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1897 VFL Season
The 1897 VFL season was the inaugural season of the Victorian Football League (1897–1989), Victorian Football League (VFL), the new highest-level senior Australian rules football competition in Victoria. The season featured eight clubs, ran from 8 May until 4 September, and comprised a 14-game home-and-away season followed by a 1897 VFL finals series, finals series featuring the top four clubs. The new league was established when eight clubs from the Victorian Football Association – , , , , , , and – seceded at the end of 1896 VFA season, 1896. The inaugural premiership was won by the Essendon Football Club after it won all three of its matches in the finals series. Premiership season In 1897, the VFL competition consisted of eight teams of 20 on-the-field players each, with no "reserves" (although any of the 20 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 twi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eddy James
Edwin Ernest 'Eddy' James (14 February 1874 – 16 September 1937) was an Australian rules footballer who played for Geelong Football Club, Geelong in the years before and following the formation of the Australian Football League, VFL. Football James started his career as a backman, playing a game at 15 after Geelong were short for players. He moved to the forward line in his return in 1892, and in 1895 finished with 24 goals to be equal third in the VFA goalkicking. In the inaugural VFL season in 1897 VFL season, 1897, he kicked 22 goals in the home-and-away season to share the Coleman Medal, Leading Goalkicker Award with Jack Leith; incidentally, this is the lowest amount of goals to have ever earned this award—and it will likely hold this record in perpetuity due to the high-scoring nature of the modern game. His end-of-year tally of 27 goals (including finals) was also the most in the league for that year. He kicked a career-high seven goals in game against St Kilda Foot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |