The 1927

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season was the 49th season of the

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competition. The premiership was won by the

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, after it defeated

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by 34 points in the Grand Final on 15 October. It was the club's second VFA premiership, achieved in only its third season of senior competition, and was the second in a sequence of three premierships won consecutively from 1926 until 1928; and, it came after the team was undefeated in the home-and-home season.

Association membership

In the off-season, the

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was re-admitted to the Association, after having withdrawn from the competition in late 1926 in protest at suspensions given to two of its players. As such, the Association membership remained the same as it had been at the start of 1926.

Premiership

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

Finals

Awards

* P. Gardiner (

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) was the leading goalkicker for the season, with 82 goals in the home-and-home matches and 97 overall. He finished ahead of J. Walsh (

), who kicked 78 goals in the home-and-home matches and 92 goals overall. *

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(

) won the

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as the best and fairest player in the Association for the season. Woods ( Northcote) finished second.

Notable events

* Prior to this season,

moved its home ground from the Brighton Beach Oval in southern Brighton to

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in northern Brighton. * Due to errors by the scoreboard attendants in the drawn semi-final between Brighton and Preston, those present at the ground were unsure of the result of the game until the goal umpires confirmed the score after the final bell. * The preliminary final was postponed by one week because extremely heavy rain on the day made the surface unplayable. The rain was so heavy that the League Grand Final, which was played that day in spite of the rain, was the lowest scoring League match of the 20th century. * Because of the two drawn semi-finals and the postponed preliminary final, the finals series was spread over a total of seven weekends.

External links

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References

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