1929 VFL season

33rd season of the Victorian Football League (VFL)

1929 VFL premiership season

Overview
Date| 27 April—28 September 1929
Teams| 12
Premiers| Collingwood
8th premiership
Runners-up| Richmond
5th runners-up result
Minor premiers| Collingwood
11th minor premiership
Brownlow Medallist| Albert Collier (Collingwood)
6 votes
Leading goalkicker medallist| Gordon Coventry (Collingwood)
118 goals
Attendance
Matches played| 112
Total attendance| 1,911,541 (17,067 per match)
Highest (H&A)| 41,316 (round 18, Melbourne v Collingwood)
Highest (finals)| 63,336 (grand final, Collingwood v Richmond)

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The 1929 VFL season was the 33rd season of the Victorian Football League (VFL), the highest-level senior Australian rules football competition in Victoria. The season featured twelve clubs and ran from 27 April to 28 September, comprising an 18-match home-and-away season followed by a four-week finals series featuring the top four clubs.

Collingwood won the premiership, defeating Richmond by 29 points in the 1929 VFL grand final; it was Collingwood's third consecutive premiership and eighth VFL premiership overall. Collingwood also won the minor premiership by finishing atop the home-and-away ladder with an 18–0 win–loss record, the only time in the league's history that a team has gone through a home-and-away season undefeated, however its loss to Richmond in the semi-finals prevented the club from achieving a perfect season. Collingwood's Albert Collier won the Brownlow Medal as the league's best and fairest player, and teammate Gordon Coventry won his fourth consecutive leading goalkicker medal as the league's leading goalkicker, becoming the first player to kick over 100 goals in a season.

## Background

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In 1929, the VFL competition consisted of twelve teams of 18 on-the-field players each, with no "reserves", although any of the 18 players who had left the playing field for any reason could later resume their place on the field at any time during the match.

Teams played each other in a home-and-away season of 18 rounds; matches 12 to 18 were the "home-and-away reverse" of matches 1 to 7.

Once the 18 round home-and-away season had finished, the 1929 VFL Premiers were determined by the specific format and conventions of the amended "Argus system".

## Home-and-away season

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### Round 1

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Home team | Home team score | Away team | Away team score | Venue | Crowd | Date

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Melbourne | 12.8 (80) | South Melbourne | 7.16 (58)  | MCG | 16,843  | 27 April 1929
Collingwood | 15.2 (92) | Richmond | 11.9 (75)  | Victoria Park | 25,000  | 27 April 1929
Carlton | 19.17 (131) | Essendon | 8.10 (58)  | Princes Park | 7,000  | 27 April 1929
St Kilda | 12.10 (82) | Hawthorn | 8.10 (58)  | Junction Oval | 13,000  | 27 April 1929
North Melbourne | 8.6 (54)  | Geelong | 12.20 (92) | Arden Street Oval | 7,000  | 27 April 1929
Footscray | 10.18 (78) | Fitzroy | 10.9 (69)  | Western Oval | 17,000  | 27 April 1929

### Round 2

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Home team | Home team score | Away team | Away team score | Venue | Crowd | Date

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Geelong | 12.15 (87) | Melbourne | 3.10 (28)  | Corio Oval | 11,000  | 4 May 1929
Fitzroy | 14.23 (107) | North Melbourne | 8.7 (55)  | Brunswick Street Oval | 13,000  | 4 May 1929
Essendon | 17.10 (112) | Footscray | 16.8 (104)  | Windy Hill | 20,000  | 4 May 1929
South Melbourne | 12.17 (89) | St Kilda | 9.9 (63)  | Lake Oval | 21,270  | 4 May 1929
Hawthorn | 11.7 (73)  | Collingwood | 18.18 (126) | Glenferrie Oval | 12,000  | 4 May 1929
Richmond | 16.23 (119) | Carlton | 16.13 (109)  | Punt Road Oval | 36,000  | 4 May 1929

