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Encyclopedia > 1978 VFL season

Results and statistics for the Victorian Football League season of 1978. This article is about the national league in Australian rules football. ... Year 1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link displays the 1978 Gregorian 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

Hawthorn deafeated North Melbourne 18.13 (121) to 15.13 (103), in front of a crowd of 101704 people. (For an explanation of scoring see Australian rules football). Hawthorn Football Club, nicknamed The Hawks, are an Australian rules football club playing in the Australian Football League (AFL). ... North Melbourne Football Club, now formally known as just The Kangaroos, is an Australian rules football club in the Australian Football League. ... High marking is a key skill and spectacular attribute of Australian rules football Precise field and goal kicking using the oval shaped ball is the key skill in Australian rules football Australian rules football, also known as Australian football, Aussie rules, or simply football or footy is a code of...


Ladder

Team Won Lost Draw For Against % Points
1 North Melbourne 16 6 0 2407 1991 120.9 64
2 Hawthorn 16 6 0 2496 2120 117.7 64
3 Collingwood 15 7 0 2347 2072 113.3 60
4 Carlton 14 8 0 2329 1994 116.8 56
5 Geelong 12 10 0 2153 2104 102.3 48
6 St Kilda 11 10 1 2330 2503 93.1 46
7 Richmond 10 11 1 2459 2389 102.9 42
8 South Melbourne 9 13 0 2390 2383 100.3 36
9 Fitzroy 8 14 0 2258 2339 96.5 32
10 Essendon 8 14 0 2203 2337 94.3 32
11 Footscray 7 15 0 2272 2508 90.6 28
12 Melbourne 5 17 0 2025 2929 69.1 20

North Melbourne Football Club, now formally known as just The Kangaroos, is an Australian rules football club in the Australian Football League. ... Hawthorn Football Club, nicknamed The Hawks, are an Australian rules football club playing in the Australian Football League (AFL). ... Collingwood Football Club, nicknamed The Magpies, is an Australian rules football club playing in the Australian Football League. ... Carlton Football Club, nicknamed The Blues, is the sixth oldest Australian rules football club and the third oldest club in the Australian Football League. ... Geelong Football Club, nicknamed The Cats, is an Australian rules football club in the Australian Football League with a rich history. ... St Kilda Football Club, nicknamed The Saints, is an Australian rules football club playing in the Australian Football League. ... Richmond Football Club, nicknamed The Tigers, is an Australian rules football club playing in the Australian Football League. ... Sydney Swans is an Australian Football League (AFL) club based in Sydney, New South Wales. ... Fitzroy Football Club, most recently nicknamed The Lions, was an Australian rules football club formed in 1883 to represent the inner Melbourne suburb of Fitzroy, Victoria and was a foundation member club of the Victorian Football League (now the Australian Football League) on its inception in 1897. ... Essendon Football Club, nicknamed The Bombers, is an Australian rules football club that is part of the Australian Football League. ... 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. ... Melbourne Football Club, nicknamed The Demons, is an Australian rules football club playing in the Australian Football League, based in Melbourne, Victoria. ...

Notes

The Western Bulldogs, formerly known as the Footscray Football Club or The Bulldogs is an Australian Football League (AFL) club based at the Whitten Oval in western suburban Melbourne, Australia, drawing its supporter base from this traditionally poor, industrial, and less leafy part of Melbourne. ... St Kilda Football Club, nicknamed The Saints, is an Australian rules football club playing in the Australian Football League. ... Carlton Football Club, nicknamed The Blues, is the sixth oldest Australian rules football club and the third oldest club in the Australian Football League. ... Results and statistics for the VFL/AFL season of 1969. ... Results and statistics for the Victorian Football League season of 1979. ... Melbourne Football Club, nicknamed The Demons, is an Australian rules football club playing in the Australian Football League, based in Melbourne, Victoria. ... St Kilda Football Club, nicknamed The Saints, is an Australian rules football club playing in the Australian Football League. ... Results and statistics for the Victorian Football League season of 1972. ... Kelvin Templeton (born September 30, 1956) is a former Australian rules footballer. ... 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 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. ... Malcolm Jack Blight AM (born 16 February 1950) is a former Australian rules football player who had a Hall of Fame career with the Woodville Football Club and the North Melbourne Football Club and coached the Adelaide Crows to two Premierships in 1997 & 1998. ...

References

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