1927 WAFL season

Claremont Oval is opened for WAFL football in the fledgling club’s second season, but the local team is thrashed by a systematic Old Easts combination.

In heavy rain, East Fremantle are unexpectedly thrashed by South Fremantle, with Sol Lawn and Campbell outstanding up forward.

For the first time in WAFL history, both teams score 100 points in a match,^[15] but Subiaco, coming off the bye, come back to scrape home despite being without key defenders Hamilton and Brophy.^[16]

Sol Lawn kicks nine goals for South Fremantle, who are joined by Old Easts on top after Perth score only 1.2 (8) in the second half.

In wet conditions, eight goals by Evans gives Perth the game and keeps them within percentage of their first finals berth since 1920.

West Perth, finalists in 1926, return to that season’s form after winning only one of their first eight matches, defeating the reigning premiers in slippery conditions.

Claremont-Cottesloe, who had surprised Subiaco at their previous meeting only to lose narrowly, win their second WAFL match by making use of a violent wind in the first quarter and holding the Maroons in the second.

With Campbell kicking seven goals, East Perth move to equal top position as the Cardinals continue their revival, defeating a seventeen-man South Fremantle team.

Following this round, WAFL football was suspended for an interstate match in Adelaide.

Following Perth’s win over the Cardinals, umpire Les Trotter was attacked physically by an angry spectator who failed to get the better of him, and police were required to break up the fight. The WAFL did not take further actions.^[50]

In difficult conditions on a wet and boisterous day, regular Maroon ruckman Outridge is a match-winner in attack with seven goals.

• The leading clubs were without their State players for this and the following round due to the 1927 Melbourne Carnival.^[57]
• Three close games see East Perth in a high-speed encounter end West Perth’s hopes, whilst a vicious match sees East Fremantle reduce their chance of missing finals action for the first time in twelve seasons.

With all clubs depleted by Carnival commitments, the standard of play is regarded as poor, but East Perth, without eight regulars but with veterans "Digger" Thomas and Brentnall the best players afield, virtually seal the minor premiership with three rounds to play.^[61]

Despite the absence of Syd and Gordon Coventry, Collingwood demonstrate their power with a convincing victory in tough conditions.

The local team, with a number of changes, gains revenge for its mid-week defeat.

Perth fall from second to fifth with their loss on a waterlogged WACA.^[67]

East Fremantle’s thrilling fight to hold of Subiaco in front of a large crowd^[71] and Perth’s loss virtually seals the top four with South playing Claremont-Cottesloe.

Perth’s 10.3 (63) first quarter was the highest in the WAFL to that point and ended the most recent run of over 100 games conceding under 100 points.^[75]

South Fremantle come back to win a high-standard match with four goals in the last sixteen minutes.^[76]

An eagerly awaited match proves disappointing as East Perth have no trouble winning.^[77]

South Fremantle force a challenge final with their ruck superiority led by the unheralded Sunderland, Fuhrmann and Holt.^[78]

East Perth rebound to win their seventh flag in nine seasons, and the last before Matson’s death and the retirement of longstanding stars ends a dynasty.