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| 1900 VFL Premiership Season |
Melbourne premiership player Jack Leith |
| Teams |
8 |
| Premiers |
Melbourne (1st premiership) |
| Minor Premiers |
Fitzroy (2nd minor premiership) |
| Leading Goalkicker |
Albert Thurgood (Essendon) |
Results and statistics for the Victorian Football League season of 1900.
Premiership season
In 1900, 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 1900 VFL Premiers were determined by the specific format and conventions of the 1898 VFL Premiership System.
Round 1
Round 2
Round 3
Round 4
Round 5
Round 6
Round 7
Round 8
Round 9
Round 10
Round 11
Round 12
Round 13
Round 14
Ladder
All teams played 14 games during the home and away season, for a total of 56. A sectional round of 3 games per team was then played, for a total of 12. An additional 2 games were played during the finals series.
Home and away ladder
Finals
Sectional Round 1
Sectional Round 2
Sectional Round 3
Section A ladder
Section B ladder
Semi Final
| Team |
1 Qtr |
2 Qtr |
3 Qtr |
Final |
| Melbourne |
3.0 |
3.1 |
6.3 |
7.3 (45) |
| Essendon |
1.1 |
2.5 |
4.6 |
5.13 (43) |
Attendance: 16,000 at Lake Oval
Grand final
Melbourne defeated Fitzroy 4.10 (34) to 3.12 (30). (For an explanation of scoring see Australian rules football).
| Team |
1 Qtr |
2 Qtr |
3 Qtr |
Final |
| Fitzroy |
1.4 |
2.7 |
2.7 |
3.12 (30) |
| Melbourne |
2.3 |
2.5 |
4.8 |
4.10 (34) |
Attendance: 20,181 at East Melbourne Cricket Ground
Awards
Notable events
- St Kilda footballer Dave Strickland, father of Shirley Strickland, wins the 1900 Stawell Gift in 12 seconds, off a handicap of 10 yards.
- Collingwood's highly talented "loose cannon" Dick Condon is given a lifetime suspension for abusing field umpire Henry "Ivo" Crapp.[2]
- The first round match between St Kilda and Melbourne ends in a draw. The VFL changed the score after a protest by St Kilda, giving St Kilda its first VFL win after 48 losses.
- By the end of the finals round-robin matches, more than 1,000 points had been scored against St Kilda in a single season.[3]
- Melbourne wins the 1900 premiership, despite only having won 6 of 14 home-and-away series matches, and finishing sixth on the ladder. It remains the lowest absolute home-and-away ladder position from which a team has won the premiership. Discontent with this situation led to the formation of the Argus Final Four system for 1901.
- ^ This match ended in a draw, but the result was changed to a St Kilda victory on protest, after was noted that the umpire did not signal the end of the third quarter in the correct fashion after hearing the bell. This was St Kilda's first ever VFL win (after 48 losses) and was the first of only two occasions that the score of a game was changed on protest (the second, the 2006 AFL siren controversy occurring 106 years later, also involved St KIlda).
- ^ After three appeals, Condon's suspension for life was lifted in 1902, and Condon resumed playing for Collingwood.
- ^ At the end of the 1900 season, St Kilda had scored 439 points against their opponents' collective score of 1,029 points.
References
- Hogan, P., The Tigers Of Old, The Richmond Football Club, (Richmond), 1996. ISBN 0-646-18748-1
- Rogers, S. & Brown, A., Every Game Ever Played: VFL/AFL Results 1897-1997 (Sixth Edition), Viking Books, (Ringwood), 1998. ISBN 0-670-90809-6
- Ross, J. (ed), 100 Years of Australian Football 1897-1996: The Complete Story of the AFL, All the Big Stories, All the Great Pictures, All the Champions, Every AFL Season Reported, Viking, (Ringwood), 1996. ISBN 0-670-86814-0
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