1910 VFA season

The 1910 VFA season was the 34th season of the Victorian Football Association (VFA).

1910 premiership season
North Melbourne, premiers
Teams	10
Premiers	North Melbourne 3rd premiership
Minor premiers	North Melbourne 2nd minor premiership
← 1909 1911 →

The premiership was won by the North Melbourne Football Club, after it defeated Brunswick by 29 points in the 1910 VFA Grand Final. It was the club's third premiership, and the first since it was reformed after briefly ceasing to exist in 1908.

Home-and-away season

The home-and-home season was played over eighteen rounds, with each club playing the others twice; then, the top four clubs contested a finals series under the amended Argus system to determine the premiers for the season.

Ladder

1910 VFA ladder

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	D	PF	PA	PP	Pts
1	North Melbourne (P)	18	15	2	1	1344	630	213.3	62
2	Essendon	18	15	2	1	1266	674	187.8	62
3	Brunswick	18	14	4	0	1254	800	156.8	56
4	Prahran	18	11	7	0	1273	862	147.7	44
5	Port Melbourne	18	10	8	0	1037	1049	98.9	40
6	Footscray	18	9	9	0	1044	894	116.8	36
7	Williamstown	18	8	10	0	1018	922	110.4	32
8	Brighton	18	4	14	0	876	1152	76.0	16
9	Northcote	18	3	15	0	828	1416	58.5	12
10	Preston	18	0	18	0	578	2119	27.3	0

Source: ^[1]
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) percentage; 3) number of points for.
(P) Premiers

Finals

	Semi Finals
Saturday, 17 September	Essendon 5.9 (39)	def.	Prahran 2.7 (19)	North Melbourne Recreation Reserve (crowd: 12,000)	[2]
Saturday, 24 September	North Melbourne 6.8 (44)	def. by	Brunswick 7.8 (50)	North Melbourne Recreation Reserve (crowd: 20,000)	[3]

	Preliminary Final
Saturday, 1 October	Essendon 6.11 (47)	def. by	Brunswick 8.4 (52)	North Melbourne Recreation Reserve (crowd: 15,000)	[4]
The finals were originally scheduled to begin on 10 September, but were postponed by one week.[5]

Grand Final

	1910 VFA Grand Final
Saturday, 8 October	North Melbourne	def.	Brunswick	North Melbourne Recreation Reserve (crowd: 25,000)	[6][7]
	1.1 (7) 5.6 (36) 6.10 (46) 9.14 (68)	Q1 Q2 Q3 Final	4.3 (27) 4.3 (27) 5.8 (38) 5.9 (39)	Umpires: Kendall
Caine 5, Barker, Elliott, Hardy, McCann		Goals	McKenzie 2, Chase, Corrigan, Mills

Notable events

• Preston became the first club to concede more than 2,000 points in a season.^[1]
• Frank Caine (North Melbourne) was the Association's leading goalkicker for the season. He kicked 70 goals during the home-and-home matches, and 75 goals overall. Jack Hutchinson (Port Melbourne) was second with 54 goals.^[5]
• A new premiership trophy was donated to the Association, which would be awarded each year to the premiers, before being awarded permanently to the first club to win it twice consecutively or three times overall.^[7]

External links

• Victorian Football Association/Victorian Football League history (1877–2008)
• List of VFA premiers

References

1. Old Boy (9 September 1910). "Football – the semi-finals". The Argus. Melbourne. p. 4.
2. Old Boy (19 September 1910). "Association Football – Essendon beat Prahran". The Argus. Melbourne. p. 5.
3. Old Boy (27 September 1910). "Association Match – a magnificent game". The Argus. Melbourne. p. 5.
4. Old Boy (3 October 1910). "Association Football – Brunswick's victory". The Argus. Melbourne. p. 8.
5. Old Boy (12 September 1910). "Association Semi-Final". The Argus. Melbourne. p. 5.
6. Old Boy (10 October 1910). "North Melbourne premiers". The Argus. Melbourne. p. 4.
7. "Grand Final – North Melbourne vs Brunswick". North Melbourne Courier and West Melbourne Chronicle. Melbourne. 14 October 1910. p. 3.