1924 VFL season
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The 1924 VFL season was the 28th season of the Victorian Football League, the highest-level senior Australian rules football competition in Victoria. The season featured nine clubs and ran from 26 Apr
Essendon 1924 VFL premiership team
The 1924 match for Dame Nellie Melba's Appeal for Limbless Soldiers, informally known as the 1924 Championship of Victoria, was an Australian rules football exhibition match played on 4 October 1924 b
1924 VFL season
…bribes. On the Saturday after the VFL grand final, Essendon (in its role as 1924 VFL premiers) was challenged by 1924 VFA premiers, Footscray, to a match in aid of Dame Nellie Melba's Limbless Soldiers' Appeal, purportedly (but not officially) for the championship of Victoria. Footscray unexpectedly defeated Essendon 9.10 (64) to 4.12 (36). Again there were…
Dame Nellie Melba
Crowd at the Championship of Victoria, with inserted images of club captains Con McCarthy (Footscray) and Syd Barker (Essendon)