1873 Victorian football season

1873 Victorian football Premiership season
Premiers Carlton
1872
1874

The 1873 Victorian football season was an Australian rules football competition played during the winter of 1873. The season consisted of matches between metropolitan and provincial football clubs in the colony of Victoria. The premier club was Carlton.

1873 premiership

Four metropolitan clubs participated in senior football during the 1873 season: Albert-park, Carlton, Melbourne and University – but University played very few games, so its record is not shown below.

Notable for its absence was the South Yarra Football Club; after being a powerhouse of the 1860s, the club folded in 1873. Many of its players went to the nearly and newly established junior St Kilda Football Club, which was later elevated to senior ranks in 1874.

Carlton and Melbourne were considered the dominant clubs in the city, so the premier club was decided based entirely on the head-to-head record between the clubs; in their four meetings, Carlton won two and two were drawn, so Carlton was recognised as the premier club for the season.[1]

Club senior records

The below table is set of results for senior clubs during the 1873 season. The list shows the record across all matches, including senior, junior and intercolonial matches. Not included in the table are the unfinished matches between Carlton and Albert-park and between Carlton and University.

1873 Metropolitan Clubs' Results
No. TEAM P W L D GF GA
1 Carlton (P) 12 5 0 7 12 6
2 Melbourne 16 9 2 5 20 6
Albert-park 11 4 4 3
Key: P = Played, W = Won, L = Lost, D = Drawn, GF = Goals For, GA = Goals Against, (P) = Premiers Source:[1]

Geelong was the strongest provincial team; it was undefeated in provincial matches, and suffered its only loss of the season against Melbourne. According to the official tables published in the Argus in the 1890s[2] and later in the Football Record, Geelong was the third-placed team in the Victorian premiership in 1873.[3]

Of the long list of junior clubs to compete at relatively even standard – Carlton Imperial, Collingwood, East Melbourne, Essendon, Hawthorn, North Melbourne, Richmond, St Kilda, Southern, South-park, Studley-park and Williamstown – there was no clear premier club, with none managing an unbeaten record in matches against the other juniors.[1] The numbers advantage to juniors clubs in matches at odds against senior clubs was reduced in 1873, with the junior club usually fielding eighteen men to the senior club's twenty.[4]

Notable events

External links

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Fairplay (1 November 1875). "Football – review of the season". The Australasian (Melbourne, VIC). p. 555.
  2. "The Football Premiership". The Argus (Melbourne, VIC). 23 September 1889. p. 5.
  3. Caroline Wilson (20 June 2014). "History of the AFL could be turned on its head". The Age (Melbourne, VIC). Retrieved 18 October 2014.
  4. Fairplay (28 June 1873). "Football chatter". The Australasian XIV (378) (Melbourne, VIC). p. 812.
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