1955 VFL Premiership season | |
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Teams | 12 |
Premiers | Melbourne (7th premiership) |
Minor premiers | Melbourne (3rd minor premiership) |
Matches played | 112 |
Highest attendance | 88,053 |
Coleman Medallist | Noel Rayson (Geelong) |
Brownlow Medallist | Fred Goldsmith (South Melbourne) |
The 1955 VFL season was the 59th season of the Victorian Football League (VFL), the highest level senior Australian rules football competition in Victoria. The season featured twelve clubs, ran from 16 April until 17 September, and comprised an 18-game home-and-away season followed by a finals series featuring the top four clubs.
The premiership was won by the Melbourne Football Club for the seventh time, after it defeated Collingwood by 28 points in the 1955 VFL Grand Final.
In 1955, 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 18 rounds; matches 12 to 18 were the "home-and-away reverse" of matches 1 to 7.
Once the 18 round home-and-away season had finished, the 1955 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 | Melbourne (P) | 18 | 15 | 3 | 0 | 1559 | 1036 | 150.5 | 60 | Finals |
2 | Collingwood | 18 | 14 | 4 | 0 | 1526 | 1197 | 127.5 | 56 | |
3 | Geelong | 18 | 14 | 4 | 0 | 1524 | 1241 | 122.8 | 56 | |
4 | Essendon | 18 | 12 | 6 | 0 | 1435 | 1099 | 130.6 | 48 | |
5 | Footscray | 18 | 12 | 6 | 0 | 1323 | 1018 | 130.0 | 48 | |
6 | Richmond | 18 | 9 | 9 | 0 | 1471 | 1387 | 106.1 | 36 | |
7 | Carlton | 18 | 9 | 9 | 0 | 1384 | 1403 | 98.6 | 36 | |
8 | Hawthorn | 18 | 8 | 10 | 0 | 1262 | 1342 | 94.0 | 32 | |
9 | Fitzroy | 18 | 6 | 12 | 0 | 1258 | 1421 | 88.5 | 24 | |
10 | South Melbourne | 18 | 5 | 13 | 0 | 1276 | 1454 | 87.8 | 20 | |
11 | North Melbourne | 18 | 3 | 15 | 0 | 1233 | 1617 | 76.3 | 12 | |
12 | St Kilda | 18 | 1 | 17 | 0 | 861 | 1897 | 45.4 | 4 |
Team | 1 Qtr | 2 Qtr | 3 Qtr | Final |
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Geelong | 3.1 | 6.4 | 7.6 | 9.7 (61) |
Essendon | 0.2 | 1.4 | 2.7 | 7.11 (53) |
Attendance: 68,109 |
Team | 1 Qtr | 2 Qtr | 3 Qtr | Final |
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Melbourne | 2.4 | 4.7 | 7.8 | 8.8 (56) |
Collingwood | 1.3 | 4.5 | 6.7 | 6.9 (45) |
Attendance: 59,015 |
Team | 1 Qtr | 2 Qtr | 3 Qtr | Final |
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Collingwood | 5.1 | 8.4 | 10.9 | 14.12 (96) |
Geelong | 3.3 | 5.3 | 9.6 | 13.6 (84) |
Attendance: 70,430 |
Main article: 1955 VFL Grand Final |
Team | 1 Qtr | 2 Qtr | 3 Qtr | Final |
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Melbourne | 2.3 | 3.10 | 4.13 | 8.16 (64) |
Collingwood | 2.2 | 2.5 | 4.6 | 5.6 (36) |
Attendance: 88,053 |