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1920

Coach: Gerald Brosnan
Captain: George Haines
Finishing Position: 8th
Best and Fairest: n/a
Leading Goalkicker: Harry Harker (23)
Best First Year Player: n/a
Members: 450

Premiership Season Ladder Playing List

After a winless 1919 George Haines stepped down as playing coach, replaced by former Fitzroy stalwart Gerald Brosnan. Melbourne had been in talks with Collingwood champion Percy Wilson but could not convince him to leave the Magpies. Wilson would join as captain/coach the next year, for now Haines retained the captaincy.

Brosnan's side won four of the first five games, before collapsing to just one more victory for the season and a second last place finish. Along the way they had some notable matches, including the largest ever VFL home and away attendance to that point against Richmond in Round 7 and two matches in a row where a team kicked three goals in the first quarter and nil over the next three - first they restricted St Kilda in Round 14 before Carlton gave them a taste of their own medicine the next week.

Five players appeared in their one and only game for the club during the year, a figure that has never been matched again. Four out of the five went on to play matches for other league clubs.

Bill McClelland and Andrew Manzie were Melbourne's delegates to the VFL.

An intra-club game was played against the Melbourne Juniors on Saturday 17 April.

Premiership Season

RoundOppositionResultScore
1 South MelbourneWIN67-55
2 EssendonWIN80-65
3 CollingwoodLOSS23-44
4 St. KildaWIN81-41
5 BYE
6 CarltonWIN84-66
7 RichmondLOSS68-88
8 FitzroyLOSS46-108
9 GeelongLOSS48-113
10 South MelbourneLOSS41-85
11 EssendonLOSS43-60
12 CollingwoodLOSS59-75
13 BYE
14 St. KildaWIN83-21
15 CarltonLOSS25-87
16 RichmondLOSS60-134
17 FitzroyLOSS45-108
18 GeelongLOSS87-116

Ladder

WDL%P
Richmond1402146.456
Fitzroy1402143.256
Carlton1006128.740
Collingwood1006112.340
South Melbourne709108.628
Essendon501187.820
Geelong501184.420
Melbourne501174.220
St. Kilda201457.28

Playing List

NumberPlayerGamesGoals
1 Bill Allen 155
2 Eric Tonkin 65
3 Leo Little 63
4 Alec Farrow 153
5 Harry Harker 923
6 Herb Matthews 154
7 Mick Anthony 111
8 Charlie Lilley 150
9 Charlie Streeter 149
10 Jack Brake 30
11 Jack Baquie 30
12 Bob Corbett 160
13 Bill Shelton 115
14 Alec Gray 150
15 George Haines 1418
16 Hughie Odgers 150
17 Bert Chadwick 168
18 Bob Bodington 10
19 Jack Huntington 1315
20 Joe O'Carroll 32
21 Jack House 126
22 Syd Hutcheson 110
23 Les Boyd 84
24 Bill Fawcett 10
25 Claude Bryan 30
26 Vern Rowe 77
27 Harry Tampling 10
28 George Walker 110
29 George Garlick 54
30 Bruce Campbell 54
31 Reg Ellis 10
32 Norm Henderson 22
34 Leo Dobrigh 10
35 Aubrey Neal 10

Seconds

1920 Seconds season

Media
Herald - 16/04/1920
Herald - 03/09/1920

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