The 1935

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season was the 57th 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 nine points in the Grand Final on 7 September. It was the club's first VFA premiership, won in its eighth season of competition.

Finals venue

After having played finals at the central

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for the previous two seasons, the Association returned to the practice of playing finals at suburban Association grounds.

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, which had never previously hosted a final, was used for both a semi-final and the Grand Final.

Premiership

The home-and-home season was played over eighteen matches, before the top four clubs contested a finals series under the

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to determine the premiers for the season.

Ladder

Finals

Awards

* Bill Luff (

) was the leading goalkicker for the season; he kicked 64 goals in the home-and-home season and 75 goals overall. * In the two parallel Association best-and-fairest awards: **

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(

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) won the

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, polling six votes from only thirteen games, having missed five games due to injury.

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), L. Wedgwood (

), Len Pye ( Northcote) and M. McFarlane (

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) finished equal-second with four votes apiece. ** Jim Dowling ( Brunswick) and F. Brooks ( Williamstown) were joint winners of the Association Medal, each polling 32 votes; it was Dowling's second consecutive Association Medal. Len Pye (Northcote) was third with 31 votes. *

won the seconds premiership. Coburg 6.11 (47) defeated

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3.9 (27) in the Grand Final on Saturday 7 September at the Brunswick Cricket Ground.

Notable events

* Northcote, which lost both of its finals, was the first minor premier to fail to win the major premiership since in

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. * A Grand Final rematch was played as a night exhibition match at

on Thursday 26 September (Show Day holiday). Yarraville 8.18 (66) defeated Camberwell 5.17 (47). The attendance of 3,000 was considered a disappointment. The floodlights were considered too dim to be entirely effective for the players or spectators.

External links

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References

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