The1929 VFL season was the 33rd season of theVictorian Football League (VFL), the highest-level seniorAustralian rules football competition in Victoria. The season featured twelve clubs and ran from 27 April to 28 September, comprising an 18-match home-and-away season followed by a four-weekfinals series featuring the top four clubs.

Collingwood won thepremiership, defeatingRichmond by 29 points in the1929 VFL grand final; it was Collingwood's third consecutive premiership and eighth VFL premiership overall. Collingwood also won theminor premiership by finishing atop the home-and-away ladder with an 18–0 win–loss record, the only time in the league's history that a team has gone through a home-and-away season undefeated, however its loss to Richmond in the semi-finals prevented the club from achieving aperfect season. Collingwood'sAlbert Collier won theBrownlow Medal as the league's best and fairest player, and teammateGordon Coventry won his fourth consecutiveleading goalkicker medal as the league's leading goalkicker, becoming the first player to kick over 100 goals in a season.

In 1929, the VFL competition consisted of twelve teams of 18 on-the-field players each, with no "reserves", although any of the 18 players who had left the playing field for any reason could later resume their place on the field at any time during the match.

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

Once the 18 round home-and-away season had finished, the 1929 VFLPremiers were determined by the specific format and conventions of theamended "Argus system".

Rules for classification: 1. premiership points; 2. percentage; 3. points for
Average score: 77.0
Source:AFL Tables

All of the 1929 finals were played at theMCG so the home team in the semi-finals and Preliminary Final is purely the higher ranked team from the ladder but in the Grand Final the home team was the team that won the Preliminary Final.

• Collingwood set many records during the 1929 season, including:
  • First team to remain undefeated through an entire home-and away season. However, given that they lost the second semi-final to Richmond, they were not undefeated for the entire season.
  • In three seasons, 1927, 1928, and 1929, the team had played 61 matches, for 53 wins, 1 draw, and 7 losses.
  • First team to score more than 2,000 points in a single season.
  • First team to have a full-forward scoring more than 100 goals in a single season.
  • First team to have a player kick 16 goals in a single match.
  • First team to be VFL premiers on eight occasions.
• On 18 June 1929 the VFL was incorporated as a public company, and it purchased a three-storey building (later namedHarrison House afterHenry Harrison who died later that year, on 2 September) on the corner of Spring Street and Flinders Lane.
• Clarrie Hearn of Essendon won the 1929 130-yardStawell Gift in eleven and fifteen sixteenths of a second (approx. 11.94 seconds), off a handicap of 10 yards.
• Footscray's 23 effective scoring shots (7 goals and 16 behinds) against Hawthorn in the third quarter of their Round 6 match remains the most scoring shots by a team in one quarter.
  • Footscray's 16 behinds in that quarter has been equalled only by Collingwood against North Melbourne in the third quarter in Round 6, 1970.

• The 1929 VFL Premiership team wasCollingwood.
• TheVFL's leading goalkicker wasGordon Coventry ofCollingwood with 124 goals.
• The winner of the 1929Brownlow Medal wasAlbert "Leeter" Collier ofCollingwood with 6 votes.
• North Melbourne took the "wooden spoon" in 1929.
• The seconds premiership was won byRichmond. Richmond 12.8 (80) defeatedGeelong 7.15 (57) in the challenge Grand Final, played as a stand-alone game on Thursday 26 September (Show Day holiday) at the Melbourne Cricket Ground before a crowd of 6,544.^[1]

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