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1874 Victorian football season
Carlton – 1874 Victorian premiers
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The 1874 Victorian football season was the fifth senior season of Australian rules football in the colony of Victoria.[1] Carlton was the premier club for the third time.[2]

Clubs

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A number of football clubs were formed in Victoria for the 1874 season, including South Melbourne, which was incorporated on 19 June 1874.[3] It was first known as "Cecil Football Club", but adopted the name "South Melbourne Football Club" four weeks later on 15 July.[4][5]

New clubs

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Club Region Ref
Belmont Provincial [6]
Braybrook Metropolitan [7]
Port Melbourne Metropolitan [8]
Rochester Provincial [9]
South Melbourne Metropolitan [10]
Stawell Provincial [11]
Portarlington Provincial [12]
West Melbourne Metropolitan [13]
Wunghnu Provincial [14]

Metropolitan

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Five metropolitan clubs participated in senior football during the 1874 season: Albert Park, Carlton, Melbourne, North Melbourne and St Kilda.[15] North Melbourne and St Kilda were newly elevated from junior ranks to senior ranks for this season, while University – which was a senior club in 1873 but only played a minimal number of games – instead played in the Second Twenty competition.[16]

Carlton, which was undefeated during the season, was considered the premier club, with Melbourne runners-up, mostly by virtue of Carlton winning all four matches it played against Melbourne during the season.[17] Melbourne had a slightly better record against the remaining senior clubs (Melbourne having a record of 6-1-1 to Carlton's record of 5-0-5), but such was Carlton's and Melbourne's dominance at the time that their matches against the other clubs had little influence on the premiership.[18]

Club records

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The below table is set of results for senior clubs during the 1874 season across all matches, including those against senior, junior and intercolonial clubs.[17]

The Australasian and The Leader newspapers indicated Albert-park was the third best club, with North Melbourne fourth and St Kilda fifth.[17][18] Although North Melbourne's win–loss record appears superior to Albert-park's, its easier fixture (four of its 12 matches were played against junior teams) was taken into account.[17][18]

Tables published in The Argus from 1889 and in the Football Record from 1912 to 1923 listed St Kilda as the third-placed club in 1874, but contemporary sources dispute this.[19][20]

Pos Team Pld W L D GF GA
1 Carlton (P) 18 12 0 6 33 6
2 Melbourne 18 12 5 1 35 10
3 Albert Park 19 7 6 6 17 13
– North Melbourne 12 7 2 3 11 4
– St Kilda 18 2 8 8 8 27

Source:[17][21][22][23][24][25]
(P) Premiers

Provincial

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Geelong was the best performing provincial team of the 1874 season.[26] It was undefeated in provincial matches, and it held the newly established Western District Challenge Cup throughout the season, but lost three matches against metropolitan clubs.[27] Some sources from 1874 place Geelong in fourth (across all matches) or fifth (only matches against senior clubs) out of six clubs.[28]

Other known provincial teams in 1874 include Barwon,[29] Kardinia,[30] and Phoenix Foundry.[31]

Juniors

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East Melbourne was the best performing junior club in 1874, winning nine of its 18 matches.[17]

Club records

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Pos Team Pld W L D GF GA
1 East Melbourne (P) 18 9
2 Richmond
3 Carlton Imperial
4 Hawthorn 17 5 6 6 12 14
5 Essendon

