1936 VFA season

1936 VFA Premiership season
Teams	12
Premiers	Northcote (5th premiership)
Minor premiers	Brunswick (2nd minor premiership)
← 1935 1937 →

The 1936 Victorian Football Association season was the 58th season of the Australian rules football competition. The premiership was won by the Northcote Football Club, after it came from fourth on the ladder to defeat Prahran by 15 points in the Grand Final on 12 September. It was the club's fifth VFA premiership, all won between 1929 and 1936, and it was the last top division VFA premiership ever won by the club before it left the Association in 1987.

Premiership

The home-and-home season was played over eighteen matches, before the top four clubs contested a finals series under the Page–McIntyre system to determine the premiers for the season.

Ladder

1936 VFA Ladder

TEAM

Pct

PTS

Brunswick

2063

1395

147.2

Prahran

1896

1363

139.1

Camberwell

1882

1553

121.2

Northcote (P)

1639

1339

122.4

Brighton

1545

1501

102.9

Preston

1739

1597

108.9

Coburg

1920

1562

123.0

Williamstown

1185

1632

72.6

Yarraville

1637

1756

93.2

Oakleigh

1573

1898

82.9

Sandringham

1394

2137

65.2

Port Melbourne

1263

2003

60.2

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

Source^[1]

Finals


	Semi Finals
Saturday, 22 August	Camberwell 8.16 (64)	def. by	Northcote 18.15 (123)	Toorak Park (crowd: 7,000)	^[2]
Saturday, 29 August	Brunswick 14.14 (98)	def. by	Prahran 15.18 (108)	Toorak Park	^[3]


	Preliminary Final
Saturday, 5 September	Brunswick 9.13 (67)	def. by	Northcote 14.10 (94)	Brunswick Cricket Ground (crowd: 10,000)	^[4]


	1936 VFA Grand Final
Saturday, 12 September	Prahran	def. by	Northcote	Toorak Park (Crowd: 12,000)	^[5]
	1.3 (9) 8.8 (56) 11.10 (76) 15.15 (105)	Q1 Q2 Q3 Final	7.2 (44) 7.4 (46) 13.6 (84) 19.6 (120)

Hawkins 4, White 4, Gravell 3, Hyde 2, Thompson 2		Goals	Ross 5, Seymour 4, Bates 3, Gray 3, Downie 2, Hart, O'Keefe

Awards

Lance Collins (Coburg) was the leading goalkicker for the season; he kicked 116 goals in the home-and-home season and did not participate in the finals.^[1]
In the parallel Association best and fairest awards:
- Bert Hyde (Preston) and Peter Reville (Coburg), both in their first season of Association football, jointly won the Recorder Cup, each polling five votes. Neville Huggins (Williamstown), S. Plumridge (Port Melbourne) and Les White (Prahran) were equal third with four votes apiece.^[6]
- The Association Medal was won by Neville Huggins (Williamstown), who polled 33 votes; Bert Hyde (Preston) finished second with 32 votes, and Les White (Prahran) was third with 27 votes.^[7]
Brunswick won the seconds premiership. Brunswick 11.11 (77) defeated Coburg 10.12 (72) in the Grand Final on Saturday 12 September at the Brunswick Cricket Ground.^[5]

Notable events

A charity game for the benefit of the sportsmen's ward at Prince Henry's Hospital was held on the evening of Thursday 24 September (Show Day holiday) at Olympic Park between combined teams representing the Victorian Football League and the Victorian Football Association. The attendance was 2,000. The League 14.15 (99) defeated the Association 10.10 (70).^[8]

External links

List of VFA/VFL Premiers

References

1 2 Rover (17 August 1936). "Northcote in Association four". The Argus (Melbourne). p. 15.
↑ Rover (24 August 1936). "Easy win for Northcote". The Argus (Melbourne). p. 15.
↑ Rover (31 August 1936). "Prahran makes a fine recovery". The Argus (Melbourne). p. 15.
↑ Rover (7 September 1936). "Northcote's Association final". The Argus (Melbourne). p. 15.
1 2 Rover (14 September 1935). "Association Grand Final". The Argus (Melbourne). p. 14.
↑ ""Recorder" Cup – Hyde and Reville tie". The Argus (Melbourne). 24 August 1936. p. 15.
↑ "Huggins best and fairest". The Argus (Melbourne). 3 September 1936. p. 15.
↑ "Night game – win for League". The Argus (Melbourne). 25 September 1936. p. 15.

VFA/VFL seasons

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Victorian Football League clubs

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Australian rules football in Victoria

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