1938 VFL season

1938 VFL Premiership season
Teams	12
Premiers	Carlton (6th premiership)
Minor premiers	Carlton (9th minor premiership)
Matches played	112
Highest attendance	96,486
Leading Goalkicker Medallist	Ron Todd (Collingwood)
Brownlow Medallist	Dick Reynolds (Essendon)
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The 1938 Victorian Football League season was the 42nd season of the elite Australian rules football competition.

In 1938, 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 1938 VFL Premiers were determined by the specific format and conventions of the Page-McIntyre System.

Carlton defeated Collingwood 15.10 (100) to 13.7 (85), in front of a crowd of 96,834 people. (For an explanation of scoring see Australian rules football).

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