1933 VFL season - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

Results and statistics for the Victorian Football League
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 1933.

Premiership season

In 1933, the VFL competition consisted of twelve teams of 18 on-the-field players each, plus one substitute player, known as the 19th man. A player could be substituted for any reason; however, once substituted, a player could not return to the field of play under any circumstances.

Teams played each other in a home-and-away season of 18 rounds; matches 12 to 18 were the "home-and-way reverse" of matches 1 to 7.

Once the 18 round home-and-away season had finished, the 1933 VFL Premiers were determined by the specific format and conventions of the "Page-McIntyre system".

Round 1

Melbourne Cricket Ground

The Melbourne Cricket Ground is an Australian sports stadium located in Yarra Park, Melbourne and is home to the Melbourne Cricket Club. It is the tenth largest stadium in the world, the largest in Australia, the largest stadium for playing cricket, and holds the world record for the highest light...

| 19,583
| 29 April 1933
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|
| 14.15 (99)
|
| 12.17 (89)
| Victoria Park

Victoria Park, Melbourne

Victoria Park is a sports venue in Abbotsford a suburb of Melbourne in Victoria, Australia. Built for the purpose of both Australian rules football and cricket, the stadium is oval shaped....

| 15,500
| 29 April 1933
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|
| 12.15 (87)
|
| 11.17 (83)
| Princes Park
| 37,000
| 29 April 1933
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|
| 10.17 (77)
|
| 11.13 (79)
| Junction Oval

Junction Oval

The Junction Oval is an historic sports ground in the suburb of St Kilda in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Its location near the St Kilda Junction gave rise to its nickname...

| 14,000
| 29 April 1933
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|
| 11.13 (79)
|
| 11.13 (79)
| Arden Street Oval

Arden Street Oval

Arden Street Oval is a sports oval based in Arden Street, North Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It is currently the training base of Australian rules team North Melbourne Football Club and up to the end of the 1985 season it was used for elite-level VFL/AFL matches.-History:The North Melbourne...

| 12,000
| 29 April 1933
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|
| 11.11 (77)
|
| 10.11 (71)
| Western Oval
| 19,000
| 29 April 1933

Round 2

Corio Oval

Corio Oval was an Australian rules football ground, located in Geelong, Victoria and used by the Geelong Football Club in the VFL from 1897 to 1941. Located in the Eastern Gardens, the oval was served by trams from 1930 when the line was extended....

| 10,000
| 6 May 1933
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|
| 13.13 (91)
|
| 12.6 (78)
| Windy Hill

Windy Hill, Essendon

Windy Hill is an Australian rules football ground located in Essendon, a northwestern suburb of the Melbourne metropolitan area....

| 17,000
| 6 May 1933
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|
| 24.16 (160)
|
| 9.12 (66)
| Punt Road Oval

Punt Road Oval

Punt Road Oval is a sporting ground located in Yarra Park, East Melbourne, Victoria situated only a few hundred metres to the east of the famous Melbourne Cricket Ground....

| 19,000
| 6 May 1933
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|
| 18.17 (125)
|
| 14.15 (99)
| 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...

| 29,000
| 6 May 1933
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|
| 16.10 (106)
|
| 11.15 (81)
| Brunswick Street Oval

Brunswick Street Oval

The Brunswick Street Oval, currently known as WT Peterson Community Oval, also known as the Fitzroy Cricket Ground is a cricket and Australian rules football ground located in Edinburgh Gardens in Fitzroy North, Victoria...

| 22,000
| 6 May 1933
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|
| 10.12 (72)
|
| 11.14 (80)
| Glenferrie Oval

Glenferrie Oval

Glenferrie Oval is an Australian rules football stadium located in Hawthorn, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.It is the historic home of and is synonymous with the Hawthorn Football Club, who played there from 1903 and as a VFL/AFL club from 1925–1973, and retained the ground as an...

| 16,000
| 6 May 1933

Round 3

Victoria Park, Melbourne

Victoria Park is a sports venue in Abbotsford a suburb of Melbourne in Victoria, Australia. Built for the purpose of both Australian rules football and cricket, the stadium is oval shaped....

| 10,000
| 13 May 1933
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|
| 8.9 (57)
|
| 13.16 (94)
| Princes Park
| 14,000
| 13 May 1933
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|
| 10.15 (75)
|
| 10.7 (67)
| Arden Street Oval

