31 August

Mount Gambier's Border Watch published the football club's twelve rules, which banned throwing the ball in play, set goalposts of unlimited height and required runners to bounce it every five or six yards.

Each side also appointed its own umpire, and the two were the sole judges of goals.

Rules

A match was arranged in Mount Gambier on 31 August 1867 between players selected from the town's two cricket clubs, the date later given for the football club's start.

Clubs

Victorian had a goal against South Adelaide deleted when a head count showed 21 men on the ground, after two substitutes started the game and one player arrived late.

The dispute lasted half an hour, and the association committee later declared the match a win for South Adelaide.

Rules

Fire damaged the big stand at the MCG on 31 August 1884, and Melbourne lost the fences, goalposts and athletic equipment it kept stored underneath.

Grounds

Footscray beat Brunswick in the Association final at the MCG on the American Fleet Week holiday before 40,000, with Brunswick barrackers greeting their team with a fanfare of clayhole bells.

Footscray's supporters waved the same flags they had used a few hours earlier to greet the American sailors.

Grounds

Semi Final

VFL · Victoria Park · crowd 15,000

Semi Final

VFL · East Melbourne · crowd 10,000

Semi Final

VFL · MCG · crowd 69,455

Semi Final

VFL · MCG · crowd 36,116

St Kilda won by 108 points

AFL · Round 22 · Telstra Dome · crowd 46,161

Kangaroos won by 124 points

AFL · Round 22 · Telstra Dome · crowd 26,138

Grand Final

VFA · MCG · crowd 41,000