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1903 VFL season
Collingwood premiership player Bill Proudfoot
Collingwood premiership player Bill Proudfoot
Clubs 8
Home-and-Away Season 14 rounds
Premiership Team Collingwood (2nd premiership)
Minor Premiers Collingwood (2nd)
VFL Leading Goalkicker Teddy Lockwood (33)

Results and statistics for the Victorian Football League season of 1903.

Contents

Premiership season

In 1903, 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 1903 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
Essendon 3.3 (21) Fitzroy 11.7 (73) East Melbourne Cricket Ground 2 May 1903
Carlton 9.4 (58) Collingwood 5.7 (37) Princes Park 2 May 1903
South Melbourne 6.14 (50) Melbourne 5.13 (43) Lake Oval 2 May 1903
St Kilda 2.8 (20) Geelong 9.18 (72) Junction Oval 2 May 1903

Round 2

Home team Home team score Away team Away team score Venue Date
Collingwood 13.14 (92) South Melbourne 3.6 (24) Victoria Park 9 May 1903
Melbourne 4.5 (29) Fitzroy 6.11 (47) MCG 9 May 1903
St Kilda 3.12 (30) Essendon 4.6 (30) Junction Oval 9 May 1903
Geelong 8.7 (55) Carlton 6.9 (45) SCG 9 May 1903

Round 3

Home team Home team score Away team Away team score Venue Date
Geelong 15.10 (100) Melbourne 4.8 (32) Corio Oval 16 May 1903
Fitzroy 12.17 (89) South Melbourne 3.4 (22) Brunswick Street Oval 16 May 1903
Collingwood 16.17 (113) St Kilda 5.3 (33) Victoria Park 16 May 1903
Essendon 5.5 (35) Carlton 7.14 (56) East Melbourne Cricket Ground 16 May 1903

Round 4

Home team Home team score Away team Away team score Venue Date
Carlton 12.16 (88) St Kilda 1.4 (10) Princes Park 23 May 1903
South Melbourne 5.7 (37) Geelong 6.11 (47) Lake Oval 23 May 1903
Melbourne 3.7 (25) Essendon 4.4 (28) MCG 23 May 1903
Fitzroy 7.20 (62) Collingwood 6.9 (45) SCG 23 May 1903

Round 5

Home team Home team score Away team Away team score Venue Date
Fitzroy 13.17 (95) St Kilda 3.10 (28) Brunswick Street Oval 30 May 1903
Essendon 10.13 (73) Geelong 5.10 (40) East Melbourne Cricket Ground 30 May 1903
Collingwood 10.17 (77) Melbourne 7.4 (46) Victoria Park 30 May 1903
South Melbourne 5.4 (34) Carlton 10.7 (67) Lake Oval 30 May 1903

Round 6

Home team Home team score Away team Away team score Venue Date
Essendon 5.11 (41) South Melbourne 6.12 (48) East Melbourne Cricket Ground 6 June 1903
Carlton 8.8 (56) Fitzroy 4.5 (29) Princes Park 6 June 1903
St Kilda 8.9 (57) Melbourne 2.15 (27) Junction Oval 6 June 1903
Geelong 8.3 (51) Collingwood 12.12 (84) Corio Oval 6 June 1903

Round 7

Home team Home team score Away team Away team score Venue Date
Fitzroy 8.14 (62) Geelong 3.4 (22) Brunswick Street Oval 8 June 1903
Collingwood 4.9 (33) Essendon 2.13 (25) Victoria Park 8 June 1903
South Melbourne 5.8 (38) St Kilda 6.11 (47) Lake Oval 8 June 1903
Melbourne 4.8 (32) Carlton 1.2 (8) MCG 8 June 1903

Round 8

Home team Home team score Away team Away team score Venue Date
Melbourne 6.6 (42) South Melbourne 3.17 (35) MCG 13 June 1903
Geelong 5.9 (39) St Kilda 7.13 (55) Corio Oval 13 June 1903
Fitzroy 8.6 (54) Essendon 3.11 (29) Brunswick Street Oval 13 June 1903
Collingwood 12.9 (81) Carlton 10.7 (67) Victoria Park 13 June 1903

Round 9

Home team Home team score Away team Away team score Venue Date
Fitzroy 4.10 (34) Melbourne 3.8 (26) Brunswick Street Oval 20 June 1903
Essendon 4.8 (32) St Kilda 4.5 (29) East Melbourne Cricket Ground 20 June 1903
Carlton 8.6 (54) Geelong 6.11 (47) Princes Park 20 June 1903
South Melbourne 4.11 (35) Collingwood 6.6 (42) Lake Oval 20 June 1903

