1930 VFL season
| 1930 VFL Premiership season | |
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| Teams | 12 |
| Premiers |
Collingwood (9th premiership) |
| Minor premiers |
Collingwood (12th minor premiership) |
| Matches played | 112 |
| Highest attendance | 47,985 |
| Leading Goalkicker Medallist | Gordon Coventry (Collingwood) |
| Brownlow Medallist |
Stan Judkins (Richmond) |
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Stan Judkins (Richmond)
Harry Collier (Collingwood)
The 1930 Victorian Football League season was the 34th season of the elite Australian rules football competition.
In 1930, the VFL competition consisted of twelve teams of 18 on-the-field players each, plus one substitute player, known as the 19th man. A player could be substituted for any reason, Once he had been substituted, a player could not return to the field of play under any circumstances.
Teams played each other in a home-and-away season of 18 rounds; matches 12 to 18 were the "home-and-way reverse" of matches 5 to 11 (i.e., the last seven matches of the round).
Once the 18 round home-and-away season had finished, the 1930 VFL Premiers were determined by the specific format and conventions of the amended "Argus system".
All of the 1930 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.
Collingwood defeated Geelong 14.16 (100) to 9.16 (70), in front of a crowd of 45,022 people. (For an explanation of scoring see Australian rules football).
When the VFL's Umpires Panel counted the Brownlow Medal votes that had been awarded during the 1930 season, it found that three players had been considered best on the ground on four occasions: Harry Collier of Collingwood, Allan Hopkins of Footscray, and Stan Judkins of Richmond. The Panel advised the VFL of the tied result and, because there was no provision for a tied result, the Panel recommended that no Brownlow Medal be awarded for 1930. The league instead decided to break the tie by awarding the medal to the player who had achieved his votes in the fewest number of games. Collier had played 18 games, Hopkins had played 15 games, and Judkins only 12 games; consequently the award went to Judkins.
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