### Round 3

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Footscray | 8.16 (64) | North Melbourne | 7.11 (53)  | Western Oval | 15,000  | 11 May 1929
Essendon | 9.9 (63)  | Richmond | 15.17 (107) | Windy Hill | 25,000  | 11 May 1929
Collingwood | 19.20 (134) | South Melbourne | 4.14 (38)  | Victoria Park | 18,000  | 11 May 1929
Carlton | 13.28 (106) | Hawthorn | 9.14 (68)  | Princes Park | 17,000  | 11 May 1929
St Kilda | 8.9 (57)  | Geelong | 8.12 (60) | Junction Oval | 21,000  | 11 May 1929
Melbourne | 15.17 (107) | Fitzroy | 12.4 (76)  | MCG | 18,920  | 11 May 1929

### Round 4

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Home team | Home team score | Away team | Away team score | Venue | Crowd | Date

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Fitzroy | 12.8 (80)  | St Kilda | 16.21 (117) | Brunswick Street Oval | 14,000  | 18 May 1929
North Melbourne | 6.5 (41)  | Melbourne | 14.15 (99) | Arden Street Oval | 9,000  | 18 May 1929
Richmond | 14.19 (103) | Footscray | 11.19 (85)  | Punt Road Oval | 22,000  | 18 May 1929
Hawthorn | 10.10 (70)  | Essendon | 10.15 (75) | Glenferrie Oval | 12,000  | 18 May 1929
Geelong | 6.13 (49)  | Collingwood | 12.13 (85) | Corio Oval | 20,499  | 18 May 1929
South Melbourne | 9.19 (73)  | Carlton | 10.19 (79) | Lake Oval | 25,000  | 18 May 1929

### Round 5

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Home team | Home team score | Away team | Away team score | Venue | Crowd | Date

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Footscray | 10.15 (75) | Melbourne | 11.9 (75) | Western Oval | 15,500  | 25 May 1929
Essendon | 10.18 (78) | South Melbourne | 7.10 (52)  | Windy Hill | 15,000  | 25 May 1929
Collingwood | 16.19 (115) | Fitzroy | 8.11 (59)  | Victoria Park | 18,000  | 25 May 1929
Carlton | 10.13 (73) | Geelong | 8.7 (55)  | Princes Park | 30,000  | 25 May 1929
St Kilda | 18.13 (121) | North Melbourne | 7.13 (55)  | Junction Oval | 15,000  | 25 May 1929
Richmond | 16.22 (118) | Hawthorn | 12.5 (77)  | Punt Road Oval | 14,000  | 25 May 1929

### Round 6

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Home team | Home team score | Away team | Away team score | Venue | Crowd | Date

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South Melbourne | 11.14 (80) | Richmond | 10.17 (77)  | Lake Oval | 24,000  | 1 June 1929
North Melbourne | 11.15 (81)  | Collingwood | 20.12 (132) | Arden Street Oval | 10,000  | 1 June 1929
Fitzroy | 10.13 (73)  | Carlton | 20.12 (132) | Brunswick Street Oval | 25,000  | 1 June 1929
Melbourne | 8.13 (61) | St Kilda | 8.11 (59)  | MCG | 38,104  | 3 June 1929
Footscray | 16.24 (120) | Hawthorn | 7.15 (57)  | Western Oval | 14,000  | 3 June 1929
Geelong | 7.13 (55)  | Essendon | 8.12 (60) | Corio Oval | 13,250  | 3 June 1929

### Round 7

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Home team | Home team score | Away team | Away team score | Venue | Crowd | Date

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Hawthorn | 15.8 (98) | South Melbourne | 11.13 (79)  | Glenferrie Oval | 10,000  | 15 June 1929
Essendon | 18.25 (133) | Fitzroy | 12.8 (80)  | Windy Hill | 15,000  | 15 June 1929
Collingwood | 12.11 (83) | Melbourne | 9.5 (59)  | Victoria Park | 22,000  | 15 June 1929
Carlton | 15.17 (107) | North Melbourne | 7.10 (52)  | Princes Park | 18,000  | 15 June 1929
Richmond | 13.15 (93) | Geelong | 12.13 (85)  | Punt Road Oval | 19,000  | 15 June 1929
St Kilda | 13.14 (92) | Footscray | 8.13 (61)  | Junction Oval | 20,000  | 15 June 1929