Arden Street Oval

| 5,000
| 13 May 1933
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|
| 9.5 (59)
|
| 21.17 (143)
| Junction Oval

Junction Oval

The Junction Oval is an historic sports ground in the suburb of St Kilda in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Its location near the St Kilda Junction gave rise to its nickname...

| 9,000
| 13 May 1933
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|
| 15.9 (99)
|
| 10.10 (70)
| MCG

Melbourne Cricket Ground

| 9,479
| 13 May 1933

Round 4

Corio Oval

| 9,000
| 20 May 1933
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|
| 11.16 (82)
|
| 11.13 (79)
| Brunswick Street Oval

Brunswick Street Oval

| 22,000
| 20 May 1933
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|
| 11.14 (80)
|
| 10.16 (76)
| Lake Oval

Lake Oval

| 20,000
| 20 May 1933
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|
| 7.15 (57)
|
| 14.10 (94)
| Glenferrie Oval

Glenferrie Oval

| 12,000
| 20 May 1933
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|
| 13.15 (93)
|
| 11.8 (74)
| Punt Road Oval

Punt Road Oval

Punt Road Oval is a sporting ground located in Yarra Park, East Melbourne, Victoria situated only a few hundred metres to the east of the famous Melbourne Cricket Ground....

| 28,000
| 20 May 1933
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|
| 11.10 (76)
|
| 13.18 (96)
| Windy Hill

Windy Hill, Essendon

Windy Hill is an Australian rules football ground located in Essendon, a northwestern suburb of the Melbourne metropolitan area....

| 20,000
| 20 May 1933

Round 5

Glenferrie Oval

| 12,000
| 27 May 1933
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|
| 12.11 (83)
|
| 17.15 (117)
| Windy Hill

Windy Hill, Essendon

Windy Hill is an Australian rules football ground located in Essendon, a northwestern suburb of the Melbourne metropolitan area....

| 18,000
| 27 May 1933
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|
| 13.19 (97)
|
| 11.17 (83)
| Junction Oval

Junction Oval

The Junction Oval is an historic sports ground in the suburb of St Kilda in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Its location near the St Kilda Junction gave rise to its nickname...

| 13,000
| 27 May 1933
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|
| 10.17 (77)
|
| 14.13 (97)
| MCG

Melbourne Cricket Ground

| 22,029
| 27 May 1933
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|
| 18.15 (123)
|
| 2.7 (19)
| Corio Oval

Corio Oval

| 15,000
| 27 May 1933
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|
| 14.20 (104)
|
| 14.16 (100)
| Victoria Park

Victoria Park, Melbourne

Victoria Park is a sports venue in Abbotsford a suburb of Melbourne in Victoria, Australia. Built for the purpose of both Australian rules football and cricket, the stadium is oval shaped....

| 25,000
| 27 May 1933

Round 6

Lake Oval

| 13,000
| 3 June 1933
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|
| 13.10 (88)
|
| 10.11 (71)
| Punt Road Oval

Punt Road Oval

Punt Road Oval is a sporting ground located in Yarra Park, East Melbourne, Victoria situated only a few hundred metres to the east of the famous Melbourne Cricket Ground....

| 30,000
| 3 June 1933
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|
| 19.11 (125)
|
| 14.9 (93)
| Brunswick Street Oval

Brunswick Street Oval

| 14,000
| 3 June 1933
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|
| 12.11 (83)
|
| 9.16 (70)
| Western Oval
| 20,000
| 5 June 1933
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|
| 13.13 (91)
|
| 12.15 (87)
| Princes Park
| 32,000
| 5 June 1933
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|
| 17.11 (113)
|
| 14.13 (97)
| Arden Street Oval

Arden Street Oval

| 18,000
| 5 June 1933

Round 7

Corio Oval

| 14,000
| 10 June 1933
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|
| 8.17 (65)
|
| 10.13 (73)
| Brunswick Street Oval

Brunswick Street Oval

| 29,500
| 10 June 1933
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|
| 15.6 (96)
|
| 16.9 (105)
| Windy Hill

Windy Hill, Essendon

Windy Hill is an Australian rules football ground located in Essendon, a northwestern suburb of the Melbourne metropolitan area....

| 9,000
| 10 June 1933
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|
| 11.12 (78)
|
| 8.14 (62)
| Arden Street Oval

