1900 VFL season
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Results and statistics for the Victorian Football League
season of 1900.
Each team played each other twice in a home-and-away season of 14 rounds.
Once the 14 round home-and-away season had finished, the 1900 VFL Premiers were determined by the specific format and conventions of the 1898 VFL Premiership System.
TEAM | P | W | L | D | PF | PA | % | PTS
Key: P = Played, W = Won, L = Lost, D = Drawn, PF = Points For, PA = Points Against
TEAM | P | W | L | D | PF | PA | % | PTS
Key: P = Played, W = Won, L = Lost, D = Drawn, PF = Points For, PA = Points Against
Date: 15 September 1900
Attendance: 16,000 at Lake Oval
defeated Fitzroy
4.10 (34) to 3.12 (30). (For an explanation of scoring see Australian rules football
).
Attendance: 20,181 at East Melbourne Cricket Ground
Australian Football League
The Australian Football League is both the governing body and the major professional competition in the sport of Australian rules football...
season of 1900.
Premiership season
In 1900, the VFL competition consisted of eight teams of 18 on-the-field players each, with no "reserves", although any of the 18 players who had left the playing field for any reason could later resume their place on the field at any time during the match.Each team played each other twice in a home-and-away season of 14 rounds.
Once the 14 round home-and-away season had finished, the 1900 VFL Premiers were determined by the specific format and conventions of the 1898 VFL Premiership System.
Section A ladder
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Section B ladder
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Semi Final
| Team | 1 Qtr | 2 Qtr | 3 Qtr | Final |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Melbourne Melbourne Football Club The Melbourne Football Club, nicknamed The Demons, is an Australian rules football club playing in the Australian Football League , based in Melbourne, Victoria.... |
3.0 | 3.1 | 6.3 | 7.3 (45) |
| Essendon Essendon Football Club The Essendon Football Club, nicknamed The Bombers, is an Australian rules football club which plays in the Australian Football League... |
1.1 | 2.5 | 4.6 | 5.13 (43) |
Date: 15 September 1900
Attendance: 16,000 at Lake Oval
Lake Oval
The Lake Oval was an Australian rules football and cricket stadium located in Albert Park, Victoria. It was the home of the South Melbourne Football Club from 1878 until their relocation to Sydney in 1982 , and also of the South Melbourne Cricket Club...
Grand final
MelbourneMelbourne Football Club
The Melbourne Football Club, nicknamed The Demons, is an Australian rules football club playing in the Australian Football League , based in Melbourne, Victoria....
defeated Fitzroy
Fitzroy Football Club
The Fitzroy Football Club, formerly nicknamed The Lions, is an Australian rules football club formed in 1883 to represent the inner Melbourne suburb of Fitzroy, Victoria and was a foundation member club of the Victorian Football League on its inception in 1897...
4.10 (34) to 3.12 (30). (For an explanation of scoring see Australian rules football
Australian rules football
Australian rules football, officially known as Australian football, also called football, Aussie rules or footy is a sport played between two teams of 22 players on either...
).
| Team | 1 Qtr | 2 Qtr | 3 Qtr | Final |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fitzroy Fitzroy Football Club The Fitzroy Football Club, formerly nicknamed The Lions, is an Australian rules football club formed in 1883 to represent the inner Melbourne suburb of Fitzroy, Victoria and was a foundation member club of the Victorian Football League on its inception in 1897... |
1.4 | 2.7 | 2.7 | 3.12 (30) |
| Melbourne Melbourne Football Club The Melbourne Football Club, nicknamed The Demons, is an Australian rules football club playing in the Australian Football League , based in Melbourne, Victoria.... |
2.3 | 2.5 | 4.8 | 4.10 (34) |
Attendance: 20,181 at East Melbourne Cricket Ground
East Melbourne Cricket Ground
The East Melbourne Cricket Ground was a sports venue located at the corner of Wellington Parade and Jolimont Parade, in East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia...
Awards
- The 1900 VFL Premiership team was MelbourneMelbourne Football ClubThe Melbourne Football Club, nicknamed The Demons, is an Australian rules football club playing in the Australian Football League , based in Melbourne, Victoria....
. - The VFL's leading goalkickerColeman MedalThe Coleman Medal is awarded yearly to the Australian Football League player who kicks the most goals in regular-season matches in that year...
was Albert ThurgoodAlbert ThurgoodAlbert John "The Great" Thurgood was an Australian rules footballer in the Victorian Football Association , Victorian Football League and the Western Australian Football Association ....
of EssendonEssendon Football ClubThe Essendon Football Club, nicknamed The Bombers, is an Australian rules football club which plays in the Australian Football League...
with 25 goals.
Notable events
- St Kilda footballer Dave Strickland (the father of Shirley StricklandShirley StricklandShirley Barbara Strickland AO, MBE , later Shirley de la Hunty, was an Australian athlete. She won more Olympic medals than any other Australian in running sports.-Family:...
) won the 1900 Stawell GiftStawell GiftThe Stawell Gift is Australia's oldest and richest short distance running race. It is run over every Easter weekend by the Stawell Athletic Club, with the main race finals on the holiday Monday, at Central Park, Stawell in the Grampian Mountains district of western Victoria.The race is run on grass...
in 12 seconds, off a handicap of 10 yards. - Collingwood's highly talented "loose cannon" Dick CondonDick CondonRichard 'Dick' Condon was a highly controversial, exceptionally brilliant champion Australian rules footballer who played in the Victorian Football Association and the Victorian Football League from 1894 to 1909....
is given a lifetime suspension for sustained abuse of field umpire Henry "Ivo" Crapp. - The first round match between St Kilda and Melbourne ended in a draw; the VFL changed the score after a protest by St Kilda, giving St Kilda its first VFL win after 48 losses.
- By the end of the finals round-robin matches, more than 1,000 points had been scored against St Kilda in a single season.
- Melbourne wins the 1900 premiership, despite only having won 6 of 14 home-and-away series matches, and finishing sixth on the ladder; it remains the lowest absolute home-and-away ladder position from which a team has won the premiership. Discontent with this situation led to the formation of the Argus Final Four system for 1901.