1914 VFL season
The 1914 VFL season was the 18th season of the Victorian Football League (VFL), the highest level senior Australian rules football competition in Victoria. The season featured ten clubs, ran from 25 April until 26 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 the Carlton Football Club for the fourth time, after it defeated by six points in the 1914 VFL Grand Final. Premiership season. In 1914, the VFL competition consisted of ten 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. Each team played each other twice in a home-and-away season of 18 rounds. Once the 18 round home-and-away season had finished, the 1914 VFL "Premiers" were determined by the specific format and conventions of the amended ""Argus" system". Finals. All of the 1914 finals were played at the MCG 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. Grand final. Carlton defeated South Melbourne 6.9 (45) to 4.15 (39), in front of a crowd of 30427 people. (For an explanation of scoring see Australian rules football.) Ladder. <onlyinclude></onlyinclude>