Arden Street Oval

| 20,000
| 10 June 1933
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|
| 13.19 (97)
|
| 18.18 (126)
| MCG

Melbourne Cricket Ground

| 18,020
| 10 June 1933
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|
| 10.5 (65)
|
| 20.10 (130)
| Junction Oval

Junction Oval

The Junction Oval is an historic sports ground in the suburb of St Kilda in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Its location near the St Kilda Junction gave rise to its nickname...

| 21,000
| 10 June 1933

Round 8

Melbourne Cricket Ground

| 11,647
| 17 June 1933
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|
| 8.11 (59)
|
| 17.15 (117)
| Windy Hill

Windy Hill, Essendon

Windy Hill is an Australian rules football ground located in Essendon, a northwestern suburb of the Melbourne metropolitan area....

| 10,000
| 17 June 1933
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|
| 14.23 (107)
|
| 8.15 (63)
| Victoria Park

Victoria Park, Melbourne

Victoria Park is a sports venue in Abbotsford a suburb of Melbourne in Victoria, Australia. Built for the purpose of both Australian rules football and cricket, the stadium is oval shaped....

| 11,000
| 17 June 1933
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|
| 21.13 (139)
|
| 17.14 (116)
| Princes Park
| 26,000
| 17 June 1933
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|
| 15.13 (103)
|
| 16.12 (108)
| Lake Oval

Lake Oval

| 30,000
| 17 June 1933
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|
| 9.14 (68)
|
| 11.13 (79)
| Glenferrie Oval

Glenferrie Oval

| 13,000
| 17 June 1933

Round 9

Corio Oval

| 6,000
| 24 June 1933
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|
| 15.7 (97)
|
| 11.12 (78)
| Brunswick Street Oval

Brunswick Street Oval

| 20,000
| 24 June 1933
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|
| 13.12 (90)
|
| 3.15 (33)
| Junction Oval

Junction Oval

The Junction Oval is an historic sports ground in the suburb of St Kilda in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Its location near the St Kilda Junction gave rise to its nickname...

| 9,000
| 24 June 1933
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|
| 16.14 (110)
|
| 8.11 (59)
| Punt Road Oval

Punt Road Oval

Punt Road Oval is a sporting ground located in Yarra Park, East Melbourne, Victoria situated only a few hundred metres to the east of the famous Melbourne Cricket Ground....

| 12,000
| 24 June 1933
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|
| 9.11 (65)
|
| 7.18 (60)
| Western Oval
| 18,000
| 24 June 1933
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|
| 6.17 (53)
|
| 11.14 (80)
| Arden Street Oval

Arden Street Oval

| 26,000
| 24 June 1933

Round 10

Punt Road Oval

Punt Road Oval is a sporting ground located in Yarra Park, East Melbourne, Victoria situated only a few hundred metres to the east of the famous Melbourne Cricket Ground....

| 13,000
| 1 July 1933
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|
| 9.21 (75)
|
| 15.18 (108)
| Windy Hill

Windy Hill, Essendon

Windy Hill is an Australian rules football ground located in Essendon, a northwestern suburb of the Melbourne metropolitan area....

| 11,000
| 1 July 1933
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|
| 13.10 (88)
|
| 12.9 (81)
| Lake Oval

Lake Oval

| 10,000
| 1 July 1933
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|
| 11.16 (82)
|
| 7.15 (57)
| Corio Oval

Corio Oval

| 15,000
| 1 July 1933
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|
| 5.14 (44)
|
| 15.6 (96)
| Glenferrie Oval

Glenferrie Oval

| 10,000
| 1 July 1933
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|
| 5.19 (49)
|
| 13.14 (92)
| Brunswick Street Oval

Brunswick Street Oval

| 33,000
| 1 July 1933

Round 11

Arden Street Oval

| 15,000
| 8 July 1933
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|
| 20.19 (139)
|
| 14.14 (98)
| Victoria Park

Victoria Park, Melbourne

Victoria Park is a sports venue in Abbotsford a suburb of Melbourne in Victoria, Australia. Built for the purpose of both Australian rules football and cricket, the stadium is oval shaped....

| 8,500
| 8 July 1933
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|
| 10.10 (70)
|
| 9.13 (67)
| Princes Park
| 43,000
| 8 July 1933
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|
| 21.10 (136)
|
| 15.8 (98)
| MCG

