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1979 VFL season

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Highest attendance
  
113,545

Teams
  
12

Matches played
  
138

Start date
  
1979

Attendance
  
3,574,281

Premiers
  
Carlton (12th premiership)

Minor premiers
  
Carlton (14th minor premiership)

Night series
  
Collingwood (1st Night series win)

Coleman Medallist
  
Kelvin Templeton (Footscray)

Brownlow Medallist
  
Peter Moore (Collingwood)

Similar
  
1947 VFL season, 1929 VFL season, 1934 VFL season, 1946 VFL season

The 1979 Victorian Football League season was the 83rd season of the elite Australian rules football competition.

Contents

Night Series

Collingwood defeated Hawthorn 12.8 (80) to 7.10 (52) in the Final.

Round 3

Despite being formally a part of Round 3, the Carlton vs Essendon match was played as a stand-alone match on the Saturday before Round 1, and was therefore the opening match of the season.

Grand final

Carlton defeated Collingwood 11.16 (82) to 11.11 (77), in front of a crowd of 112845 people. (For an explanation of scoring see Australian rules football).

Awards

  • The leading goalkicker was Kelvin Templeton of Footscray with 91 goals
  • The Brownlow Medal was won by Peter Moore
  • The reserves premiership, known as the Commodore Cup, was won by North Melbourne. North Melbourne 13.14 (92) defeated Collingwood 9.13 (67) in the Grand Final, held as a stand-alone night match at VFL Park on Friday, 28 September, before a crowd of 6,047.

    • Notable events

  • The record for greatest winning margin was set twice during 1979.
  • In Round 4, Collingwood defeated St Kilda by 178 points, breaking the record set sixty years earlier, in the 1919 VFL season by South Melbourne.
  • Collingwood's new record was broken only three months later in Round 17, when Fitzroy defeated Melbourne by 190 points, a record which has yet to be broken.
  • Fitzroy's score of 36.22 (238) in the same game also set the record for highest score in a VFL/AFL game. This beat the record set by Footscray in the 1978 VFL season by twenty-five points, and remained the record until 1992.
  • Fitzroy made the finals for the first time since 1960.

    • References

    1979 VFL season Wikipedia
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