1952 VFL Premiership season | |
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Teams | 12 |
Premiers | Geelong (5th premiership) |
Minor premiers | Geelong (7th minor premiership) |
Matches played | 118 |
Highest attendance | 82,890 |
Leading Goalkicker Medallist | John Coleman (Essendon) |
Brownlow Medallist | Bill Hutchison (Essendon) Roy Wright (Richmond) |
The 1952 VFL season was the 56th season of the Victorian Football League (VFL), the highest level senior Australian rules football competition in Victoria. The season featured twelve clubs, ran from 19 April until 27 September, and comprised a 19-game home-and-away season followed by a finals series featuring the top four clubs.
The premiership was won by the Geelong Football Club for the fifth time and second time consecutively. Geelong defeated Collingwood by 46 points in the 1952 VFL Grand Final, as part of a 23-game winning streak spanning the 1952 and 1953 seasons which stands as the longest in league history.
In 1952, the VFL competition consisted of twelve teams of 18 on-the-field players each, plus two substitute players, known as the 19th man and the 20th man. A player could be substituted for any reason; however, once substituted, a player could not return to the field of play under any circumstances.
Teams played each other in a home-and-away season of 19 rounds.
There was an extra round (round 8), in addition to 1951's 18 rounds, promoted as a "National Day Round", and held on the Saturday (14 June) of the Queen's Birthday weekend while the Victorian State side played against the West Australian State side at Melbourne Cricket Ground (also on 14 June).
The season was constructed as follows: in rounds 1 to 7 and 9 to 12 the teams played each other. Round 8, the "National Day Round", was the reverse of round 11 (and the designated round 8 "home team" was the reverse of that in round 11). Rounds 13 to 19 were the "home-and-way reverse" of rounds 1 to 7.
Once the 19 round home-and-away season had finished, the 1952 VFL Premiers were determined by the specific format and conventions of the Page–McIntyre system.
Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | D | PF | PA | PP | Pts | |
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1 | Geelong (P) | 19 | 16 | 2 | 1 | 1594 | 1183 | 134.7 | 66 | Finals |
2 | Collingwood | 19 | 14 | 5 | 0 | 1528 | 1058 | 144.4 | 56 | |
3 | Fitzroy | 19 | 13 | 6 | 0 | 1233 | 1170 | 105.4 | 52 | |
4 | Carlton | 19 | 11 | 6 | 2 | 1473 | 1310 | 112.4 | 48 | |
5 | South Melbourne | 19 | 11 | 7 | 1 | 1411 | 1337 | 105.5 | 46 | |
6 | Melbourne | 19 | 9 | 9 | 1 | 1420 | 1379 | 103.0 | 38 | |
7 | North Melbourne | 19 | 9 | 10 | 0 | 1352 | 1396 | 96.8 | 36 | |
8 | Essendon | 19 | 8 | 10 | 1 | 1579 | 1390 | 113.6 | 34 | |
9 | Richmond | 19 | 8 | 11 | 0 | 1281 | 1384 | 92.6 | 32 | |
10 | Footscray | 19 | 5 | 14 | 0 | 1052 | 1364 | 77.1 | 20 | |
11 | Hawthorn | 19 | 5 | 14 | 0 | 1030 | 1480 | 69.6 | 20 | |
12 | St Kilda | 19 | 2 | 17 | 0 | 1071 | 1573 | 68.1 | 8 |
Team | 1 Qtr | 2 Qtr | 3 Qtr | Final |
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Fitzroy | 2.1 | 6.3 | 8.5 | 10.9 (69) |
Carlton | 0.5 | 3.10 | 7.15 | 8.20 (68) |
Attendance: 59,970 |
Team | 1 Qtr | 2 Qtr | 3 Qtr | Final |
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Geelong | 2.6 | 5.9 | 12.10 | 14.16 (100) |
Collingwood | 1.4 | 3.5 | 5.6 | 6.10 (46) |
Attendance: 77,417 |
Team | 1 Qtr | 2 Qtr | 3 Qtr | Final |
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Collingwood | 4.4 | 9.9 | 10.12 | 11.15 (81) |
Fitzroy | 4.2 | 4.3 | 9.5 | 9.8 (62) |
Attendance: 54,046 |
Main article: 1952 VFL Grand Final |
Team | 1 Qtr | 2 Qtr | 3 Qtr | Final |
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Geelong | 4.2 | 5.3 | 11.6 | 13.8 (86) |
Collingwood | 1.1 | 3.3 | 5.3 | 5.10 (40) |
Attendance: 82,890 |