### Round 8

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Home team | Home team score | Away team | Away team score | Venue | Crowd | Date

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Geelong | 8.8 (56) | Hawthorn | 2.13 (25)  | Corio Oval | 4,000  | 22 June 1929
Footscray | 11.9 (75) | South Melbourne | 8.13 (61)  | Western Oval | 11,000  | 22 June 1929
Fitzroy | 13.8 (86)  | Richmond | 19.13 (127) | Brunswick Street Oval | 14,000  | 22 June 1929
North Melbourne | 4.14 (38)  | Essendon | 10.12 (72) | Arden Street Oval | 9,000  | 22 June 1929
St Kilda | 7.8 (50)  | Collingwood | 7.12 (54) | Junction Oval | 27,000  | 22 June 1929
Melbourne | 5.12 (42)  | Carlton | 10.17 (77) | MCG | 26,591  | 22 June 1929

### Round 9

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Home team | Home team score | Away team | Away team score | Venue | Crowd | Date

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Essendon | 11.10 (76)  | Melbourne | 12.10 (82) | Windy Hill | 15,000  | 29 June 1929
Collingwood | 20.19 (139) | Footscray | 14.10 (94)  | Victoria Park | 18,000  | 29 June 1929
Carlton | 12.22 (94) | St Kilda | 7.15 (57)  | Princes Park | 32,000  | 29 June 1929
Richmond | 19.15 (129) | North Melbourne | 11.10 (76)  | Punt Road Oval | 11,000  | 29 June 1929
South Melbourne | 10.13 (73)  | Geelong | 10.15 (75) | Lake Oval | 12,000  | 29 June 1929
Hawthorn | 13.15 (93) | Fitzroy | 8.10 (58)  | Glenferrie Oval | 10,000  | 29 June 1929

### Round 10

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Home team | Home team score | Away team | Away team score | Venue | Crowd | Date

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Melbourne | 10.8 (68) | Richmond | 9.11 (65)  | MCG | 18,048  | 6 July 1929
Footscray | 9.13 (67) | Geelong | 9.5 (59)  | Western Oval | 9,000  | 6 July 1929
Fitzroy | 12.14 (86)  | South Melbourne | 17.8 (110) | Brunswick Street Oval | 6,000  | 6 July 1929
North Melbourne | 8.6 (54)  | Hawthorn | 8.18 (66) | Arden Street Oval | 4,500  | 6 July 1929
St Kilda | 9.9 (63) | Essendon | 7.6 (48)  | Junction Oval | 12,500  | 6 July 1929
Collingwood | 15.15 (105) | Carlton | 11.10 (76)  | Victoria Park | 33,000  | 6 July 1929

### Round 11

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Home team | Home team score | Away team | Away team score | Venue | Crowd | Date

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Richmond | 13.13 (91) | St Kilda | 7.11 (53)  | Punt Road Oval | 20,000  | 13 July 1929
Hawthorn | 5.13 (43)  | Melbourne | 7.11 (53) | Glenferrie Oval | 8,000  | 13 July 1929
Carlton | 15.20 (110) | Footscray | 6.7 (43)  | Princes Park | 20,000  | 13 July 1929
South Melbourne | 17.14 (116) | North Melbourne | 12.9 (81)  | Lake Oval | 8,000  | 13 July 1929
Geelong | 15.6 (96) | Fitzroy | 10.11 (71)  | Corio Oval | 7,500  | 13 July 1929
Essendon | 11.7 (73)  | Collingwood | 13.14 (92) | Windy Hill | 17,000  | 13 July 1929

### Round 12

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Home team | Home team score | Away team | Away team score | Venue | Crowd | Date

