1914 VFL season#Round 4
{{Short description|18th season of the Victorian Football League (VFL)}}
{{Use Australian English|date=September 2011}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2021}}
{{Infobox VFL season
| year = 1914
| image = Carlton_fc_1914.jpg
| imagesize = 258px
| caption = {{AFL Car}} 1914 VFL premiership team
| date = 25 April – 26 September 1914
| teams = 10
| premiers = {{AFL Car}}
| premcount = 4
| minorpremiers = {{AFL Car}}
| mpcount = 5
| leadinggoalkicker = Dick Lee ({{AFL Col}})
| goals = 57
| matches = 94
| prevseason = {{coloured link|white|1913 VFL season|1913}}
| nextseason = {{coloured link|white|1915 VFL season|1915}}
}}
The 1914 VFL season was the 18th season of the Victorian Football League (VFL), the highest-level senior Australian rules football competition in Victoria. The season featured ten clubs and ran from 25 April to 26 September, comprising an 18-match home-and-away season followed by a four-week finals series featuring the top four clubs. It was the last season to feature {{AFL Uni}}, which withdrew from the VFL after seven seasons after its strict policy of amateurism when player payments were becoming common, and its players focusing primarily on their studies, meant that the club could not remain competitive or viable in the league.
{{AFL Car}} won the premiership, defeating {{AFL SM}} by six points in the 1914 VFL grand final; it was Carlton's fourth VFL premiership. Carlton also won the minor premiership by finishing atop the home-and-away ladder with a 13–3–2 win–loss–draw record. {{AFL Col}}'s Dick Lee won his fourth leading goalkicker medal as the league's leading goalkicker.
Background
In 1914, the VFL competition consisted 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 1914 VFL premiers were determined through the amended Argus system.
=Withdrawal of University=
On 16 October 1914, three weeks after the end of the 1914 season, the University Football Club dropped out of the VFL and folded. The reasons given for this decision were:
- Firstly, after three promising seasons in 1908–1910, University had become very uncompetitive, finishing last in 1911–1914, and losing its last 51 consecutive matches.
- Secondly, the club had found it difficult to maintain a constant lineup since the players' primary focus was on their studies rather than football, particularly during mid-year examinations.{{cite news|newspaper=The Argus|title=Exit University – Football League Retirement|date=17 October 1914|page=20|publication-place=Melbourne}}
- Thirdly, since University's admission to the VFL in 1908, player payments in the VFL had become commonplace, and were officially permitted from 1911, whereas University chose to remain a fully amateur club drawing solely from university students,{{cite news|newspaper=The Argus|title=The University Team|date=18 September 1914|page=4|publication-place=Melbourne}} which had caused a number of players to defect to other clubs.
As such, both the club and the VFL had conceded it would be virtually impossible for University to become viable and/or competitive in an increasingly professional competition. Despite the outbreak of World War I eleven weeks earlier, the war was not given as a contributing factor in University's decision, especially as the conflict was not, at the time, expected to escalate to the extent it did.
Following University's dissolution, players who wished to continue playing in the VFL were all cleared to {{AFL Mel}} through an informal arrangement beneficial to both clubs:[http://demonwiki.org/University University (1908–1914), Demonwiki.] University wished to see its best players playing together in the same VFL club to retain the strength of its own team for intervarsity competition, and Melbourne, which had mostly struggled since its 1900 premiership due to the lack of a natural recruiting district (formal zoning was not introduced until the following year), gained exclusive access to a valuable source of recruits. Among those who transferred from University to Melbourne were Jack Brake, Claude Bryan, Jack Doubleday, Dick Gibbs, Roy Park, and Percy Rodriguez.[https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/242362999 Melbourne: University Stars Join, The (Melbourne) Herald, (Friday, 16 April 1915), p.3.][http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article155528116 Migration of Players, The (Melbourne) Winner, (Wednesday, 21 April 1915), p.6.]
