The 1937
Victorian Football Association season was the 59th season of the
Australian rules football
Australian football, also called Australian rules football or Aussie rules, or more simply football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of 18 players on an oval field, often a modified cricket ground. Points are scored by k ...
competition. The premiership was won by the
Prahran Football Club, after it came from fourth on the ladder to defeat
Brunswick by two points in the Grand Final on 4 September. It was the club's first VFA premiership since it joined the Association in 1899.
Premiership
The home-and-home season was played over sixteen matches, a reduction from the eighteen games staged in 1936, before the top four clubs contested a finals series under the
Page–McIntyre system to determine the premiers for the season.
Ladder
Finals
Awards
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Geoff McInnes (
Brunswick) was the leading goalkicker for the season; he kicked 78 goals in the home-and-home season and 86 goals overall.
* In the parallel Association best and fairest awards:
**
Neville Huggins
Neville Huggins (11 September 1906 – 29 December 1987) was an Australian rules footballer who played for Fitzroy and North Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
Huggins started his football career in the Ovens and Murray League w ...
(
Williamstown) won the
Recorder Cup, polling six votes.
Jack Lowry (
Prahran), L. Wedgwood (
Yarraville) and J. Holden (
Prahran) finished equal second with three votes apiece.
** The Association Medal was won jointly by Neville Huggins (Williamstown) and Jack Lowry (Prahran), who tied with 24 votes apiece. It was Huggins' second Association Medal in a row. G. Weber (
Brighton
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) and E. Watson (
Oakleigh) finished equal-third with 23 votes.
*
Coburg won the seconds premiership. Coburg 9.11 (65) defeated
Brunswick 4.13 (37) in the Grand Final on Saturday 28 August at Preston.
External links
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List of VFA/VFL Premiers
References
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Victorian Football League seasons
VFL
The Victorian Football League (VFL) is an Australian rules football league in Australia serving as one of the second-tier regional semi-professional competitions which sit underneath the fully professional Australian Football League (AFL). It ...