Source:[32][33]
(P) Premiers

References

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  1. ^ "FOOTBALL MATCHES". The Argus. 15 May 1874. p. 6. Retrieved 13 April 2025.
  2. ^ "1874". Blueseum. Archived from the original on 3 October 2024. Retrieved 12 April 2025.
  3. ^ "Birth of a club". Sydney Swans. 19 June 2023. Archived from the original on 13 April 2025. Retrieved 13 April 2025.
  4. ^ "SOUTH'S JUBILEE". The Herald. 28 January 1925. p. 6. Retrieved 13 April 2025 – via National Library of Australia.
  5. ^ "Timeline: VFA era and the birth of a new club (1874 - 1897)". Sydney Swans. Archived from the original on 1 April 2025. Retrieved 13 April 2025.
  6. ^ "Honour the Past". South Barwon Football & Netball Club. Archived from the original on 13 December 2024. Retrieved 13 April 2025.
  7. ^ "Braybrook Football Club Committee, Life Members, Coaches, Captains, etc". Sunshine Historical Society. Archived from the original on 21 March 2025. Retrieved 13 April 2025.
  8. ^ "PMFC History - Overview". GameDay. Port Melbourne Football Club. 24 September 2012. Archived from the original on 13 April 2025. Retrieved 13 April 2025.
  9. ^ "Rochester Football Club". The Riverine Herald. 3 June 1874. p. 2. Retrieved 13 April 2025.
  10. ^ Blucher, Peter (11 May 2017). "Our history: South Melbourne foundations". Sydney Swans. Archived from the original on 13 April 2025. Retrieved 13 April 2025.
  11. ^ Andrews, Zoey (22 April 2024). "Stawell Football Netball Club set to celebrate 150 years". Wimmera Mallee News. Archived from the original on 22 April 2024. Retrieved 13 April 2025.
  12. ^ "Club History". Portarlington Football Netball Club. Archived from the original on 26 April 2024. Retrieved 13 April 2025.
  13. ^ "Football". The Age. 11 April 1874. p. 5. Retrieved 13 April 2025.
  14. ^ Barnstable, Josh (2 March 2011). "Vale Wunghnu Football Club". The Footy Almanac. Archived from the original on 13 April 2025. Retrieved 13 April 2025.
  15. ^ "FOOTBALL". The Age. 24 August 1874. p. 3. Retrieved 13 April 2025.
  16. ^ Fairplay (1 November 1873). "REVIEW OF THE SEASON". The Australasian. p. 11. Retrieved 12 April 2025.
  17. ^ a b c d e f Jones, Tom (10 October 1874). "The football season of 1874". Leader. p. 11. Retrieved 12 April 2025.
  18. ^ a b c "REVIEW OF THE SEASON". Fairplay. The Australasian. 21 November 1874. p. 12. Retrieved 12 April 2025.
  19. ^ "The Football Premiership". The Argus. 23 September 1889. p. 5. Retrieved 12 April 2025.
  20. ^ Wilson, Caroline (20 June 2014). "History of the AFL could be turned on its head". The Age. Archived from the original on 29 September 2023. Retrieved 12 April 2025.
  21. ^ Un Jouer a Ballon (24 September 1874). "THE FOOTBALL SEASON, 1874". The Record and Emerald Hill and Sandridge Advertiser. p. 3. Retrieved 12 April 2025.
  22. ^ "Carlton Football Club". The Australasian. 1 May 1875. p. 12. Retrieved 12 April 2025.
  23. ^ "Melbourne Football Club". The Australasian. 1 May 1875. p. 12. Retrieved 12 April 2025.
  24. ^ "1874 Fixture". Blueseum. Archived from the original on 17 January 2025. Retrieved 12 April 2025.
  25. ^ Carlton 1874 season, including second game v North Melbourne played on September 5
  26. ^ "FOOTBALL". The Ballarat Star. 28 May 1874. p. 4. Retrieved 13 April 2025.
  27. ^ Tippet, Harrison (15 September 2022). "Barwon Football Club: How a 1870s blue-collar rival and a riot shaped the Geelong Football Club". Geelong Advertiser. Retrieved 13 April 2025.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  28. ^ "Geelong v. West End". Geelong Advertiser. 31 August 1874. p. 3. Retrieved 13 April 2025.
  29. ^ "Brief History". GameDay. South Barwon Football & Netball Club. Archived from the original on 13 April 2025. Retrieved 13 April 2025.
  30. ^ "Geelong v. Kardinia". Geelong Advertiser. 17 August 1874. p. 2. Retrieved 13 April 2025.
  31. ^ "Geelong v. The Phoenix F.C." Geelong Advertiser. 20 July 1874. p. 3. Retrieved 13 April 2025.
  32. ^ "Hawthorn Football Club statistics 1874". Early History of the Hawthorn Football Club 1873–1935. 1998. Archived from the original on 16 August 2004. Retrieved 16 August 2004.
  33. ^ "1874 Chronology". Tigerland Archive. Archived from the original on 10 December 2024. Retrieved 12 April 2025.
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