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1913 VFA season

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Premiers
  
Footscray(5th premiership)

Minor premiers
  
Footscray(3rd minor premiership)

The 1913 Victorian Football Association season was the 37th season of the Australian rules football competition. The premiership was won by the Footscray Football Club, after it defeated North Melbourne by one point in the final on 6 September. It was the club's fifth VFA premiership.

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Premiership

The home-and-home 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

  • On June 9, Melbourne City lost to Port Melbourne despite having thirteen more scoring shots, by the score 4.24 (48) def. by 8.7 (55). The seven-point loss was the closest Melbourne City came to winning a match in its two years in the Association.

    • References

    1913 VFA season Wikipedia
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