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    the club's fourth VFA premiership in just five seasons, and was the first in a sequence of three consecutive premierships won from 1882 to 1884. The senior...
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  • the club's fifth VFA premiership in just six seasons, and was the second in a sequence of three consecutive premierships won from 1882 to 1884. As the...
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    the club's sixth VFA premiership in just seven seasons, and was the third in a sequence of three consecutive premierships won from 1882 to 1884. The senior...
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  • than the Association itself, and in a typical season, a club could play against other VFA teams, non-VFA clubs, at odds against junior teams (usually twenty...
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  • Grand Final has been scheduled in each season since 1903 VFA season. Premierships are recognised for all seasons of VFA/VFL competition. Several different...
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    premiership was won by the Carlton Football Club. It was the second and last VFA premiership in the club's history. The metropolitan membership of the Association...
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  • periods of success but also long periods of failure. During the nine VFA premiership seasons in which Melbourne took part, they never won the premiership. They...
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  • Football Association (VFA) since 1903. At least one Preston Districts player had played a game for Preston during the 1906 VFA season, prior to the start...
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    April 1882. p. 4. Retrieved 13 November 2022. "Football". The Argus. 10 April 1883. p. 10. Retrieved 13 November 2022. "VFA to play next season". The...
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  • The 1911 VFA season was the 35th season of the Victorian Football Association (VFA). The premiership was won by the Essendon (Association), after it defeated...
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  • The 1936 VFA season was the 58th season of the Victorian Football Association (VFA), an Australian rules football competition played in the state of Victoria...
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    in both the VFA and the VFL until its closure at the end of 1921. North Melbourne Football Club used the ground during the 1897 VFA season due to upgrading...
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    George Coulthard (category Carlton Football Club (VFA) players)
    ended in controversy in 1882 when he received a season-long suspension—then the most severe punishment ever handed down by the VFA—for brawling and using...
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  • received the fee – in $10 and $20 notes, under cover of darkness outside VFA House, from a man he did not know. The VFL arbitrators investigated North...
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    for the 1912 season, the Melbourne City Football Club was established as the inner-city club after the Preston Football Club left the VFA. The club was...
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    Ned Sutton (category Melbourne Football Club (VFA) players)
    premiership the previous season. Sutton's first VFA match was on 18 August, against Williamstown at the MCG. He had a promising first season, becoming a reliable...
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  • goals. South Melbourne unbeaten streak 1884 VFA season 24 Sep 1884 vs Fitzroy 3.7 d. 1.15 1885 VFA season 18 Apr 1885 vs Union Jack (23) 7 d. 1 25 Apr...
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  • club. However, even in Division 2, the club endured one of the worst VFA seasons on record (winless with a percentage of only 29.0 and an average losing...
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    very late in the year on 22 October. It was the club's second VFA premiership. The season was disrupted when the North Melbourne Football Club abruptly...
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  • end of the 1911 VFA season, the Preston Football Club left the VFA. Under VJFA rules, all clubs had to have a reserves alignment to a VFA team, and Yarraville...
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  • 1961 until 1988, the VFA seniors were split into Division 1 and Division 2. Outside of the seniors, the highest score in any VFA/VFL division (and any...
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    East Melbourne Football Club (category Australian rules football clubs disestablished in 1882)
    to senior status the following year, and played as a senior VFA club from 1880 until 1882. However, the club never was competitive at senior level, and...
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    J. J. Liston (category VFA/VFL administrators)
    president of the Victorian Football Association (VFA), in succession to John Aikman. He was already a VFA life member at the time of his election. Liston...
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    Jim Gregory (footballer) (category Collingwood Football Club (VFA) players)
    Henry "Harry" Gregory (1882–1945), played in the VFA with West Melbourne. Alfred Compton Gregory (1884–1924), played in the VFA with West Melbourne. Arthur...
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  • Bill Lever (category Preston Football Club (VFA) players)
    Deaths and Marriages Victoria". Government of Victoria. "Lever, Bill". The VFA Project. Retrieved 5 February 2021. "WWII Nominal Roll: William Lever". Department...
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  • registered under. The club participated in the Victorian Football Association (VFA) between 1903 and 1911, and then since 1926. After World War II, the club...
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  • Melbourne Football Club. It was the club's first VFA premiership. Prior to the start of the 1881 season, the West Melbourne Football Club resigned from...
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    season, 1922, was his last with the VFL. He umpired 14 country matches bringing his totals to 12 VFL matches and 35 country. Pannam moved to the VFA for...
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  • Association's premier forwards, leading the VFA goalkicking in five separate seasons and kicking an all-time VFA career record of 1336 goals from his 300...
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  • a new committee, successfully enabling the club to play in the VFA in the 1908 season. The reformation of the club necessitated a massive cleanout of...
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