1900 VFL season

Results and statistics for the Victorian Football League season of 1900.

Premiership season

In 1900, 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 1900 VFL Premiers were determined by the specific format and conventions of the 1898 VFL Premiership System.

Round 1

Round 2

Round 3

Round 3 was to have been played on Saturday 19 May, but all matches cancelled due to heavy rain. The matches were rescheduled to the weekend after Round 14.^[1]

For the purposes of numbering, the original round designations are retained in this article. Some sources re-designate the round numbering into the final order in which they were played.

Round 4

Round 5

Round 6

Round 7

Round 8

Round 9

Round 10

Round 11

Round 12

Round 13

Round 14

Round 3 (rescheduled)

Ladder

Finals

Sectional Round 1

Sectional Round 2

Sectional Round 3

Section A ladder

Section B ladder

Semi Final

Date: 15 September 1900

Attendance: 16,000 at Lake Oval

Grand final

Melbourne defeated Fitzroy 4.10 (34) to 3.12 (30). (For an explanation of scoring see Australian rules football).

Attendance: 20,181 at East Melbourne Cricket Ground

Awards

• The 1900 VFL Premiership team was Melbourne.
• The VFL's leading goalkicker was Albert Thurgood of Essendon with 25 goals.

Notable events

• The Round 1 match between St Kilda and Melbourne ended in a draw, but the result was changed to a St Kilda victory on protest, after was noted that the umpire did not signal the end of the third quarter in the correct fashion after hearing the bell. This was St Kilda's first ever VFL win (after 48 losses), and was the first of only two occasions that the score of a game was changed on protest (the second, the 2006 AFL siren controversy, also involved St Kilda).</ref>
• St Kilda footballer Dave Strickland (the father of Shirley Strickland) won the 1900 Stawell Gift in 12 seconds, off a handicap of 10 yards.
• Collingwood's highly talented "loose cannon" Dick Condon is given a lifetime suspension for sustained abuse of field umpire Henry "Ivo" Crapp.^[2]
• By the end of the finals round-robin matches, more than 1,000 points had been scored against St Kilda in a single season.^[3]
• Melbourne wins the 1900 premiership, despite only having won 6 of 14 home-and-away series matches, and finishing sixth on the ladder; it remains the lowest absolute home-and-away ladder position from which a team has won the premiership. Discontent with this situation led to the formation of the Argus Final Four system for 1901.

Footnotes

References

• Hogan, P., The Tigers Of Old, The Richmond Football Club, (Richmond), 1996. ISBN 0-646-18748-1
• 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

• 1900 Season - AFL Tables