Coach: n/a
Captain: Ned Sutton
Finishing Position: 6th
Best and Fairest: n/a
Leading Goalkicker: Charlie Young (21)
Best First Year Player: n/a
| Matches | Ladder | Playing List | |||
The Reds started their second VFL season strongly, and were 5-3 after the first eight weeks before falling in a hole late in the season.
The system where every team made the 'finals' gave them one last chance to earn a victory, beating the hapless St Kilda - finishing up their second straight winless season - for the third time during the season.
In June an 'old players' game took place between Melbourne and Essendon. Melbourne were supposed to be represented by Rannard, Garton, McAllister, J. Morris (C), Strachan, H. Morrison (VC), Spooner, King, Barrass, Franks, Douglas, Norcott, Plante, Lowe, McGregor, Parry, Rush, Harry, Aitken, Stiffe, Longden, Crohan, Booth, Lucas, Tuckfield, Dodds, Robinson, Thewlis and Wilmot but the final side was Garton, McAllister, Norcott, J. Morris (c), Macgregor, Barrass, Miller, Longden, Crohan, King, Morrison, Swyer, Thewlis, Gillett, Spooner, Franks, Harry, Plant, Douglas and Strachan.
The game was deliberately played for comedy value and Melbourne won by 5.1 to 2.8.
Practice Matches
| Opposition | Result | ||||
| Brighton | WIN | 46-36 | |||
| Public Schools | ? | ||||
Premiership Season
| Round | Opposition | Result | |||
| 1 | St. Kilda | WIN | |||
| 2 | Carlton | WIN | |||
| 3 | Collingwood | WIN | |||
| 4 | Fitzroy | LOSS | |||
| 5 | Essendon | LOSS | |||
| 6 | South Melbourne | LOSS | |||
| 7 | Geelong | WIN | |||
| 8 | St. Kilda | WIN | |||
| 9 | Carlton | DRAW | |||
| 10 | Collingwood | LOSS | |||
| 11 | Fitzroy | LOSS | |||
| 12 | Essendon | LOSS | |||
| 13 | South Melbourne | LOSS | |||
| 14 | Geelong | LOSS | |||
| 15 | Geelong | LOSS | |||
| 16 | St. Kilda | WIN | |||
| 17 | Collingwood | LOSS | |||
Ladder
| W | D | L | % | P | |
| Essendon | 11 | 0 | 3 | 202.1 | 44 |
| Collingwood | 10 | 0 | 4 | 181.0 | 40 |
| Fitzroy | 10 | 0 | 4 | 121.6 | 40 |
| Geelong | 9 | 0 | 5 | 151.8 | 36 |
| South Melbourne | 7 | 0 | 7 | 89.6 | 28 |
| Melbourne | 5 | 1 | 8 | 97.1 | 22 |
| Carlton | 3 | 1 | 10 | 60.3 | 14 |
| St. Kilda | 0 | 0 | 14 | 33.5 | 0 |
Section B Finals Ladder
| W | D | L | % | P | |
| Collingwood | 3 | 0 | 0 | 207.1 | 12 |
| Geelong | 2 | 0 | 1 | 238.6 | 8 |
| Melbourne | 1 | 0 | 2 | 63.3 | 4 |
| St. Kilda | 0 | 0 | 3 | 29.2 | 0 |
Playing List
| Player | Games | Goals | |||
| Jimmy Aitken | 4 | 0 | |||
| Art Atkinson | 4 | 1 | |||
| Bill Atkinson | 3 | 0 | |||
| Eddie Byers | 13 | 0 | |||
| John Coghlan | 5 | 0 | |||
| Vic Cumberland | 3 | 0 | |||
| Tom Davey | 8 | 0 | |||
| Jack Davidson | 4 | 0 | |||
| Herbert Fry | 1 | 0 | |||
| Stewart Geddes | 11 | 3 | |||
| Jack Graham | 4 | 0 | |||
| Henry Hagenauer | 1 | 0 | |||
| Maurie Herring | 13 | 0 | |||
| Percy Howard | 5 | 4 | |||
| George Johnstone | 5 | 0 | |||
| Denis Lanigan | 16 | 1 | |||
| Jack Leith | 16 | 17 | |||
| Austin Lewis | 16 | 2 | |||
| Les MacPherson | 3 | 1 | |||
| Bill McClelland | 1 | 0 | |||
| Bill McCulloch | 3 | 1 | |||
| Fred McGinis | 17 | 5 | |||
| Norm McLeod | 4 | 0 | |||
| Henry Mitchell | 12 | 0 | |||
| George Moodie | 16 | 5 | |||
| Bob Moore | 2 | 0 | |||
| George Moysey | 8 | 5 | |||
| Dick Pirrie | 12 | 2 | |||
| Harold Rippon | 4 | 0 | |||
| Les Rippon | 6 | 0 | |||
| Norm Rippon | 1 | 0 | |||
| Dick Robertson | 5 | 0 | |||
| Bobby Royle | 3 | 0 | |||
| Jimmy Russell | 4 | 3 | |||
| Pat Scanlan | 5 | 2 | |||
| Eddie Sholl | 11 | 0 | |||
| Frank Staines | 5 | 0 | |||
| Wally Steele | 14 | 3 | |||
| Dave Strahan | 11 | 0 | |||
| Ned Sutton | 15 | 0 | |||
| John Timothee | 2 | 0 | |||
| Dick Wardill | 12 | 5 | |||
| Alf Wood | 17 | 1 | |||
| Charlie Young | 15 | 21 | |||
Notes
Some sources show a game against West Melbourne on 30/04 at Wesley College. West Melbourne played Essendon on on this day, with no corresponding MFC fixture.
Media
Argus - 06/06/1898
Argus - 22/06/1898
Age - 23/06/1898
Argus - 23/06/1898
Leader - 25/06/1898
Argus - 27/03/1899