Collingwood's Gordon Coventry kicked 17 goals against Fitzroy, a league record at the time that has since been broken only once and equalled only once.
Fred Fanning broke it with 18 goals in 1947, and Jason Dunstall equalled it with 17 in 1992.
Records
A Perth newspaper reported that a priest at the Bathurst Island mission had written to Richmond's secretary asking for secondhand footballs, and the club arranged to send some.
The priest said football was the only game the island schoolboys were really interested in.
Indigenous football
Norm Smith, the man whose name sits on the Grand Final medal, was inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame as a playing Legend.
Awards
Draw
AFL · Round 16 · MCG · crowd 30,604
Sydney won by 130 points
VFL · Round 16 · SCG · crowd 24,199
Richmond won by 107 points
VFL · Round 16 · Lake Oval · crowd 13,411
North Melbourne v Fitzroy, first of 275 VFL/AFL games
Essendon v Melbourne, first of 200 VFL/AFL games
Sydney v West Coast, first of 198 VFL/AFL games
Collingwood v Carlton, first of 187 VFL/AFL games
Essendon v Footscray, first of 171 VFL/AFL games
Port Adelaide v West Coast, first of 171 VFL/AFL games
St Kilda v South Melbourne, first of 169 VFL/AFL games
St Kilda v Essendon, first of 159 VFL/AFL games
Fremantle v West Coast, first of 124 VFL/AFL games so far
Western Bulldogs, 51 games (2022-2026)
Adelaide Crows, 79 games (2020-2026)
Hawthorn, 58 games (2022-2026)
Carlton, 300 games (2006-2021)
Geelong, 282 games (1982-1998)
Geelong, 259 games (1985-1997)
Footscray, 174 games (1937-1948)
Footscray, 179 games (1927-1937)
