1937 VFL premiership season
Geelong captain-coachReg Hickey
Teams	12
Premiers	Geelong 3rd premiership
Minor premiers	Geelong 5th minor premiership
Brownlow Medallist	Dick Reynolds(Essendon)
Dick Harris(Carlton)
Matches played	112
Highest	88,540
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The1937 VFL season was the 41st season of theVictorian Football League (VFL), the highest level seniorAustralian rules football competition in Victoria. The season featured twelve clubs, ran from 24 April until 25 September, and comprised an 18-game home-and-away season followed by a finals series featuring the top four clubs.

The premiership was won by theGeelong Football Club for the third time, after it defeatedCollingwood by 32 points in the1937 VFL Grand Final.

In 1937, the VFL competition consisted of twelve teams of 18 on-the-field players each, plus one substitute player, known as the19th man. A player could be substituted for any reason; however, once substituted, a player could not return to the field of play under any circumstances.

Teams played each other in a home-and-away season of 18 rounds; matches 12 to 18 were the "home-and-way reverse" of matches 1 to 7.

Once the 18 round home-and-away season had finished, the 1937 VFLPremiers were determined by the specific format and conventions of thePage–McIntyre system.

Rules for classification: 1. premiership points; 2. percentage; 3. points for
Average score: 88.0
Source:AFL Tables

• Still struggling to recover from the injury that kept him out of the 1936 grand final,Bob Pratt played only six matches (kicking 12 goals) forSouth Melbourne in the 1937 season.
• Having kickedCollingwood's only goal in the last quarter of the grand final,Gordon Coventry retired having played 306 senior VFL games and having scored 1299 goals.
  • In Round 15, Coventry became the first player to play 300 VFL games
• In Round 16, Collingwood and Melbourne set numerous records for high scoring:
  • a record match aggregate of 295 points, beating by two the record of Essendon and North Melbourne in 1934
  • highest losing score, beating Collingwood's own record against St Kilda in 1931 and still a club record for Collingwood^[1]

• The 1937 VFL Premiership team wasGeelong.
• TheVFL's leading goalkicker wasDick Harris ofRichmond with 64 goals.
• The winner ofThe Argus' "Player of the Year" wasDick Reynolds ofEssendon.
• The winner of the 1937Brownlow Medal wasDick Reynolds ofEssendon with 27 votes.
• North Melbourne took the "wooden spoon" in 1937.
• The seconds premiership was won byGeelong. Geelong 12.12 (84) defeatedCollingwood 9.11 (65) in the Grand Final, played as a stand-alone game on Thursday 30 September (Show Day holiday) at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.^[2]

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