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1902 VFL Premiership Season
Ted Rowell
Ted Rowell
Teams 8
Premiers Collingwood (1st premiership)
Minor Premiers Collingwood (1st minor premiership)
Leading Goalkicker Charlie Baker (St Kilda)

Results and statistics for the Victorian Football League season of 1902.

Contents

Premiership season

In 1902, 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 1902 VFL Premiers were determined by the specific format and conventions of the amended Argus system.

Round 1

Home team Home team score Away team Away team score Venue Date
Melbourne 15.15 (105) St Kilda 7.9 (51) MCG 3 May 1902
Essendon 5.9 (39) Fitzroy 7.10 (52) EMCG 3 May 1902
Carlton 6.4 (40) Geelong 11.12 (78) Princes Park 3 May 1902
South Melbourne 3.7 (25) Collingwood 5.13 (43) Lake Oval 3 May 1902

Round 2

Home team Home team score Away team Away team score Venue Date
St Kilda 5.6 (36) Fitzroy 14.20 (104) Junction Oval 10 May 1902
Geelong 3.6 (24) Essendon 10.17 (77) Corio Oval 10 May 1902
Melbourne 4.10 (34) Collingwood 8.3 (51) MCG 10 May 1902
South Melbourne 8.13 (61) Carlton 0.8 (8) Lake Oval 10 May 1902

Round 3

Home team Home team score Away team Away team score Venue Date
Fitzroy 8.10 (58) South Melbourne 8.4 (52) Brunswick Street Oval 17 May 1902
Essendon 7.6 (48) Melbourne 3.7 (25) EMCG 17 May 1902
Collingwood 11.15 (81) Geelong 3.2 (20) Victoria Park 17 May 1902
St Kilda 2.13 (25) Carlton 4.9 (33) Junction Oval 17 May 1902

Round 4

Home team Home team score Away team Away team score Venue Date
Geelong 11.11 (77) St Kilda 5.3 (33) Corio Oval 24 May 1902
Essendon 5.8 (38) South Melbourne 4.11 (35) EMCG 24 May 1902
Collingwood 3.4 (22) Fitzroy 7.13 (55) Victoria Park 24 May 1902
Carlton 6.13 (49) Melbourne 8.12 (60) Princes Park 24 May 1902

Round 5

Home team Home team score Away team Away team score Venue Date
Geelong 5.14 (44) South Melbourne 3.9 (27) Corio Oval 31 May 1902
Fitzroy 7.17 (59) Melbourne 6.10 (46) Brunswick Street Oval 31 May 1902
St Kilda 5.5 (35) Collingwood 5.12 (42) Junction Oval 31 May 1902
Essendon 7.16 (58) Carlton 5.8 (38) EMCG 31 May 1902

Round 6

Home team Home team score Away team Away team score Venue Date
Collingwood 6.15 (51) Essendon 11.10 (76) Victoria Park 7 June 1902
Carlton 4.6 (30) Fitzroy 9.14 (68) Princes Park 7 June 1902
South Melbourne 5.13 (43) St Kilda 1.3 (9) Lake Oval 7 June 1902
Melbourne 2.13 (25) Geelong 3.8 (26) MCG 7 June 1902

Round 7

Home team Home team score Away team Away team score Venue Date
Melbourne 7.5 (47) South Melbourne 6.10 (46) MCG 9 June 1902
Fitzroy 8.14 (62) Geelong 3.8 (26) Brunswick Street Oval 9 June 1902
St Kilda 6.4 (40) Essendon 10.4 (64) Junction Oval 9 June 1902
Collingwood 8.11 (59) Carlton 3.3 (21) Victoria Park 9 June 1902

Round 8

Home team Home team score Away team Away team score Venue Date
Collingwood 4.26 (50) South Melbourne 1.8 (14) Victoria Park 14 June 1902
St Kilda 3.6 (24) Melbourne 8.7 (55) Junction Oval 14 June 1902
Fitzroy 5.12 (42) Essendon 7.6 (48) Brunswick Street Oval 14 June 1902
Geelong 6.7 (43) Carlton 7.5 (47) Corio Oval 14 June 1902

