1905 VFL season

1905 VFL Premiership season
Teams	8
Premiers	Fitzroy (4th premiership)
Minor premiers	Collingwood (3rd minor premiership)
Matches played	72
Highest attendance	30,000
Leading Goalkicker Medallist	Charlie Pannam (Collingwood)
← 1904 1906 →

The 1905 Victorian Football League season was the ninth season of the elite Australian rules football competition.

Premiership season

In 1905, the VFL competition consisted of eight 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 14 rounds.

Once the 14 round home-and-away season had finished, the 1905 VFL Premiers were determined by the specific format and conventions of the amended "Argus 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

Sectional Rounds

Sectional Round 1 (Round 15)

Sectional Round 2 (Round 16)

Sectional Round 3 (Round 17)

Ladder

1905 VFL Ladder
	TEAM	P	W	L	D	PF	PA	%	PTS
1	Collingwood	17	15	2	0	1111	635	174.96	60
2	Fitzroy (P)	17	12	4	1	884	653	135.38	50
3	Carlton	17	11	6	0	1005	789	127.38	44
4	Essendon	17	9	8	0	976	853	114.42	36
5	South Melbourne	17	7	9	1	816	975	83.69	30
6	Geelong	17	6	11	0	747	946	78.96	24
7	St Kilda	17	4	13	0	690	1076	64.13	16
8	Melbourne	17	3	14	0	736	1038	70.91	12
Key: P = Played, W = Won, L = Lost, D = Drawn, PF = Points for, PA = Points against

Semi finals

First Semi Final

Second Semi Final

Preliminary final

Grand final

Fitzroy defeated Collingwood 4.6 (30) to 2.5 (17). (For an explanation of scoring see Australian rules football).

Team	1 Qtr	2 Qtr	3 Qtr	Final
Collingwood	0.1	1.3	2.4	2.5 (17)
Fitzroy	0.3	1.3	4.6	4.6 (30)

Awards

• The 1905 VFL Premiership team was Fitzroy.
• The VFL's leading goalkicker was Charlie Pannam of Collingwood with 38 goals.
• Melbourne took the "wooden spoon" in 1905.

Notable events

• Australasian Football Council formed.
• VFL decides to pay field umpires 30 shillings per match, and boundary umpires 7 shillings per match (approx $75.00 and $20.00 in 2008 buying power).

References

• 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

External links

• 1905 Season - AFL Tables