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Encyclopedia > 1927 VFL season

Results and statistics for the Victorian Football League season of 1927. This article is about the national league in Australian rules football. ... 1927 (MCMXXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar). ...


See List of Australian Football League premiers for a complete list. AFL Logo This page is a chronological listing of Australian Football League premiers. ...

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Grand Final

Collingwood defeated Richmond 2.13 (25) to 1.7 (13), in front of a crowd of 34511 people. (For an explanation of scoring see Australian rules football). The Collingwood Football Club, nicknamed The Magpies after the black and white striped guernseys worn by the players, is an Australian rules football club, playing in the elite Australian Football League. ... The Richmond Football Club, nicknamed The Tigers, is an Australian rules football club playing in the Australian Football League. ... High marking is a key skill and spectator attribute of Aussie Rules Precise field and goal kicking using the oval shaped ball is the key skill in Aussie Rules Football Australian rules football, also known as Australian football, Aussie rules, or simply football or footy is a code of football...


Ladder

Team Won Lost Draw For Against % Points
1 Collingwood 15 3 0 1559 1035 150.6 60
2 Richmond 14 4 0 1483 1102 134.6 56
3 Geelong 14 4 0 1594 1208 132.0 56
4 Carlton 13 5 0 1434 1178 121.7 52
5 Melbourne 12 6 0 1548 1169 132.4 48
6 South Melbourne 9 9 0 1373 1431 95.9 36
7 St Kilda 8 10 0 1178 1564 75.3 32
8 Essendon 6 11 1 1198 1237 96.8 26
9 Fitzroy 6 11 1 1335 1558 85.7 26
10 Footscray 6 12 0 1131 1325 85.4 24
11 North Melbourne 3 15 0 1085 1476 73.5 12
12 Hawthorn 1 17 0 1087 1722 63.1 4

The Collingwood Football Club, nicknamed The Magpies after the black and white striped guernseys worn by the players, is an Australian rules football club, playing in the elite Australian Football League. ... The Richmond Football Club, nicknamed The Tigers, is an Australian rules football club playing in the Australian Football League. ... The Geelong Football Club, nicknamed The Cats, is an Australian rules football club in the Australian Football League with a rich history. ... The Carlton Football Club is the sixth oldest Australian rules football club and the third oldest club in the Australian Football League. ... The Melbourne Football Club (MFC), nicknamed The Demons, is an Australian rules football club playing in the Australian Football League, based in Melbourne, Victoria. ... The Sydney Swans is an Australian Football League (AFL) club based in Sydney, New South Wales. ... The St Kilda Football Club, nicknamed The Saints, is an Australian rules football club playing in the Australian Football League. ... Essendon Football Club, nicknamed The Bombers, is an Australian rules football club that is part of the Australian Football League. ... The Fitzroy Football Club, latterly known as the Lions, was formed in 1883 and was a foundation member club of the Victorian Football League on its inception in 1897. ... The Western Bulldogs, formerly known, and occasionally still referred to, as the Footscray Football Club, is an Australian Football League (AFL) club based at the Whitten Oval in Footscray, an inner western suburb of Melbourne. ... The North Melbourne Football Club, is an Australian rules football club in the Australian Football League. ... The Hawthorn Hawks known formally as the Tassie Hawks from 07 onwards, are an Australian rules football club playing in the Australian Football League (AFL). ...

Notes

Gordon Coventry was an Australian Rules Football player who played the full-forward position for the Collingwood Football Club in the great Collingwood teams of the 1920s and 1930s. ... The Collingwood Football Club, nicknamed The Magpies after the black and white striped guernseys worn by the players, is an Australian rules football club, playing in the elite Australian Football League. ... The Charles Brownlow Trophy, better known as the Brownlow Medal and colloquially as Charlie, is the medal awarded to the best and fairest player in the Australian Football League during the regular season (ie not including finals matches) as decided upon by umpires. ... Syd Coventry (born June 13, 1899) was a former Australian Rules footballer. ...

References

  • Stephen Rogers and Ashley Brown (1998). Every Game Ever Played. 6th ed. Victoria: Penguin Books.
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