15 August

A small boy who had crossed the fence and stood near a goal post became the centre of a protest after South Melbourne and Essendon drew at the South Melbourne Cricket Ground.

Each club produced its own boy to testify that he was the one who interfered, and Essendon was awarded the game at a special meeting on 28 August.

Oddities

New South Wales beat a Victorian side by one point at Erskineville Oval in Sydney, one of several home wins over Victorian teams in the 1920s.

State leagues

A Hawthorn player at Glenferrie Oval kept playing against Melbourne in red bathers after his shorts were torn off, until replacements arrived.

Oddities

North Melbourne's Arden Street gate of $7249 fell $1000 short of the cost of footballs, police, gate attendants and umpires, so the VFL covered the gap for the first time in league history.

The same fixture a year earlier had lost just $8 at the gate.

Administration

Melbourne ran through a banner reading Another Barassi win at Arden Street before facing North Melbourne, having won just one of nineteen games that year, and then conceded eight goals to one in the second quarter.

Oddities

Richmond announced it needed to raise $1 million by 31 October or it would cease to exist, launching the Save Our Skins campaign.

Clubs

Draw

AFL · Round 23 · MCG · crowd 76,186

Adelaide won by 112 points

AFL · Round 20 · Etihad Stadium · crowd 25,914

Sydney won by 118 points

AFL · Round 20 · SCG · crowd 34,299

Draw

VFL · Round 20 · MCG · crowd 18,921