1899 MJFA season explained

Competition:mjfa
Year:1899
Teams:9
Premiers:Collegians
Count:4
Minor Premiers:Collegians
Mpcount:4
Wooden Spooners:Caulfield
Prevseason:1898
Nextseason:1900

The 1899 MJFA season was the eighth season of the Metropolitan Junior Football Association (MJFA).[1] The season began on 22 April and ended on 9 September.[2]

Collegians won the MJFA premiership for the fourth time and the second year in a row, finishing first on the ladder with only one loss for the season.[3]

Association membership

Like the previous season in 1898, a total of nine teams competed in the MJFA. St Mary's had been expelled in June 1898, while South Yarra withdrew one month later.[4] [5]

Two new clubs entered the MJFA at the start of the 1899 season − Parkville and St Francis Xavier.[6]

St Francis Xavier withdrawal

In May 1899, after the completion of round 4, St Francis Xavier disbanded.[7] [8] [9] The Xaverian noted at the time that "we played one or two matches and some practice matches in this Association; but we were invariably beaten. We had no chance − boys played against men, the result was evident from the beginning. Repeated defeats caused our boys gradually to lose heart. The committee were consulted and thinking "discretion the better part of valour" we reluctantly resigned our place in the Association."[10] One of St Francis Xavier's defeats included a 16.16 to 2.0 loss to Collegians.[11]

Kew Football Club was chosen to fill the vacancy, having been competing in the Suburban Junior Football Association until that point, and it played in the MJFA for the remainder of the season.[12] [13] [14]

South St Kilda withdrawal

One month later in July, South St Kilda − who had been MJFA premiers four times, including as recently as 1897 − also disbanded.[15] They were not replaced by any other club during the season.[16]

Ladder

Kew was not included in the ladder at the end of the season published in The Age. The VAFA's official history stated that the "top two sides played off for [the] premiership", although this is not supported by contemporary sources.[7]

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Team
1Collegians (P)17141260
2Leopold17104346
3Brighton17105244
4Parkville1776436
5Beverley1457244347124
6Caulfield1468024
−Kew
−South St Kilda (W)
−St Francis Xavier (W)00

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Football Fixtures For Today . Trove . The Age . 25 July 2024 . 3 . 24 May 1899.
  2. Web site: Football Notes . Trove . Brighton Southern Cross . 25 July 2024 . 22 April 1899 . The teams entered for the Metropolitan Associations pennant are the Brighton, Wesley Collegians, Beverley, South St. Kilda, Caulfield, Leopold, St. Francis Xaviers (Kew) and Parkville..
  3. 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.
  4. Web site: FOOTBALL . Trove . Brighton Southern Cross . 12 August 2024 . 4 . 11 June 1898 . St Mary's team was disqualified for rough play at last meeting of the association. Severe, but necessary in the best interests of the game..
  5. Web site: Rover . FOOTBALL . The Prahran Telegraph . 12 August 2024 . 2 . 9 July 1898.
  6. Web site: VAFA club's history 1892-2007 . GameDay . Victorian Amateur Football Association . 9 June 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240609112906/https://websites.mygameday.app/get_file.cgi?id=116474 . 9 June 2024.
  7. Web site: A BRIEF HISTORY . Victorian Amateur Football Association . 9 June 2024 . 9 April 2009.
  8. Web site: METROPOLITAN JUNIOR FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION . The Age . 25 July 2024 . 22 August 1899 . South St. Kilda, Leopold disbanded..
  9. Web site: FOOTBALL . The Age . 23 August 1899 . In today's issue the position of clubs reads that South St. Kilda and Leopold clubs have disbanded. This should read, 'South St. Kilda and St. Francis Xaviers disbanded.' You will notice that Leopold is third on the list of clubs..
  10. Web site: 1899 . Old Xaverians Football Club . 25 July 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231027033717/https://www.oldxavs.com.au/history-by-year/1899 . 27 October 2023.
  11. Web site: Football Notes . Trove . Brighton Southern Cross . 25 July 2024 . 20 May 1899 . Collegians, 16 goals 16 behinds v. St. Francis Xavier's, 2 goals..
  12. Web site: CLUB HISTORY . Kew Football Club . 25 July 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230419112433/https://www.kewfc.com/club-history/ . 19 April 2023 . Resuming in 1899 in the Suburban Junior Football Association the club quickly changed competitions after Round 4 when a vacancy occurred in the more senior Metropolitan Junior Football Association (now VAFA) replacing the St Francis Xavier (now Xavier College) club..
  13. Web site: Football . The Argus . 25 July 2024 . 11 July 1899.
  14. Web site: Football . Trove . The Age . 25 July 2024 . 2 August 1899.
  15. Web site: Football Notes . Trove . Brighton Southern Cross . 25 July 2024 . 27 May 1899.
  16. Web site: Football . The Age . 25 July 2024 . 5 . 19 July 1899 . South St. Kilda and St. Francis Xavier's disbanded..

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