The 1924 WAFL season was the 40th season of the
West Australian Football League
The West Australian Football League (WAFL) is an Australian rules football league based in Perth, Western Australia. The league currently consists of ten teams, which play each other in a 20-round season usually lasting from March to September ...
. Although East Perth and East Fremantle completely dominated the season until after the Carnival, each having lost only one match of the first eleven, neither was to win the premiership and the Royals’ record sequence of five consecutive premierships came to an end in the semi-final.
Subiaco, who along with Perth had been in the doldrums during previous seasons, finally developed the teamwork to match the individual talents of players like Outridge, skipper “Snowy” Hamilton and young rover Johnny Leonard – consequently carrying all before them during the finals after a mediocre home-and-away season.
[Spillman, Ken; ''Diehards: The Story of the Subiaco Football Club 1896-1945'', pp. 95-98] Despite maintaining prominence for another decade, the Maroons were to become a perennial cellar-dweller for three decades and failed to win another premiership until 1973 – the longest premiership drought in WA(N)FL history. Despite Gosnell being the second of their famous half-back line to win the Sandover Medal, West Perth fell to wooden spooners owing to the suspension of key forward
Fred Wimbridge
Fredrick "Fred" Wimbridge (9 March 1893 – 4 December 1977) was an Australian rules footballer who played in the West Australian Football League (WAFL) and with South Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
Football
Wimbridge start ...
for most of the season.
Following controversy over his clearance from South Fremantle that caused him to sit out the 1923 season,
[Devaney, John; ''Full Points Footy’s WA Football Companion'', p. 201. ] East Perth's “Bonny” Campbell was to break
Allan Evans’ record from 1921 for the most goals scored during a WAFL season with 67.
[Devaney, ''Full Points Footy’s WA Football Companion'', p. 201]
Including the Hobart Carnival, where he kicked 51 goals - including an amazing 23 goals against Queensland
- Campbell kicked 118 goals for the entire year, with his 100-goal season coming five years before
Gordon Coventry and six years before
Ken Farmer
Kenneth William George Farmer (25 July 1910 – 5 March 1982) was an Australian rules footballer who played for the North Adelaide Football Club in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL).
Dubbed the 'Bradman of football' in So ...
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Home-and-away season
Round 1
Round 2
Round 3
Round 4
Round 5 (Foundation Day)
Round 6
Round 7
Round 8
Round 9
Round 10
Round 11
Round 12
Round 13
Round 14
Round 15
Ladder
Final
First semi-final
Second semi-final
Final
Grand Final
References
External links
Official WAFL websiteWest Australian Football League (WAFL), 1924
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