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1941 VFL season

1941 VFL Premiership season
Teams 12
Premiers Melbourne
(5th premiership)
Minor premiers Carlton
(10th minor premiership)
Matches played 112
Highest attendance 79,687
Leading Goalkicker Medallist Sel Murray (North Melbourne)
Brownlow Medallist Norman Ware (Footscray)
1940
1942

The 1941 Victorian Football League season was the 45th season of the elite Australian rules football competition.

In 1941, 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 1941 VFL Premiers were determined by the specific format and conventions of the Page-McIntyre System.

Melbourne defeated Essendon 19.13 (127) to 13.20 (98), in front of a crowd of 79,687 people. (For an explanation of scoring see Australian rules football).


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