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词条 1956 VFA season
释义

  1. Premiership

     Ladder  Finals 

  2. Awards

  3. Notable events

     Perth Carnival  Other notable events 

  4. External links

  5. References

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The 1956 Victorian Football Association season was the 75th season of the Australian rules football competition. The premiership was won by the Williamstown Football Club, after it defeated Port Melbourne in the Grand Final on 29 September by twenty-four points. It was Williamstown's eighth premiership, its third in a row (all won against Port Melbourne), and the third of five premierships won in six seasons from 1954 until 1959.

Premiership

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

Ladder

1956 VFA Ladder
TEAM PWLDPFPAPctPTS
1 Williamstown (P) 20 17 3 0 1725 1070 161.2 68
2 Port Melbourne 20 16 4 0 1849 1187 155.8 64
3 Brunswick 20 14 6 0 1637 1260 129.9 56
4 Box Hill 20 14 6 0 1359 1075 126.4 56
5 Preston 20 14 6 0 1542 1247 123.7 56
6 Moorabbin 20 12 8 0 1553 1242 125.0 48
7 Sandringham 20 9 11 0 1283 1434 89.5 36
8 Yarraville 20 9 11 0 1280 1470 87.1 36
9 Coburg 20 7 12 1 1655 1647 100.5 30
10 Oakleigh 20 7 12 1 1091 1529 71.4 30
11 Brighton 20 6 13 1 1343 1743 77.1 26
12 Camberwell 20 5 15 0 1199 1687 71.1 20
13 Prahran 20 4 15 1 1164 1783 65.3 18
14 Northcote 20 4 16 0 1065 1371 77.7 16
Key: P = Played, W = Won, L = Lost, D = Drawn, PF = Points For, PA = Points Against, Pct = Percentage; (P) = Premiers, PTS = Premiership pointsSource[1]

Finals

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|title = 1956 VFA Grand Final
|date = Saturday, 29 September
|home team = Port Melbourne
|home Q1 = 5.6 (36)
|home Q2 = 8.11 (59)
|home Q3 = 9.14 (68)
|home final = 10.18 (78)
|home goals= Bonnett 4, Collins, Harvey, Johnson, McDonald, Miller, Sykes
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|home injuries = Atkinson (ankle), Laffey (leg)
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|winner = A
||away team = Williamstown
|away Q1 = 3.1 (19)
|away Q2 = 8.5 (53)
|away Q3 = 8.10 (58)
|away final = 14.18 (102)
|away goals= McPherson 6, Gear 2, Callahan, Fisher, Linton, Reed, Smith, Wookey
|away best=
|away injuries = Curran (hand)
|away reports =
|venue = St Kilda Cricket Ground
|crowd = 28,000
|report = [5]
|umpires = Jack Irving
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|notes=
  • Port Melbourne and Williamstown were tied on 10.16 (76) with ten minutes remaining, before Williamstown kicked four late goals.

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Awards

  • The leading goalkicker for the home-and-home season was Bob Bonnett (Port Melbourne), who kicked 88 goals.[1]
  • The J. J. Liston Trophy was won by Jack Martin (Williamstown), who polled 41 votes. Ken Ross (Camberwell) was second with 28 votes, and Frank Johnson (Port Melbourne) was third with 25 votes.[6]
  • Williamstown won the seconds premiership. Williamstown 14.16 (100) defeated Box Hill 4.7 (31) in the Grand Final, played as a curtain raiser to the firsts Grand Final on 29 September.[5]

Notable events

Perth Carnival

The Association competed in the 1956 Perth Carnival, and finished in last place with a record of 0–4. Port Melbourne's Frank Johnson captained the Association team,[7] and Northcote's Bill Faul served as coach.[8] Johnson was named as captain of the All-Australian team; no other Association players were named in the team.[9]

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Other notable events

  • The Preston City Oval was unavailable during 1956 after being upgraded and resurfaced by the council in October 1955.[14] Preston played its home matches at Coburg for the season.[15]
  • Northcote players were paid for their services during 1956, after having played as amateurs since mid-1953 due to the club's financial difficulties.[16][17] During the season, Yarraville suffered financial difficulties, and players' match payments were reduced from four pounds to ten shillings.[18]
  • In its Round 1 match, Coburg 6.5 (41) trailed Preston 13.8 (86) by 45 points at three-quarter time, before kicking 8.10 to no score in the final quarter to win 14.15 (99) d. 13.8 (86).[19]
  • In its Round 7 match, Yarraville defeated Williamstown by one point after Jack Whallis kicked a goal after the final siren from 35 yards.[20]

