Awards

• The 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 awarded to Peter Moore 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....
  
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• The Coleman Medal
  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 awarded to Bernie Quinlan
  Bernie Quinlan
  Bernie Quinlan , was a former Australian rules footballer and coach, who enjoyed a lengthy career with Footscray and Fitzroy in the VFL. He played 366 league games in total.- Playing career :...
  
   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...
  
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• The VFL Players Association
  AFL Players Association
  The AFL Players Association, or AFLPA, is the representative body for all current and past professional Australian Football League players....
  
   MVP Award, now known as the Leigh Matthews Trophy
  Leigh Matthews Trophy
  The Leigh Matthews Trophy is an annual award given by the AFL Players Association to the Most Valuable Player in the Australian Football League. It is named in honour of Leigh Matthews, who won the first MVP award in 1982, when the league was still known as the Victorian Football League...
  
  , was awarded to Russell Greene
  Russell Greene
  Russell Greene is a former Australian rules footballer and member of the prestigious 300 game club.He was just sixteen when he made his VFL debut in 1974 for St Kilda. In 1980 he joined Hawthorn and was a key player during a successful decade for the club...
  
   of Hawthorn
  Hawthorn Football Club
  The Hawthorn Football Club, nicknamed the Hawks, is a professional Australian rules football club in the Australian Football League . The club, founded in 1902, is the youngest of the Victorian-based teams in the AFL. The team play in Brown & Gold vertically striped guernseys...
  
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• The Norm Smith Medal
  Norm Smith Medal
  The Norm Smith Medal is the award given in the AFL Grand Final to the player adjudged by an independent panel of experts to have been the best player in the match.-History:The Norm Smith Medal is named after former Melbourne player and coach, Norm Smith...
  
   was awarded to Billy Duckworth
  Billy Duckworth
  Bill Duckworth is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Essendon in the VFL. He is best known for winning the 1984 Norm Smith Medal. His brother John also played league football....
  
   of Essendon
  Essendon Football Club
  The Essendon Football Club, nicknamed The Bombers, is an Australian rules football club which plays in the Australian Football League...
  
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• The wooden spoon was "awarded" to St Kilda.

Notable events

• In Round 2, Simon Beasley
  Simon Beasley
  Simon Beasley is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Footscray in the Victorian Football League .Recruited from Swan Districts in the WAFL, Beasley moved to Melbourne in 1982 to pursue his career as a stockbroker, and signed with Footscray in the VFL...
  
   kicked all of Footscray’s eight goals until midway through the last quarter. His tally is still the third-highest by a player kicking all but one of his team’s goals.
• Fitzroy became the only side to make the finals after winning only one of its first nine games and five of its first sixteen games.
• Essendon’s 133-point win over Collingwood in the Preliminary Final is the largest win in any V/AFL final and the first 100-point loss by Collingwood since 1943 when they were depleted by war
  World War II
  World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
  
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• In Round 17, shocking weather saw the lowest aggregate score for a round since 1961, with a combined total of only 577 points or an approximate average score of 6.12 (48).