Английская Википедия:1952 VFA season

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The 1952 Victorian Football Association season was the 71st season of the Australian rules football competition. The premiership was won by the Oakleigh Football Club, after it defeated Port Melbourne by 21 points in the Grand Final on 4 October. It was Oakleigh's fourth VFA premiership.

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

1952 VFA ladder
	TEAM	P	W	L	D	PF	PA	Pct	PTS
1	Port Melbourne	20	18	2	0	1911	1245	153.5	72
2	Coburg	20	15	5	0	1709	1272	134.4	60
3	Oakleigh (P)	20	13	7	0	1494	1226	121.9	52
4	Yarraville	20	13	7	0	1537	1434	107.2	52
5	Brunswick	20	12	8	0	1366	1278	106.9	48
6	Camberwell	20	11	8	1	1411	1363	103.6	46
7	Prahran	20	11	9	0	1511	1501	100.7	44
8	Moorabbin	20	10	10	0	1301	1326	98.1	40
9	Northcote	20	10	10	0	1270	1321	96.1	40
10	Williamstown	20	8	12	0	1767	1571	112.5	32
11	Preston	20	7	12	1	1495	1576	94.9	30
12	Sandringham	20	7	13	0	1393	1743	79.9	28
13	Box Hill	20	2	18	0	1228	1856	66.2	8
14	Brighton	20	2	18	0	1036	1717	60.3	8
Key: P = Played, W = Won, L = Lost, D = Drawn, PF = Points For, PA = Points Against, Pct = Percentage; (P) = Premiers, PTS = Premiership points								Source

Awards

• The leading goalkicker for the season was Johnny Walker (Williamstown), who kicked 103 goals in the home-and-home season and did not participate in finals.
• The J. J. Liston Trophy was won by Frank Johnson (Port Melbourne), who polled 47 votes. Jim Bohan (Camberwell) was second with 45 votes, and Bill Morris (Box Hill) was third with 23 votes.
• Yarraville won the seconds premiership. Yarraville 14.13 (97) defeated Moorabbin 12.15 (87) in the Grand Final, played as a curtain raiser to the firsts Grand Final on 4 October.

Notable events

• The Association's Thirds competition, contested by players under the age of 19, was established in 1952. Most clubs already operated Thirds teams, but they were fielded in local leagues rather than a dedicated Association-operated competition.
• In its first match of the season on 19 April, Oakleigh 14.10 (94) comfortably defeated Brunswick 4.9 (33). However, two of Oakleigh's new recruits – Eric Guy and Bill Botten, both from the Carrum Football Club – were played before their clearances from the Mornington Peninsula Football League were formally lodged with the Association; as a result, on 5 May the Association awarded the match and the four premiership points to Brunswick, and Oakleigh was fined £10. Oakleigh argued that the paperwork error was made by the Permit Committee, not the club; but the Association found that the onus was on Oakleigh to ensure the paperwork was lodged correctly. In August, the club took the Association to the Supreme Court of Victoria, seeking to overturn the penalties and injunct the Association from staging the finals if the penalty affected Oakleigh's finishing position, but dropped the case prior to the final round of home-and-home matches after the injunction was refused and an unfavourable reserved judgement was delivered. Ultimately, the club's third placing on the ladder was unaffected by the penalty, and it went on to win the premiership. The legal action cost the club an estimated £453.
• On 3 May, Box Hill won its first senior match in the Association, defeating Brighton 12.14 (86) d. 12.12 (84), to end a 22-game winless streak which included one draw.

External links

• List of VFA/VFL Premiers