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1937 VFL season

1937 VFL Premiership season
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Geelong captain-coach Reg Hickey
Teams 12
Premiers Geelong
(3rd premiership)
Minor premiers Geelong
(5th minor premiership)
Matches played 112
Highest attendance 88,540
Leading Goalkicker Medallist Dick Harris (Carlton)
Brownlow Medallist Dick Reynolds (Essendon)
1936
1938

The 1937 Victorian Football League season was the 41st season of the elite Australian rules football competition.

In 1937, 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; however, once 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 1 to 7.

Once the 18 round home-and-away season had finished, the 1937 VFL Premiers were determined by the specific format and conventions of the Page-McIntyre System.

Geelong defeated Collingwood 18.14 (122) to 12.18 (90), in front of a crowd of 88,540 people. (For an explanation of scoring see Australian rules football).


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