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Hawthorn | 7.9 (51)  | St Kilda | 15.12 (102) | Glenferrie Oval | 12,000  | 20 July 1929
Geelong | 11.14 (80) | North Melbourne | 8.6 (54)  | Corio Oval | 7,000  | 20 July 1929
Fitzroy | 9.15 (69)  | Footscray | 12.16 (88) | Brunswick Street Oval | 10,000  | 20 July 1929
South Melbourne | 12.10 (82) | Melbourne | 9.15 (69)  | Lake Oval | 15,000  | 20 July 1929
Richmond | 11.9 (75)  | Collingwood | 16.21 (117) | Punt Road Oval | 33,000  | 20 July 1929
Essendon | 8.7 (55)  | Carlton | 7.17 (59) | Windy Hill | 22,000  | 20 July 1929

### Round 13

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Home team | Home team score | Away team | Away team score | Venue | Crowd | Date

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St Kilda | 15.9 (99) | South Melbourne | 8.8 (56)  | Junction Oval | 18,500  | 27 July 1929
Collingwood | 22.10 (142) | Hawthorn | 7.14 (56)  | Victoria Park | 7,000  | 27 July 1929
Carlton | 8.9 (57)  | Richmond | 13.15 (93) | Princes Park | 27,000  | 27 July 1929
Melbourne | 6.14 (50) | Geelong | 6.12 (48)  | MCG | 12,834  | 27 July 1929
North Melbourne | 12.13 (85)  | Fitzroy | 15.12 (102) | Arden Street Oval | 5,000  | 27 July 1929
Footscray | 11.11 (77)  | Essendon | 10.18 (78) | Western Oval | 14,000  | 27 July 1929

### Round 14

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Home team | Home team score | Away team | Away team score | Venue | Crowd | Date

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Geelong | 9.6 (60)  | St Kilda | 11.5 (71) | Corio Oval | 10,500  | 3 August 1929
Fitzroy | 5.11 (41)  | Melbourne | 11.11 (77) | Brunswick Street Oval | 8,000  | 3 August 1929
North Melbourne | 9.8 (62) | Footscray | 7.7 (49)  | Arden Street Oval | 7,000  | 3 August 1929
Richmond | 10.14 (74) | Essendon | 10.14 (74) | Punt Road Oval | 22,000  | 3 August 1929
South Melbourne | 6.7 (43)  | Collingwood | 10.10 (70) | Lake Oval | 20,000  | 3 August 1929
Hawthorn | 5.7 (37)  | Carlton | 7.8 (50) | Glenferrie Oval | 6,000  | 3 August 1929

### Round 15

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Home team | Home team score | Away team | Away team score | Venue | Crowd | Date

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Melbourne | 15.17 (107) | North Melbourne | 6.14 (50)  | MCG | 8,421  | 10 August 1929
Footscray | 11.6 (72)  | Richmond | 14.15 (99) | Western Oval | 13,000  | 10 August 1929
Essendon | 15.10 (100) | Hawthorn | 13.14 (92)  | Windy Hill | 11,000  | 10 August 1929
Collingwood | 13.9 (87) | Geelong | 8.12 (60)  | Victoria Park | 14,000  | 10 August 1929
Carlton | 17.17 (119) | South Melbourne | 11.15 (81)  | Princes Park | 20,000  | 10 August 1929
St Kilda | 21.16 (142) | Fitzroy | 10.15 (75)  | Junction Oval | 14,500  | 10 August 1929

### Round 16

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Home team | Home team score | Away team | Away team score | Venue | Crowd | Date

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North Melbourne | 9.8 (62)  | St Kilda | 20.12 (132) | Arden Street Oval | 9,000  | 17 August 1929
Hawthorn | 8.10 (58)  | Richmond | 11.14 (80) | Glenferrie Oval | 12,500  | 17 August 1929
Melbourne | 11.16 (82) | Footscray | 6.5 (41)  | MCG | 13,891  | 17 August 1929
South Melbourne | 14.10 (94) | Essendon | 13.10 (88)  | Lake Oval | 15,000  | 17 August 1929
Fitzroy | 8.7 (55)  | Collingwood | 16.15 (111) | Brunswick Street Oval | 13,000  | 17 August 1929
Geelong | 2.13 (25)  | Carlton | 5.9 (39) | Corio Oval | 10,000  | 17 August 1929

### Round 17

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Home team | Home team score | Away team | Away team score | Venue | Crowd | Date

