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1942 VFL season

Index 1942 VFL season

The 1942 Victorian Football League season was the 46th season of the elite Australian rules football competition. [1]

54 relations: Alby Pannam, Allan La Fontaine, Arden Street Oval, Australian Football League, Australian rules football, Bob Chitty, Bob Pratt, Brownlow Medal, Brunswick Street Oval, Carlton Football Club, Coleman Medal, Collingwood Football Club, Commandeering, Dick Reynolds, Essendon Football Club, Frank Beaurepaire, Geelong Football Club, Glenferrie Oval, Hawthorn Football Club, Jack Dyer, Jack Mueller, Junction Oval, Keith Truscott, Lakeside Stadium, Laurie Nash, Lindsay White, List of mayors and lord mayors of Melbourne, McIntyre System, Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne Football Club, Norm Smith, Norman Ware, Percy Beames, Princes Park (stadium), Punt Road Oval, Queen's Official Birthday, Reserved occupation, Richmond Football Club, Ron Todd (footballer), Royal Australian Air Force, Sydney Swans, The Argus (Melbourne), The Sydney Morning Herald, Toorak Park, Victoria Park, Melbourne, Victorian Football League, Whitten Oval, Windy Hill, Essendon, World War II, Yarraville Oval, ..., 1941 VFL season, 1942 VFA season, 1943 VFL season, 1972 VFL season. Expand index (4 more) »

Alby Pannam

Albert Pannam (19 April 1914 – 17 March 1993) was an Australian rules footballer who played in the VFL between 1933 and 1943 and then again in 1945 for the Collingwood Football Club.

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Allan La Fontaine

Allan Faulkner La Fontaine (15 December 1910 – 14 December 1999) was an Australian rules footballer who played with and coached Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

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Arden Street Oval

Arden Street Oval (also known as North Melbourne Cricket Ground) is a sports oval in North Melbourne, Victoria.

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Australian Football League

The Australian Football League (AFL) is the pre-eminent professional competition in the sport of Australian rules football in Australia and features only Australian teams.

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Australian rules football

Australian rules football, officially known as Australian football, or simply called Aussie rules, football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of eighteen players on an oval-shaped field, often a modified cricket ground.

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Bob Chitty

Robert Main-Warring Chitty (4 July 1916 – 4 April 1985) was an Australian rules footballer in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

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Bob Pratt

Harold Robert "Bob" Pratt, senior (31 August 1912 – 6 January 2001) was an Australian rules footballer who represented South Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL) and Coburg in the Victorian Football Association (VFA) during the 1930s and 1940s.

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Brownlow Medal

The Charles Brownlow Trophy, better known as the Brownlow Medal (and informally as "Charlie"), is awarded to the "best and fairest" player in the Australian Football League (AFL) during the home-and-away season, as determined by votes cast by the officiating field umpires after each game.

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Brunswick Street Oval

The WT Peterson Community Oval, best known as the Brunswick Street Oval and also as the Fitzroy Cricket Ground, is a cricket and Australian rules football ground located in Edinburgh Gardens in Fitzroy North, Victoria.

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Carlton Football Club

The Carlton Football Club, nicknamed the Blues, is a professional Australian rules football club based in Melbourne, Victoria.

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Coleman Medal

The Coleman Medal is awarded yearly to the Australian Football League player who kicks the most goals in home-and-away matches in that year.

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Collingwood Football Club

The Collingwood Football Club, nicknamed the Magpies or less formally the Pies, is an Australian rules football club which plays in the Australian Football League (AFL).

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Commandeering

Commandeering is an act of appropriation by the military or police whereby they take possession of the property of a member of the public.

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Dick Reynolds

Richard Sylvannus Reynolds (20 June 1915 – 2 September 2002) was an Australian rules footballer who represented in the Victorian Football League (VFL) in the 1930s and 1940s.

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Essendon Football Club

The Essendon Football Club is a professional Australian rules football club which plays in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's premier competition.

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Frank Beaurepaire

Sir Francis "Frank" Joseph Edmund Beaurepaire (13 May 1891 – 29 May 1956) was an Australian distance freestyle swimmer from the 1900s to the 1920s, who won three silver and three bronze medals, from the 1908 Summer Olympics in London to the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris, setting 15 world records.

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Geelong Football Club

The Geelong Football Club, nicknamed the Cats, is a professional Australian rules football club based in the city of Geelong, Australia and playing in the Australian Football League (AFL).

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Glenferrie Oval

Glenferrie Oval is an Australian rules football stadium located in Hawthorn, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

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Hawthorn Football Club

The Hawthorn Football Club, nicknamed the Hawks, is a professional Australian rules football club in the Australian Football League (AFL).

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Jack Dyer

John Raymond Dyer Sr. OAM (15 November 1913 – 23 August 2003), nicknamed Captain Blood, was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Richmond Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL) between 1931 and 1952.

