1902 Geelong Football Club season

The 1902 VFL season was the Geelong Football Club's sixth season in the Victorian Football League and its second with Henry Young as captain.

Geelong Football Club
1902 season
PresidentJ. McMullen
Captain(s)Henry Young
(2nd season)
Home groundCorio Oval
VFL Season7th
Finals SeriesDid not qualify
Leading goalkickerIke Woods (16 goals)

Geelong finished the home-and-away with 7 wins and 10 losses, finishing in seventh position. Geelong did not qualify for the finals series.

The leading goalkicker was Ike Woods with 16 goals.

Playing List

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3 players played in all 17 games, and a total of 41 players were used. 17 of those 41 players made their VFL debuts and a further 2 made their Geelong debut, Jim Beasley from Essendon and Tom McLean from Collingwood. 5 players reached the 50 game milestone.

Statistics

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Denotes statistical category leader for season
Geelong's 1902 playing list and statistics[1]
Player Games Goals Milestones
Les Bailiff 17 0 50th Game (Round 14)
Jack Baker 3 3
Ern Batty 9 1 VFL Debut (Round 3)
Jim Beasley 7 2 Geelong Debut (Round 4)
Norman Belcher 3 2
Bill Bennion 16 1
Frank Bowey 9 1
Tommy Buchan 5 1
Peter Burns 7 0
Charlie Coles 8 7
Fred Cronin 2 0 VFL Debut (Round 15)
Jack Davie 1 0 VFL Debut (Round 3)
Mick Donaghy 14 0 50th Game (Round 8)
Bill Eason 4 0 VFL Debut (Round 1)
Jim Flynn 2 0
Ivan Forbes 11 7 VFL Debut (Round 7)
Billy Gill 1 0
Bert Hall 1 1 VFL Debut (Round 12)
Ted Holland 17 4
James Horman 1 0
John Hurley 3 1 VFL Debut (Round 12)
Bob Kerr 2 1 VFL Debut (Round 16)
Bill Mahoney 17 11 VFL Debut (Round 1)
Firth McCallum 4 0
Tim McKeegan 1 0
Alec McKenzie 10 8 VFL Debut (Round 1)
Tom McLean 11 0 Geelong Debut (Round 4)
Bill Munday 1 0 VFL Debut (Round 3)
Ernest Newling 14 0
Jimmy Palmer 8 7 50th Game (Round 12)
Arthur Pincott 13 0 50th Game (Round 1)
Herb Pitman 5 0 VFL Debut (Round 12)
Edward Potter 6 4 VFL Debut (Round 9)
Teddy Rankin 15 4
Arthur Reed 14 2 VFL Debut (Round 1)
Tom Shelley 1 0 VFL Debut (Round 17)
Peter Stephens 6 1 VFL Debut (Round 10)
Hughie Webb 9 4
Ike Woods 8 16
Jack Wright 4 0 VFL Debut (Round 13)
Henry Young 16 4 50th Game (Round 6)

Season summary

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In a generally poor season, Geelong finished the home-and-away season with 7 wins and 10 losses. After a decent start with a 4 win and 2 loss record, Geelong's lackluster form led to a poor placement of 7th position. Therefore, Geelong did not qualify for the finals series.

1902 Results

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Key
H Home game
A Away game
Table of season results[2]
Round Date Result Score Opponent Score Ground Attendance Ladder Report
G B T G B T
1 3 May Won 11 12 78 Carlton 6 4 40 Princes Park A - 2nd Report
2 10 May Lost 3 6 24 Essendon 10 17 77 Corio Oval H - 6th Report
3 17 May Lost 3 2 20 Collingwood 11 15 81 Victoria Park A - 6th Report
4 24 May Won 11 11 77 St Kilda 5 3 33 Corio Oval H - 5th Report
5 31 May Won 5 14 44 South Melbourne 3 9 27 Corio Oval H - 4th Report
6 7 June Won 3 8 26 Melbourne 2 13 25 Melbourne Cricket Ground A - 4th Report
7 9 June Lost 3 8 26 Fitzroy 8 14 62 Brunswick Street Oval A - 4th Report
8 14 June Lost 6 7 43 Carlton 7 5 47 Corio Oval H - 5th Report
9 21 June Won 4 10 34 Essendon 2 3 15 East Melbourne Cricket Ground A - 4th Report
10 5 July Lost 6 8 44 Collingwood 12 12 84 Corio Oval H - 4th Report
11 12 July Won 7 7 49 St Kilda 4 9 33 Junction Oval A - 4th Report
12 19 July Lost 6 9 45 South Melbourne 7 13 55 Lake Oval A - 5th Report
13 26 July Won 8 6 54 Melbourne 3 9 27 Corio Oval H - 4th Report
14 2 August Lost 5 10 40 Fitzroy 9 7 61 Corio Oval H - 5th Report
15 16 August Lost 5 6 36 Fitzroy 6 15 51 Corio Oval H - 5th Report
16 23 August Lost 5 9 39 South Melbourne 12 12 84 Lake Oval A - 5th Report
17 30 August Lost 2 11 23 Collingwood 16 16 112 Victoria Park A - 7th Report

Ladder

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Section A
Section B
# Team P W L D PF PA % Pts
1 Collingwood 14 12 2 0 838 461 181.8 48
2 Essendon 14 10 4 0 690 506 136.4 40
3 Fitzroy 14 9 5 0 783 553 141.6 36
4 Melbourne 14 7 7 0 618 610 101.3 28
5 Geelong 14 7 7 0 604 667 90.6 28
6 Carlton 14 6 8 0 494 653 75.7 24
7 South Melbourne 14 5 9 0 522 535 97.6 20
8 St Kilda 14 0 14 0 408 972 42.0 0

Rules for classification: 1. premiership points; 2. percentage; 3. points for
Source: AFL Tables

(P) Premiers
Qualified for finals
# Team P W L D PF PA % Pts
1 Collingwood (P) 17 15 2 0 1121 562 199.5 60
2 Essendon 17 13 4 0 885 625 141.6 52
3 Fitzroy 17 10 7 0 914 726 125.9 40
4 Melbourne 17 9 8 0 800 735 108.8 36
5 South Melbourne 17 7 10 0 700 704 99.4 28
6 Carlton 17 7 10 0 594 770 77.1 28
7 Geelong 17 7 10 0 702 914 76.8 28
8 St Kilda 17 0 17 0 490 1170 41.9 0

Rules for classification: 1. premiership points; 2. percentage; 3. points for
Average score: 45.6
Source: AFL Tables

References

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  1. ^ "1902 Stats - Player Lists - Geelong". AFL Tables. Retrieved 1 May 2020.
  2. ^ "1902 Season Scores and Results". AFL Tables. Retrieved 1 May 2020.