Round 10

Home team Home team score Away team Away team score Venue Date
Carlton 6.14 (50) Essendon 2.2 (14) Princes Park 4 July 1903
Melbourne 5.9 (39) Geelong 10.7 (67) MCG 4 July 1903
South Melbourne 5.7 (37) Fitzroy 7.11 (53) Lake Oval 4 July 1903
St Kilda 2.4 (16) Collingwood 5.11 (41) Junction Oval 4 July 1903

Round 11

Home team Home team score Away team Away team score Venue Date
Geelong 9.13 (67) South Melbourne 3.12 (30) Corio Oval 11 July 1903
Essendon 3.16 (34) Melbourne 4.5 (29) East Melbourne Cricket Ground 11 July 1903
Collingwood 8.8 (56) Fitzroy 5.6 (36) Victoria Park 11 July 1903
St Kilda 4.3 (27) Carlton 8.14 (62) Junction Oval 11 July 1903

Round 12

Home team Home team score Away team Away team score Venue Date
Carlton 7.8 (50) South Melbourne 2.8 (20) Princes Park 18 July 1903
St Kilda 5.11 (41) Fitzroy 5.8 (38) Junction Oval 18 July 1903
Geelong 13.11 (89) Essendon 6.8 (44) Corio Oval 18 July 1903
Melbourne 4.8 (32) Collingwood 11.8 (74) MCG 18 July 1903

Round 13

Home team Home team score Away team Away team score Venue Date
Melbourne 4.8 (32) St Kilda 9.7 (61) MCG 25 July 1903
Collingwood 6.15 (51) Geelong 5.7 (37) Victoria Park 25 July 1903
South Melbourne 5.7 (37) Essendon 7.17 (59) Lake Oval 25 July 1903
Fitzroy 8.8 (56) Carlton 3.6 (24) Brunswick Street Oval 25 July 1903

Round 14

Home team Home team score Away team Away team score Venue Date
St Kilda 12.9 (81) South Melbourne 4.8 (32) Junction Oval 8 August 1903
Carlton 5.11 (41) Melbourne 8.8 (56) Princes Park 8 August 1903
Geelong 5.3 (33) Fitzroy 9.12 (66) Corio Oval 8 August 1903
Essendon 7.4 (46) Collingwood 11.7 (73) East Melbourne Cricket Ground 8 August 1903

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 3 games were played during the finals series.

Home and away ladder

Team Won Lost Draw Points
1 Collingwood 12 2 0 48
2 Fitzroy 11 3 0 44
3 Carlton 9 5 0 36
4 Geelong 7 7 0 28
5 St Kilda 6 7 1 26
6 Essendon 5 8 1 22
7 Melbourne 3 11 0 12
8 South Melbourne 2 12 0 8

Pre-finals ladder

Team Won Lost Draw Points
1 Collingwood 15 2 0 60
2 Fitzroy 14 3 0 56
3 Carlton 11 6 0 44
4 Geelong 9 8 0 36
5 St Kilda 7 9 1 30
6 Essendon 6 10 1 26
7 Melbourne 3 14 0 12
8 South Melbourne 2 15 0 8

Grand final

Main article: 1903 VFL Grand Final

Collingwood defeated Fitzroy 4.7 (31) to 3.11 (29). (For an explanation of scoring see Australian rules football).

Team 1 Qtr 2 Qtr 3 Qtr Final
Collingwood 2.3 3.4 3.6 4.7 (31)
Fitzroy 2.2 2.5 2.8 3.11 (29)

Awards

Notable events

  • On 5 May, the second round match between Geelong and Carlton was cancelled. A railway strike prevented the Carlton team from getting to Geelong.
  • On 23 May, a crowd of 18,000 attended the fourth round match between Fitzroy and Collingwood at the Sydney Cricket Ground. Fitzroy won 7.20 (62) to 6.9 (45). Players wore large numbers on the back of their guernseys to assist the crowd.
  • On Monday, 3 August 1903, the postponed second round match between Geelong and Carlton was played at the Sydney Cricket Ground. Geelong won 8.7 (55) to 6.9 (45).
  • 1903 was the first time that the VFL Premiership was decided on the last kick of the day. The usually accurate Fitzroy captain Gerald Brosnan missed the goal from 30 metres out, and Fitzroy lost to Collingwood by two points.

References

  • 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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