1901 VFL season
| 1901 VFL Premiership season | |
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| Teams | 8 |
| Premiers |
Essendon (2nd premiership) |
| Minor premiers |
Geelong (2nd minor premiership) |
| Matches played | 71 |
| Highest attendance | 30,000 |
| Leading Goalkicker Medallist | Fred Hiskins (Essendon) |
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The 1901 Victorian Football League season was the fifth season of the elite Australian rules football competition.
In 1901, the VFL competition consisted of eight 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.
Each team played each other twice in a home-and-away season of 14 rounds.
Once the 14 round home-and-away season had finished, the 1901 VFL Premiers were determined by the specific format and conventions of the original Argus system.
Crowd: 10,000 at EMCG, 31 August 1901
Crowd: 15,000 at Victoria Park, 31 August 1901
Essendon defeated Collingwood 6.7 (43) to 2.4 (16). (For an explanation of scoring see Australian rules football).
Crowd: 30,000 at Lake Oval, 7 September 1901
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