University reformed in 1919, and after two seasons in the VFL seconds (reserves) competition where they fielded "A" and "B" teams, both teams returned to the Metropolitan Amateur Football Association (MAFA) in 1921, and they have continued in that competition (now known as the VAFA) to this day.{{cite web |title=METROPOLITAN ASSOCIATION |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/10678569 |publisher=The Argus |page=9 |date=4 May 1908}}{{cite web |title=JUNIOR ASSOCIATIONS |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/1512034 |publisher=The Argus |access-date=16 October 2024 |page=17 |date=24 April 1914}}
Home-and-away season
=Round 1=
{{s-start}}
|- bgcolor="#CCCCFF"
| Home team
| Home team score
| Away team
| Away team score
| Venue
| Date
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
| {{AFL Fit}}
| 13.15 (93)
| {{AFL Mel}}
| 5.7 (37)
| 25 April 1914
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
| {{AFL Uni}}
| 6.8 (44)
| {{AFL SM}}
| 14.14 (98)
| MCG
| 25 April 1914
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
| {{AFL|StK}}
| 8.16 (64)
| {{AFL Ric}}
| 5.12 (42)
| 25 April 1914
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
| {{AFL Gee}}
| 8.13 (61)
| {{AFL Ess}}
| 8.13 (61)
| 25 April 1914
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
| {{AFL Col}}
| 8.8 (56)
| {{AFL Car}}
| 6.20 (56)
| 25 April 1914
{{s-end}}
=Round 2=
{{s-start}}
|- bgcolor="#CCCCFF"
| Home team
| Home team score
| Away team
| Away team score
| Venue
| Date
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
| {{AFL Ess}}
| 12.14 (86)
| {{AFL Uni}}
| 7.8 (50)
| EMCG
| 2 May 1914
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
| {{AFL Car}}
| 4.11 (35)
| {{AFL|StK}}
| 6.12 (48)
| 2 May 1914
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
| {{AFL SM}}
| 8.14 (62)
| {{AFL Gee}}
| 7.9 (51)
| 2 May 1914
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
| {{AFL Ric}}
| 3.10 (28)
| {{AFL Fit}}
| 9.15 (69)
| 2 May 1914
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
| {{AFL Mel}}
| 6.7 (43)
| {{AFL Col}}
| 9.13 (67)
| MCG
| 2 May 1914
{{s-end}}
=Round 3=
{{s-start}}
|- bgcolor="#CCCCFF"
| Home team
| Home team score
| Away team
| Away team score
| Venue
| Date
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
| {{AFL Gee}}
| 10.14 (74)
| {{AFL Mel}}
| 9.4 (58)
| 9 May 1914
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
| {{AFL Fit}}
| 9.12 (66)
| {{AFL SM}}
| 11.8 (74)
| 9 May 1914
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
| {{AFL Col}}
| 12.18 (90)
| {{AFL Ric}}
| 4.12 (36)
| 9 May 1914
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
| {{AFL|StK}}
| 7.10 (52)
| {{AFL Ess}}
| 9.15 (69)
| 9 May 1914
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
| {{AFL Uni}}
| 4.8 (32)
| {{AFL Car}}
| 13.24 (102)
| MCG
| 9 May 1914
{{s-end}}
=Round 4=
{{s-start}}
|- bgcolor="#CCCCFF"
| Home team
| Home team score
| Away team
| Away team score
| Venue
| Date
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
| {{AFL Ess}}
| 7.11 (53)
| {{AFL Ric}}
| 7.7 (49)
| EMCG
| 16 May 1914
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
| {{AFL|StK}}
| 17.13 (115)
| {{AFL Mel}}
| 8.7 (55)
| 16 May 1914
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
| {{AFL Uni}}
| 11.5 (71)
| {{AFL Gee}}
| 13.9 (87)
| MCG
| 16 May 1914
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
| {{AFL Fit}}
| 7.12 (54)
| {{AFL Col}}
| 7.10 (52)
| 16 May 1914
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
| {{AFL SM}}
| 8.4 (52)
| {{AFL Car}}
| 7.10 (52)
| 16 May 1914
{{s-end}}
=Round 5=
{{s-start}}
|- bgcolor="#CCCCFF"
| Home team
| Home team score
| Away team
| Away team score
| Venue
| Date
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
| {{AFL Col}}
| 18.17 (125)
| {{AFL Uni}}
| 7.11 (53)
| 23 May 1914
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
