Coach: Frank Hughes
Captain: Ivor Warne-Smith
Finishing Position: 4th
Best and Fairest: Allan La Fontaine
Leading Goalkicker: Eric Glass (56)
Best First Year Player: n/a
Members: 1775

Matches

Ladder

Playing List

Seconds

Best and Fairest

After missing out in 1935 the Demons snuck into the finals on percentage for the first time since Checker Hughes and Percy Page had crossed from Richmond and Hughes had rebadged the Redlegs as "The Demons". To go with the name he installed a large 'demonical' head in the training rooms, complete with a red feather protruding from its cap.

With Percy Beames was vice-captain, and Les Jones deputy vice-captain they won through the semi final before coming unstuck against the Swans in the Prelim Final.

There was an unexpected break in the season on Saturday July 4 when torrential rain caused all of the Round 10 matches to be pushed back a week. The season ran a week longer as a result.

On Tuesday 21 July a combined Melbourne-St Kilda team played against the visiting East Perth. Melbourne players involved were Ball, Lock, Kelly, Feltscheer, Barassi, Baggott, Furniss, Roberts, Foster and Reiffel.

After five straight Seconds premierships the Redlegs lost the Grand Final.

During the year Melbourne sponsored the Prahran City club in the League Sub-District competition. Before the season a Second 18 played them in a practice game. The club were the driving force in an attempt to abolish the district recruiting scheme, there were only five junior clubs in the district due to a lack of suitable grounds.

The club had receipts of 2727 pounds, and expenses of 4026 pounds.

Practice Match

Opposition	Result	Score
Prahran	WIN	109-66
Brunswick	?	?

Premiership Season

Round	Opposition	Result	Score
1	South Melbourne	LOSS	87-108
2	Fitzroy	WIN	107-59
3	Geelong	LOSS	32-102
4	Hawthorn	WIN	116-77
5	North Melbourne	WIN	122-75
6	Footscray	WIN	96-80
7	Collingwood	LOSS	67-89
8	St. Kilda	WIN	131-101
9	Carlton	WIN	83-68
10	Essendon	WIN	111-67
11	Richmond	WIN	112-103
12	South Melbourne	WIN	148-96
13	Fitzroy	LOSS	85-91
14	Geelong	LOSS	100-105
15	Hawthorn	WIN	112-62
16	North Melbourne	WIN	107-45
17	Footscray	WIN	72-65
18	Collingwood	LOSS	67-84
SF	Carlton	WIN	97-88
PF	South Melbourne	LOSS	63-89

Exhibition Match

Opposition	Result	Score
Gippsland XVIII	WIN	108-100

Ladder

	W	D	L	%	P
South Melbourne	16	0	2	118.5	64
Collingwood	15	0	3	135.6	60
Carlton	12	0	6	124.8	48
Melbourne	12	0	6	118.8	48
Geelong	11	0	7	125.8	44
Richmond	10	0	8	107.9	40
St. Kilda	9	0	9	96.1	36
Essendon	6	0	12	85.1	24
Hawthorn	6	0	12	80.9	24
Footscray	5	0	13	86.5	20
North Melbourne	4	0	14	75.9	16
Fitzroy	2	0	16	68.9	8

Playing List

Number	Player	Games	Goals
1	Gordon Jones	2	1
2	Lou Reiffel	16	31
3	John Lewis	17	11
4	Norm Smith	11	28
5	Bill Deague	18	2
6	Joe Kinnear	6	0
6	Jack Harrison	2	2
7	Bert Taylor	13	7
8	Rowley Fischer	15	1
9	Charlie Longhurst	3	0
10	Jack Bennett	10	10
11	Sid Meehl	5	0
11	Harden Dean	1	0
12	Jack Mueller	18	5
13	Les Jones	20	23
14	Maurie Gibb	19	18
15	Ron Baggott	14	26
16	Eric Glass	19	56
17	Allan La Fontaine	19	11
18	Wally Lock	10	1
19	Frank Roberts	18	1
20	Harry Long	9	0
21	Bill Ralston	5	2
22	Ken Feltscheer	2	0
23	Ray Wartman	20	7
24	Percy Beames	14	17
25	Frank Kelly	3	1
26	Jack Furniss	16	1
27	Archie Roberts	4	0
28	Pat McNamara	17	0
29	Jock Ball	2	0
30	Jack Foster	12	8
31	Ron Barassi	4	0
32	Gordon Ogden	16	0

Best and Fairest

	Player
1st	Allan La Fontaine

Other Awards

Best Utility Player - Les Jones
Special Effort - Jack Mueller
Most Reliable Player - Gordon Ogden
Most determined - Rowley Fischer
Special Training award - Norm Smith, Pat McNamara
Special Clubman award - Ron Barassi
Most improved senior - Maurie Gibb
Most improved junior - Jack Furniss, Wally Lock
Best Finals Player - Ray Wartman

Tribunal

Round	Player	Charge	Sanction
Round 4	Sid Meehl	Refusing to return to mark	Not Guilty
Round 4	Harry Long	Elbowing	Not Guilty
Round 4	Harry Long	Refusing to return to mark	Not Guilty
Round 4	Harry Long	Striking	4 matches
Round 6	Ron Baggott	Threatening Behaviour	Not Guilty
Round 6	Ron Baggott	Retaliating	4 matches
Round 10	Charlie Longhurst	Kicking	8 matches
Round 10	John Lewis	Striking	Not Guilty
Round 10	Joe Kinnear	Elbowing	Not Guilty
Round 12	John Lewis	Throwing ball at player	Guilty
Round 13	Eric Glass	Violently shaking	Not Guilty
PF	Frank Roberts	Charging	2 matches

Seconds

1936 Seconds season

Most improved - Harden Dean
Most serviceable - Frank Roberts

	W	D	L	%	P
Melbourne	16	0	2	64
Collingwood	16	0	2	64
Geelong	14	0	4	56
Footscray	13	0	5	52
Carlton	13	0	5	52
South Melbourne	9	0	9	36
Essendon	9	0	9	36
Richmond	7	0	11	28
St Kilda	5	0	13	20
Hawthorn	3	0	15	12
Fitzroy	2	0	16	8
North Melbourne	1	0	17	4

Finals

Round	Opposition	Result
SF	Collingwood	WIN
GF	Footscray	LOSS

Media
Sporting Globe - 07/03/1936
Sporting Globe - 24/06/1936
Herald - 02/07/1936
Herald - 14/07/1936
Football Record R11 1936
Herald - 16/02/1937

Notes
May have been a practice game against Brunswick.

Links
Membership image and 1936 team courtesy of grandoldflag.net
Wikipedia 1936 season page