The 1928 WAFL season was the 44th 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, ...
. The most notable event of the season occurred off the field on Monday, 11 June, when champion East Perth coach
Phil Matson
Phillip Henry Matson (22 October 1884 – 13 June 1928) was a record-breaking swimmer, and both a highly successful player and coach of Australian rules football in the early 20th century, chiefly in Western Australia.
Family
The son of George ...
was killed in a truck crash at Nedlands after being thrown into a telegraph post. The Royals under the coaching of
Paddy Hebbard did manage to reach a challenge final against minor premiers East Fremantle, but were beaten and suffered an abrupt fall to a clear last the following season.
Old Easts, who were given consecutive byes in the second half of July to permit a tour of Tasmania and Victoria, were fourth upon returning to Perth but claimed top place two weeks later and after four losses to the Royals, beat them in the challenge final for the first of their second series of four successive premierships.
Fledgling club Claremont-Cottesloe (at this stage frequently called "the combine") failed to move from the bottom in its third season but nonetheless improved greatly from one win to five, in the process discovering their first great players in George Moloney and
Keith Hough
Keith Alan Hough (17 March 1908 – 13 July 1958) was an Australian rules footballer who played 120 games for Claremont in the West Australian National Football League (WANFL) during the late 1920s and 1930s. He missed the 1931 season because ...
. A prelude to the future for the Tigers and indeed the entire WAFL was the first
Aboriginal
Aborigine, aborigine or aboriginal may refer to:
*Aborigines (mythology), in Roman mythology
* Indigenous peoples, general term for ethnic groups who are the earliest known inhabitants of an area
*One of several groups of indigenous peoples, see ...
player in the league, Maley Hayward from
Tambellup, who played with his two brothers for South Fremantle as late as 1937.
Indigenous Connection – South Fremantle Football Club
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Home-and-Away season
Round 1
Round 2
Round 3
Round 4
Round 5
Round 6
Round 7 (Foundation Day)
Round 8
Round 9
Round 10
Round 11
Round 12
Round 13
Round 14
Round 15
Round 16
Round 17
Round 18
Round 19
Round 20
Round 21
Ladder
Finals
First semi-final
Second semi-final
Final
Grand Final
References
External links
Official WAFL websiteWest Australian Football League (WAFL) Season 1928
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