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1902 VFL season

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Highest attendance
  
35,202

Premier
  
Collingwood Football Club

Matches played
  
72

Start date
  
1902

Teams
  
8

Premiers
  
Collingwood (1st premiership)

Minor premiers
  
Collingwood (1st minor premiership)

Leading Goalkicker Medallist
  
Charlie Baker (St Kilda)

Similar
  
1904 VFL season, 1923 VFL season, 1912 VFL season, 1911 VFL season

The 1902 Victorian Football League season was the sixth season of the elite Australian rules football competition.

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Premiership season

In 1902, the VFL competition consisted of eight 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.

Each team played each other twice in a home-and-away season of 14 rounds.

Once the 14 round home-and-away season had finished, the 1902 VFL Premiers were determined by the specific format and conventions of the amended Argus system.

Grand final

Collingwood defeated Essendon 9.6 (60) to 3.9 (27). (For an explanation of scoring see Australian rules football).

Awards

  • The 1902 VFL Premiership team was Collingwood.
  • The VFL's leading goalkicker in the home-and-away season was Charlie Baker of St Kilda with 30 goals; St Kilda kicked only 64 goals for the year, of which Baker kicked 46.9%, and Baker's proportion of his team's goals is a VFL/AFL record. Including finals, Ted Rowell of Collingwood scored the most goals with 33.

    • Notable events

  • The VFL instituted the amended Argus system to determine the season's premiers.
  • St Kilda finished last without a win, their sixth consecutive wooden spoon, and seven games behind second-last Geelong, both VFL/AFL records.
  • Collingwood's Charlie Pannam becomes the first VFL player to play 100 VFL games (at the end of the 1902 season, he had played in 104 of the 106 VFL games that Collingwood had played since the VFL's first round of games in 1897).

    • References

    1902 VFL season Wikipedia
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