| {{AFL Car}}
| 4.4 (28)
| {{AFL Fit}}
| 6.10 (46)
| 23 May 1914
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
| {{AFL SM}}
| 11.11 (77)
| {{AFL|StK}}
| 9.12 (66)
| 23 May 1914
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
| {{AFL Ric}}
| 10.17 (77)
| {{AFL Gee}}
| 6.17 (53)
| 23 May 1914
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
| {{AFL Mel}}
| 5.7 (37)
| {{AFL Ess}}
| 5.24 (54)
| MCG
| 23 May 1914
{{s-end}}
=Round 6=
{{s-start}}
|- bgcolor="#CCCCFF"
| Home team
| Home team score
| Away team
| Away team score
| Venue
| Date
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
| {{AFL Ess}}
| 5.11 (41)
| {{AFL SM}}
| 5.13 (43)
| EMCG
| 30 May 1914
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
| {{AFL Car}}
| 13.19 (97)
| {{AFL Mel}}
| 5.9 (39)
| 30 May 1914
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
| {{AFL Uni}}
| 5.6 (36)
| {{AFL Ric}}
| 16.14 (110)
| MCG
| 30 May 1914
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
| {{AFL Gee}}
| 4.8 (32)
| {{AFL Fit}}
| 6.4 (40)
| 30 May 1914
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
| {{AFL|StK}}
| 12.10 (82)
| {{AFL Col}}
| 5.14 (44)
| 30 May 1914
{{s-end}}
=Round 7=
{{s-start}}
|- bgcolor="#CCCCFF"
| Home team
| Home team score
| Away team
| Away team score
| Venue
| Date
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
| {{AFL Ric}}
| 4.12 (36)
| {{AFL SM}}
| 7.12 (54)
| 6 June 1914
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
| {{AFL Mel}}
| 14.9 (93)
| {{AFL Uni}}
| 5.16 (46)
| MCG
| 6 June 1914
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
| {{AFL Fit}}
| 10.13 (73)
| {{AFL|StK}}
| 7.6 (48)
| 6 June 1914
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
| {{AFL Col}}
| 11.12 (78)
| {{AFL Ess}}
| 9.9 (63)
| 6 June 1914
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
| {{AFL Gee}}
| 9.11 (65)
| {{AFL Car}}
| 3.16 (34)
| 6 June 1914
{{s-end}}
=Round 8=
{{s-start}}
|- bgcolor="#CCCCFF"
| Home team
| Home team score
| Away team
| Away team score
| Venue
| Date
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
| {{AFL Ric}}
| 14.11 (95)
| {{AFL Mel}}
| 6.17 (53)
| 8 June 1914
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
| {{AFL|StK}}
| 12.10 (82)
| {{AFL Gee}}
| 8.10 (58)
| 8 June 1914
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
| {{AFL Uni}}
| 3.6 (24)
| {{AFL Fit}}
| 15.18 (108)
| MCG
| 8 June 1914
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
| {{AFL SM}}
| 5.13 (43)
| {{AFL Col}}
| 6.10 (46)
| 8 June 1914
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
| {{AFL Ess}}
| 6.3 (39)
| {{AFL Car}}
| 11.10 (76)
| EMCG
| 8 June 1914
{{s-end}}
=Round 9=
{{s-start}}
|- bgcolor="#CCCCFF"
| Home team
| Home team score
| Away team
| Away team score
| Venue
| Date
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
| {{AFL|StK}}
| 15.11 (101)
| {{AFL Uni}}
| 10.7 (67)
| 13 June 1914
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
| {{AFL Mel}}
| 8.7 (55)
| {{AFL SM}}
| 13.12 (90)
| MCG
| 13 June 1914
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
| {{AFL Car}}
| 5.13 (43)
| {{AFL Ric}}
| 5.11 (41)
| 13 June 1914
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
| {{AFL Fit}}
| 10.6 (66)
| {{AFL Ess}}
| 7.8 (50)
| 13 June 1914
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
| {{AFL Gee}}
| 9.17 (71)
| {{AFL Col}}
| 5.6 (36)
| 13 June 1914
{{s-end}}
=Round 10=
{{s-start}}
|- bgcolor="#CCCCFF"
| Home team
| Home team score
| Away team
| Away team score
| Venue
| Date
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
| {{AFL SM}}
| 9.16 (70)
| {{AFL Uni}}
| 8.7 (55)
| 20 June 1914
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
| {{AFL Ric}}
| 9.14 (68)
| {{AFL|StK}}
| 9.12 (66)
| 20 June 1914
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
| {{AFL Ess}}
| 9.13 (67)
| {{AFL Gee}}
| 5.11 (41)
