1902 Geelong Football Club season

Geelong Football Club
1902 season
President	J. McMullen
Captain(s)	Henry Young; (2nd season)
Home ground	Corio Oval
VFL Season	7th
Finals Series	Did not qualify
Leading goalkicker	Ike Woods (16 goals)
← 1901	1903 →

The 1902 VFL season was the Geelong Football Club's sixth season in the Victorian Football League and its second with Henry Young as captain.

Geelong finished the home-and-away with 7 wins and 10 losses, finishing in seventh position. Geelong did not qualify for the finals series.

The leading goalkicker was Ike Woods with 16 goals.

Playing List

3 players played in all 17 games, and a total of 41 players were used. 17 of those 41 players made their VFL debuts and a further 2 made their Geelong debut, Jim Beasley from Essendon and Tom McLean from Collingwood. 5 players reached the 50 game milestone.

Statistics

	Denotes statistical category leader for season

Geelong's 1902 playing list and statistics^[1]
Player	Games	Goals	Milestones
Les Bailiff	17	0	50th Game (Round 14)
Jack Baker	3	3
Ern Batty	9	1	VFL Debut (Round 3)
Jim Beasley	7	2	Geelong Debut (Round 4)
Norman Belcher	3	2
Bill Bennion	16	1
Frank Bowey	9	1
Tommy Buchan	5	1
Peter Burns	7	0
Charlie Coles	8	7
Fred Cronin	2	0	VFL Debut (Round 15)
Jack Davie	1	0	VFL Debut (Round 3)
Mick Donaghy	14	0	50th Game (Round 8)
Bill Eason	4	0	VFL Debut (Round 1)
Jim Flynn	2	0
Ivan Forbes	11	7	VFL Debut (Round 7)
Billy Gill	1	0
Bert Hall	1	1	VFL Debut (Round 12)
Ted Holland	17	4
James Horman	1	0
John Hurley	3	1	VFL Debut (Round 12)
Bob Kerr	2	1	VFL Debut (Round 16)
Bill Mahoney	17	11	VFL Debut (Round 1)
Firth McCallum	4	0
Tim McKeegan	1	0
Alec McKenzie	10	8	VFL Debut (Round 1)
Tom McLean	11	0	Geelong Debut (Round 4)
Bill Munday	1	0	VFL Debut (Round 3)
Ernest Newling	14	0
Jimmy Palmer	8	7	50th Game (Round 12)
Arthur Pincott	13	0	50th Game (Round 1)
Herb Pitman	5	0	VFL Debut (Round 12)
Edward Potter	6	4	VFL Debut (Round 9)
Teddy Rankin	15	4
Arthur Reed	14	2	VFL Debut (Round 1)
Tom Shelley	1	0	VFL Debut (Round 17)
Peter Stephens	6	1	VFL Debut (Round 10)
Hughie Webb	9	4
Ike Woods	8	16
Jack Wright	4	0	VFL Debut (Round 13)
Henry Young	16	4	50th Game (Round 6)

Season summary

In a generally poor season, Geelong finished the home-and-away season with 7 wins and 10 losses. After a decent start with a 4 win and 2 loss record, Geelong's lackluster form led to a poor placement of 7th position. Therefore, Geelong did not qualify for the finals series.

1902 Results

Key
H	Home game
A	Away game

Table of season results^[2]
Round	Date	Result	Score			Opponent	Score			Ground		Attendance	Ladder	Report
Round	Date	Result	G	B	T	Opponent	G	B	T	Ground		Attendance	Ladder	Report
1	3 May	Won	11	12	78	Carlton	6	4	40	Princes Park	A	-	2nd	Report
2	10 May	Lost	3	6	24	Essendon	10	17	77	Corio Oval	H	-	6th	Report
3	17 May	Lost	3	2	20	Collingwood	11	15	81	Victoria Park	A	-	6th	Report
4	24 May	Won	11	11	77	St Kilda	5	3	33	Corio Oval	H	-	5th	Report
5	31 May	Won	5	14	44	South Melbourne	3	9	27	Corio Oval	H	-	4th	Report
6	7 June	Won	3	8	26	Melbourne	2	13	25	Melbourne Cricket Ground	A	-	4th	Report
7	9 June	Lost	3	8	26	Fitzroy	8	14	62	Brunswick Street Oval	A	-	4th	Report
8	14 June	Lost	6	7	43	Carlton	7	5	47	Corio Oval	H	-	5th	Report
9	21 June	Won	4	10	34	Essendon	2	3	15	East Melbourne Cricket Ground	A	-	4th	Report
10	5 July	Lost	6	8	44	Collingwood	12	12	84	Corio Oval	H	-	4th	Report
11	12 July	Won	7	7	49	St Kilda	4	9	33	Junction Oval	A	-	4th	Report
12	19 July	Lost	6	9	45	South Melbourne	7	13	55	Lake Oval	A	-	5th	Report
13	26 July	Won	8	6	54	Melbourne	3	9	27	Corio Oval	H	-	4th	Report
14	2 August	Lost	5	10	40	Fitzroy	9	7	61	Corio Oval	H	-	5th	Report
15	16 August	Lost	5	6	36	Fitzroy	6	15	51	Corio Oval	H	-	5th	Report
16	23 August	Lost	5	9	39	South Melbourne	12	12	84	Lake Oval	A	-	5th	Report
17	30 August	Lost	2	11	23	Collingwood	16	16	112	Victoria Park	A	-	7th	Report

Ladder

	Section A
	Section B

#	Team	P	W	L	PF	PA	%	Pts
1	Collingwood	14	12	2	838	461	181.8	48
2	Essendon	14	10	4	690	506	136.4	40
3	Fitzroy	14	9	5	783	553	141.6	36
4	Melbourne	14	7	7	618	610	101.3	28
5	Geelong	14	7	7	604	667	90.6	28
6	Carlton	14	6	8	494	653	75.7	24
7	South Melbourne	14	5	9	522	535	97.6	20
8	St Kilda	14	0	14	408	972	42.0	0

Rules for classification: 1. premiership points; 2. percentage; 3. points for
Source: AFL Tables

(P)	Premiers
	Qualified for finals

#	Team	P	W	L	PF	PA	%	Pts
1	Collingwood (P)	17	15	2	1121	562	199.5	60
2	Essendon	17	13	4	885	625	141.6	52
3	Fitzroy	17	10	7	914	726	125.9	40
4	Melbourne	17	9	8	800	735	108.8	36
5	South Melbourne	17	7	10	700	704	99.4	28
6	Carlton	17	7	10	594	770	77.1	28
7	Geelong	17	7	10	702	914	76.8	28
8	St Kilda	17	0	17	490	1170	41.9	0

Rules for classification: 1. premiership points; 2. percentage; 3. points for
Average score: 45.6
Source: AFL Tables

References

^ "1902 Stats - Player Lists - Geelong". AFL Tables. Retrieved 1 May 2020.
^ "1902 Season Scores and Results". AFL Tables. Retrieved 1 May 2020.

[stats-1] "1902 Stats - Player Lists - Geelong". AFL Tables. Retrieved 1 May 2020.

[1902_Season_Scores_and_Results-2] "1902 Season Scores and Results". AFL Tables. Retrieved 1 May 2020.

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