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1902 Geelong Football Club season

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Geelong Football Club
1902 season
PresidentJ. McMullen
Captain(s)Henry Young
(2nd season)
Home groundCorio Oval
VFL Season7th
Finals SeriesDid not qualify
Leading goalkickerIke Woods (16 goals)
← 1901 1903 →

The 1902 VFL season was the Geelong Football Club's sixth season in the Victorian Football League and its second with Henry Young as captain.

Geelong finished the home-and-away with 7 wins and 10 losses, finishing in seventh position. Geelong did not qualify for the finals series.

The leading goalkicker was Ike Woods with 16 goals.

Playing List

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3 players played in all 17 games, and a total of 41 players were used. 17 of those 41 players made their VFL debuts and a further 2 made their Geelong debut, Jim Beasley from Essendon and Tom McLean from Collingwood. 5 players reached the 50 game milestone.

Statistics

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Denotes statistical category leader for season
Geelong's 1902 playing list and statistics[1]
Player Games Goals Milestones
Les Bailiff 17 0 50th Game (Round 14)
Jack Baker 3 3
Ern Batty 9 1 VFL Debut (Round 3)
Jim Beasley 7 2 Geelong Debut (Round 4)
Norman Belcher 3 2
Bill Bennion 16 1
Frank Bowey 9 1
Tommy Buchan 5 1
Peter Burns 7 0
Charlie Coles 8 7
Fred Cronin 2 0 VFL Debut (Round 15)
Jack Davie 1 0 VFL Debut (Round 3)
Mick Donaghy 14 0 50th Game (Round 8)
Bill Eason 4 0 VFL Debut (Round 1)
Jim Flynn 2 0
Ivan Forbes 11 7 VFL Debut (Round 7)
Billy Gill 1 0
Bert Hall 1 1 VFL Debut (Round 12)
Ted Holland 17 4
James Horman 1 0
John Hurley 3 1 VFL Debut (Round 12)
Bob Kerr 2 1 VFL Debut (Round 16)
Bill Mahoney 17 11 VFL Debut (Round 1)
Firth McCallum 4 0
Tim McKeegan 1 0
Alec McKenzie 10 8 VFL Debut (Round 1)
Tom McLean 11 0 Geelong Debut (Round 4)
Bill Munday 1 0 VFL Debut (Round 3)
Ernest Newling 14 0
Jimmy Palmer 8 7 50th Game (Round 12)
Arthur Pincott 13 0 50th Game (Round 1)
Herb Pitman 5 0 VFL Debut (Round 12)
Edward Potter 6 4 VFL Debut (Round 9)
Teddy Rankin 15 4
Arthur Reed 14 2 VFL Debut (Round 1)
Tom Shelley 1 0 VFL Debut (Round 17)
Peter Stephens 6 1 VFL Debut (Round 10)
Hughie Webb 9 4
Ike Woods 8 16
Jack Wright 4 0 VFL Debut (Round 13)
Henry Young 16 4 50th Game (Round 6)

Season summary

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In a generally poor season, Geelong finished the home-and-away season with 7 wins and 10 losses. After a decent start with a 4 win and 2 loss record, Geelong's lackluster form led to a poor placement of 7th position. Therefore, Geelong did not qualify for the finals series.

1902 Results

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Key
H Home game
A Away game
Table of season results[2]
Round Date Result Score Opponent Score Ground Attendance Ladder Report
G B T G B T
1 3 May Won 11 12 78 Carlton 6 4 40 Princes Park A - 2nd Report
2 10 May Lost 3 6 24 Essendon 10 17 77 Corio Oval H - 6th Report
3 17 May Lost 3 2 20 Collingwood 11 15 81 Victoria Park A - 6th Report
4 24 May Won 11 11 77 St Kilda 5 3 33 Corio Oval H - 5th Report
5 31 May Won 5 14 44 South Melbourne 3 9 27 Corio Oval H - 4th Report
6 7 June Won 3 8 26 Melbourne 2 13 25 Melbourne Cricket Ground A - 4th Report
7 9 June Lost 3 8 26 Fitzroy 8 14 62 Brunswick Street Oval A - 4th Report
8 14 June Lost 6 7 43 Carlton 7 5 47 Corio Oval H - 5th Report
9 21 June Won 4 10 34 Essendon 2 3 15 East Melbourne Cricket Ground A - 4th Report
10 5 July Lost 6 8 44 Collingwood 12 12 84 Corio Oval H - 4th Report
11 12 July Won 7 7 49 St Kilda 4 9 33 Junction Oval A - 4th Report
12 19 July Lost 6 9 45 South Melbourne 7 13 55 Lake Oval A - 5th Report
13 26 July Won 8 6 54 Melbourne 3 9 27 Corio Oval H - 4th Report
14 2 August Lost 5 10 40 Fitzroy 9 7 61 Corio Oval H - 5th Report
15 16 August Lost 5 6 36 Fitzroy 6 15 51 Corio Oval H - 5th Report
16 23 August Lost 5 9 39 South Melbourne 12 12 84 Lake Oval A - 5th Report
17 30 August Lost 2 11 23 Collingwood 16 16 112 Victoria Park A - 7th Report

Ladder

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Section A
Section B
# Team P W L D PF PA % Pts
1 Collingwood 14 12 2 0 838 461 181.8 48
2 Essendon 14 10 4 0 690 506 136.4 40
3 Fitzroy 14 9 5 0 783 553 141.6 36
4 Melbourne 14 7 7 0 618 610 101.3 28
5 Geelong 14 7 7 0 604 667 90.6 28
6 Carlton 14 6 8 0 494 653 75.7 24
7 South Melbourne 14 5 9 0 522 535 97.6 20
8 St Kilda 14 0 14 0 408 972 42.0 0

Rules for classification: 1. premiership points; 2. percentage; 3. points for
Source: AFL Tables

(P) Premiers
Qualified for finals
# Team P W L D PF PA % Pts
1 Collingwood (P) 17 15 2 0 1121 562 199.5 60
2 Essendon 17 13 4 0 885 625 141.6 52
3 Fitzroy 17 10 7 0 914 726 125.9 40
4 Melbourne 17 9 8 0 800 735 108.8 36
5 South Melbourne 17 7 10 0 700 704 99.4 28
6 Carlton 17 7 10 0 594 770 77.1 28
7 Geelong 17 7 10 0 702 914 76.8 28
8 St Kilda 17 0 17 0 490 1170 41.9 0

Rules for classification: 1. premiership points; 2. percentage; 3. points for
Average score: 45.6
Source: AFL Tables

References

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  1. ^ "1902 Stats - Player Lists - Geelong". AFL Tables. Retrieved 1 May 2020.
  2. ^ "1902 Season Scores and Results". AFL Tables. Retrieved 1 May 2020.
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