External links

  • List of VFA/VFL Premiers

References

1. ^1 {{cite news|newspaper=The Sun News-Pictorial|date=3 September 1956|title=Box Hill makes VFA finals for first time|page=28|publication-place=Melbourne, VIC|author=Noel Carrick}}
2. ^{{cite news|newspaper=The Sun News-Pictorial|date=10 September 1956|title=Box Hill becomes a danger in VFA final|page=32|publication-place=Melbourne, VIC|author=Noel Carrick}}
3. ^{{cite news|newspaper=The Sun News-Pictorial|date=17 September 1956|title=Port's "sheer spirit" crushes Seagulls|page=32|publication-place=Melbourne, VIC|author=Noel Carrick}}
4. ^{{cite news|newspaper=The Sun News-Pictorial|date=24 September 1956|title=Experience gives Seagulls VFA final|page=34|publication-place=Melbourne, VIC|author=Noel Carrick}}
5. ^1 {{cite news|newspaper=The Sun News-Pictorial|date=1 October 1956|title=Fitness in last 10 mins. gave flag to Seagulls|page=31|publication-place=Melbourne, VIC|author=Noel Carrick}}
6. ^{{cite news|newspaper=The Sun News-Pictorial|date=6 September 1956|title=Martin's easy win in Liston|page=32|publication-place=Melbourne, VIC|author=}}
7. ^{{cite news|newspaper=The Sun News-Pictorial|date=14 June 1956|title=V.F.A. picks strongest combination|page=36|publication-place=Melbourne, VIC|author=Kevin Hogan}}
8. ^{{cite news|newspaper=The Sun News-Pictorial|date=16 October 1956|page=36|title=Faul switches to Moorabbin}}
9. ^{{cite news|newspaper=The Sun News-Pictorial|date=25 June 1956|title=All-Australian team is joke|page=34|publication-place=Melbourne, VIC|author=Kevin Hogan}}
10. ^{{cite news|newspaper=The Sun News-Pictorial|date=15 June 1956|title=V.F.A. crippled by heavy injuries|page=31|publication-place=Melbourne, VIC|author=Kevin Hogan}}
11. ^{{cite news|newspaper=The Sun News-Pictorial|date=18 June 1956|title=Carnival details|page=33|publication-place=Melbourne, VIC|author=Kevin Hogan}}
12. ^{{cite news|newspaper=The Sun News-Pictorial|date=20 June 1956|title=Carnival details|page=36|publication-place=Melbourne, VIC|author=Kevin Hogan}}
13. ^{{cite news|newspaper=The Sun News-Pictorial|date=22 June 1956|title=Carnival details|page=32|publication-place=Melbourne, VIC|author=Kevin Hogan}}
14. ^{{cite news|newspaper=The Argus|date=9 April 1955|author=Dave Andersen|publication-place=Melbourne, VIC|title=Preston to lose ground|page=37}}
15. ^{{cite news|newspaper=The Sun News-Pictorial|date=20 April 1956|author=Noel Carrick|publication-place=Melbourne, VIC|title=Williamstown's 4 changes|page=30}}
16. ^{{cite news|newspaper=The Sun News-Pictorial|title=Third VFA team to play as amateurs|author=Jack Dunn|page=28|date=17 July 1953|publication-place=Melbourne, VIC}}
17. ^{{cite news|newspaper=The Sun News-Pictorial|date=8 March 1956|title=Northcote gets rise|page=36|publication-place=Melbourne, VIC|author=}}
18. ^{{cite news|newspaper=The Sun News-Pictorial|title=Yarraville men will play for 10/– a game|author=Noel Carrick|page=35|date=11 July 1956|publication-place=Melbourne, VIC}}
19. ^{{cite news|newspaper=The Sun News-Pictorial|date=16 April 1956|title=V.F.A. premiers fail to impress in easy victory|page=29|publication-place=Melbourne, VIC|author=Noel Carrick}}
20. ^{{cite news|newspaper=The Sun News-Pictorial|date=28 May 1956|author=Noel Carrick|publication-place=Melbourne, VIC|title=Williamstown topples from lead in V.F.A. surprise|page=30}}
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