1892 MJFA season explained
| Competition: | mjfa |
| Year: | 1892 |
| Teams: | 10 |
| Premiers: | Collegians |
| Count: | 1 |
| Minor Premiers: | Collegians |
| Mpcount: | 1 |
| Wooden Spooners: | YMCA |
| Wscount: | 1 |
| Nextseason: | 1893 |
The 1892 MJFA season was the inaugural season of the Metropolitan Junior Football Association (MJFA).
Collegians Football Club won the inaugural MJFA premiership, having finished first on the ladder with 15 wins from their 18 games.[1]
As of 2024, Collegians is the only club from the first MJFA season to still exist and compete in the competition, which is now known as the Victorian Amateur Football Association (VAFA).[2] [3]
Association membership
Ten clubs competed in the inaugural MJFA season − Alberton, Brighton, Collegians, Edlington, Footscray District, South St Kilda, St Jude's, St Mary's, Toorak-Grosvenor and YMCA.[4] [5] [6]
Brighton, Collegians, Edlington and South St Kilda were "2nd 20" (reserves) teams in the 1892 season.[7] Their senior teams all competed in the Victorian Junior Football Association (VJFA), although Collegians' senior team appears to have been in local schoolboy competitions.[8] [9]
Edlington withdrawal
Edlington left the MJFA after just two games, having kicked just one goal to 13 goals against, and their remaining games were considered walkovers.[10] [11] [12] Because the withdrawal created an uneven amount of teams, extra games were played against the Holy Trinity Football Club by teams that were initially scheduled to play Edlington.[13] [14] [15]
Ladder
Holy Trinity was not included in the ladder at the end of the season published in The Australasian.[16]
! style="width:35%;" | Team | | | | | | | |
|---|
| 1 | Collegians (P) | 18 | 15 | 2 | 1 | 111 | 56 | 62 |
| 2 | Alberton | 18 | 14 | 2 | 2 | 107 | 64 | 60 |
| 3 | St Jude's | 18 | 13 | 1 | 4 | 81 | 37 | 60 |
| 4 | South St Kilda | 18 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 59 | 49 | 48 |
| 5 | Footscray District | 18 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 54 | 49 | 40 |
| 6 | Toorak-Grosvenor | 18 | 8 | 9 | 1 | 56 | 49 | 36 |
| 7 | St Mary's | 18 | 6 | 11 | 1 | 37 | 60 | 26 |
| 8 | Brighton | 18 | 4 | 13 | 1 | 38 | 81 | 18 |
| 9 | YMCA | 18 | 3 | 15 | 0 | 34 | 95 | 12 |
| − | Holy Trinity | | | | | | | |
| − | Edlington (W) | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 13 | 0 | |
Notes and References
- Web site: Our History . Collegians Football Club . 25 July 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240725085851/https://www.collegiansfc.com.au/history . 25 July 2024 . The Club has been Premiers of the M.J.F.A. in 1892, 1896, 1898, 1899, 1902 and 1904.
- Web site: A BRIEF HISTORY . Victorian Amateur Football Association . 9 June 2024 . 9 April 2009.
- Web site: METROPOLITAN FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION . Trove . Brighton Southern Cross . 7 August 2024 . 2 . 20 July 1907.
- Web site: BRIGHTON . Australian Football . 10 August 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240810062145/https://australianfootball.com/clubs/bio/Brighton/57 . 10 August 2024.
- Web site: The Amateur Footballer, Week 12, 2017 . Issuu . VAFA Media . 10 August 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230227074519/https://issuu.com/vafa_hq/docs/issue_12__july_8__big_v . 27 February 2023 . 7 . 1 November 2017.
- Web site: Footscray District v St Mary's. . The Independent . 5 August 2024 . Footscray, VIC . 3 . 7 May 1892.
- Web site: METROPOLITAN JUNIOR FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION . The Australasian . 5 August 2024 . 21 May 1892.
- Web site: VICTORIAN JUNIOR FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION . Trove . The Argus . 5 August 2024 . 7 . 7 June 1892.
- Web site: FOOTBALL . The Argus . 5 August 2024 . 10 . 8 June 1892.
- Web site: Edlington Football Club (Vic) . Footypedia . 5 August 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240728044433/http://www.footypedia.info/00003292.htm . 28 July 2024.
- Web site: METROPOLITAN JUNIOR FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION . The Australasian . 5 August 2024 . 4 June 1892.
- Web site: METROPOLITAN JUNIOR FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION . Trove . The Argus . 5 August 2024 . 10 . 28 June 1892.
- Web site: METROPOLITAN JUNIOR FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION . The Argus . 5 August 2024 . 5 June 1892.
- Web site: METROPOLITAN JUNIOR FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION . The Argus . 5 August 2024 . 3 . 21 June 1892.
- Web site: FOOTBALL . The Argus . 5 August 2024 . 7 . 23 August 1892.
- Web site: METROPOLITAN JUNIOR FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION . Trove . The Australasian . 5 August 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231004095957/https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/138034443 . 4 October 2023 . 18 . 1 October 1892.
