1927 VFL Season: Richmond

Season Team Details

Season: 1927 VFL Season
Team: Richmond
Home Ground: Punt Road Oval

Team Results

Ladder Position: 2nd (W-D-L: 14-0-4, P%: 134.6%)
Finals Performance: Runners-Up
Players: 31
Brownlow Leader(s): Allan Geddes (5)
Goalkicking Leader(s) (Home-and-Away): Jack Baggott (34)
Jack Dyer Medal Recipient(s): Basil McCormack

Team Leaders

Captain(s): Allan Geddes

Player Results

Player Guernsey(s) Match(es) Round(s) Goal(s) Brownlow
Baggott, Jack #14 19 R01-R18, SF 37
Bentley, Perce #1 18 R01-R03, R06-R18, SF, GF 21
Don, Donald #17 14 R01-R06, R08-R15 0
Fincher, Jack #10 13 R01-R02, R10-R18, SF, GF 5
Ford, Bill #6 1 R04 1
Gallagher, Les #23 20 R01-R18, SF, GF 0
Geddes, Allan #8 19 R01-R13, R15-R18, SF, GF 3
Harris, Don #2 20 R01-R18, SF, GF 0
Hayes, Doug #20 18 R01-R09, R11-R14, R16-R18, SF, GF 12
Hislop, Max #19 9 R02-R09, R15 0
Huggard, Jack #31 10 R07-R16 20
Jamison, Sam #28 2 SF, GF 0
Kight, Frank #5 2 R03-R04 1
Lilburne, Dooley #16 16 R01-R06, R10-R17, SF, GF 0
Lynch, Dave #33 9 R01-R09 32
MacIsaac, Angus #24 15 R01-R02, R05-R14, R18, SF, GF 12
McCormack, Basil #9 20 R01-R18, SF, GF 0
McCormack, Jack #21 6 R15-R18, SF, GF 19
Millar, Keith #14 1 R09 0
Murdoch, Joe #13 13 R05, R07-R18 0
O'Brien, Frank #25 17 R01-R14, R17, SF, GF 4
O'Halloran, Tom #18 20 R01-R18, SF, GF 10
O'Neill, Bob #4 10 R01-R04, R15-R18, SF, GF 2
Powell, Cyril #7 6 R07, R16-R18, SF, GF 0
Robinson, George #3 3 R05-R06, GF 1
Rudolph, George #32 20 R01-R18, SF, GF 19
Spain, Jim #11 14 R03-R14, R17-R18 1
Stainsby, Les #27 2 R08, R10 2
Titus, Jack #12 1 R01 0
Watson, Carl #22 4 R14-R16, R18 0
Weidner, Harry #7 18 R01-R07, R10-R18, SF, GF 16

Team Line-Up

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This is an approximation for the typical team line-up based on available position records from this season.

Coach Results

Coach Match(es) (W-D-L) Round(s)
Hughes, Frank 20 15 -0- 5 R01-R18, SF, GF

Match Results

Date Round Opponent H/A Result Coach Captain (Nominated)
30/04/1927 Round 1 Melbourne AWAY LOSS MEL by 50 Frank Hughes Allan Geddes
07/05/1927 Round 2 St Kilda HOME WIN RIC by 11 Frank Hughes Allan Geddes
14/05/1927 Round 3 Collingwood AWAY WIN RIC by 6 Frank Hughes Allan Geddes
21/05/1927 Round 4 Footscray HOME WIN RIC by 70 Frank Hughes Allan Geddes
28/05/1927 Round 5 North Melbourne AWAY WIN RIC by 45 Frank Hughes Allan Geddes
06/06/1927 Round 6 Carlton HOME LOSS CAR by 20 Frank Hughes Allan Geddes
11/06/1927 Round 7 South Melbourne AWAY WIN RIC by 36 Frank Hughes Allan Geddes
18/06/1927 Round 8 Essendon HOME WIN RIC by 23 Frank Hughes Allan Geddes
25/06/1927 Round 9 Hawthorn AWAY WIN RIC by 14 Frank Hughes Allan Geddes
02/07/1927 Round 10 Geelong HOME WIN RIC by 16 Frank Hughes Allan Geddes
09/07/1927 Round 11 Fitzroy AWAY WIN RIC by 56 Frank Hughes Allan Geddes
16/07/1927 Round 12 Melbourne HOME WIN RIC by 31 Frank Hughes Allan Geddes
23/07/1927 Round 13 St Kilda AWAY WIN RIC by 39 Frank Hughes Allan Geddes
30/07/1927 Round 14 Collingwood HOME LOSS COL by 23 Frank Hughes Doug Hayes
06/08/1927 Round 15 Footscray AWAY WIN RIC by 31 Frank Hughes Allan Geddes
27/08/1927 Round 16 North Melbourne HOME WIN RIC by 37 Frank Hughes Allan Geddes
03/09/1927 Round 17 Carlton AWAY LOSS CAR by 7 Frank Hughes Allan Geddes
10/09/1927 Round 18 Hawthorn HOME WIN RIC by 66 Frank Hughes Allan Geddes
17/09/1927 Semi Final Carlton HOME WIN RIC by 6 Frank Hughes Allan Geddes
01/10/1927 Grand Final Collingwood AWAY LOSS COL by 12 Frank Hughes Allan Geddes