Port Melbourne beat Footscray 9.23 to 0.0 at the Port Melbourne Cricket Ground, with Footscray failing even to attempt a shot on goal.
It remains the only time a club has been held scoreless in a senior VFA match since the modern scoring system began in 1897.
Records
Fitzroy beat Port Melbourne at the Port Melbourne Cricket Ground, but the VFA upheld a protest that Jack Worrall marked for Fitzroy's first goal after a half time bell nobody had heard, and the win became a draw.
The football writer Follower refused to recognise the ruling and kept publishing a ladder with the win standing.
Administration
Metropolitan, playing two men short and held scoreless by Fremantle's 8.20 at Fremantle Oval, retired from the contest two minutes before time.
Oddities
South Melbourne's Ian Tampion had already handed the ball to the umpire at the three-quarter-time siren, until his captain made him take the free kick and he kicked an 80-yard goal.
Oddities
New Norfolk's Neville Hill was handed a suspension that began at 51 matches and was cut to 40 on appeal, the longest in Tasmanian league records.
Oddities
Greg Hutchison, addressing Melbourne players at three-quarter time before about 500 voices in the stand at Princes Park, said later that the club's supporters were probably up at the snow more than at the footy.
People
Snow fell on Manuka Oval during Greater Western Sydney v Hawthorn in Canberra, and some spectators calmly pulled on ski goggles while Hawthorn's players carried on in short sleeves.
Fact Check found no record of snow during a VFL or AFL premiership match before this one.
Oddities
A video of Yeronga's women's team singing the club song while signing it in Auslan for teammate Jamie Howell, who is deaf, was posted to Instagram and went viral in Brisbane.
Journalist Peter FitzSimons wrote that sports stories did not get a whole lot better than this.
Women's football
Lightning over Perth sent West Coast and Melbourne from Optus Stadium six minutes into the last quarter, with Melbourne leading 69 to 36, and play resumed half an hour later.
League rules said the score would stand if play could not restart within 30 minutes.
Oddities
Hawthorn won by 118 points
VFL · Round 19 · Princes Park · crowd 8,417
300th AFL game, Hawthorn v Brisbane
300th AFL game, Hawthorn v West Coast
300th AFL game, Sydney v Richmond
West Coast v Adelaide, first of 187 VFL/AFL games
Geelong v Hawthorn, first of 174 VFL/AFL games
Collingwood v Carlton, first of 159 VFL/AFL games
West Coast v Sydney, first of 158 VFL/AFL games
GWS v Hawthorn, first of 106 VFL/AFL games so far
Geelong, 209 games (2015-2026)
Port Adelaide, 131 games (2019-2026)
Collingwood
Brisbane Bears, 200 games (1985-1997)
Melbourne, 160 games (2003-2016)
