1891 VFA season

The 1891 Victorian Football Association season was the 15th season of the Australian rules football competition.

1891 premiership season
Essendon FC, Premier team
Teams12
PremiersEssendon
(1st premiership)

The premiership was won by the Essendon Football Club. It was the first premiership in the club's history, and it was its first premiership out of a sequence of four consecutive premierships won from 1891 to 1894.

Ladder
Scenes from an 1891 VFA Premiership Match between Essendon and Carlton

Teams did not play a uniform number of premiership matches during the season. As such, in the final standings, each team's premiership points were adjusted upwards proportionally to represent a 22-match season – e.g., Essendon played 20 matches, so its tally of premiership points was increased by a factor of 22/20. After this adjustment, there was no formal process for breaking a tie.

1891 VFA Ladder
TEAMPWLDGFGAPTSAdj PTS
1 Essendon (P) 20 17 1 2 125 66 72 79.2
2 Carlton 21 14 4 3 113 55 62 65.0
3 Fitzroy 19 12 5 2 110 70 52 60.2
4 South Melbourne 22 14 7 1 120 74 58 58.0
5 Geelong 19 12 7 0 90 74 48 55.6
6 Melbourne 19 8 6 5 88 84 46 48.6
7 St Kilda 20 8 11 1 92 97 38 37.4
8 North Melbourne 20 3 9 8 55 86 28 30.8
9 Williamstown 18 4 11 3 51 78 22 26.8
10 Footscray 18 4 13 1 58 95 18 22.0
11 Port Melbourne 19 3 13 3 61 108 18 20.1
12 Richmond 19 2 14 3 62 148 14 16.2
Key: P = Played, W = Won, L = Lost, D = Drawn, GF = Goals For, GA = Goals Against, (P) = Premiers, PTS = Premiership points, Adj PTS = Premiership points adjusted for a 22-game season Source[1]

Notable events
  • On 11 July, a torrential downpour from 3:00am saw VFA most grounds partially underwater and made conditions almost unplayable. The match between North Melbourne and Williamstown was drawn by mutual agreement without taking the field, while only twelve Footscray players arrived for the match against St Kilda, which proceeded after the teams' objections to playing were overruled by the umpire. St Kilda won the match by 10.5 to nil.[2][3]

References
  1. "Close of the football season". The Argus. Melbourne, VIC. 28 September 1891. p. 10.
  2. "Football". Bendigo Advertiser. Bendigo, VIC. 13 July 1891. p. 3.
  3. Follower (18 July 1891). "Football notes". Barrier Miner. Broken Hill, NSW. p. 4.
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