1924 VFA season
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{{Infobox Australian rules football season
| competition = VFA Premiership season
| year = 1924 VFA
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| teams = 10
| premiers = {{AFL Foo}}
| count = 9
| minor premiers = {{AFL Foo}}
| mpcount = 8
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| prevseason = 1923
| nextseason = 1925
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The 1924 Victorian Football Association season was the 46th season of the Australian rules football competition. The premiership was won by the Footscray Football Club, after it defeated Williamstown by 45 points in the final on 20 September. It was the club's ninth and last VFA premiership before it, along with {{AFL NM}} and {{AFL Haw}}, joined the Victorian Football League the following year; this marked the end of a long period of dominance for Footscray, which had seen it win five minor premierships in a row and four major premierships in six years.
Premiership
The home-and-home season was played over eighteen rounds, with each club playing the others twice; then, the top four clubs contested a finals series under the amended Argus system to determine the premiers for the season.
= Ladder =
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|title=1924 VFA ladder
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|winpoints=4|drawpoints=2
|status_text_P=Premiers
|team1=FOO|name_FOO={{AFL Foo}}
|team2=WIL|name_WIL=Williamstown
|team3=NCT|name_NCT=Northcote
|team4=BRU|name_BRU=Brunswick
|team5=NOR|name_NOR={{AFL NM}}
|team6=HAW|name_HAW={{AFL Haw}}
|team7=PMB|name_PMB=Port Melbourne
|team8=GEE|name_GEE=Geelong
|team9=BRI|name_BRI=Brighton
|team10=PRA|name_PRA=Prahran
|win_FOO=16|loss_FOO=1|draw_FOO=1|pf_FOO=1484|pa_FOO=916|status_FOO=P
|win_WIL=13|loss_WIL=5|draw_WIL=0|pf_WIL=1197|pa_WIL=944
|win_NCT=11|loss_NCT=6|draw_NCT=1|pf_NCT=1315|pa_NCT=1176
|win_BRU=11|loss_BRU=7|draw_BRU=0|pf_BRU=1380|pa_BRU=1016
|win_NOR=10|loss_NOR=8|draw_NOR=0|pf_NOR=1282|pa_NOR=1025
|win_HAW=10|loss_HAW=8|draw_HAW=0|pf_HAW=1283|pa_HAW=1058
|win_PMB=10|loss_PMB=8|draw_PMB=0|pf_PMB=1277|pa_PMB=1179
|win_GEE=4|loss_GEE=14|draw_GEE=0|pf_GEE=933|pa_GEE=1485
|win_BRI=2|loss_BRI=16|draw_BRI=0|pf_BRI=1090|pa_BRI=1422
|win_PRA=2|loss_PRA=16|draw_PRA=0|pf_PRA=797|pa_PRA=1818
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|result1=A|result2=A|result3=A|result4=A
|class_rules=1) points; 2) percentage; 3) number of points for.
|update=complete
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= Finals =
{{AFLGameHeader|title=Semifinals}}
{{AFLGame|Saturday, 6 September|Williamstown|8.9 (57)|H|Brunswick|5.16 (46)|North Melbourne Recreation Reserve|16,000|{{cite news|newspaper=The Argus|publication-place=Melbourne|title=Penalty of inaccuracy – Williamstown wins semi-final|date=8 September 1924|page=18|author=Onlooker}}}}
{{AFLGame|Saturday, 13 September|{{AFL Foo}}|9.7 (61)|H|Northcote|4.8 (32)|North Melbourne Recreation Reserve|16,000|{{cite news|newspaper=The Argus|publication-place=Melbourne|title=Footscray prevails|date=15 September 1924|page=5|author=Onlooker}}}}
{{AFLGameFooter}}
{{AFLGameDetailed
|title = 1924 VFA Final
|date = Saturday, 20 September
|home team = {{AFL Foo}}
|home Q1 = 3.5 (23)
|home Q2 = 4.6 (30)
|home Q3 = 9.9 (63)
|home final = 11.11 (77)
|home goals= Mullens 5, O'Brien 4, Hopkins 2,
|home best =
|home injuries =
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|winner = H
||away team = Williamstown
|away Q1 = 0.1 (1)
|away Q2 = 0.4 (4)
|away Q3 = 0.4 (4)
|away final = 3.4 (22)
|away goals= Munn 2, Britt
|away best=
|away injuries =
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|venue = North Melbourne Recreation Reserve
|crowd = 15,000
|report = {{cite news|newspaper=The Argus|publication-place=Melbourne|title=The Association – Footscray's superiority|date=22 September 1924|pages=6–7|author=Onlooker}}{{cite news|newspaper=The Herald|publication-place=Melbourne|title=Association – W'mstown (sic) v. Footscray|date=20 September 1924|pages=4}}
|umpires = Leheny
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|notes=Had Williamstown won, minor premiers Footscray would have been entitled to a rematch the following Saturday to decide the premiership.
