1898 VFL Season: Geelong

These are the details of the premiership results of Geelong for the 1898 VFL season. The team finished the regular season in fourth place. Geelong then faced Collingwood, Melbourne and St Kilda in a round-robin finals series (section B), finishing second, resulting in finishing in fourth place overall (regular season position with an adjustment for finals).

Season Team Details

Competition: 1898 VFL Season
Team: Geelong
Home Ground: Corio Oval

Team Results

Ladder Position: 4th (W-D-L: 9-0-5, P%: 151.8)
Finals Performance: 2nd place in round-robin finals series (Ladder B)

Team Leaders

Captain: Jack Conway
Vice-Captain: Joe McShane

Player Results

Player Guernseys Matches Goals Rounds
Anderson, Ernie 1 0 R11
Bailiff, Les 9 0 R09-14, RF1-3
Barling, Bert 8 1 R01, R04, R06-11
Brockwell, Sam 15 0 R01-03, R05-08, R10-14, RF1-3
Burns, Peter 17 3 R01-14, RF1-3
Calvert, Ossie 2 0 R13-14
Coles, Charlie 3 1 R01-03
Conway, Jack 17 0 R01-14, RF1-3
Cooke, Walter 9 1 R02-05, R09-12, RF3
Dear, Alf 13 2 R02-09, R13-14, RF1-3
Dore, Jack 5 0 R03-05, R07-08
Flynn, Jim 17 2 R01-14, RF1-3
Greeves, Ted 4 0 R05, R13, RF1-2
Holligan, Teddy 17 7 R01-14, RF1-3
James, Eddy 13 26 R01-13
King, Alec 6 3 R11-14, RF1, RF3
Leahy, Paddy 3 0 R03, R05-06
Leighton, Ernie 13 13 R05-14, RF1-3
Maguire, Tom 1 0 R01
McCallum, Firth 16 9 R01-10, R12-14, RF1-3
McKenzie, Arthur 4 0 R14, RF1-3
McShane, Henry 15 1 R01, R04-14, RF1-3
McShane, Jim 16 5 R01-04, R06-14, RF1-3
McShane, Joe 17 4 R01-14, RF1-3
O'Loughlin, Jack 12 0 R01-12
Parkin, Jack 16 4 R01-04, R06-14, RF1-3
Pincott, Arthur 17 0 R01-14, RF1-3
Quinn, Jack 5 2 R01-05
Robertson, Bill 1 0 R02
Sandford, Cecil 1 1 R01
Thompson, Archie 16 3 R01-04, R06-14, RF1-3
Walker, Dick 14 10 R02, R04-10, R12-14, RF1-3
White, Fred 16 13 R01-12, R14, RF1-3
Young, Henry 1 1 RF2

Coach Results

Coach Matches (W-D-L) Rounds

Team Line-Up

Back: Jack O'Loughlin Peter Burns Arthur Pincott
Half-Back: Jack Dore Jack Conway Archie Thompson
Centre: Sam Brockwell Firth McCallum Paddy Leahy
Half-Forward: Teddy Holligan Eddy James Jim Flynn
Forward: Charlie Coles Jack Quinn Fred White
Follower: Walter Cooke Alf Dear Joe McShane
Jack Parkin Jim McShane

This is an approximation for the typical team line-up based on available complete positional records from this season.
Names in bold indicate that the player was named in this position at least ten times this season (exc. interchange).
Positional information from 1 out of 17 matches was used.

Match Results

Date Round Opponent H/A Result Coach Captain (Nominated)
14/05/1898 Round 1 Collingwood AWAY LOSS COLL by 21 unknown Jack Conway
21/05/1898 Round 2 St Kilda HOME WIN GEEL by 68 unknown Jack Conway
24/05/1898 Round 3 South Melbourne HOME WIN GEEL by 52 unknown Jack Conway
28/05/1898 Round 4 Carlton AWAY WIN GEEL by 1 unknown Jack Conway
04/06/1898 Round 5 Fitzroy HOME LOSS FITZ by 5 unknown Jack Conway
11/06/1898 Round 6 Essendon HOME WIN GEEL by 7 unknown Jack Conway
18/06/1898 Round 7 Melbourne AWAY LOSS MELB by 20 unknown Jack Conway
25/06/1898 Round 8 Collingwood HOME WIN GEEL by 19 unknown Jack Conway
09/07/1898 Round 9 St Kilda AWAY WIN GEEL by 68 unknown Jack Conway
16/07/1898 Round 10 South Melbourne AWAY WIN GEEL by 20 unknown Jack Conway
23/07/1898 Round 11 Carlton HOME WIN GEEL by 26 unknown Jack Conway
30/07/1898 Round 12 Fitzroy AWAY LOSS FITZ by 9 unknown Jack Conway
13/08/1898 Round 13 Essendon AWAY LOSS ESSE by 18 unknown Jack Conway
20/08/1898 Round 14 Melbourne HOME WIN GEEL by 32 unknown Jack Conway
27/08/1898 Round-Robin Final 1 Melbourne HOME WIN GEEL by 62 unknown Jack Conway
03/09/1898 Round-Robin Final 2 Collingwood AWAY LOSS COLL by 15 unknown Jack Conway
10/09/1898 Round-Robin Final 3 St Kilda HOME WIN GEEL by 75 unknown Jack Conway

Ladder Chart

This chart is based on the nominal round, i.e. only one result (win, loss, draw, bye) per round, which may result in not being accurate from a chronological perspective. The positions during the finals series is determined via bespoke logic.