1927 WAFL season

1927 WAFL season
Teams	7
Premiers	East Perth (7th premiership)
Minor premiers	East Perth (7th minor premiership)
Matches played	67
Bernie Naylor Medallist	Bonny Campbell (East Perth)
Sandover Medallist	Jim Craig (West Perth)
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The 1927 WAFL season was the 43rd season of the West Australian Football League. It saw the last premiership of the East Perth dynasty dating back to the end of World War I, as mastermind coach Phil Matson was to be killed in a truck crash the following year and the Royals were to fall to a clear last in 1929 as most of their champions retired. Despite opening their permanent home ground at Claremont Oval, newcomers Claremont-Cottesloe showed little improvement on their debut season and again won only a single game. The most notable change in fortunes was from South Fremantle, who had their first season with more wins than losses since their last premiership in 1917, and extended Matson’s Royals in the grand final.

VFL champions Collingwood became the second Victoria club to tour Perth after Fitzroy in 1922, and although an interstate carnival meant they were without several top players, the Magpies performed well enough to win one of their two matches against a representative team from those WAFL players not at the carnival.

Claremont Oval is opened for WAFL football in the fledgling club’s second season, but the local team is thrashed by a systematic Old Easts combination.

In heavy rain, East Fremantle are unexpectedly thrashed by South Fremantle, with Sol Lawn and Campbell outstanding up forward.

For the first time in WAFL history, both teams score 100 points in a match, but Subiaco, coming off the bye, come back to scrape home despite being without key defenders Hamilton and Brophy.

Sol Lawn kicks nine goals for South Fremantle, who are joined by Old Easts on top after Perth score only 1.2 (8) in the second half.

In wet conditions, eight goals by Evans gives Perth the game and keeps them within percentage of their first finals berth since 1920.

West Perth, finalists in 1926, return to that season’s form after winning only one of their first eight matches, defeating the reigning premiers in slippery conditions.

Claremont-Cottesloe, who had surprised Subiaco at their previous meeting only to lose narrowly, win their second WAFL match by making use of a violent wind in the first quarter and holding the Maroons in the second.

With Campbell kicking seven goals, East Perth move to equal top position as the Cardinals continue their revival, defeating a seventeen-man South Fremantle team.

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