this will be a slightly different go over of afl history in a few parts of each year this is partly although we will get to it eventually the hawks 100 years in the comp is why i decided to make another footy history this time which will be more general in a few parts of each year they are
home and away summary
hawthorn summary (hawks)
most interesting team summary (can’t be hawks or the team who wins the flag)
finals summary
permership team summary (obviously i remove a section the 13 times the hawks win the flag to date (hopefully 14 this year).
before 1925 the hawthorn summary will be missing as they didn’t have a team till then.
the starting clubs were carlton, collingwood, essendon. fitzroy, geelong, melbourne, south melbourne and st kilda.
lets get started
home and away summary
the first year of the vfl (the precursor to the afl) was dominated by 5 clubs in fact only once did a bottom 3 side at the end of the year not lose to a top 5 side and that was a south/fitzroy draw in round 7 (the next closest was the rematch a 1 point win to south). this was a critical game as it cost south the last finals spot. the interesting thing is geelong who start 0-3 (and were last after round 2) suddenly went on a tear to top the ladder on 11 wins 3 loses ahead of essendon (who lead the 2nd half of the year) on percentage and one game ahead of the last founding team to lose a game melbourne who were quite inconsistent late in the year with 3 striagth loses in roudns 7 to 9 but beat the dons to cost the later first. collingwood were the other finalist despite looking gone with 3 games to go being a game and a half and percentage behind south only to get ahead at the end they won 9 games to souths 8 and a half. fitzroy got 4 and a half wins and were on top after round 2 but had only played carlton and st kilda at that stage. carltons two wins were both against winless st kilda.
finals summary
for some reason this and 1924 they had a round robbin finals system as opposed to any sort of knockout version. the flag was decided mostly at corio when geelong lost to essendon by a goal (no other finals have been played at geelong except in 2013 when geelong lost to freo). collignwood did beat melbourne but they were both no match for essendon and geelong because essendon didn’t lose in the round robin they won the first flag the last final between them and melbourne had only 1 goal kicked (and 16 behinds) between them the lowest agrogiate game ever with the dons 1 goal the difference.
most interesting season collingwood
i considered south and melbourne as well.
they started well with wins over st kilda essendon and geelong but a loss to south in round 4 ended that run beating fitzroy and carlton between a loss to melbourne had them looking good for finals at the half way mark after beating st kilda in round 8 they were 2nd than fall into a heap losing 3 straight to essendon, geelong and south leaving them to do the top they were expected to against carlton and fitzroy somehow beat melbourne and hope south or geelong drop 2 games they got lucky beating melbourne as well as south dropping 2 of the last 3 to sneak into 4th. a thrilling win over melbourne again gave them hope for the first flag but loses to essendon and geelong saw them finish 3rd,
premieres essendon
started well winning at geelong but a surpise loss to the pies in their first home game would have some worries than they won 5 straight ending the dees unbeaten run in round 7 to top the ladder at that stage in a game at south they won with a score of 1 goal 13. a round 8 loss to geelong didn’t cost them the lead and then another 5 game winning streak ended with a loss to melbourne costing them 1st but a first up finals win at geelong secured them momentum the win over the pies all but guranteed them the flag and then only needing 1.8 the lowest winning score ever to win the flag over the dees.
Harrison’s world 