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Richmond | 18.28 (136) | South Melbourne | 10.5 (65)  | Punt Road Oval | 12,000  | 24 August 1929
Essendon | 7.11 (53) | Geelong | 6.15 (51)  | Windy Hill | 9,000  | 24 August 1929
Collingwood | 21.12 (138) | North Melbourne | 8.13 (61)  | Victoria Park | 6,000  | 24 August 1929
Carlton | 15.18 (108) | Fitzroy | 9.15 (69)  | Princes Park | 13,000  | 24 August 1929
St Kilda | 9.12 (66) | Melbourne | 6.13 (49)  | Junction Oval | 35,000  | 24 August 1929
Hawthorn | 10.17 (77) | Footscray | 5.3 (33)  | Glenferrie Oval | 4,000  | 24 August 1929

### Round 18

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Home team | Home team score | Away team | Away team score | Venue | Crowd | Date

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Geelong | 12.10 (82) | Richmond | 5.12 (42)  | Corio Oval | 6,500  | 31 August 1929
Footscray | 4.18 (42)  | St Kilda | 9.13 (67) | Western Oval | 10,000  | 31 August 1929
South Melbourne | 13.10 (88) | Hawthorn | 11.5 (71)  | Lake Oval | 8,000  | 31 August 1929
Fitzroy | 11.18 (84) | Essendon | 7.11 (53)  | Brunswick Street Oval | 8,500  | 31 August 1929
Melbourne | 5.10 (40)  | Collingwood | 14.12 (96) | MCG | 41,316  | 31 August 1929
North Melbourne | 8.8 (56)  | Carlton | 8.15 (63) | Arden Street Oval | 8,000  | 31 August 1929

## Ladder

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(P) | Premiers

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1 | Collingwood (P) | 18 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 1918 | 1117 | 171.7 | 72
2 | Carlton | 18 | 15 | 3 | 0 | 1589 | 1161 | 136.9 | 60
3 | Richmond | 18 | 12 | 5 | 1 | 1703 | 1399 | 121.7 | 50
4 | St Kilda | 18 | 12 | 6 | 0 | 1493 | 1146 | 130.3 | 48
5 | Melbourne | 18 | 11 | 6 | 1 | 1228 | 1164 | 105.5 | 46
6 | Essendon | 18 | 9 | 8 | 1 | 1349 | 1405 | 96.0 | 38
7 | Geelong | 18 | 8 | 10 | 0 | 1175 | 1082 | 108.6 | 32
8 | South Melbourne | 18 | 7 | 11 | 0 | 1338 | 1578 | 84.8 | 28
9 | Footscray | 18 | 6 | 11 | 1 | 1268 | 1464 | 86.6 | 26
10 | Hawthorn | 18 | 4 | 14 | 0 | 1170 | 1522 | 76.9 | 16
11 | Fitzroy | 18 | 3 | 15 | 0 | 1340 | 1827 | 73.3 | 12
12 | North Melbourne | 18 | 1 | 17 | 0 | 1070 | 1776 | 60.2 | 4

Rules for classification: 1. premiership points; 2. percentage; 3. points for
Average score: 77.0
Source: AFL Tables

## Finals series

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All of the 1929 finals were played at the MCG so the home team in the semi-finals and Preliminary Final is purely the higher ranked team from the ladder but in the Grand Final the home team was the team that won the Preliminary Final.

### Semi-finals

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Carlton | 12.9 (81) | St Kilda | 11.7 (73)  | MCG | 58,481  | 7 September
Collingwood | 8.13 (61)  | Richmond | 18.15 (123) | MCG | 51,069  | 14 September

### Preliminary final

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Richmond | 15.7 (97) | Carlton | 14.7 (91)  | MCG | 60,653  | 21 September

### Grand final

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Main article: 1929 VFL Grand Final

