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The 1897 Victorian Football Association season was the 21st season of the Australian rules football competition. The premiership was won by the Port Melbourne Football Club, the first premiership in its history. The 1897 season the VFA's first season as the second-tier senior football competition in Victoria. From 1877 until 1896, the VFA had been the top senior competition in the colony, but at the end of 1896, eight of the association's strongest clubs broke away, establishing the rival Victorian Football League, which immediately assumed the position as the highest level of competition. ==Association membership== Through the 1890s, there had been several years of discontent amongst the Association clubs about the disparity between the stronger and weaker senior clubs. This discontent culminated on October 2, 1896, when eight of the thirteen clubs withdrew from the Association and established a rival senior competition, the Victorian Football League. The League clubs were: , , , , , , and – clubs which had amongst them won all twenty of the Association premierships to date. The League became recognised as the highest level of senior competition in the colony of Victoria, and the Association became the second-tier senior competition, a position it has maintained since. The establishment of the League left only five of the Association's existing senior clubs: , , Port Melbourne, and Williamstown. One junior club, Brunswick, was elevated to senior status to bring the numbers to six. ''The Argus'' reported in March that two other junior clubs would be elevated to bring numbers to eight, with Essendon District, Brighton, Hawksburn, Hawthorn or Geelong all cited as potential candidates,〔 but this did not eventuate and the association size remained at six teams until 1899.〔 Upon its establishment, the League played under some slightly different rules to the Association: for example, the Association teams fielded eighteen players per team while the League continued to field twenty;〔 and, the League introduced a system of finals while the Association premiership continued to be decided on the basis of rostered matches. However, both competitions adopted a new system of scoring which has since become the standard in Australian rules football: the awarding of six points for a goal and one point for a behind, with the result determined on total score instead of on goals; and, a new rule requiring that a ball be kicked more than ten yards for a mark to be claimed, abolishing the so-called "little mark", was adopted with great success in both competitions.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「1897 VFA season」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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