1952 VFA season

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1952 VFA season
Teams	14
Premiers	Oakleigh (4th premiership)
Minor premiers	Port Melbourne (4th minor premiership)
← 1951 1953 →

The 1952 Victorian Football Association season was the 71st season of the Australian rules football competition. The premiership was won by the Oakleigh Football Club, after it defeated Port Melbourne by 21 points in the Grand Final on 4 October. It was Oakleigh's fourth VFA premiership.

Premiership

The home-and-home season was played over twenty matches, before the top four clubs contested a finals series under the Page-McIntyre System to determine the premiers for the season.

Ladder

1951 VFA Ladder

TEAM

Pct

PTS

Port Melbourne

1911

1245

153.5

Coburg

1709

1272

134.4

Oakleigh (P)

1494

1226

121.9

Yarraville

1537

1434

107.2

Brunswick

1366

1278

106.9

Camberwell

1411

1363

103.6

Prahran

1511

1501

100.7

Moorabbin

1301

1326

98.1

Northcote

1270

1321

96.1

Williamstown

1767

1571

112.5

Preston

1495

1576

94.9

Sandringham

1393

1743

79.9

Box Hill

1228

1856

66.2

Brighton

1036

1717

60.3

Key: P = Played, W = Won, L = Lost, D = Drawn, PF = Points For, PA = Points Against, Pct = Percentage; (P) = Premiers, PTS = Premiership points

Source^[1]

Finals


	Semi Finals
Saturday, 13 September	Oakleigh 14.19 (103)	def.	Yarraville 13.15 (93)	St Kilda Cricket Ground (crowd: 16,000)	^[2]
Saturday, 20 September	Port Melbourne 11.8 (74)	def.	Coburg 5.11 (41)	St Kilda Cricket Ground (crowd: 16,000)	^[3]


	Preliminary Final
Saturday, 27 September	Coburg 8.10 (58)	def. by	Oakleigh 11.13 (79)	St Kilda Cricket Ground (crowd: 17,000)	^[4]


	1952 VFA Grand Final
Saturday, 4 October	Port Melbourne	def. by	Oakleigh	St Kilda Cricket Ground (Crowd: 39,500)	^[5]^[6]
	1.4 (10) 2.7 (19) 5.12 (42) 8.15 (63)	Q1 Q2 Q3 Final	2.5 (17) 5.9 (39) 9.12 (66) 11.18 (84)	Umpires: Merrington

Bonnett 3, Caris 2, Bower, Houlihan, Murray		Goals	Scott 5, Wenn 3, Lambert, Newton, Watson

Murray (ribs), Tucker (knee)		Injuries	Cunningham ( knee), Savory (cramp)
Johnson, for kicking Lambert in the second quarter Murray, for unseemly conduct (interfering with the umpire) in the second quarter		Reports

Awards

The leading goalkicker for the season was Johnny Walker (Williamstown), who kicked 103 goals in the home-and-home season and did not participate in finals.^[1]
The J. J. Liston Trophy was won by Frank Johnson (Port Melbourne), who polled 47 votes. Jim Bohan (Camberwell) was second with 45 votes, and Bill Morris (Box Hill) was third with 23 votes.^[7]
Yarraville won the seconds premiership. Yarraville 14.13 (97) defeated Moorabbin 12.15 (87) in the Grand Final, played as a curtain raiser to the firsts Grand Final on 4 October.^[5]

Notable events

On 3 May, Box Hill won its first senior match in the Association, defeating Brighton 12.14 (86) d. 12.12 (84), to end a 22-game winless streak which included one draw.^[8]

External links

List of VFA/VFL Premiers

References

↑ 1.0 1.1 Gavin Cook (8 September 1952). "Yarraville wins way to first V.F.A. semi-final". The Sun News-Pictorial (Melbourne, VIC). p. 25.
↑ Gavin Cook (15 September 1952). "Oakleigh stamina must improve to have final chance". The Sun News-Pictorial (Melbourne, VIC). p. 25.
↑ Gavin Cook (22 September 1952). "Port is favoured for title in V.F.A.". The Sun News-Pictorial (Melbourne, VIC). p. 27.
↑ Gavin Cook (29 September 1952). "Oakleigh is big threat to Port for title". The Sun News-Pictorial (Melbourne, VIC). p. 25.
↑ 5.0 5.1 Gavin Cook (6 October 1952). "Pace, team-work, gives Oakleigh V.F.A. title win". The Sun News-Pictorial (Melbourne, VIC). p. 23.
↑ Ian McDonald (6 October 1952). "Fighting spirit gives Oakleigh third (sic) V.F.A. flag". The Argus (Melbourne, VIC). p. 10.
↑ "Port ruckman wins J. J. Liston Trophy". The Sun News-Pictorial (Melbourne, VIC). 11 September 1952. p. 24.
↑ Jack Oates (5 May 1952). "Box Hill's first win in V.F.A.". The Sun News-Pictorial (Melbourne, VIC). p. 20.

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