Melbourne Cricket Ground

| 6,877
| 8 July 1933
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|
| 11.14 (80)
|
| 7.13 (55)
| Junction Oval

Junction Oval

The Junction Oval is an historic sports ground in the suburb of St Kilda in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Its location near the St Kilda Junction gave rise to its nickname...

| 10,000
| 8 July 1933
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|
| 15.6 (96)
|
| 8.14 (62)
| Western Oval
| 18,000
| 8 July 1933

Round 12

Glenferrie Oval

| 10,000
| 15 July 1933
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|
| 17.16 (118)
|
| 11.9 (75)
| Brunswick Street Oval

Brunswick Street Oval

| 14,000
| 15 July 1933
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|
| 14.7 (91)
|
| 15.13 (103)
| Windy Hill

Windy Hill, Essendon

Windy Hill is an Australian rules football ground located in Essendon, a northwestern suburb of the Melbourne metropolitan area....

| 16,000
| 15 July 1933
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|
| 20.15 (135)
|
| 12.13 (85)
| Punt Road Oval

Punt Road Oval

Punt Road Oval is a sporting ground located in Yarra Park, East Melbourne, Victoria situated only a few hundred metres to the east of the famous Melbourne Cricket Ground....

| 11,000
| 15 July 1933
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|
| 13.18 (96)
|
| 9.7 (61)
| Corio Oval

Corio Oval

| 12,250
| 15 July 1933
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|
| 15.13 (103)
|
| 9.6 (60)
| Lake Oval

Lake Oval

| 32,000
| 15 July 1933

Round 13

Arden Street Oval

| 12,000
| 22 July 1933
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|
| 8.11 (59)
|
| 19.15 (129)
| Western Oval
| 27,000
| 22 July 1933
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|
| 7.21 (63)
|
| 9.10 (64)
| Victoria Park

Victoria Park, Melbourne

Victoria Park is a sports venue in Abbotsford a suburb of Melbourne in Victoria, Australia. Built for the purpose of both Australian rules football and cricket, the stadium is oval shaped....

| 21,000
| 22 July 1933
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|
| 13.20 (98)
|
| 10.14 (74)
| Princes Park
| 12,000
| 22 July 1933
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|
| 12.16 (88)
|
| 18.15 (123)
| MCG

Melbourne Cricket Ground

| 10,249
| 22 July 1933
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|
| 12.20 (92)
|
| 13.9 (87)
| Junction Oval

Junction Oval

The Junction Oval is an historic sports ground in the suburb of St Kilda in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Its location near the St Kilda Junction gave rise to its nickname...

| 11,000
| 22 July 1933

Round 14

Glenferrie Oval

| 4,000
| 29 July 1933
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|
| 19.10 (124)
|
| 6.9 (45)
| Brunswick Street Oval

Brunswick Street Oval

| 14,000
| 29 July 1933
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|
| 14.7 (91)
|
| 15.16 (106)
| Windy Hill

Windy Hill, Essendon

Windy Hill is an Australian rules football ground located in Essendon, a northwestern suburb of the Melbourne metropolitan area....

| 6,000
| 29 July 1933
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|
| 18.16 (124)
|
| 9.11 (65)
| Punt Road Oval

Punt Road Oval

Punt Road Oval is a sporting ground located in Yarra Park, East Melbourne, Victoria situated only a few hundred metres to the east of the famous Melbourne Cricket Ground....

| 18,000
| 29 July 1933
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|
| 13.11 (89)
|
| 12.11 (83)
| Lake Oval

Lake Oval

| 24,000
| 29 July 1933
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|
| 17.15 (117)
|
| 5.14 (44)
| Corio Oval

Corio Oval

| 14,500
| 29 July 1933

Round 15

Junction Oval

The Junction Oval is an historic sports ground in the suburb of St Kilda in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Its location near the St Kilda Junction gave rise to its nickname...

| 20,000
| 5 August 1933
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|
| 16.14 (110)
|
| 9.18 (72)
| Western Oval
| 8,000
| 5 August 1933
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|
| 15.16 (106)
|
| 10.8 (68)
| Victoria Park

Victoria Park, Melbourne

Victoria Park is a sports venue in Abbotsford a suburb of Melbourne in Victoria, Australia. Built for the purpose of both Australian rules football and cricket, the stadium is oval shaped....