| EMCG
| 20 June 1914
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
| {{AFL Car}}
| 6.16 (52)
| {{AFL Col}}
| 5.15 (45)
| 20 June 1914
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
| {{AFL Mel}}
| 8.15 (63)
| {{AFL Fit}}
| 12.11 (83)
| MCG
| 20 June 1914
{{s-end}}
=Round 11=
{{s-start}}
|- bgcolor="#CCCCFF"
| Home team
| Home team score
| Away team
| Away team score
| Venue
| Date
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
| {{AFL Gee}}
| 9.20 (74)
| {{AFL SM}}
| 6.9 (45)
| 27 June 1914
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
| {{AFL Fit}}
| 10.11 (71)
| {{AFL Ric}}
| 4.15 (39)
| 27 June 1914
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
| {{AFL Col}}
| 11.16 (82)
| {{AFL Mel}}
| 7.10 (52)
| 27 June 1914
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
| {{AFL Uni}}
| 3.8 (26)
| {{AFL Ess}}
| 14.21 (105)
| MCG
| 27 June 1914
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
| {{AFL|StK}}
| 7.8 (50)
| {{AFL Car}}
| 7.11 (53)
| 27 June 1914
{{s-end}}
=Round 12=
{{s-start}}
|- bgcolor="#CCCCFF"
| Home team
| Home team score
| Away team
| Away team score
| Venue
| Date
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
| {{AFL Ess}}
| 6.18 (54)
| {{AFL|StK}}
| 8.6 (54)
| EMCG
| 4 July 1914
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
| {{AFL Car}}
| 11.21 (87)
| {{AFL Uni}}
| 8.8 (56)
| 4 July 1914
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
| {{AFL Mel}}
| 3.4 (22)
| {{AFL Gee}}
| 9.14 (68)
| MCG
| 4 July 1914
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
| {{AFL SM}}
| 10.4 (64)
| {{AFL Fit}}
| 7.12 (54)
| 4 July 1914
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
| {{AFL Ric}}
| 9.11 (65)
| {{AFL Col}}
| 6.13 (49)
| 4 July 1914
{{s-end}}
=Round 13=
{{s-start}}
|- bgcolor="#CCCCFF"
| Home team
| Home team score
| Away team
| Away team score
| Venue
| Date
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
| {{AFL Mel}}
| 7.6 (48)
| {{AFL|StK}}
| 14.16 (100)
| MCG
| 11 July 1914
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
| {{AFL Gee}}
| 8.17 (65)
| {{AFL Uni}}
| 3.3 (21)
| 11 July 1914
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
| {{AFL Col}}
| 5.7 (37)
| {{AFL Fit}}
| 3.16 (34)
| 11 July 1914
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
| {{AFL Car}}
| 11.14 (80)
| {{AFL SM}}
| 9.6 (60)
| 11 July 1914
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
| {{AFL Ric}}
| 8.21 (69)
| {{AFL Ess}}
| 5.7 (37)
| 11 July 1914
{{s-end}}
=Round 14=
{{s-start}}
|- bgcolor="#CCCCFF"
| Home team
| Home team score
| Away team
| Away team score
| Venue
| Date
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
| {{AFL|StK}}
| 12.7 (79)
| {{AFL SM}}
| 7.15 (57)
| 18 July 1914
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
| {{AFL Gee}}
| 13.12 (90)
| {{AFL Ric}}
| 3.12 (30)
| 18 July 1914
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
| {{AFL Ess}}
| 14.15 (99)
| {{AFL Mel}}
| 6.5 (41)
| EMCG
| 18 July 1914
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
| {{AFL Uni}}
| 3.5 (23)
| {{AFL Col}}
| 15.13 (103)
| MCG
| 18 July 1914
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
| {{AFL Fit}}
| 4.13 (37)
| {{AFL Car}}
| 7.4 (46)
| 18 July 1914
{{s-end}}
=Round 15=
{{s-start}}
|- bgcolor="#CCCCFF"
| Home team
| Home team score
| Away team
| Away team score
| Venue
| Date
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
| {{AFL Ric}}
| 14.10 (94)
| {{AFL Uni}}
| 10.11 (71)
| 25 July 1914
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
| {{AFL Fit}}
| 8.5 (53)
| {{AFL Gee}}
| 11.13 (79)
| 25 July 1914
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
| {{AFL Col}}
| 12.14 (86)
| {{AFL|StK}}
| 7.5 (47)
| 25 July 1914
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
| {{AFL SM}}
| 4.8 (32)
| {{AFL Ess}}
| 15.14 (104)
| 25 July 1914
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
