1923 VFA season

1923 VFA Premiership season
Teams	10
Premiers	Footscray (8th premiership)
Minor premiers	Footscray (7th minor premiership)
← 1922 1924 →

The 1923 Victorian Football Association season was the 45th season of the Australian rules football competition. The premiership was won by the Footscray Football Club, after it defeated Port Melbourne by 14 points in the Grand Final on 1 October. It was the club's eighth VFA premiership, which meant that the club surpassed Geelong (L.) for the most premierships won in VFA history.

Rule changes

In 1923, the League and Association entered into a new agreement in which players could not transfer from one competition to the other without a clearance from his club and a permit from his current competition. Such a rule had existing prior to 1918, but since it had lapsed a refusal by one competition to permit a transfer was not binding in the other.^[1] The League was motivated to enter into the agreement by the aggressive recruiting of some Association clubs over the previous few years. The agreement was intended to last for five years, but it was broken prior to the 1925 season during the off-field machinations which led to Footscray, Hawthorn and North Melbourne leaving the Association and joining the League.^[2]

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

1923 VFA Ladder

TEAM

Pct

PTS

Footscray (P)

1527

910

59.6

Port Melbourne

1399

930

66.5

Williamstown

1187

966

81.4

Hawthorn

1203

975

81.0

Brunswick

1120

1109

99.02

North Melbourne

1143

1132

99.04

Brighton

1170

1213

103.7

Prahran

861

1535

178.3

Northcote

952

1217

127.8

Geelong

855

1439

168.3

Key: P = Played, W = Won, L = Lost, D = Drawn, PF = Points For, PA = Points Against, Pct = Percentage; (P) = Premiers, PTS = Premiership points

Source^[3]

Finals


	Semi Finals
Saturday, 8 September	Port Melbourne 14.11 (95)	def.	Hawthorn 9.13 (67)	North Melbourne Recreation Reserve (crowd: 12,000)	^[4]
Saturday, 15 September	Footscray 12.7 (79)	def.	Williamstown 6.11 (47)	North Melbourne Recreation Reserve (crowd: 15,000)	^[5]


	Final
Saturday, 22 September	Footscray 5.11 (41)	def. by	Port Melbourne 8.9 (57)	North Melbourne Recreation Reserve (crowd: 20,000)	^[6]


	1923 VFA Grand Final
Saturday, 29 September	Footscray	def.	Port Melbourne	North Melbourne Recreation Reserve (Crowd: 18,000)	^[7]^[8]
	3.4 (22) 3.4 (22) 6.9 (45) 7.10 (52)	Q1 Q2 Q3 Final	0.0 (0) 2.1 (13) 2.2 (14) 5.8 (38)	Umpires: Jones

Mullins 2, Eason, Howell, O'Brien, Samson, Scanlon		Goals	Kerley 2, Barfoot, Cruddin, Taylor


C. Howell, for elbowing H. Bissett C. Howell for fighting with H. Bissett V. Samson, for striking G. Dobrigh A. Smith, for retaliating against G. Dobrigh after being struck		Reports	G. Ogilvie, for striking L. Zinnick J. Garbutt, for striking L. Mullins H. Bissett, for fighting with C. Howell G. Dobrigh, for charging A. Smith G. Dobrigh, for retaliating against V. Samson after being charged G. Dobrigh, for striking A. Smith G. Dobrigh, for using bad language with the umpire

Awards

Carpenter (Williamstown) was the leading goalkicker for the home-and-home matches, with 61 goals, narrowly beating George Taylor (Port Melbourne), who kicked 58 goals.^[3] Across all matches including finals, Taylor (65) led from Carpenter (63).

External links

List of VFA/VFL Premiers

References

↑ "Football Control". The Argus. Melbourne, VIC. 20 January 1923. p. 20.
↑ Old Boy (28 January 1925). "Football prospects – the broken agreement". The Argus. Melbourne, VIC. p. 9.
1 2 Observer (3 September 1923). "The Association". The Argus. Melbourne, VIC. p. 14.
↑ Observer (10 September 1923). "Association semi-final". The Argus. Melbourne, VIC. p. 14.
↑ Observer (17 September 1923). "Exit Williamstown". The Argus. Melbourne, VIC. pp. 18–19.
↑ Observer (24 September 1923). "Preliminary Final". The Argus. Melbourne, VIC. p. 8.
↑ Observer (1 October 1923). "The Association – Footscray premiers". The Argus. Melbourne, VIC. p. 12.
↑ Observer (2 October 1923). "Rough football – seven men reported". The Argus. Melbourne, VIC. p. 9.

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