| 15,000
| 5 August 1933
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|
| 14.22 (106)
|
| 9.9 (63)
| Princes Park
| 15,000
| 5 August 1933
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|
| 9.7 (61)
|
| 15.10 (100)
| Arden Street Oval

Arden Street Oval

| 8,000
| 5 August 1933
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|
| 9.15 (69)
|
| 13.8 (86)
| MCG

Melbourne Cricket Ground

| 14,962
| 5 August 1933

Round 16

Arden Street Oval

| 9,000
| 19 August 1933
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|
| 19.10 (124)
|
| 14.10 (94)
| Western Oval
| 8,000
| 19 August 1933
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|
| 15.8 (98)
|
| 11.20 (86)
| Brunswick Street Oval

Brunswick Street Oval

| 21,000
| 19 August 1933
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|
| 14.8 (92)
|
| 15.11 (101)
| Princes Park
| 19,000
| 19 August 1933
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|
| 11.17 (83)
|
| 9.6 (60)
| Punt Road Oval

Punt Road Oval

Punt Road Oval is a sporting ground located in Yarra Park, East Melbourne, Victoria situated only a few hundred metres to the east of the famous Melbourne Cricket Ground....

| 9,000
| 19 August 1933
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|
| 11.16 (82)
|
| 6.4 (40)
| Lake Oval

Lake Oval

| 13,000
| 19 August 1933

Round 17

Glenferrie Oval

| 12,500
| 26 August 1933
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|
| 10.10 (70)
|
| 14.10 (94)
| Corio Oval

Corio Oval

| 22,250
| 26 August 1933
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|
| 12.13 (85)
|
| 10.17 (77)
| Windy Hill

Windy Hill, Essendon

Windy Hill is an Australian rules football ground located in Essendon, a northwestern suburb of the Melbourne metropolitan area....

| 13,000
| 26 August 1933
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|
| 25.15 (165)
|
| 17.19 (121)
| Victoria Park

Victoria Park, Melbourne

Victoria Park is a sports venue in Abbotsford a suburb of Melbourne in Victoria, Australia. Built for the purpose of both Australian rules football and cricket, the stadium is oval shaped....

| 8,000
| 26 August 1933
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|
| 21.11 (137)
|
| 14.21 (105)
| Junction Oval

Junction Oval

The Junction Oval is an historic sports ground in the suburb of St Kilda in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Its location near the St Kilda Junction gave rise to its nickname...

| 9,500
| 26 August 1933
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|
| 10.11 (71)
|
| 19.21 (135)
| MCG

Melbourne Cricket Ground

| 17,327
| 26 August 1933

Round 18

Victoria Park, Melbourne

Victoria Park is a sports venue in Abbotsford a suburb of Melbourne in Victoria, Australia. Built for the purpose of both Australian rules football and cricket, the stadium is oval shaped....

| 7,000
| 2 September 1933
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|
| 20.25 (145)
|
| 14.9 (93)
| Princes Park
| 18,000
| 2 September 1933
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|
| 23.17 (155)
|
| 6.10 (46)
| Lake Oval

Lake Oval

| 30,000
| 2 September 1933
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|
| 16.13 (109)
|
| 9.7 (61)
| Punt Road Oval

Punt Road Oval

Punt Road Oval is a sporting ground located in Yarra Park, East Melbourne, Victoria situated only a few hundred metres to the east of the famous Melbourne Cricket Ground....

| 21,000
| 2 September 1933
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|
| 10.9 (69)
|
| 8.16 (64)
| Glenferrie Oval

Glenferrie Oval

| 4,000
| 2 September 1933

Semi finals

Melbourne Cricket Ground

| 40,225
| 9 September
|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
|
| 11.11 (77)
|
| 14.11 (95)
| MCG

Melbourne Cricket Ground

| 49,303
| 16 September

Preliminary Final

Melbourne Cricket Ground

| 48,125
| 23 September

Grand final

South Melbourne

Sydney Swans

The Sydney Swans Football Club is an Australian rules football club which plays in the Australian Football League . The club is based in Sydney, New South Wales. The club, founded in 1874, was known as the South Melbourne Football Club until it relocated to Sydney in 1982 to become the Sydney...

defeated Richmond

Richmond Football Club

The Richmond Football Club, nicknamed The Tigers, is an Australian rules football club which competes in the Australian Football League. Richmond shares healthy rivalries with Carlton, Collingwood and Essendon. After winning five premierships between 1967 and 1980, the club hit the depths in 1990,...