| {{AFL Mel}}
| 8.10 (58)
| {{AFL Car}}
| 16.15 (111)
| MCG
| 25 July 1914
{{s-end}}
=Round 16=
{{s-start}}
|- bgcolor="#CCCCFF"
| Home team
| Home team score
| Away team
| Away team score
| Venue
| Date
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
| {{AFL Car}}
| 4.12 (36)
| {{AFL Gee}}
| 5.4 (34)
| 1 August 1914
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
| {{AFL SM}}
| 8.9 (57)
| {{AFL Ric}}
| 5.13 (43)
| 1 August 1914
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
| {{AFL Uni}}
| 6.12 (48)
| {{AFL Mel}}
| 11.9 (75)
| MCG
| 1 August 1914
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
| {{AFL|StK}}
| 6.15 (51)
| {{AFL Fit}}
| 7.11 (53)
| 1 August 1914
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
| {{AFL Ess}}
| 5.9 (39)
| {{AFL Col}}
| 6.12 (48)
| EMCG
| 1 August 1914
{{s-end}}
=Round 17=
{{s-start}}
|- bgcolor="#CCCCFF"
| Home team
| Home team score
| Away team
| Away team score
| Venue
| Date
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
| {{AFL Mel}}
| 8.10 (58)
| {{AFL Ric}}
| 15.15 (105)
| MCG
| 22 August 1914
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
| {{AFL Gee}}
| 9.7 (61)
| {{AFL|StK}}
| 5.15 (45)
| 22 August 1914
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
| {{AFL Fit}}
| 18.19 (127)
| {{AFL Uni}}
| 6.2 (38)
| 22 August 1914
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
| {{AFL Col}}
| 4.12 (36)
| {{AFL SM}}
| 8.9 (57)
| 22 August 1914
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
| {{AFL Car}}
| 10.11 (71)
| {{AFL Ess}}
| 7.8 (50)
| 22 August 1914
{{s-end}}
=Round 18=
{{s-start}}
|- bgcolor="#CCCCFF"
| Home team
| Home team score
| Away team
| Away team score
| Venue
| Date
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
| {{AFL Ess}}
| 9.14 (68)
| {{AFL Fit}}
| 7.8 (50)
| EMCG
| 29 August 1914
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
| {{AFL Col}}
| 4.10 (34)
| {{AFL Gee}}
| 8.10 (58)
| 29 August 1914
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
| {{AFL Uni}}
| 7.10 (52)
| {{AFL|StK}}
| 13.15 (93)
| MCG
| 29 August 1914
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
| {{AFL SM}}
| 10.18 (78)
| {{AFL Mel}}
| 5.5 (35)
| 29 August 1914
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
| {{AFL Ric}}
| 8.9 (57)
| {{AFL Car}}
| 9.9 (63)
| 29 August 1914
{{s-end}}
Ladder
| class=wikitable
| (P) | Premiers |
| bgcolor=FFFFBB | | Qualified for finals |
{{Australian rules football ladder start}}
|- style=background:#FFFFBB
| 1 || align=left | {{AFL Car}} (P) || 18 || 13 || 3 || 2 || 1122 || 865 || 129.7 || 56
|- style=background:#FFFFBB
| 2 || align=left | {{AFL SM}} || 18 || 12 || 5 || 1 || 1113 || 1017 || 109.4 || 50
|- style=background:#FFFFBB
| 3 || align=left | {{AFL Fit}} || 18 || 12 || 6 || 0 || 1177 || 858 || 137.2 || 48
|- style=background:#FFFFBB
| 4 || align=left | {{AFL Gee}} || 18 || 11 || 6 || 1 || 1122 || 874 || 128.4 || 46
|-
| 5 || align=left | {{AFL Col}} || 18 || 10 || 7 || 1 || 1114 || 928 || 120.0 || 42
|-
| 6 || align=left | {{AFL Ess}} || 18 || 9 || 7 || 2 || 1139 || 944 || 120.7 || 40
|-
| 7 || align=left | {{AFL|StK}} || 18 || 9 || 8 || 1 || 1243 || 1052 || 118.2 || 38
|-
| 8 || align=left | {{AFL Ric}} || 18 || 8 || 10 || 0 || 1084 || 1077 || 100.6 || 32
|-
| 9 || align=left | {{AFL Mel}} || 18 || 2 || 16 || 0 || 922 || 1505 || 61.3 || 8
|-
| 10 || align=left | {{AFL Uni}} || 18 || 0 || 18 || 0 || 813 || 1729 || 47.0 || 0
|}
Rules for classification: 1. premiership points; 2. percentage; 3. points for
Average score: 60.3
Source: [https://afltables.com/afl/seas/1914.html#lad AFL Tables]
Finals series
All of the 1914 finals were played at the MCG so the home team in the semi-finals and Preliminary Final is purely the higher ranked team from the ladder but in the Grand Final the home team was the team that won the Preliminary Final.
