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1910

Coach: Eddie Drohan
Captain: Vin Coutie
Finishing Position: 9th
Best and Fairest: n/a
Leading Goalkicker: Stan Fairbairn (24)
Best First Year Player: n/a

Matches Ladder Playing list
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After going close to finals in 1909, Melbourne slid down the ladder again in what was considered the worst season yet in the history of the VFL. The competition was hit with violent play, lax enforcement of rules, and rumours of corruption. The league investigated allegations that South Melbourne players had offered Melbourne money to 'play dead' in Round 16. After similar allegations regarding South and other clubs, two of their players were suspended for five years.

There was pre-season controversy when the MCC committee changed the rules of elections so they could choose the football committee and secretary instead of members. They decided that no player who lived more than 25 miles from the city would be invited to play, depriving them of Paddy Mills, who had moved to Bendigo but still remained available to Melbourne. There was also tension amongst the players that saw Flintoft, Nolan and Strong out of the side early in the year. The club only won four games but were saved from the wooden spoon by St Kilda, the only side Melbourne beat twice.

It was the first year where the league formalised residence as the main qualification for players, with a commitee drafting new rules for player permits. In August, at the insistence of the MFC delegates to the league, all umpires, including goal and boundary, were given the power to report players for violent conduct.

An intra-club game was played at the MCG on Saturday 16 April.

Round 2 matches were played a week later than originally scheduled due to the death of King George V. The season was put back on schedule with the merging of a split round in June.

Practice match

OppositionResultScore
South Yarra WIN81-50

Premiership season

RoundOppositionResultScore
1 GeelongLOSS42-99
2 RichmondLOSS37-114
3 CarltonLOSS36-69
4 St. KildaWIN54-51
5 CollingwoodLOSS28-76
6 EssendonLOSS67-117
7 South MelbourneLOSS46-81
8 FitzroyLOSS50-66
9 UniversityLOSS35-49
10 GeelongLOSS51-100
11 RichmondLOSS34-87
12 CarltonLOSS35-100
13 St. KildaWIN48-35
14 CollingwoodLOSS48-66
15 EssendonWIN54-42
16 South MelbourneLOSS54-58
17 FitzroyLOSS23-88
18 UniversityWIN60-49

Ladder

WDL%P
Carlton1503160.160
Collingwood1305122.352
South Melbourne1206122.248
Essendon1206115.648
Geelong1017105.942
University1008101.540
Richmond7110102.630
Fitzroy501390.820
Melbourne401459.516
St. Kilda101762.34

Exhibition matches

OppositionResultScore
Northern Tasmanian League WIN68-63
Tasmanian League WIN72-55

Playing List

PlayerGamesGoals
Bill Allen 142
David Bell 154
Percy Beswicke 90
Harry Brereton 1718
Harry Cope 60
Vin Coutie 1411
Tommy Crow 71
Stan Fairbairn 1624
Jim Fitzpatrick 115
Bill Flintoft 138
Michael George 30
Frank Harris 70
Vernon Hazel 44
Bill Henderson 80
Bill Hendrie 153
Fred Hewitt 30
Joe Hodgkins 12
Les Irwin 104
Otto Landmann 21
Bill McKenzie 160
Ernie McMaster 20
Les Mitchell 31
Bobby Monk 162
Bert Morris 10
Bernie Nolan 30
Hughie Odgers 180
Bert Parke 50
Joe Pearce 180
Archie Pratt 30
Cecil Quinlan 21
Alex Rennolds 50
Jack Robertson 152
Herbert Rodd 95
Tom Sadlier 10
Cyril Steele 30
Jack Strong 33
Wally Sykes 83
Hedley Tomkins 142
Reg Werner 23
Fred Whelpton 20

Notes
Some sources suggest that allowing all umpires to report was only a proposal by the VFL to the other states.

Media
Argus - 25/01/1910
Herald - 08/04/1910
Herald - 16/04/1910
Herald - 13/05/1910
Australasian - 21/05/1910
North Western Advocate and Emu Bay Times - 01/08/1910
Argus - 27/08/1910
Age - 30/09/1910
Evening News - 03/10/1910
Observer - 08/10/1910
Argus - 03/03/1911

Links
AFL Tables page
Wikipedia page

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