The 1929

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season was the 51st season of the

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competition. The premiership was won by the Northcote Football Club, after it defeated Port Melbourne by 42 points in the Grand Final on 12 October. It was the club's first VFA premiership.

Association membership

In November 1928, the

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applied to join the Association. Oakleigh had been a successful club in the Sub-District Association, had a good quality ground, the growing suburb of Oakleigh provided the team strong support, and the club had been previously considered for Association membership. Oakleigh's application was accepted unanimously. In February 1929, the

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council applied to the Association to establish a local senior team in the competition. The Association approved the application, subject to the council receiving permission from the Minister for Lands to erect a fence around its home ground, Beach Park, which it received on 22 February; the council had been refused permission to erect the same fence by the previous Minister for Lands in late 1927, which was one of the reasons why an application to join the Association was rejected the previous year. The Sandringham Football Club was established as a new club representing the district, and entered the Association. The two new clubs brought the size of the Association to twelve clubs – the largest it had been since

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. This was the last change to the Association membership until 1951.

Premiership

To accommodate a balanced fixture with the two extra clubs, the home-and-home season was extended from eighteen matches to twenty-two matches, the longest it had been since fixed-length seasons were first introduced in

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. Then, the top four clubs contested a finals series under the amended ''Argus'' system to determine the premiers for the season.

Ladder

Finals

Awards

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( Brunswick) was the leading goalkicker, with 88 goals in the home-and-home season and 92 goals overall. *

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(

) won the

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as the Association's best and fairest, polling nine votes. W. Brown (

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) finished second with eight votes, and C. Irwin (

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) finished third with seven votes. * Coburg won the seconds premiership. Coburg 14.16 (100) defeated Williamstown 14.7 (91) at the Oakleigh Cricket Ground on 28 September.

Notable events

J. J. Liston John James Liston (21 September 1872 – 12 April 1944) was an Australian businessman, civic leader, and sporting administrator. He served as Mayor of Williamstown and on the Melbourne City Council, and was also a long-serving president of the Vi ...

, president and delegate of the Williamstown Football Club, was elected president of the Association at the annual general meeting in February 1929, replacing long-serving president

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, who had died in 1928. Liston served in the position until his death in 1944.

External links

List of VFA premiers This page is a complete chronological listing of the premiers of the Australian rules football competition known as the Victorian Football Association until 1995 and as the Victorian Football League since 1996. The Victorian Football Association ...

References

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