=Semi-finals=
=Preliminary final=
{{s-start}}
|- bgcolor="#CCCCFF"
| Home team
| Score
| Away team
| Score
| Venue
| Date
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
| {{AFL SM}}
| 5.13 (43)
| {{AFL Car}}
| 3.6 (24)
| MCG
| 19 September
{{s-end}}
=Grand final=
{{Main|1914 VFL Grand Final}}
Season notes
- A crowd of 2,000 angry Carlton fans mobbed the field umpire after Carlton lost to St Kilda in round 2.{{cite book|last1=Ross|first1=John|title=100 Years of Australian Football|date=1996|publisher=Viking Books|location=Ringwood, Australia|isbn=9781854714343|pages=382}}
- In Round 14, Collingwood full-forward Dick Lee kicked eleven goals in the victory over University, equalling the record set by Jim McShane in 1899 for the most goals by a player in a game.
- In Round 16, a spectator ran onto the ground during the Essendon and South Melbourne match and hit Essendon captain Alan Belcher behind the ear. Belcher chased the spectator, struck him, and was reported for unseemly play. Belcher was cleared by the VFL tribunal.
- In Round 16, University lost its 49th consecutive match, breaking the record of 48 consecutive losses set by {{AFL|StK}} in 1897–1899. University dropped out of the league and folded at the end of the season, having lost its last 51 matches. As of 2021, this remains the longest winless streak in VFL/AFL history.{{cite web|url=http://afltables.com/afl/teams/allteams/streaks.html#08|title=Streaks – All Teams|publisher=AFL Tables|access-date=28 March 2014}}
- In his 27th and final game of VFL football in Round 18, Arthur Fitzroy Best kicked the entire Melbourne score of 5.5 (35).{{cite book|last=Rodgers|first=Stephen|title=Every Game Ever Played VFL/AFL Results 1897–1997|year=1998|publisher=Penguin Books Australia Pty Ltd|location=Ringwood |isbn=0670908096|pages=850}}.
- The preliminary final between {{AFL SM}} and {{AFL Car}} on 19 September was held following a curtain-raiser, with South Yarra defeating {{AFLR ColD}} in the 1914 Metropolitan Amateur Football Association grand final.{{cite web |title=GRAND FINAL GAME |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/155521086 |publisher=Winner |access-date=26 July 2024 |date=23 September 1914}}{{cite web |author1=Umpire |title=The Juniors |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/242289163 |website=Trove |publisher=The Herald |access-date=26 July 2024 |page=3 |date=18 September 1914}}{{cite web |title=METROPOLITAN ASSN. |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/154813610 |publisher=Sporting Judge |access-date=26 July 2024 |date=26 September 1914}}
Awards
- The 1914 VFL Premiership team was Carlton.
- The VFL's leading goalkicker was Dick Lee of Collingwood with 57 goals.
- University took the "wooden spoon" in 1914.
References
{{Reflist}}
- 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|0-9591740-2-8}}
- 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}}
- Ross, J. (ed.), The Australian Football Hall of Fame, HarperCollinsPublishers, (Pymble), 1999. {{ISBN|0-7322-6426-X}}
- Atkinson, Graeme 3AW Book of Footy Records, Magistra Publishing Company Pty Ltd (South Melbourne), 1989. {{ISBN|1863210091}}
Sources
- [https://afltables.com/afl/seas/1914.html 1914 VFL season] at AFL Tables
- [https://www.australianfootball.com/seasons/season/afl/138/premiership%2Bseason/1/1/1914 1914 VFL season] at Australian Football
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