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Jack Mueller

Jack Mueller (9 September 1915 – 14 June 2001) was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Melbourne Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

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Junction Oval

Junction Oval (also known as the St Kilda Cricket Ground and the Victorian Cricket and Community Centre) is an historic sports ground in the suburb of St Kilda in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

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Keith Truscott

Keith William "Bluey" Truscott, (17 May 1916 – 28 March 1943) was a World War II ace fighter pilot and Australian rules footballer with the Melbourne Football Club.

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Lakeside Stadium

Lakeside Stadium is a sports arena in Albert Park, Melbourne, Australia.

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Laurie Nash

Laurence John "Laurie" Nash (2 May 1910 – 24 July 1986) was a Test cricketer and Australian rules footballer.

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Lindsay White

Lindsay G. White (5 January 1922 – 13 March 1977) was an Australian rules footballer who represented and in the Victorian Football League (VFL) during the 1940s.

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List of mayors and lord mayors of Melbourne

This is a list of the mayors and lord mayors of the City of Melbourne, a local government area of Victoria, Australia.

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McIntyre System

The McIntyre System, or systems as there have been five of them, is a playoff system that gives an advantage to teams or competitors qualifying higher.

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Melbourne Cricket Ground

The Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG), also known simply as "The G", is an Australian sports stadium located in Yarra Park, Melbourne, Victoria.

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Melbourne Football Club

The Melbourne Football Club, nicknamed the Demons, is a professional Australian rules football club, playing in the Australian Football League (AFL).

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Norm Smith

Norman Walter "Norm" Smith (21 November 1915 – 29 July 1973) was an Australian rules football player and coach in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

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Norman Ware

Norman "Norm" Ware (5 March 1911 – 26 August 2003) was an Australian rules footballer in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

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Percy Beames

Percy James Beames (27 July 1911 – 28 March 2004) was an Australian rules footballer with Melbourne and first-class cricketer at state level for Victoria.

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Princes Park (stadium)

Princes Park (or Carlton Recreation Ground, currently officially known by its sponsored name Ikon Park) is an Australian rules football ground located at Princes Park in the inner Melbourne suburb of Carlton North.

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Punt Road Oval

Punt Road Oval, also known by naming rights sponsorship as the Swinburne Centre, is an Australian rules football ground and former cricket oval located in Yarra Park, East Melbourne, Victoria situated only a few hundred metres to the east of the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG).

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Queen's Official Birthday

The Queen's Official Birthday, or the King's Official Birthday, is the selected day in some Commonwealth realms on which the birthday of the monarch (currently Elizabeth II) is officially celebrated in those countries.

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Reserved occupation

A reserved occupation (also known as essential services) is an occupation considered important enough to a country that those serving in such occupations are exempt—in fact forbidden—from military service.

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Richmond Football Club

The Richmond Football Club, nicknamed the Tigers, is a professional Australian rules football club playing in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's premier competition.

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Ron Todd (footballer)

Ronald Walford Todd (23 October 1916 – 8 February 1991) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Collingwood in the Victorian Football League (VFL) in the 1930s, and with Williamstown in the Victorian Football Association (VFA) in the 1940s.

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Royal Australian Air Force

The Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF), formed March 1921, is the aerial warfare branch of the Australian Defence Force (ADF).

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Sydney Swans

The Sydney Swans is a professional Australian rules football club which plays in the Australian Football League (AFL).

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The Argus (Melbourne)

The Argus was a morning daily newspaper in Melbourne, Australia that was established in 1846 and closed in 1957.

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The Sydney Morning Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) is a daily compact newspaper published by Fairfax Media in Sydney, Australia.

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Toorak Park

Toorak Park is a cricket and Australian rules football arena in the Melbourne suburb of Armadale, Victoria, Australia.

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Victoria Park, Melbourne

Victoria Park is a sports venue in Abbotsford a suburb of Melbourne in Victoria, Australia.

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Victorian Football League

The Victorian Football League (VFL) is the major state-level Australian rules football league in Victoria.

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Whitten Oval

Whitten Oval (currently also known as Victoria University Whitten Oval) is a stadium in the inner-western suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, located at 417 Barkly Street, Footscray.

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Windy Hill, Essendon

Windy Hill (officially known as Essendon Recreation Reserve) is an Australian rules football and cricket ground located in Napier Street, Essendon, a northwestern suburb of the Melbourne metropolitan area.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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Yarraville Oval

The Yarraville Oval is an Australian rules football and cricket ground located on the corner of Williamstown Road and Anderson Street in Yarraville, Victoria.

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1941 VFL season

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

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1942 VFA season

The 1942 Victorian Football Association season was not played owing to World War II, which was at its peak at the time.

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1943 VFL season

The 1943 Victorian Football League season was the 47th season of the elite Australian rules football competition.

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1972 VFL season

The 1972 Victorian Football League season was the 76th season of the elite Australian rules football competition.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1942_VFL_season

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