9.17 (71) to 4.5 (29), in front of a crowd of 75,754 people. (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...

Awards

The 1933 VFL Premiership team was South Melbourne
Sydney Swans
The Sydney Swans Football Club is an Australian rules football club which plays in the Australian Football League . The club is based in Sydney, New South Wales. The club, founded in 1874, was known as the South Melbourne Football Club until it relocated to Sydney in 1982 to become the Sydney...

.
The VFL's leading goalkicker
Coleman Medal
The Coleman Medal is awarded yearly to the Australian Football League player who kicks the most goals in regular-season matches in that year...

was Gordon Coventry
Gordon Coventry
Gordon "Nuts" Coventry was an Australian rules footballer who played for Collingwood Football Club in the Victorian Football League . With 1,299 goals over 18 seasons, Coventry remains one of the greatest full forwards the game has ever seen...

of Collingwood
Collingwood Football Club
The Collingwood Football Club, nicknamed The Magpies, is an Australian rules football club which plays in the Australian Football League...

with 108 goals.
The winner of the 1933 Brownlow Medal
Brownlow Medal
The Chas Brownlow Trophy, better known as the Brownlow Medal , is awarded to the "fairest and best" player in the Australian Football League during the regular season as determined by votes cast by the officiating field umpires after each game...

was Wilfred Smallhorn of 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...

with 18 votes.
Essendon
Essendon Football Club
The Essendon Football Club, nicknamed The Bombers, is an Australian rules football club which plays in the Australian Football League...

took the "wooden spoon
Wooden spoon (award)
A wooden spoon is a mock or real award, usually given to an individual or team which has come last in a competition, but sometimes also to runners-up. Examples range from the academic to sporting and more frivolous events...

" in 1933.

Notable events

"Checker" Hughes
Frank 'Checker' Hughes
Frank 'Checker' Hughes was a famous player and coach of Australian rules football in the Victorian Football League in the period 1914 to 1948....

takes over as coach of 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....

and renames them "The Demons" from "The Fuchsias."
In round 5, St Kilda defeats North Melbourne
North Melbourne Football Club
The North Melbourne Football Club, nicknamed The Kangaroos, is the fourth oldest Australian rules football club in the Australian Football League and is one of the oldest sporting clubs in Australia and the world...

13.19 (97) to 11.17 (83), despite having only 15 players left at the end of a brutal match (which was stopped at one stage because a wild brawl, instigated by the North Melbourne players, had erupted in the centre): captain Clarrie Hindson had a broken ankle, full-forward Bill Mohr
Bill Mohr
Wilbur T "Bill" Mohr was an Australian rules footballer who played with the St Kilda Football Club in the Victorian Football League ....

had two broken ribs, forward Jack Anderson had been knocked unconscious, centreman W.C. "Billy" Roberts
Billy Roberts (Australian footballer)
William "Billy" Roberts was an Australian rules footballer who played with St Kilda in the Victorian Football League .Roberts played at Wesley College and Oakleigh before coming to St Kilda....

was felled once, recovered, and then was felled a second time, and rover Roy "Tiger" Bence
Roy Bence
Roy "Tiger" Bence was an Australian rules footballer who played with South Melbourne and St Kilda in the Victorian Football League ....

was also knocked out.
- The St Kilda President, Gallipoli veteran and naval war hero Commander Fred Arlington-Burke, described St Kilda's 15 man victory as the greatest moral victory in the club's history, A "Badge of Courage" was struck by the Football Club and was awarded to each of the players that took part in the match. The medallion is silver, coin shaped, with coin-like reeding around its outer perimeter (with no cicumferential milling), with a St Kilda Football Club badge affixed to it, and the following inscription: "St KILDA DEFEATED Nth MELBOURNE WITH 15 MEN MAY 27th 1933". (Photograph of Medal at Ross, 1996, p. 140)
In round 8, Essendon
Essendon Football Club
The Essendon Football Club, nicknamed The Bombers, is an Australian rules football club which plays in the Australian Football League...

experimented with a siren, rather than a bell at Windy Hill
Windy Hill, Essendon
Windy Hill is an Australian rules football ground located in Essendon, a northwestern suburb of the Melbourne metropolitan area....

.

In the 1933 Interstate Carnival
1933 Sydney Carnival
The 1933 Sydney Carnival was the eighth edition of the Australian National Football Carnival, an Australian rules football interstate competition....

