The 1924
Victorian Football Association season was the 46th season of the
Australian rules football competition. The premiership was won by the
Footscray Football Club, after it defeated
Williamstown by 45 points in the final on 20 September. It was the club's ninth and last VFA premiership before it, along with
North Melbourne and
Hawthorn, joined the
Victorian Football League the following year; this marked the end of a long period of dominance for Footscray, which had seen it win five minor premierships in a row and four major premierships in six years.
Premiership
The home-and-home season was played over eighteen rounds, with each club playing the others twice; then, the top four clubs contested a finals series under the
amended Argus system to determine the premiers for the season.
Had Williamstown won, minor premiers Footscray would have been entitled to a rematch the following Saturday to decide the premiership.
Notable events
Prior to the season, the V.F.A. became affiliated with the
Victorian Junior Football Association. Under the arrangement, each of the junior clubs which served as a seconds team for a V.F.A. club joined the V.J.F.A; and, the V.J.F.A expanded to eighteen clubs in two divisions.[6][7] The V.J.F.A. would end up becoming the V.F.A. seconds competition over the following few years.
George Gough (
Northcote) kicked 25 goals and 7 behinds in Northcote's match against
Prahran in the final round of home-and-home matches on August 30.[1] Gough broke the Association record of 18 goals in a match, scored by
Dave McNamara (
Essendon (A.)) in
1912, and broke the national record of 23 goals in a top level senior match, set by Bos Daly (
Norwood) in 1893 and matched by
Hugh Campbell (
Western Australia) in
1924.[9] Gough scored eleven goals in the final quarter.[1]
George Gough was the Association's leading goalscorer for the year, finishing with eighty goals in the home-and-home season.[1]
Two clubs completed extremely long home winning streaks during the season:
Footscray left the Association at the end of the season, after being unbeaten at the
Western Oval in 47 consecutive matches; and
Port Melbourne was beaten at the
Port Melbourne Cricket Ground for the first time since 1920, ending a 33-match winning streak.[11]