1929 VFL season

Results and statistics for the Victorian Football League season of 1929.

Premiership season

In 1929, the VFL competition consisted of twelve 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.

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 1929 VFL Premiers were determined by the specific format and conventions of the amended "Argus system".

Finals

1st Semi-Final: Carlton defeated St Kilda 12.9 (81) to 11.7 (73), in front of 58,481 people at MCG 7th September

2nd Semi-Final: Richmond defeated Collingwood 18.15 (123) to 8.13 (61), in front of 51,069 people at MCG 14th September

Final: Richmond defeated Carlton 15.7 (97) to 14.7 (91) in front of 60,653 people at MCG 21st September

Grand Final: Collingwood defeated Richmond 11.13 (79) to 7.8 (50), in front of a crowd of 63,336 people at the MCG 28th September.

See List of Australian Football League premiers for a complete list.

(For an explanation of scoring see Australian rules football).

Ladder

	Team	Won	Lost	Draw	For	Against	%	Points
1	Collingwood	18	0	0	1918	1177	171.7	72
2	Carlton	15	3	0	1589	1161	136.9	60
3	Richmond	12	5	1	1703	1399	121.7	50
4	St Kilda	12	6	0	1493	1146	130.3	48
5	Melbourne	11	6	1	1228	1164	105.5	46
6	Essendon	9	8	1	1349	1405	96.0	38
7	Geelong	8	10	0	1175	1082	108.6	32
8	South Melbourne	7	11	0	1338	1578	84.8	28
9	Footscray	6	11	1	1336	1343	99.5	24
10	Hawthorn	4	14	0	1170	1522	76.9	16
11	Fitzroy	3	15	0	1340	1827	73.3	12
12	North Melbourne	1	17	0	1070	1776	60.2	4

Notes

• The leading goalkicker was Gordon Coventry of Collingwood

Awards

• The 1929 VFL Premiership team was Collingwood.
• The VFL's leading goalkicker was Gordon Coventry of Collingwood with 124 goals.
• The winner of the 1929 Brownlow Medal was Albert "Leeter" Collier of Collingwood with 6 votes.
• North Melbourne took the "wooden spoon" in 1929.

Notable Events

• The Collingwood set many records during the 1929 season, including:
  • First team to remain undefeated through an entire home-and away season (never matched). However, as they lost the second semi-final to Richmond, they did not remain undefeated for the entire season.
  • In three seasons, 1927, 1928, and 1929, the team had played 61 matches, for 53 wins, 1 draw, and 7 losses.
  • First team to score more than 2,000 points in a single season.
  • First team to have a full-forward scoring more than 100 goals in a single season.
  • First team to have a player kick 16 goals in a single match.
  • First team to be VFL premiers on eight occasions.
• On 18 June 1929 the VFL was incorporated as a public company, and it purchased a three-storey building (later named Harrison House after Henry Harrison who died later that year, on 2 September) on the corner of Spring Street and Finders Lane.
• Emulating the feat of another Essendon footballer, George Stuckey in 1897, Clarrie Hearn of Essendon wins the 1929 130-yard Stawell Gift in 11.9375 seconds (eleven and fifteen sixteenths of a second), off a handicap of 10 yards.

References

• Maplestone, M., Flying Higher: History of the Essendon Football Club 1872-1996, Essendon Football Club, (Melbourne), 1996. ISBN 0-959-17402-8
• Rogers, S. & Brown, A., Every Game Ever Played: VFL/AFL Results 1897-1997 (Sixth Edition), Viking Books, (Ringwood), 1998. ISBN 0-670-90809-6
• Ross, J. (ed), 100 Years of Australian Football 1897-1996: The Complete Story of the AFL, All the Big Stories, All the Great Pictures, All the Champions, Every AFL Season Reported, Viking, (Ringwood), 1996. ISBN 0-670-86814-0

External links

• 1929 Season - AFL Tables