## Season notes

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* Collingwood set many records during the 1929 season, including:
* First team to remain undefeated through an entire home-and away season. However, given that they lost the second semi-final to Richmond, they were not undefeated for the entire season.
* In three seasons, 1927, 1928, and 1929, the team had played 61 matches, for 53 wins, 1 draw, and 7 losses.
* First team to score more than 2,000 points in a single season.
* First team to have a full-forward scoring more than 100 goals in a single season.
* First team to have a player kick 16 goals in a single match.
* First team to be VFL premiers on eight occasions.
* On 18 June 1929 the VFL was incorporated as a public company, and it purchased a three-storey building (later named Harrison House after Henry Harrison who died later that year, on 2 September) on the corner of Spring Street and Flinders Lane.
* Clarrie Hearn of Essendon won the 1929 130-yard Stawell Gift in eleven and fifteen sixteenths of a second (approx. 11.94 seconds), off a handicap of 10 yards.
* Footscray's 23 effective scoring shots (7 goals and 16 behinds) against Hawthorn in the third quarter of their Round 6 match remains the most scoring shots by a team in one quarter.
* Footscray's 16 behinds in that quarter has been equalled only by Collingwood against North Melbourne in the third quarter in Round 6, 1970.

## Awards

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* The 1929 VFL Premiership team was Collingwood.
* The VFL's leading goalkicker was Gordon Coventry of Collingwood with 124 goals.
* The winner of the 1929 Brownlow Medal was Albert "Leeter" Collier of Collingwood with 6 votes.
* North Melbourne took the "wooden spoon" in 1929.
* The seconds premiership was won by Richmond. Richmond 12.8 (80) defeated Geelong 7.15 (57) in the challenge Grand Final, played as a stand-alone game on Thursday 26 September (Show Day holiday) at the Melbourne Cricket Ground before a crowd of 6,544.[1]

## References

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1. ^ "League Second Eighteens". The Argus. Melbourne. 27 September 1929. p. 15.

* Maplestone, M., Flying Higher: History of the Essendon Football Club 1872–1996, Essendon Football Club, (Melbourne), 1996. ISBN 0-9591740-2-8
* Rogers, S. & Brown, A., Every Game Ever Played: VFL/AFL Results 1897–1997 (Sixth Edition), Viking Books, (Ringwood), 1998. ISBN 0-670-90809-6
* Ross, J. (ed), 100 Years of Australian Football 1897–1996: The Complete Story of the AFL, All the Big Stories, All the Great Pictures, All the Champions, Every AFL Season Reported, Viking, (Ringwood), 1996. ISBN 0-670-86814-0

## Sources

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* 1929 VFL season at AFL Tables
* 1929 VFL season at Australian Football

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* People First Stadium
* Summit Sport and Recreation Park
* Sydney Cricket Ground
* TIO Stadium
* TIO Traeger Park
* University of Tasmania Stadium

Other awards|

* AFL Coaches Association awards
* AFL Players Association awards
* Leigh Matthews Trophy
* Goal of the Year
* Mark of the Year

Major recurring
events|

* AFL draft
* AFL finals series
* AFL Futures match
* AFL Grand Final
* Anzac Day Eve match
* Anzac Day match
* Dreamtime at the 'G
* Easter Monday clash
* E. J. Whitten Legends Game
* Gather Round
* King's Birthday match
* Len Hall Tribute game
* Opening game
* QClash
* Showdown
* Sydney Derby
* Western Derby

Second-tier and
junior competitions|

| Current|

* AFL National Championships
* Talent League
* South Australian National Football League
* Victorian Football League
* West Australian Football League

|

Former|

* AFL reserves
* AFL under-19s
* North East Australian Football League
* VFL Sub-Districts

Related articles|

* AFL Coaches Association
* AFL Commission
* AFL Players Association
* AFL Record
* AFL Umpires Association
* AFL Women's
* AFLX
* Carlton salary cap breach
* Current coaches
* Essendon supplements saga
* Grand final location debate
* Grand Final pre-match performances
* History
* Individual match awards
* International Rules Series
* McClelland Trophy
* Melbourne tanking scandal
* Premiership captains and coaches
* Premiership/grand final statistics
* Proposed clubs
* Tasmanian AFL bid
* Records
* Reserves affiliations
* Rivalries
* Television shows
* Video games

Known as the Victorian Football League from 1897–1989; no grand finals were held in 1897 and 1924
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