1936 VFA season

The 1936 Victorian Football Association season was the 58th season of the Australian rules football competition. The premiership was won by the Northcote Football Club, after it came from fourth on the ladder to defeat Prahran by 15 points in the Grand Final on 12 September. It was the club's fifth VFA premiership, all won between 1929 and 1936, and it was the last top division VFA premiership ever won by the club before it left the Association in 1987.

1936 VFA premiership season
Teams12
PremiersNorthcote
(5th premiership)
Minor premiersBrunswick
(2nd minor premiership)

Premiership

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

Ladder
1936 VFA Ladder
TEAMPWLDPFPAPctPTS
1 Brunswick 18 16 2 0 2063 1395 147.2 64
2 Prahran 18 14 3 1 1896 1363 139.1 58
3 Camberwell 18 12 6 0 1882 1553 121.2 48
4 Northcote (P) 18 11 6 1 1639 1339 122.4 46
5 Brighton 18 11 7 0 1545 1501 102.9 44
6 Preston 18 10 8 0 1739 1597 108.9 40
7 Coburg 18 9 9 0 1920 1562 123.0 36
8 Williamstown 18 7 11 0 1185 1632 72.6 28
9 Yarraville 18 6 12 0 1637 1756 93.2 24
10 Oakleigh 18 5 13 0 1573 1898 82.9 20
11 Sandringham 18 4 14 0 1394 2137 65.2 16
12 Port Melbourne 18 2 16 0 1263 2003 60.2 8
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, 22 August Camberwell 8.16 (64) def. by Northcote 18.15 (123) Toorak Park (crowd: 7,000) [2]
Saturday, 29 August Brunswick 14.14 (98) def. by Prahran 15.18 (108) Toorak Park [3]
Preliminary Final
Saturday, 5 September Brunswick 9.13 (67) def. by Northcote 14.10 (94) Brunswick Cricket Ground (crowd: 10,000) [4]
1936 VFA Grand Final
Saturday, 12 September Prahran def. by Northcote Toorak Park (crowd: 12,000) [5]
1.3 (9)
8.8 (56)
11.10 (76)
 15.15 (105)		 Q1
Q2
Q3
 Final		 7.2 (44)
7.4 (46)
13.6 (84)
 19.6 (120)
Hawkins 4, White 4, Gravell 3, Hyde 2, Thompson 2 Goals Ross 5, Seymour 4, Bates 3, Gray 3, Downie 2, Hart, O'Keefe

Awards
  • Lance Collins (Coburg) was the leading goalkicker for the season; he kicked 116 goals in the home-and-home season and did not participate in the finals.[1]
  • In the parallel Association best and fairest awards:
    • Bert Hyde (Preston) and Peter Reville (Coburg), both in their first season of Association football, jointly won the Recorder Cup, each polling five votes. Neville Huggins (Williamstown), S. Plumridge (Port Melbourne) and Les White (Prahran) were equal third with four votes apiece.[6]
    • The Association Medal was won by Neville Huggins (Williamstown), who polled 33 votes; Bert Hyde (Preston) finished second with 32 votes, and Les White (Prahran) was third with 27 votes.[7]
  • Brunswick won the seconds premiership. Brunswick 11.11 (77) defeated Coburg 10.12 (72) in the Grand Final on Saturday 12 September at the Brunswick Cricket Ground.[5]

Notable events
  • In the seconds match between Port Melbourne and Northcote on June 13, Port Melbourne vice-captain Robert Rowe suffered a fractured skull in a head clash with a Northcote opponent. He suffered meningitis as a result of the injury, and died eight days later.[8]
  • A charity game for the benefit of the sportsmen's ward at Prince Henry's Hospital was held on the evening of Thursday 24 September (Show Day holiday) at Olympic Park between combined teams representing the Victorian Football League and the Victorian Football Association. The attendance was 2,000. The League 14.15 (99) defeated the Association 10.10 (70).[9]
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  • List of VFA/VFL Premiers

References
  1. Rover (17 August 1936). "Northcote in Association four". The Argus. Melbourne. p. 15.
  2. Rover (24 August 1936). "Easy win for Northcote". The Argus. Melbourne. p. 15.
  3. Rover (31 August 1936). "Prahran makes a fine recovery". The Argus. Melbourne. p. 15.
  4. Rover (7 September 1936). "Northcote's Association final". The Argus. Melbourne. p. 15.
  5. Rover (14 September 1935). "Association Grand Final". The Argus. Melbourne. p. 14.
  6. ""Recorder" Cup – Hyde and Reville tie". The Argus. Melbourne. 24 August 1936. p. 15.
  7. "Huggins best and fairest". The Argus. Melbourne. 3 September 1936. p. 15.
  8. "Footballer dies". The Argus. Melbourne, VIC. 22 June 1936. p. 9.
  9. "Night game – win for League". The Argus. Melbourne. 25 September 1936. p. 15.
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