Coach: Alex Hall
Captain: Vin Coutie
Finishing Position: 7th
Best and Fairest: n/a
Leading Goalkicker: Harry Brereton (46)
Best First Year Player: n/a
| Matches | Ladder | Playing List | |||
For the first time clubs were allowed to openly pay players. They had been doing so for years under the guise of "expenses", but from May 1911 onwards it became legal. After an earlier attempt at introducing payments had failed to achieve the necessary 75% margin a later vote saw an overwhelming majority of league delegates agreeing that players should be professionals. The VFL relented under pressure from the MCC and allowed any players who wished to play as amateurs to do so.
Only Melbourne and University voted against dismissing amateurism, with the Reds officially paying each player 5/ a week to cover his tram fare and no more unless he could show that he lost money through employment to train or play. Some players who wished to remain purely amateur refused to even take tram fare. However, many players were compensated with jobs either with the MCC or with the companies of prominent supporters.
A number of Fitzroy players trained with the Reds in the pre-season due to off-field turmoil at Brunswick Street, however most returned to the Roys before the start of the season.
Elections for the committee saw Bernie Nolan (213 votes), WM Cattlin (212), CE Couchman (198), Amos Norcott (191) and J. Nevill (151) elected. J Urquhart (116) and HD Westley (69) were unsuccessful.
Melbourne's delegates to the league were Bill McClelland and Bernie Nolan.
The Round 2 match against Geelong ended in a protest which was dismissed. The claim was that Geelong shouldn't have received a point which came when the ball was punched through after the bell.
Premiership Season
| Round | Opposition | Result | |||
| 1 | Fitzroy | WIN | |||
| 2 | Geelong | DRAW | |||
| 3 | Essendon | LOSS | |||
| 4 | South Melbourne | LOSS | |||
| 5 | St. Kilda | WIN | |||
| 6 | Collingwood | LOSS | |||
| 7 | Richmond | LOSS | |||
| 8 | University | WIN | |||
| 9 | Carlton | LOSS | |||
| 10 | Fitzroy | LOSS | |||
| 11 | Geelong | WIN | |||
| 12 | Essendon | LOSS | |||
| 13 | South Melbourne | LOSS | |||
| 14 | St. Kilda | WIN | |||
| 15 | Collingwood | LOSS | |||
| 16 | Richmond | WIN | |||
| 17 | University | WIN | |||
| 18 | Carlton | LOSS | |||
Ladder
| W | D | L | % | P | |
| Essendon | 15 | 1 | 2 | 178.3 | 62 |
| South Melbourne | 13 | 1 | 4 | 140.4 | 54 |
| Carlton | 12 | 2 | 4 | 142.0 | 52 |
| Collingwood | 12 | 0 | 6 | 124.4 | 48 |
| Fitzroy | 10 | 0 | 8 | 113.6 | 40 |
| Geelong | 8 | 1 | 9 | 99.9 | 34 |
| Melbourne | 7 | 1 | 10 | 98.6 | 30 |
| Richmond | 7 | 0 | 11 | 91.2 | 28 |
| St. Kilda | 2 | 0 | 16 | 48.1 | 8 |
| University | 1 | 0 | 17 | 52.1 | 4 |
Exhibition Matches
| Opposition | Result
| ||||
| Wagga League | WIN | ||||
| Combined Sydney B | WIN | ||||
Playing List
| Player | Games | Goals | |||
| Bill Allen | 16 | 6 | |||
| Harry Brereton | 17 | 46 | |||
| Harry Cope | 8 | 1 | |||
| Vin Coutie | 9 | 16 | |||
| Harold Curran | 2 | 0 | |||
| Ken Edgar | 2 | 0 | |||
| Stan Fairbairn | 11 | 12 | |||
| Jim Fitzpatrick | 8 | 3 | |||
| Bill Flintoft | 9 | 2 | |||
| Jack Geggie | 1 | 0 | |||
| Alf George | 12 | 3 | |||
| Frank Harris | 15 | 1 | |||
| Bill Henderson | 7 | 0 | |||
| Bill Hendrie | 18 | 6 | |||
| Bill Hickey | 14 | 1 | |||
| Joe Hodgkins | 2 | 1 | |||
| Billy Irwin | 2 | 1 | |||
| Mal Kennedy | 11 | 4 | |||
| Jack Leith | 3 | 3 | |||
| Bill McKenzie | 18 | 2 | |||
| Bill McKeone | 1 | 0 | |||
| Bobby Monk | 13 | 0 | |||
| Jim Moore | 1 | 0 | |||
| Wally Naismith | 18 | 0 | |||
| Jimmy Nolan | 1 | 0 | |||
| Hughie Odgers | 18 | 1 | |||
| Joe Pearce | 16 | 0 | |||
| Ted Politz | 8 | 5 | |||
| Jack Robertson | 16 | 5 | |||
| Leo Rush | 6 | 4 | |||
| Ben Sheppard | 4 | 1 | |||
| Jack Smith | 10 | 1 | |||
| George St John | 1 | 0 | |||
| Wally Sykes | 5 | 4 | |||
| Hedley Tomkins | 17 | 7 | |||
| Fred Whelpton | 4 | 0 | |||
Media
Independent - 25/03/1911
Referee - 17/05/1911
The Argus - 16/06/1911
Links
AFL Tables 1911 page