Players
Arnold, Bowman, Chadwick, Ken Carlon, Chipp, John Dorgan, Ferguson, Frank Hanna, Ray Harvey, Doug Heywood, Hutchins, Noel Impey, Max Jeffers, Johnson/Johnston, Ray Jones, Bob Love, Jack Matson, McGowan, McMahen, Jack Mueller, O'Heare, O'Keefe, O'Toole, Rollaston, Eric Roscoe, Staines, Steinthal, Tate, Thomson, Walsh, Mike Woods
Matches
Round 1 - Saturday 16 April
Melbourne 15.17 d. Geelong 9.10
Round 2 - Saturday 23 April
Melbourne 13.12 d. Collingwood 4.16
Selected side
B: Dorgan, Johnson, Hanna
HB: Hutchins, McGowan, Crawley
C: Impey, Carlon, Matson
HF: Heywood, Mueller, Walsh
F: Thomson, Jones, Staines
Foll: Woods, Chadwick, Bowman
19th/20th: Love, Chipp
Round 3 - Saturday 30 April
Footscray 12.16 d. Melbourne 7.17
Round 4 - Saturday 7 May
South Melbourne 11.13 d. Melbourne 9.13
Round 5 - Saturday 14 May
Melbourne 10.14 d. North Melbourne 8.8
Round 6 - Monday 13 June (postponed from Saturday 21 May due to international rugby match on the MCG)
Melbourne 21.13.139 d. St. Kilda 10.6.66
Round 7 - Saturday 28 May
Melbourne 15.7 d. Essendon 11.10
Round 8- Saturday 4 June
Melbourne 18.18 d. Hawthorn 8.10
Round 9 - Saturday 11 June
Melbourne 13.10 d. Fitzroy 11.13
Round 10 - Saturday 18 June
Melbourne 10.18 d. Carlton 10.10
Round 11 - Saturday 25 June
Melbourne 15.19 d. Richmond 10.11
Round 12 - Saturday 9 July
Melbourne 11.10 d. Geelong 10.14
Round 13 - Saturday 16 July
Melbourne 11.9 d. Collingwood 9.10
Round 14 - Saturday 23 July
Footscray 13.5 d. Melbourne 11.13
Round 15 - Saturday 30 July
Melbourne 13.19 d. South Melbourne 10.8
Goals - Love 6, Unknown 7
Best - McGowan, Bowman, Chadwick
Round 16 - Saturday 6 August
Melbourne 14.11.95 d. North Melbourne 12.15.87
Round 17 - Saturday 13 August
Melbourne 18.23 d. St Kilda 13.6
Round 18 - Saturday 20 August
Essendon 9.13 d. Melbourne 7.8
Round 19 - Saturday 27 August
Melbourne 19.15.129 d. Hawthorn 9.8.62
Goals - Arnold 8, Unknown 11
Semi Final
Essendon 13.13.91 d. Melbourne 10.11.71
Goals - Mueller 4, Love 2, 1, Heywood 1, Harvey 1, Thomson 1
Best - Bowman, McGowan, McMahen
Preliminary Final
Melbourne 18.14.122 d. Richmond 10.13.73
Goals - Roscoe 4, Heywood 4, R. Love 3, Jeffers 2, Mueller 2, Harvey 1, Dorgan 1, Jones 1
Best - Mueller, McMahen, Johnston
Grand Final
Melbourne 17.10.112 d. Essendon 9.14.68
Goals - Mueller 7, Heywood 3, Love 3, O'Heare 1, Jeffers 1, Thompson 1
Ladder
| W | D | L | % | P | |
| Melbourne | 15 | 0 | 4 | 133.3 | 60 |
| Essendon | 13 | 1 | 5 | 143.2 | 54 |
| Collingwood | 13 | 0 | 6 | 121.4 | 52 |
| Richmond | 12 | 0 | 7 | 118.0 | 48 |
| Footscray | 11 | 1 | 7 | 114.5 | 46 |
| Geelong | 9 | 1 | 9 | 111.6 | 38 |
| Fitzroy | 9 | 1 | 9 | 97.9 | 37 |
| Carlton | 9 | 0 | 10 | 98.6 | 36 |
| South Melbourne | 7 | 0 | 12 | 89.9 | 28 |
| St Kilda | 6 | 1 | 12 | 74.1 | 26 |
| North Melbourne | 4 | 1 | 14 | 79.4 | 18 |
| Hawthorn | 3 | 0 | 16 | 59.9 | 12 |
Notes
R. Love may have been Colin Love
Media
Argus - 18/05/1949