1941 VFA season

1941 VFA Premiership season
Teams 12
Premiers Port Melbourne
(5th premiership)
Minor premiers Port Melbourne
(1st minor premiership)
1940
1942

The 1941 Victorian Football Association season was the 63rd season of the Australian rules football competition, and it was the last season before the Association went into recess during World War II. The premiership was won by the Port Melbourne Football Club, which defeated Coburg by 19 points in the Grand Final on 4 October. It was Port Melbourne's fifth VFA premiership, and its second in a row.

Association membership

World War II had commenced in Europe in September 1939, and for the second consecutive season the Association opted to proceed with a full premiership season.[1] Many Association players had enlisted in the war effort, and the Sandringham Football Club elected to operate on an amateur basis for the season.[2]

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

1941 VFA Ladder
TEAM P W L D PF PA Pct PTS
1 Port Melbourne (P) 20 16 4 0 2546 1753 145.2 64
2 Prahran 20 16 4 0 2545 1820 139.8 64
3 Coburg 20 15 5 0 2641 1754 150.6 60
4 Preston 20 14 6 0 2481 1928 128.7 56
5 Brunswick 20 13 7 0 2353 1758 133.8 52
6 Williamstown 20 12 8 0 2351 1973 119.2 48
7 Camberwell 20 12 8 0 2265 2228 107.7 48
8 Northcote 20 7 13 0 1860 1978 94.0 28
9 Brighton 20 6 14 0 1933 2328 83.0 24
10 Oakleigh 20 5 15 0 1960 2403 81.6 20
11 Yarraville 20 4 16 0 1643 2621 62.7 16
12 Sandringham 20 0 20 0 1245 3279 38.0 0
Key: P = Played, W = Won, L = Lost, D = Drawn, PF = Points For, PA = Points Against, Pct = Percentage; (P) = Premiers, PTS = Premiership points Source[3]

Finals

Semi Finals
Saturday, 13 September Coburg 16.21 (117) def. Preston 11.21 (87) Toorak Park (crowd: 12,000) [4][5]
Saturday, 20 September Port Melbourne 15.19 (109) def. Prahran 15.17 (107) Toorak Park (crowd: 8,000) [6]
Preliminary Final
Saturday, 27 September Prahran 13.17 (95) def. by Coburg 19.12 (126) Toorak Park (crowd: 8,000) [7]
1941 VFA Grand Final
Saturday, 4 October Port Melbourne def. Coburg Melbourne Cricket Ground (Crowd: 36,289) [8]
1.4 (10)
6.10 (46)
9.12 (66)
15.18 (108)
Q1
Q2
Q3
Final
3.10 (28)
3.14 (32)
9.20 (74)
11.23 (89)
Umpires: Groves
Freyer 6, Robertson 6, Goldsmith, Hurley, Livingstone Goals Pratt 4, Glenister 2, Beagley, Collins, Lonsdale, McLey, Turner

Awards

Notable events

External links

References

  1. "Football to continue". The Argus (Melbourne, VIC). 1 March 1941. p. 13.
  2. "Association teams – Preston's haul". The Argus (Melbourne, VIC). 12 April 1941. p. 16.
  3. 3.0 3.1 Rover (8 September 1941). "Association final four not altered". The Argus (Melbourne, VIC). p. 8.
  4. 4.0 4.1 Rover (15 September 1941). "Coburg comfortably defeats Preston". The Argus (Melbourne, VIC). p. 8.
  5. "Southern code games". Cairns Post (Cairns, QLD). 15 September 1941. p. 1.
  6. Rover (22 September 1941). "Port defeats Prahran in close finish". The Argus (Melbourne, VIC). p. 8.
  7. Rover (29 September 1941). "Coburg easily wins Association pre-final". The Argus (Melbourne, VIC). p. 8.
  8. 8.0 8.1 8.2 Rover (6 October 1941). "Port too solid". The Argus (Melbourne, VIC). p. 8.
  9. Rover (1 September 1941). "No surprise in Association games". The Argus (Melbourne, VIC). p. 8.
  10. "3 Port players reregistered". The Argus (Melbourne, VIC). 25 September 1941. p. 10.
  11. "Coburg Football Club". Australian Football.com. Retrieved 26 July 2013.