12th season of the Australian rules football competition
1888 VFA premiership season
South Melbourne FC team, Premiers
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The 1888 Victorian Football Association season was the 12th season of the Australian rules football competition.
The premiership was won by the South Melbourne Football Club. It was the third premiership in the club's history, and the first out of a sequence of three consecutive premierships won from 1888 to 1890.
The 1888 Victorian Football Association season was the 12th season of the Australian rules football competition. The premiership was won by the South Melbourne...
List of VFA/VFL Premiers (1877-2007) History of Australian rules football in Victoria (1853-1900) Observer (17 September 1894). "The Football Season". The...
against non-VFA clubs declined. Prior to the 1888season, there was no formally endorsed system for awarding a VFA premiership: as had been the case since...
VFA/VFL Premiers History of Australian rules football in Victoria (1853-1900) "Opening of the Football Season". The Argus. Melbourne, VIC. 5 May 1888...
Football Club season was the inaugural season in the club's history competing in the 1877 VFAseason. The 1877 Victorian Football Association season was the...
Association (VFA) for two seasons in the 1880s. The club wore light blue and white on its jumper, similar to Hotham. When it joined the VFA, the Williamstown...
winless 1888season, dropped out of the Association and went into recess. Teams did not play a uniform number of premiership matches during the season. As...
considered when determining the result of a match. This was the final VFAseason before the introduction of the modern system of scoring, in which six...
goalkicker for the season was Daily of Footscray (39 goals). Victorian Football Association/Victorian Football League history (1877–2008) List of VFA premiers History...
the South Williamstown Football Club, which also contested the VFA for two seasons. In 1888, the dispute was settled and two football clubs amalgamated;...
periods of success but also long periods of failure. During the nine VFA premiership seasons in which Melbourne took part, they never won the premiership. They...
time the season was closed, and as published in the Argus. Victorian Football Association/Victorian Football League History (1877-2008) List of VFA/VFL Premiers...
in both the VFA and the VFL until its closure at the end of 1921. North Melbourne Football Club used the ground during the 1897 VFAseason due to upgrading...
The 1917 Victorian Football Association season was not played owing to World War I, which was at its peak at the time. To support the war effort in World...
List of VFA/VFL Premiers Centre (8 September 1947). "Brighton misses four". The Age. Melbourne. p. 8. Marc Fiddian (25 June 1976). "Crowds up at VFA". The...
with Williamstown and Port Melbourne in the Victorian Football Association (VFA). The son of Heinrich Moritz Streckfuss (1833-1917), and his second wife...
Football Association (VFA). It left the VFA to join the VFL in 1908 and has competed in each season since. Richmond have won 2 VFA/VFL premierships and...
The 1916 Victorian Football Association season was not played owing to World War I, which was at its peak at the time. In February, the Association met...
VFA/VFL Premiers "Frankston for VFA". The Sun News-Pictorial. Melbourne. 13 July 1965. p. 43. Noel Carrick (2 July 1956). "Ballarat, Bendigo in V.F.A...
to steal the match by two points. List of VFA/VFL Premiers Marc Fiddian (25 June 1976). "Crowds up at VFA". The Age. Melbourne. p. 23. Ken Piesse (25...
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"...
August 1973). "Cooper first VFA man to kick 100 this year". The Age. Melbourne. p. 28. John Holland (20 August 1973). "Last VFA round vital". The Age. Melbourne...
1899, and rejoined the VFA that season, this time playing at Toorak Park, approximately two miles from St Kilda. It played in the VFA between 1899 and 1994...
breakaway competition from the Victorian Football Association (VFA), with its inaugural season in 1897. It changed its name to Australian Football League...
the final siren from 35 yards. List of VFA/VFL premiers Noel Carrick (3 September 1956). "Box Hill makes VFA finals for first time". The Sun News-Pictorial...
arrangement for affiliation to the ANFC was reached for the 1949 season, but in March the VFA and VFL reached a separate bilateral agreement to recognise the...
"Prahran expelled by VFA". The Sun News-Pictorial. Melbourne. 17 March 1959. pp. 61, 64. Jack Dunn (17 July 1953). "Third VFA team to play as amateurs"...