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Encyclopedia > 1972 VFL season

Results and statistics for the Victorian Football League season of 1972. This article is about the national league in Australian rules football. ... 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday. ...


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

Carlton defeated Richmond 28.9 (177) to 22.18 (150), in front of a crowd of 112393 people. (For an explanation of scoring see Australian rules football). The Carlton Football Club is the sixth oldest Australian rules football club and the third oldest club in the 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 Carlton 18 3 1 2237 1666 134.3 74
2 Richmond 18 4 0 2469 2098 117.7 72
3 Collingwood 14 7 1 2338 1747 133.8 58
4 St Kilda 14 8 0 1989 1721 115.6 56
5 Essendon 14 8 0 2317 2140 108.3 56
6 Hawthorn 13 9 0 2277 2050 111.1 52
7 Footscray 11 11 0 1930 2038 94.7 44
8 Melbourne 10 12 0 2043 1929 105.9 40
9 Fitzroy 9 13 0 1997 2062 96.8 36
10 Geelong 7 15 0 1994 2369 84.2 28
11 South Melbourne 2 20 0 1513 2323 65.1 8
12 North Melbourne 1 21 0 1628 2589 62.9 4

The Carlton Football Club is the sixth oldest Australian rules football club and the third oldest club in the Australian Football League. ... The Richmond Football Club, nicknamed The Tigers, is an Australian rules football club playing in the Australian Football League. ... 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 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 Hawthorn Hawks known formally as the Tassie Hawks from 07 onwards, are an Australian rules football club playing in the Australian Football League (AFL). ... 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 Melbourne Football Club (MFC), nicknamed The Demons, is an Australian rules football club playing in the Australian Football League, based in Melbourne, Victoria. ... 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 Geelong Football Club, nicknamed The Cats, is an Australian rules football club in the Australian Football League with a rich history. ... The Sydney Swans is an Australian Football League (AFL) club based in Sydney, New South Wales. ... The North Melbourne Football Club, is an Australian rules football club in the Australian Football League. ...

Notes

Peter McKenna, born 1951 was an Australian rules footballer, who played 180 games and kicked 838 goals with the Collingwood Football Club between 1967 and 1974 before finishing his career with one season at Carlton Football Club. ... 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. ... Len Thompson born August 27, 1947, is 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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