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1894 VFA season

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Start date
  
1894

Teams
  
13

Premiers
  
Essendon (4th premiership)

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The 1894 Victorian Football Association season was the 18th season of the Australian rules football competition. The premiership was won by the Essendon Football Club by a margin of fourteen points, finishing with a record of 16 wins, 1 draw and 1 loss from 18 matches. It was Essendon's fourth consecutive premiership.

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For the first time, all teams played the same number of premiership matches in the season. In previous years, teams had played different numbers of matches, and their final records were adjusted to allow them to be compared on an equivalent basis, but starting from this season this was no longer required.

Notable events

  • Essendon's Albert Thurgood was the dominant goalkicker for the season, kicking 63 goals. His nearest rival, A. Burns of South Melbourne, kicked only 31 goals.
  • St Kilda's win over Port Melbourne in Round 6 was its last away win in either VFA or VFL competition until beating South Melbourne in Round 3 of 1903; in that time, St Kilda played a total of 77 away matches for three draws and 74 losses, including 62 consecutive away losses from 1896.
  • Essendon's loss to Geelong in Round 19 ended an unbeaten streak of 47 matches.

    • References

    1894 VFA season Wikipedia
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