1932 VFA season

The 1932 Victorian Football Association season was the 54th season of the Australian rules football competition. The premiership was won by the Northcote Football Club, after it defeated Coburg by 26 points in the Final on 24 September. It was the club's second VFA premiership, and the first in a sequence of three premierships won consecutively from 1932 until 1934.

1932 VFA premiership season
Teams	12
Premiers	Northcote (2nd premiership)
Minor premiers	Northcote (2nd minor premiership)

Premiership

The home-and-home season was played over twenty matches, before the top four clubs contested a finals series under the amended Argus system to determine the premiers for the season.

Ladder

1932 VFA Ladder
	TEAM	P	W	L	D	PF	PA	Pct	PTS
1	Northcote (P)	20	15	5	0	2110	1524	72.2	60
2	Coburg	20	15	5	0	1866	1416	75.9	60
3	Camberwell	20	14	6	0	1976	1548	78.3	56
4	Preston	20	14	6	0	1677	1548	92.3	56
5	Port Melbourne	20	12	8	0	1535	1488	93.7	48
6	Sandringham	20	12	8	0	1693	1617	95.5	48
7	Brunswick	20	9	10	1	1618	1746	107.9	38
8	Williamstown	20	9	11	0	1568	1611	102.7	36
9	Prahran	20	7	13	0	1643	1831	111.4	28
10	Yarraville	20	5	15	0	1577	1861	118.0	20
11	Brighton	20	4	15	1	1298	2033	156.6	18
12	Oakleigh	20	3	17	0	1417	1805	127.4	12
Key: P = Played, W = Won, L = Lost, D = Drawn, PF = Points For, PA = Points Against, Pct = Percentage; (P) = Premiers, PTS = Premiership points								Source[1]

Finals

	Semi Finals
Saturday, 10 September	Coburg 11.9 (75)	def.	Preston 8.20 (68)	Coburg Cricket Ground (crowd: 10,000)	[2]
Saturday, 17 September	Northcote 14.7 (91)	def.	Camberwell 12.15 (87)	Port Melbourne Cricket Ground (crowd: 7,000)	[3]

	1932 VFA Final
Saturday, 24 September	Northcote	def.	Coburg	Coburg Cricket Ground (crowd: 9,000)	[4]
	1.2 (8) 5.9 (39) 8.9 (57)  13.11 (89)	Q1 Q2 Q3  Final	4.3 (27) 5.4 (34) 7.13 (55)  8.15 (63)
Seymour 8, Bray, Gray, Humphries, Ross, Rowe		Goals	Briggs 2, Elliott 2, Lowe 2, Mears 2,
Had Coburg won, minor premiers Northcote would have been entitled to a rematch the following Saturday to decide the premiership.

Awards

• Frank Seymour (Northcote) was the leading goalkicker for the season, kicking 109 goals in the home-and-home season and 122 goals overall.[1] Seymour's total set a new record for the most goals in a season, breaking his own record of 110 goals set in 1930.[3]
• Bob Ross (Northcote) won the Recorder Cup as the Association's best and fairest, polling nine votes. Jim Jenkins (Coburg), H. Jones (Camberwell) and N. Driver (Oakleigh) tied for second with eight votes apiece.[2]
• Brunswick won the seconds premiership. Brunswick 13.15 (93) defeated Coburg 4.13 (37) in the Grand Final at the Coburg Cricket Ground on 1 October.[5]

Notable events

• After winning back-to-back premierships in 1930 and 1931, many of Oakleigh's players either retired or transferred to the League, weakening Oakleigh's playing list so significantly that it won only three matches and received the 1932 wooden spoon.
• A new semi-perpetual trophy was presented to the Association by Grant Hay, to be presented each year to the premiers then won permanently by the first club to win it three times.[6] Northcote, by winning the 1932, 1933 and 1934 premierships, became permanent holders of the trophy without any other club ever being presented it.

See also

• List of VFA premiers

References

1. Onlooker (5 September 1932). "Association – Northcote on top". The Argus. Melbourne. p. 12.
2. Onlooker (12 September 1931). "Association – exciting semi-final". The Argus. Melbourne. p. 12.
3. Onlooker (19 September 1931). "Association – Victory with last kick". The Argus. Melbourne. p. 12.
4. Onlooker (26 September 1932). "Association – Premiership decided". The Argus. Melbourne. p. 11.
5. "Association Seconds". The Argus. Melbourne. 3 October 1932. p. 13.
6. "News and gossip from the clubs". The Herald. Melbourne, VIC. 17 June 1932. p. 4.