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1907 VFA season

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Premiers
  
Williamstown (1st premiership)

Minor premiers
  
Williamstown (1st minor premiership)

The 1907 Victorian Football Association season was the 31st season of the Australian rules football competition. The premiership was won by the Williamstown Football Club, after it defeated West Melbourne in the final by eighteen points. It was the first premiership won by Williamstown, in its 24th season of senior competition.

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Premiership

The home-and-away season was played over eighteen rounds, with each club playing the others twice; then, the top four clubs contested a finals series under the amended Argus system to determine the premiers for the season.

Notable events

  • West Melbourne moved its home base from the North Melbourne Recreation Reserve to the East Melbourne Cricket Ground for the season, sharing the ground with the Essendon (League) Football Club.
  • For the first time, Association players were required to numbers on the backs of their guernseys to enable them to be identified from a distance. Some teams had been voluntarily wearing numbers since 1905, when Port Melbourne was the first to wear them.
  • Owing to regular poor behaviour of its home crowds, Port Melbourne was forced by the Association to play its final two home games of the season away from the Port Melbourne Cricket Ground.
  • On 24 August, Prahran forward Sydney Sykes scored all twelve goals, as well as five behinds, of Prahran's total score of 12.17 (89).
  • In the final round match which directly decided which club finished fourth, West Melbourne 8.10 (58) defeated Essendon 8.9 (57) by one point, with Harrison kicking the winning goal for the Wests inside the final minute.
  • J. Hutchison (Richmond) set a new record for most goals kicked in a season, breaking Albert Thurgood's record of 64 goals set in 1893. Hutchison kicked 66 goals during the home-and-away season.
  • References

    1907 VFA season Wikipedia