1933 WANFL season
| 1933 WAFL season | |
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| Teams | 7 |
| Premiers |
East Fremantle (17th premiership) |
| Minor premiers |
East Fremantle (20th minor premiership) |
| Matches played | 67 |
| Bernie Naylor Medallist | George Doig (East Fremantle) |
| Sandover Medallist | Sammy Clarke (Claremont-Cottesloe) |
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The 1933 WANFL season was the 49th season of the Western Australian National Football League in its various incarnations. It was the last year of a seven-team senior competition, and saw George Doig, during the second semi-final, become the first player to kick one hundred goals in a season.
The premiership was won by East Fremantle, who claimed its sixth straight minor premiership, after it defeated fourth-placed Subiaco in the Grand Final. Subiaco’s feat in reaching the premiership decider was itself a remarkable one, given that the Victorian Football League had deprived it of the majority of it star players: only six of its 1931 Grand Final team played in the corresponding match two seasons later, and the Maroons had been last or second last for most of 1933 before entering the four at the last minute. Old Easts led all season: despite losing a number of key players to the Sydney Carnival during July and August, the blue and whites won two of three games when depleted.
Claremont-Cottesloe finished with its third consecutive wooden spoon, but defender “Sammy” Clarke became the first player to win the Sandover Medal in his debut season.
George Doig began his record-breaking season with nine goals.
Ted Tyson kicked thirteen goals for the Cardinals, who surpass their highest league score, beating a previous best of 18.20 (128) against Claremont-Cottesloe in 1926 and becoming the last of the seven WANFL teams to kick their first 20-goal score.
A determined and eager Royals team – chastened by its poor early-game form against Claremont-Cottesloe – inflicts South Fremantle’s worst defeat and the Royals’ biggest win since the second round of 1918 and the biggest win in the league since the Royals lost to East Fremantle by 94 points in 1930.
The dominance of youngsters Smith and Bant in the ruck and the leadership of Stewart Daily allows Subiaco – last after the clubs had met each other once – to inflict East Fremantle’s first loss in a scrappy game.
Bottom side Perth trailed East Fremantle by 39 points at three-quarter time; Perth mounted a comeback, kicking nine goals straight in the final quarter, but fell ten points short.
West Perth defeated East Perth after being in defence all of the last quarter then kicking two late goals. The winner from Frank Hopkins came when Royal defender Glew did not hear a “play on” call.
Subiaco, two weeks after being last, moved up to fourth with a second narrow win over East Fremantle.
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