1947 VFL season

1947 VFL Premiership season
Bert Deacon
Teams	12
Premiers	Carlton (8th premiership)
Minor Premiers	Carlton (11th minor premiership)
Matches played	118
Highest attendance	85,815
Leading Goalkicker Medallist	Fred Fanning (Melbourne)
Brownlow Medallist	Bert Deacon (Carlton)
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Results and statistics for the Victorian Football League season of 1947.

Premiership season

In 1947, the VFL competition consisted of twelve teams of 18 on-the-field players each, plus two substitute players, known as the 19th man and the 20th man. A player could be substituted for any reason; however, once substituted, a player could not return to the field of play under any circumstances.

Teams played each other in a home-and-away season of 19 rounds; matches 12 to 19 were the "home-and-way reverse" of matches 1 to 8.

Once the 19 round home-and-away season had finished, the 1947 VFL Premiers were determined by the specific format and conventions of the "Page-McIntyre 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

Round 15

Round 16

Round 17

Round 18

Round 19

Ladder

Finals

Semi finals

Preliminary Final

Grand final

Carlton defeated Essendon 13.8 (86) to 11.19 (85) in front of a crowd of 85,815 people. (For an explanation of scoring see Australian rules football).

Awards

• The 1947 VFL Premiership team was Carlton.
• The VFL's leading goalkicker was Fred Fanning of Melbourne with 97 goals.
• The winner of the 1947 Brownlow Medal was Bert Deacon of Carlton with 20 votes.
• St Kilda took the "wooden spoon" in 1947.

Notable events

• At the first bounce, at the very start of the round 5 match between Hawthorn and Richmond, Richmond ruckman Laurie Taylor punched the ball an amazing 40 Yards (approx 35 metres) and, at the same time, dislocated his shoulder. Hawthorn went on to win the match 16.11 (107) to Richmond's 10.9 (69).
• Richmond champion Jack Titus, having retired early in the 1946 VFA season, having scored 1159 goals in his senior career of 294 games with Richmond (1926–1943), 23 games with Coburg (1945–1946), and 14 games for Victoria (1929–1934, 1936), played one match for the Richmond Second Eighteen when it was short of players, at the age of 39, and scored 12 goals against North Melbourne.
• In round 6, with North Melbourne trailing Essendon by 44 points at three quarter time, North Melbourne captain Les Foote moves into the ruck and almost single-handedly beats Essendon: North Melbourne 15.12 (102) to Essendon 14.10 (94).^[1]
• Western Australia beats Victoria 16.10 (106) to 14.17 (101) at the Tenth ANFC Carnival in Tasmania. Also, in a challenge match, a combined South Australian and Western Australian team beats the Victorian team 21.14 (140) to 19.15 (129).
• Carlton win the Grand Final by a point; Fred Stafford kicks a goal just before the final bell.

See also

• 1947 VFL Grand Final
• Sixth round 1947

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

• 1947 Season - AFL Tables