The 1897 Victorian Football Association season was the 21st season of the Australian rules football competition. The premiership was won by the Port Melbourne Football Club, the first premiership in its history.
The 1897 season the VFA's first season as the second-tier senior football competition in Victoria. From 1877 until 1896, the VFA had been the top senior competition in the colony, but at the end of 1896, eight of the association's strongest clubs broke away, establishing the rival Victorian Football League, which immediately assumed the position as the highest level of competition.
history. The 1897season the VFA's first season as the second-tier senior football competition in Victoria. From 1877 until 1896, the VFA had been the...
Association (VFA) clubs – Carlton, Collingwood, Essendon, Fitzroy, Geelong, Melbourne, South Melbourne and St Kilda – featured in the inaugural season after...
breakaway competition from the Victorian Football Association (VFA), with its inaugural season in 1897. It changed its name to Australian Football League in 1990...
of the game. The VFA was the top-level club competition in Victoria until 1896 but became the secondary-level competition from 1897, after its eight strongest...
in both the VFA and the VFL until its closure at the end of 1921. North Melbourne Football Club used the ground during the 1897VFAseason due to upgrading...
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...
(VFA) in 1877, which, alongside the South Australian Football Association (SAFA), were the first ever Australian rules football associations. In 1897,...
Football Association season was the 27th season of the Australian rules football competition. For the first time in its history, the VFA introduced an annual...
League in 1897; another would not be played until 1915. Victorian Football Association/Victorian Football League History (1877-2008) List of VFA/VFL Premiers...
two seasons in the VFA, it was known as Brunswick-Broadmeadows. Brunswick Football Club was formed in 1865 and joined the VFA in the 1897season. The...
Melbourne all newly admitted from the VFA to increase the league's size to its highest since its inception. The season ran from 2 May until 10 October, and...
five seasons in the Victorian Football Association (VFA), winning one premiership in 1896. The club then became a foundation member of the VFL in 1897, where...
the season, Geoff Bryant of Victorian Football Association club Box Hill was cleared to the North Melbourne Football Club. Under a rule that the VFA had...
metropolitan football in 1885. The club has played in every VFA/VFL season since that time. In 1897, Port Melbourne was left out of the group of eight clubs...
goalkicker for the season was Daily of Footscray (39 goals). Victorian Football Association/Victorian Football League history (1877–2008) List of VFA premiers History...
sequence of three premierships won consecutively from 1898 to 1900. The 1898 VFAseason was played in two parts. In the initial rounds, each team played fifteen...
registered under. The club participated in the Victorian Football Association (VFA) between 1903 and 1911, and then since 1926. After World War II, the club...
the 1907 pre-season, then VFA team Richmond played a practice match against VFL team Geelong at Corio Oval, in direct defiance of a VFA edict. On 22 October...
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...
member of the Victorian Football Association (VFA), winning one premiership in that competition. In 1897, it was a foundation member of the breakaway Victorian...
of a combined Ballarat Football League team, as well as on behalf of the VFA clubs Brunswick, Footscray, Hawthorn, North Melbourne, Port Melbourne, and...
League (VFL), and with North Melbourne in the Victorian Football Association (VFA). The son of Martin Nevis Morrison, and Isabella Morrison, née Graham, Leonard...
trained in the pre-season with the VFA clubs Coburg and Preston (respectively), eventually returned to play with Geelong in the 1941 season. In the Round 2...
amended Argus system to determine the premiers for the season. Prior to the season, the V.F.A. became affiliated with the Victorian Junior Football Association...
was with South Melbourne until their final VFAseason in 1896. His sudden death during the 1897 VFL season was considered a severe loss to football. Born...
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