1924 WAFL season
| 1924 WAFL season | |
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| Teams | 6 |
| Premiers |
Subiaco (4th premiership) |
| Minor premiers |
East Fremantle (14th minor premiership) |
| Matches played | 49 |
| Bernie Naylor Medallist | Bonny Campbell (East Perth) |
| Sandover Medallist | Jim Gosnell (West Perth) |
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The 1924 WAFL season was the 40th season of the West Australian Football League. Although East Perth and East Fremantle completely dominated the season until after the Hobart Carnival, each having lost only one match of the first eleven, neither was to win the premiership and the Royals’ record sequence of five consecutive premierships came to an end in the semi-final.
Subiaco, who along with Perth had been in the doldrums during previous seasons, finally developed the teamwork to match the individual talents of players like Outridge, skipper “Snowy” Hamilton and young rover Johnny Leonard – consequently carrying all before them during the finals after a mediocre home-and-away season. Despite maintaining prominence for another decade, the Maroons were to become a perennial cellar-dweller for three decades and failed to win another premiership until 1973 – the longest premiership drought in WA(N)FL history. Despite Gosnell being the second of their famous half-back line to win the Sandover Medal, West Perth fell to wooden spooners owing to the suspension of key forward Fred Wimbridge for most of the season.
Following controversy over his clearance from South Fremantle that caused him to sit out the 1923 season, East Perth’s “Bonny” Campbell was to break Allan Evans’ record from three seasons beforehand for the most goals scored during a WAFL season. Including the Hobart Carnival where he kicked an amazing 23 goals against Queensland, Campbell in fact totalled over 100 five years before Gordon Coventry and six before Ken Farmer.
East Perth unfurl their pennant with eight goals in the second quarter, and despite scoring only 0.5 (5) after half-time Perth cannot catch them.
With Evans kicking eight goals, Perth win its first match and only its fifth since the end of 1921.
“Bonny” Campbell becomes the first East Perth player to kick double figures in a match as the Royals demolish South Fremantle for the biggest win the WAFL since 1919.
Johnny Leonard’s superb roving in a high-standard match in heavy rain ensures West Perth remain winless and keeps the Maroons clear in third position.
With Campbell adding another six goals as the rain of previous weeks cleared, East Perth and East Fremantle move ten points clear just before the halfway mark of the season.
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