiers = AFL Ess
mpcount = 9th
matches =
top goal scorer = Lindsay White (AFL Gee)
brownlow medalist = Bill Morris (AFL Ric)

Results and statistics for the VFL/AFL season of 1948.

Premiership season

In 1947, the VFL competition was comprised 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 19 rounds; matches 12 to 19 were the "home-and-way reverse" of matches 1 to 8.

Once the 19 round home-and-away season had finished, the 1947 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

Round 19

Ladder

Preliminary Final

Grand Final Replay Teams

::Essendon Captain-Coach: Dick Reynolds

::Melbourne Coach: "Checker" Hughes

Umpire - Jack McMurray

Awards

* The 1948 VFL Premiership team was Melbourne.
* The VFL's leading goalkicker was Lindsay White of Geelong 86 goals.
* The winner of the 1948 Brownlow Medal was Bill Morris of Richmond with 24 votes.
* St Kilda took the "wooden spoon" in 1948.

Notable Events

* All VFL matches now atart at 2:15PM (previously it was 2:30PM).
* In round 7, Melbourne champion Norm Smith plays his two hundredth game. He is reported for abusing the umpire. Despite Smith's claim that he only said "Don't be silly", he is suspended for four weeks.
* After Carlton's round 11 loss at home to North Melbourne, police draw their batons to protect the umpires from Carlton fans.
* In the round 16 match between Footscray and Geelong at the Western Oval the north wind was so fierce that when the Geelong full-back Bruce Morrison kicked the ball off after Footscray had scored a behind, the ball floated back over his head and went through the goals. The Goal umpire signalled a "forced behind".
* The 1948 Grand Final was the first drawn Grand Final in VFL history. The second was the 1977 VFL Grand Final.

ee also

* 1977 VFL Grand Final

References

* 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 0-959-17402-8
* 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/1948.html 1948 Season - AFL Tables]