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1927 VFL season

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Highest attendance
  
63,620

Premier
  
Collingwood Football Club

Matches played
  
111

Start date
  
1927

Teams
  
12

Premiers
  
Collingwood (6th premiership)

Minor premiers
  
Collingwood (9th minor premiership)

Leading Goalkicker Medallist
  
Gordon Coventry (Collingwood)

Brownlow Medallist
  
Syd Coventry (Collingwood)

Similar
  
1929 VFL season, 1931 VFL season, 1934 VFL season, 1947 VFL season, 1923 VFL season

The 1927 Victorian Football League season was the 31st season of the elite Australian rules football competition.

Contents

Premiership season

In 1927, the VFL competition consisted of twelve 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.

Teams played each other in a home-and-away season of 18 rounds; matches 12 to 17 were the "home-and-away reverse" of matches 1 to 6, and match 18 the "home-and-away reverse" of match 11.

Once the 18 round home-and-away season had finished, the 1927 VFL Premiers were determined by the specific format and conventions of the amended "Argus system".

Finals

All of the 1927 finals were played at the MCG so the home team in the semi-finals and Preliminary Final is purely the higher ranked team from the ladder but in the Grand Final the home team was the team that won the Preliminary Final.

Grand final

Collingwood defeated Richmond 2.13 (25) to 1.7 (13), in front of a crowd of 34,511 people. (For an explanation of scoring see Australian rules football).

Awards

  • The 1927 VFL Premiership team was Collingwood.
  • The VFL's leading goalkicker was Gordon Coventry of Collingwood with 97 goals.
  • The winner of the 1927 Brownlow Medal was Syd Coventry of Collingwood with 7 votes.
  • Hawthorn took the "wooden spoon" in 1927.
  • The seconds premiership was won by Carlton for the second straight year. Carlton 12.22 (94) defeated South Melbourne 11.9 (75) in the challenge Grand Final, played as a stand-alone game on 8 October at the Melbourne Cricket Ground before a crowd of 4,210.

    • Notable events

  • In round 9, remembered as "Duncan's Match", Carlton's centre-halfback Alex Duncan took at least 33 marks (some claim he took as many as 45) in a single match.
  • South Melbourne Football Club introduced a popular innovation: selling reserved grandstand seats.
  • After the round 10 match, the Secretary of the Richmond Football Club, Percy "Pip" Page of "Page–McIntyre system fame, has his jaw broken in a fight that erupted during a club dance.
  • The Grand Final was played under atrocious weather conditions on a Melbourne Cricket Ground that resembled a swamp. The two teams scored a combined 38 points, and it was the lowest combined score of any VFL/AFL game (Grand Final or otherwise) played in the 20th century. Including the four seasons played in the 19th century (1897–1900), it was the equal 11th lowest-scoring game of all time.

    • References

    1927 VFL season Wikipedia
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