1906 VFA season

1906 premiership season
1906 premiership season
	West Melbourne FC, premiers
Teams	10
Premiers	West Melbourne; 1st premiership
Minor premiers	West Melbourne; 1st minor premiership
	← 1905 1907 →

The 1906 Victorian Football Association season was the 30th season of the Australian rules football competition. The premiership was won by the West Melbourne Football Club, after defeating Footscray in the close final by eleven points. It was the first and only premiership won by West Melbourne during its nine-season stint in the VFA.

Premiership

The home-and-away 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

1906 VFA ladder
Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	D	PF	PA	Pts
1	West Melbourne (P)	18	14	3	1	1162	595	58
2	Richmond	18	14	4	0	1135	693	56
3	North Melbourne	18	13	5	0	853	624	52
4	Footscray	18	12	5	1	916	644	50
5	Williamstown	18	12	6	0	1017	768	48
6	Brunswick	18	6	12	0	705	919	24
7	Port Melbourne	18	6	12	0	629	1068	24
8	Prahran	18	6	12	0	726	1095	24
9	Preston	18	5	13	0	796	953	20
10	Essendon	18	1	17	0	568	1245	4

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

Finals


	Semi Finals
Saturday, 15 September	West Melbourne 9.18 (72)	def.	North Melbourne 4.4 (28)	East Melbourne Cricket Ground	^[2]
Saturday, 22 September	Richmond 6.5 (41)	def. by	Footscray 6.14 (50)	East Melbourne Cricket Ground (crowd: 12,000)	^[3]


	1906 VFA Final
Saturday, 29 September	West Melbourne	def.	Footscray	East Melbourne Cricket Ground (crowd: 20,000)	^[4]^[5]
	0.0 (0) 3.4 (22) 4.7 (31) 7.8 (50)	Q1 Q2 Q3 Final	3.2 (20) 3.5 (23) 5.8 (38) 5.9 (39)	Umpires: Souter


Williamson 3, Armstrong 2, McCann 2		Goals	Jacobson 2, Hedley, McCarthy, Hughes




Had Footscray won, minor premiers West Melbourne would have been entitled to a rematch the following Saturday to decide the premiership.

Notable events

Boundary umpires were introduced for Association matches for the first time in 1906.^[6]

Interleague matches


	1906 Interleague Matches
Saturday, 23 June	S.A.F.A. 7.9 (51)	def. by	V.F.A. 10.8 (68)	Adelaide Oval	^[7]
Saturday, 11 August	V.F.A. 14.19 (103)	def.	S.A.F.A. 13.9 (87)	East Melbourne Cricket Ground (crowd: 5,000)	^[8]
Wednesday, 29 August	Bendigo & Nth Dist. 3.12 (30)	def.	V.F.A. 3.10 (28)	Upper Reserve	^[9]

The VFA's second match against the S.A.F.A. was originally scheduled to be played on an otherwise vacant day in the Melbourne football calendar, with a bye week in both the League and Association, and the V.F.L. team playing in Ballarat. However, the VFL made a change by shifting two of its 4 August matches onto 11 August, much to the VFA's chagrin, severely affecting the crowd at the game.^[10]

References

^ Observer (10 September 1906). "Football – Preparing for the Finals". The Argus. Melbourne. p. 5.
^ Observer (17 September 1906). "Association finals". The Argus. Melbourne. p. 7.
^ "Football – Association Finals". The Argus. Melbourne. 24 September 1906. p. 4.
^ Observer (1 October 1906). "The Association Final". The Argus. Melbourne. p. 5.
^ "Premiership won by West Melbourne". North Melbourne Courier and West Melbourne Chronicle. Melbourne. 5 October 1906. p. 3.
^ Follower (7 May 1906). "The Football Season – Opening Day Matches". The Age. Melbourne, VIC. p. 9.
^ "Football – Last Saturday's actions". Table Talk. Melbourne, VIC. 28 June 1906. p. 27.
^ Follower (13 August 1906). "The Football Season – Matches for premiership". The Age. Melbourne, VIC. p. 9.
^ 'Kickero' (31 August 1906). "World of Sport – Football". The Herald. Melbourne, VIC. p. 4.
^ "World of Sport – Football". The Herald. Melbourne, VIC. 10 August 1906. p. 4.

[review-1] Observer (10 September 1906). "Football – Preparing for the Finals". The Argus. Melbourne. p. 5.

[SF1-2] Observer (17 September 1906). "Association finals". The Argus. Melbourne. p. 7.

[SF2-3] "Football – Association Finals". The Argus. Melbourne. 24 September 1906. p. 4.

[GF1-4] Observer (1 October 1906). "The Association Final". The Argus. Melbourne. p. 5.

[GF2-5] "Premiership won by West Melbourne". North Melbourne Courier and West Melbourne Chronicle. Melbourne. 5 October 1906. p. 3.

[6] Follower (7 May 1906). "The Football Season – Opening Day Matches". The Age. Melbourne, VIC. p. 9.

[7] "Football – Last Saturday's actions". Table Talk. Melbourne, VIC. 28 June 1906. p. 27.

[8] Follower (13 August 1906). "The Football Season – Matches for premiership". The Age. Melbourne, VIC. p. 9.

[9] 'Kickero' (31 August 1906). "World of Sport – Football". The Herald. Melbourne, VIC. p. 4.

[10] "World of Sport – Football". The Herald. Melbourne, VIC. 10 August 1906. p. 4.

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