1913 VFA season

1913 Premiership season
Teams	10
Premiers	Footscray (5th premiership)
Minor premiers	Footscray (3rd minor premiership)
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The 1913 Victorian Football Association season was the 37th season of the Australian rules football competition. The premiership was won by the Footscray Football Club, after it defeated North Melbourne by one point in the final on 6 September. It was the club's fifth VFA premiership.

Premiership

The home-and-home 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

1913 VFA Ladder
	TEAM	P	W	L	D	PF	PA	Pct	PTS
1	Footscray (P)	18	14	4	0	1209	778	155.4	56
2	North Melbourne	18	13	4	1	1317	943	139.7	54
3	Essendon	18	13	5	0	1154	966	119.5	52
4	Brunswick	18	12	5	1	1262	959	131.6	50
5	Williamstown	18	12	6	0	1082	876	123.5	48
6	Prahran	18	10	8	0	1214	962	126.2	40
7	Brighton	18	5	13	0	1037	1278	81.1	20
8	Port Melbourne	18	5	13	0	984	1260	78.1	20
9	Northcote	18	5	13	0	957	1328	72.1	20
10	Melbourne City	18	0	18	0	680	1552	43.8	0
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, 23 August	Footscray 7.13 (55)	def.	Essendon 8.5 (53)	Melbourne Cricket Ground (crowd: 13,000)	[2]
Saturday, 30 August	North Melbourne 8.16 (64)	def.	Brunswick 4.2 (26)	East Melbourne Cricket Ground (crowd: 16,500)	[3]

	1913 VFA Final
Saturday, 6 September	Footscray	def.	North Melbourne	East Melbourne Cricket Ground (Crowd: 20,000)	[4][5]
	4.2 (26) 7.10 (52) 8.13 (61) 10.14 (74)	Q1 Q2 Q3 Final	3.4 (22) 6.4 (40) 10.6 (66) 11.7 (73)	Umpires: Hurley
Banbury 3, Grierson 2, Baxter, Cotton, Gregory, Holmes, Lawson		Goals	Carpenter 2, Freeman 2, Hardy 2, Hawkins 2, K. Johnson, McKay, Treloar
Harris (ankle)		Injuries
Had North Melbourne won, minor premiers Footscray would have been entitled to a rematch the following Saturday to decide the premiership.

Notable events

• On June 9, Melbourne City lost to Port Melbourne despite having thirteen more scoring shots, by the score 4.24 (48) def. by 8.7 (55).^[6] The seven-point loss was the closest Melbourne City came to winning a match in its two years in the Association.^[7]

External links

• Victorian Football Association/Victorian Football League History (1877–2008)
• List of VFA/VFL Premiers (1877–2007)

References

1. J.W. (23 August 1913). "Premiership lists for 1913". The Australasian. XCV (2473). Melbourne, VIC. p. 437.
2. Old Boy (25 August 1913). "Association Semi-Final – won by Footscray". The Argus. Melbourne, VIC. p. 10.
3. Old Boy (1 September 1913). "Association Semi-Final – North Melbourne win". The Argus. Melbourne, VIC. p. 7.
4. Old Boy (8 September 1913). "The Association Final – Magnificant Game". The Argus. Melbourne, VIC. p. 11.
5. Old Boy (6 September 1913). "Association Final – Footscray v. North Melb.". The Argus. Melbourne, VIC. p. 17.
6. Old Boy (10 June 1913). "Association games". The Argus. Melbourne, VIC. p. 4.
7. "Melbourne City". AustralianFootball.com. Retrieved 10 June 2013.