}}
Notable events
- Prior to the season, the V.F.A. became affiliated with the Victorian Junior Football Association. Under the arrangement, each of the junior clubs which served as a seconds team for a V.F.A. club joined the V.J.F.A; and, the V.J.F.A expanded to eighteen clubs in two divisions.{{cite news|newspaper=The Argus|publication-place=Melbourne|title=Victorian Association – Affiliation with junior body|date=25 March 1924|page=6}}{{cite news|newspaper=The Argus|publication-place=Melbourne|title=Victorian Junior Association|date=4 April 1924|page=5}} The V.J.F.A. would end up becoming the V.F.A. seconds competition over the following few years.
- On 2 August, a combined Association team played against the visiting Perth Football Club team at the North Melbourne Recreation Reserve. Perth 5.8 (38) defeated the Association 4.12 (36) by two points.{{cite news|newspaper=The Daily News|publication-place=Perth, WA|title=Football – Perth team victorious|date=4 August 1924|page=8}}
- George Gough (Northcote) kicked 25 goals and 7 behinds in Northcote's match against Prahran in the final round of home-and-home matches on August 30. Gough broke the Association record of 18 goals in a match, scored by Dave McNamara (Essendon (A.)) in 1912, and broke the national record of 23 goals in a top level senior match, set by Bos Daly (Norwood) in 1893 and matched by Hugh Campbell (Western Australia) in 1924.{{cite news|newspaper=The Argus|publication-place=Melbourne|title=Football – Fourth place struggle|date=1 September 1924|page=13|author=Old Boy}} Gough scored eleven goals in the final quarter.
- George Gough was the Association's leading goalscorer for the year, finishing with eighty goals in the home-and-home season.
- Bob Johnson (Northcote) won the Woodham Cup as the best and fairest player in the Association.{{cite news|newspaper=The Argus|publication-place=Melbourne|title=Downes (sic) wins Woodham Cup|page=12|date=11 August 1925}}
- Two clubs completed extremely long home winning streaks during the season: {{AFL Foo}} left the Association at the end of the season, after being unbeaten at the Western Oval in 47 consecutive matches; and Port Melbourne was beaten at the Port Melbourne Cricket Ground for the first time since 1920, ending a 33-match winning streak.{{cite news|newspaper=The Age|publication-place=Melbourne|author=Marc Fiddian|page=29|date=28 May 1983|title=Injury just the start for Mills}}
- Premiers Footscray played off against League premiers {{AFL Ess}} on 4 October in an exhibition match for Dame Nellie Melba's appeal for Limbless Soldiers. It was only the third match between League and Association teams since the breakaway of the League in 1897. Footscray 9.10 (64) defeated Essendon 4.12 (36) by 28 points.{{cite news|newspaper=The Argus|publication-place=Melbourne|title=Football – Footscray champions|page=7|date=6 October 1924|author=Old Boy}}
See also
References
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{{VFL}}
{{Aussie Rules in Victoria}}
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