1907 VFA season

1907 premiership season
Williamstown FC, premiers
Teams	10
Premiers	Williamstown 1st premiership
Minor premiers	Williamstown 1st minor premiership
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The 1907 Victorian Football Association season was the 31st season of the Australian rules football competition. The premiership was won by the Williamstown Football Club, after it defeated West Melbourne in the final by eighteen points. It was the first premiership won by Williamstown, in its 24th season of senior competition.

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Premiership

The home-and-away season was played over eighteen rounds, with each club playing the others twice; then, the top four clubs contested a finals series under the amended Argus system to determine the premiers for the season.

Ladder

1907 VFA ladder

TEAM

PTS

Williamstown (P)

1046

653

Richmond

1387

773

Footscray

1006

708

West Melbourne

1048

813

Essendon

900

760

Brunswick

1077

1007

Port Melbourne

814

1007

Prahran

806

1202

North Melbourne

618

1179

Preston

586

1329

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

Source^[1]

Finals

Semi-finals


	Semi Finals
Saturday, 14 September	Williamstown 5.11 (41)	def.	Footscray 3.9 (27)	East Melbourne Cricket Ground (crowd: 12,000)	^[2]
Saturday, 21 September	Richmond 5.7 (37)	def. by	West Melbourne 8.13 (61)	East Melbourne Cricket Ground (crowd: 7,500)	^[3]

1907 Final


	1907 VFA Final
Saturday, 28 September	Williamstown	def.	West Melbourne	East Melbourne Cricket Ground (crowd: 25,000^[4])	^[5]
	4.4 (28) 4.5 (29) 5.9 (39) 7.10 (52)	Q1 Q2 Q3 Final	0.2 (2) 2.6 (18) 2.9 (21) 3.16 (34)	Umpires: Hurley^[6]


Briggs 3, Addison 2, Gibbs 2		Goals	P. Johnson 2, Armstrong




Had West Melbourne won, minor premiers Williamstown would have been entitled to a rematch the following Saturday to decide the premiership.

Notable events

Interleague matches

The Association played two interstate games against the South Australia (represented by the SAFL) during the year. In the first, the Association team fought back from a late three goal deficit to score 3.5 (23) in a row and take a five point lead; but, in the final passage of play, a South Australian rebound led to a mark by Alby Bahr, who kicked a goal after the final bell to win the game for South Australia. The Association won the return game by eleven points.


	1907 Interleague Matches
Saturday, 8 June	V.F.A. 13.14 (92)	def. by	S.A.F.L. 14.9 (93)	East Melbourne Cricket Ground (crowd: 11,000)	^[7]
Saturday, 27 July	S.A.F.L. 6.11 (47)	def. by	V.F.A. 9.4 (58)	Adelaide Oval (crowd: 9,000)	^[8]

Other notable events

West Melbourne moved its home base from the North Melbourne Recreation Reserve to the East Melbourne Cricket Ground for the season, sharing the ground with the Essendon (League) Football Club.^[9]
For the first time, Association players were required to numbers on the backs of their guernseys to enable them to be identified from a distance.^[10] Some teams had been voluntarily wearing numbers since 1905, when Port Melbourne was the first to wear them.^[11]
Kicking with the wind in the second quarter of its 22 June match, West Melbourne kicked an inaccurate 0.13 (13) against Footscray's no score; West Melbourne ultimately lost the match 7.6 (48) to 2.19 (31).^[12]
Owing to regular poor behaviour of its home crowds, Port Melbourne was forced by the association to play its final two home games of the season away from the Port Melbourne Cricket Ground.^[13]
On 24 August, Prahran forward Sydney Sykes scored all twelve goals, as well as five behinds, of Prahran's total score of 12.17 (89).^[14]
In the final round match which directly decided which club finished fourth, West Melbourne 8.10 (58) defeated Essendon 8.9 (57) by one point, with Harrison kicking the winning goal for the Wests inside the final minute.^[1]
J. Hutchison (Richmond) set a new record for most goals kicked in a season, breaking Albert Thurgood's record of 64 goals set in 1893. Hutchison kicked 66 goals during the home-and-away season.^[1]

External links

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Old Boy (9 September 1907). "Football – Association Matches". The Argus. Melbourne. p. 5.
^ Old Boy (16 September 1907). "Football – Association semi-final". The Argus. Melbourne. p. 7.
^ Old Boy (23 September 1907). "Football – Association Semi-Final". The Argus. Melbourne. p. 9.
^ "Final – Williamstown v. West Melbourne". North Melbourne Courier and West Melbourne Chronicle. Melbourne. 4 October 1907. p. 3.
^ Old Boy (30 September 1907). "Football – the Association clubs". The Argus. Melbourne. p. 7.
^ "With the footballers – first premiership for 'Town". Williamstown Chronicle. Williamstown, VIC. 5 October 1907. p. 3.
^ Follower (15 June 1907). "Football Gossip". The Leader. Melbourne, VIC. p. 18.
^ "Football – Victoria v. South Australia". The Register. Adelaide, SA. 29 July 1907. p. 8.
^ "Football – Victorian League – Question of Grounds". The Argus. Melbourne. 28 March 1907. p. 4.
^ Centre (1 June 1939). "The National Code – how the Association has led the way". The Age. Melbourne. p. 4.
^ Fiddian, Marc (2004); The VFA; A History of the Victorian Football Association 1877–1995; p. 25
^ Follower (24 June 1907). "The football season – matches for premiership". The Age. Melbourne, VIC. p. 9.
^ Fiddian, Marc (2004), The VFA: a history of the Victorian Football Association, 1877–1995, p. 25
^ "The Association – Prahran v. North Melbourne". The Prahran Telegraph. Prahran, VIC. 31 August 1907. p. 2.

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