, held in Sydney, the Victorian team wins all five of its matches.
During the 1933 Carnival, the Australian National Football Council considered a proposal from the New South Wales Rugby Football League that the two codes merge and play a single, Australian "national" game. A secret trial match of this proposed "national" game, conducted during the carnival, was a confused and total failure. The ANFC subsequently rejected the proposal.
The President of the South Melbourne Football Club
Sydney Swans
The Sydney Swans Football Club is an Australian rules football club which plays in the Australian Football League . The club is based in Sydney, New South Wales. The club, founded in 1874, was known as the South Melbourne Football Club until it relocated to Sydney in 1982 to become the Sydney...

, grocery magnate Archie Crofts, had brought so many interstate players to South Melbourne — with the promise of a well-paid regular job in one of the Crofts Grocery chain stores in addition to their receiving maximum playing and training fees allowable under the "Coulter Law" — that the 1933 team was christened "The Foreign Legion".
- Those comprising the "Foreign Legion" were Bert Beard
  Bert Beard
  Albert 'Bert' Beard was an Australian rules footballer who played with South Melbourne in the VFL during the 1930s....
  
  , John Bowe
  John Bowe (footballer)
  John Bowe was an Australian rules footballer who played with South Melbourne in the VFL. He played on the wing in the club's 1933 Grand Final win over Richmond.-External links:...
  
  , Brighton Diggins
  Brighton Diggins
  Brighton Diggins was a former Australian rules footballer in the West Australian Football League and Victorian Football League....
  
  , Bill Faul
  Bill Faul
  Bill Faul was an Australian rules footballer who played with South Melbourne in the Victorian Football League ....
  
  , and Jim O'Meara
  Jim O'Meara
  Jim O'Meara was an Australian rules footballer who played for Fitzroy and South Melbourne in the VFL during the 1930s....
  
  from Western Australia, Ossie Bertram
  Ossie Bertram
  Hans 'Ossie' Bertram was an Australian rules footballer who played with South Melbourne and St Kilda in the VFL during the 1930s....
  
  , Wilbur Harris
  Wilbur Harris
  Wilbur Harris was an Australian rules footballer who played for South Melbourne in the Victorian Football League .Harris was a ruckman, recruited from South Australian club West Torrens. He originally had trouble establishing a spot in the South Melbourne side but managed to secure the position of...
  
  , and Jack Wade
  Jack Wade (footballer)
  Jack Wade was an Australian rules footballer who played with Port Adelaide in the South Australian National Football League and South Melbourne in the Victorian Football League . Playing in Port Adelaide's premiership side in 1928, he represented South Australia before being recruited by South...
  
  from South Australia, and Frank Davies and Laurie Nash
  Laurie Nash
  Laurence John "Laurie" Nash was a Test cricketer and Australian rules footballer. An inductee into the Australian Football Hall of Fame, Nash was a member of South Melbourne's 1933 premiership team, captained South Melbourne in 1937 and was the team's leading goal kicker in 1937 and 1945...
  
  from Tasmania.
- Whilst South Melbourne played in four consecutive Grand Finals (1933–1936), it only won a premiership in 1933.
- South Melbourne's victory was its last until 2005, when the relocated Sydney Swans
  Sydney Swans
  The Sydney Swans Football Club is an Australian rules football club which plays in the Australian Football League . The club is based in Sydney, New South Wales. The club, founded in 1874, was known as the South Melbourne Football Club until it relocated to Sydney in 1982 to become the Sydney...
  
  won its first premiership in 72 years, the longest drought in VFL/AFL history.
North Melbourne
North Melbourne Football Club
The North Melbourne Football Club, nicknamed The Kangaroos, is the fourth oldest Australian rules football club in the Australian Football League and is one of the oldest sporting clubs in Australia and the world...

's win over Collingwood
Collingwood Football Club
The Collingwood Football Club, nicknamed The Magpies, is an Australian rules football club which plays in the Australian Football League...

in Round 6 was the first by one of the three 1925 entrants (Footscray, Hawthorn, North Melbourne) over the Magpies. Prior to that, Collingwood had won the first 37 meetings against the three newest clubs. Footscray's first win over Collingwood came in Round 9 of this year, but Hawthorn would not record its first win over Collingwood until Round 5 of the 1942 VFL season (in the 30th regular-season meeting between the two clubs).

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