Round 9

Home team Home team score Away team Away team score Venue Date
Fitzroy 12.8 (80) St Kilda 2.7 (19) Brunswick Street Oval 21 June 1902
Essendon 2.3 (15) Geelong 4.10 (34) EMCG 21 June 1902
Collingwood 7.19 (61) Melbourne 4.7 (31) Victoria Park 21 June 1902
Carlton 4.7 (31) South Melbourne 2.6 (18) Princes Park 21 June 1902

Round 10

Home team Home team score Away team Away team score Venue Date
Carlton 10.12 (72) St Kilda 7.7 (49) Princes Park 5 July 1902
South Melbourne 6.10 (46) Fitzroy 4.10 (34) Lake Oval 5 July 1902
Melbourne 3.9 (27) Essendon 6.12 (48) MCG 5 July 1902
Geelong 6.8 (44) Collingwood 12.12 (84) Corio Oval 5 July 1902

Round 11

Home team Home team score Away team Away team score Venue Date
St Kilda 4.9 (33) Geelong 7.7 (49) Junction Oval 12 July 1902
South Melbourne 5.6 (36) Essendon 6.7 (43) Lake Oval 12 July 1902
Fitzroy 6.9 (45) Collingwood 9.14 (68) Brunswick Street Oval 12 July 1902
Melbourne 4.12 (36) Carlton 4.9 (33) MCG 12 July 1902

Round 12

Home team Home team score Away team Away team score Venue Date
Collingwood 19.13 (127) St Kilda 1.4 (10) Victoria Park 19 July 1902
Carlton 4.9 (33) Essendon 1.10 (16) Princes Park 19 July 1902
South Melbourne 7.13 (55) Geelong 6.9 (45) Lake Oval 19 July 1902
Melbourne 5.7 (37) Fitzroy 4.9 (33) MCG 19 July 1902

Round 13

Home team Home team score Away team Away team score Venue Date
St Kilda 2.10 (22) South Melbourne 5.7 (37) Junction Oval 26 July 1902
Geelong 8.6 (54) Melbourne 3.9 (27) Corio Oval 26 July 1902
Essendon 5.6 (36) Collingwood 7.5 (47) EMCG 26 July 1902
Fitzroy 4.6 (30) Carlton 6.8 (44) Brunswick Street Oval 26 July 1902

Round 14

Home team Home team score Away team Away team score Venue Date
Essendon 12.12 (84) St Kilda 3.4 (22) EMCG 2 August 1902
Carlton 2.3 (15) Collingwood 7.10 (52) Princes Park 2 August 1902
South Melbourne 3.9 (27) Melbourne 9.9 (63) Lake Oval 2 August 1902
Geelong 5.10 (40) Fitzroy 9.7 (61) Corio Oval 2 August 1902

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 4 games were played during the finals series.

Home and away ladder

Team Won Lost Draw Points
1 Collingwood 12 2 0 48
2 Essendon 10 4 0 40
3 Fitzroy 9 5 0 36
4 Melbourne 7 7 0 28
5 Geelong 7 7 0 28
6 Carlton 6 8 0 24
7 South Melbourne 5 9 0 20
8 St Kilda 0 14 0 0

Pre-finals ladder

Team Won Lost Draw Points
1 Collingwood 15 2 0 60
2 Essendon 13 4 0 52
3 Fitzroy 10 7 0 40
4 Melbourne 9 8 0 36
5 South Melbourne 7 10 0 28
6 Carlton 7 10 0 28
7 Geelong 7 10 0 28
8 St Kilda 0 17 0 0

Grand final

Main article: 1902 VFL Grand Final

Collingwood defeated Essendon 9.6 (60) to 3.9 (27). (For an explanation of scoring see Australian rules football).

Team 1 Qtr 2 Qtr 3 Qtr Final
Collingwood 1.2 3.2 5.5 9.6 (60)
Essendon 1.3 2.7 3.7 3.9 (27)

Awards

Notable events

  • The VFL institutes the amended Argus system to determine the season's premiers.
  • Collingwood's Charlie Pannam becomes the first VFL player to play 100 VFL games (at the end of the 1902 season, he had played in 104 of the 106 VFL games that Collingwood had played since the VFL's first round of games in 1897).

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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