1915 VFA season
| 1915 premiership season | |
|---|---|
| Teams | 10 |
| Premiers |
North Melbourne (5th premiership) |
| Minor premiers |
North Melbourne (4th minor premiership) |
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1916 →
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The 1915 Victorian Football Association season was the 39th season of the Australian rules football competition.
The season was the first to be played while Australia was fighting in World War One, so the playing stocks of many teams were reduced by enlistments. The season itself was cut five weeks short to encourage more young men to enlist in the war effort. It was the last season played before the Association went into recess for two seasons during the peak of the war.
The premiership was won by the North Melbourne Football Club, after it defeated Brunswick by 48 points in the final on August 7. It was the club's fifth VFA premiership, and its second in a sequence of three premierships won consecutively between 1914 and 1918. North Melbourne won all fifteen premiership matches it played during 1915, becoming the first team to go undefeated through a season since Essendon (L.) in 1893; the season was part of a 58-match winning streak for North Melbourne which lasted from 1914–1919.
The home-and-home season was to have been played over eighteen rounds, with each club playing the others twice. However, fighting was intensifying in Europe in World War I, and football was serving as a distraction which was dissuading men from enlisting to fight; as a result, the Association decided on 14 July to end the home-and-home season early after 13 matches, and proceed directly to the finals. The top four clubs contested a finals series under the amended Argus system to determine the premiers for the season.
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