1896 Fixture

!!!Home Grounds: University Cricket Ground, Melbourne Cricket Ground, Victoria Park, Richmond City Reserve

Round	Opponent	Venue	Date / Time	Home / Away	Result (Behinds Not Counted)
Bye	Ballarat Imperial	Saxon Paddock, Ballarat	May 2	Away	Lost by 2 goals (4.5 - 6.5)
1	Essendon	East Melbourne Cricket Ground	May 9	Away	Lost by 11 goals (0.7 - 11.17)
2	North Melbourne	University Cricket Ground	May 16	Home	Lost by 4 goals (2.6 - 6.4)
3	Richmond</t>	Punt Road	May 23	Away	Won by 3 goals (6.5 - 3.2)
4	Collingwood	University Cricket Ground	May 30	Home	Lost by 1 goal (3.10 - 4.8)
Bye	VFA Charity Day	M.C.G.	June 6	N/A	Ess v Coll. Port v South.
5	St.Kilda	St.Kilda	June 13	Away	Lost by 2 goals (3.2 - 5.11)
6	Geelong	Melbourne Cricket Ground	June 20	Home	Drawn (1.1 - 1.13)
7	Port Melbourne	University Cricket Ground	June 27	Home	Drawn (3.5 - 3.6)
8	Fitzroy	Melbourne Cricket Ground	July 4	Home	Lost by 2 goals (1.2 - 3.9)
9	Footscray	University Cricket Ground	July 11	Home	Lost by 2 goals (3.10 - 5.2)
10	South Melbourne	South Melbourne Cricket Ground	July 18	Away	Lost by 2 goals (1.3 - 3.16)
11	Melbourne	Melbourne Cricket Ground	July 25	Away	Lost by 4 goals (3.1 - 7.11)
12	Williamstown	University Cricket Ground	August 1	Home	Lost by 1 goal (2.3 - 3.7)
Bye	N/A	N/A	August 8	N/A	N/A
13	Footscray	Footscray	August 15	Away	Lost by 3 goals (4.2 - 7.8)
14	St.Kilda	University Cricket Ground	August 22	Home	Won by 2 goals (5.4 - 3.7)
Bye	All Matches Postponed	Due to weather	August 29	N/A	Round played next week
15	North Melbourne	Arden Street	September 5	Away	Lost by 5 goals (1.9 - 6.6)
16	Collingwood	Victoria Park	September 12	Away	Lost by 8 goals (1.3 - 9.15)
17	Richmond	Richmond City Reserve, moved from University	September 19	Home	Lost by 3 goals (2.6 - 5.5)
18	Williamstown	Williamstown Cricket Ground	September 26	Away	Lost by 1 goal (5.3 - 6.4)

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bgcolor=Silver>Pos TeamPlayed WinsLosses DrawsGoals ForGoals AgainstPoints 1Collingwood181431865558 2South Melbourne181431865558 3Essendon1814401226456 4Melbourne1812601197448 5Fitzroy181260805948 6North Melbourne18891928034 7Port Melbourne18783706534 8Williamstown18783649334 9St.Kilda186111698826 10Footscray185103698426 11Geelong184113879322 12Carlton182142469012 13Richmond1831505213112

Collingwood and South Melbourne amazingly had the same Wins, Losses, Draws, Goals For and Goals Against, and top spot could not be determined.
A playoff to decided the premiership was agreed, so the first Grand Final was played.
At the bottom of the ladder, both Carlton and Richmond finished on the same number of points, 12.
The Blues' percentage was 51.11%. Richmond with a percentage of 39.69% took out the 1896 wooden spoon.

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