1908 VFL Season: University

Season Team Details

Competition: 1908 VFL Season
Team: University
Home Ground: East Melbourne

Team Results

Ladder Position: 6th (W-D-L: 8-0-10, P%: 96.0)
Finals Performance: Did not qualify for finals

Player Results

Player Guernseys Matches Goals Rounds
Barker, Gilbert 6 2 R01, R03, R05, R10-12
Bowden, Henry 8 5 R10-17
Boynton, Frank 7 6 R01-03, R09-12
Browning, Denby 16 11 R01-02, R04-09, R11-18
Cordner, Harry 11 4 R01-09, R12, R15
Cordner, Ted 16 0 R01-06, R08, R10-18
Crawford, Frank 18 0 R01-18
Elliott, George 13 0 R01-02, R05-09, R13-18
Fleming, Ted 1 0 R04
Fogarty, Chris 18 7 R01-18
Fogarty, Joe 5 1 R01-05
Fogarty, Tom 16 5 R01-13, R15-17
Gall, Arthur 2 0 R10, R18
Gardner, Mark 10 2 R09-18
Gray, Jack 13 0 R01-07, R09-12, R17-18
Hartkopf, Bert 7 11 R07-08, R13-16, R18
Hurrey, Bert 11 10 R06-12, R14, R16-18
Jones, Jack 10 0 R06-08, R12-18
Kendall, Ken 1 0 R01
Kirby, Frank 1 0 R16
Kneen, Edgar 18 20 R01-18
Laing, John 2 0 R07, R14
Marshall, Willie 11 0 R01-03, R05-11, R13
Ogilvie, Alick 18 13 R01-18
Piper, Jim 1 0 R18
Ratz, Martin 17 25 R01-11, R13-18
Richards, Norm 17 0 R02-18
Seward, Leo 15 15 R02-04, R06-17
Sleeman, Lance 8 1 R01-06, R08-09
Tymms, Athol 18 4 R01-18
West, Jack 2 1 R03-04
Williams, Mal 7 0 R04-05, R13-15, R17-18

Coach Results

Coach Matches (W-D-L) Rounds

Team Line-Up

Back: Athol Tymms Frank Crawford Jack Gray
Half-Back: George Elliott Ted Cordner Norm Richards
Centre: Jack Jones Henry Bowden Mark Gardner
Half-Forward: Harry Cordner Tom Fogarty Edgar Kneen
Forward: Alick Ogilvie Bert Hurrey Denby Browning
Follower: Chris Fogarty Leo Seward Martin Ratz

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 16 out of 18 matches was used.

Match Results

Date Round Opponent H/A Result Coach Captain (Nominated)
02/05/1908 Round 1 Essendon AWAY LOSS ESSE by 66 unknown Tom Fogarty
09/05/1908 Round 2 Richmond HOME WIN UNIV by 18 unknown Tom Fogarty
16/05/1908 Round 3 Collingwood HOME LOSS COLL by 8 unknown Tom Fogarty
23/05/1908 Round 4 St Kilda AWAY WIN UNIV by 14 unknown Tom Fogarty
30/05/1908 Round 5 South Melbourne AWAY LOSS SMLB by 11 unknown Tom Fogarty
06/06/1908 Round 6 Melbourne HOME WIN UNIV by 60 unknown Tom Fogarty
08/06/1908 Round 7 Fitzroy HOME LOSS FITZ by 23 unknown Tom Fogarty
13/06/1908 Round 8 Geelong AWAY WIN UNIV by 4 unknown Tom Fogarty
20/06/1908 Round 9 Carlton HOME LOSS CARL by 6 unknown Tom Fogarty
27/06/1908 Round 10 Essendon HOME LOSS ESSE by 10 unknown Tom Fogarty
04/07/1908 Round 11 Richmond AWAY LOSS RICH by 9 unknown Tom Fogarty
11/07/1908 Round 12 Collingwood AWAY LOSS COLL by 17 unknown Tom Fogarty
18/07/1908 Round 13 St Kilda HOME WIN UNIV by 13 unknown Tom Fogarty
25/07/1908 Round 14 South Melbourne HOME WIN UNIV by 2 unknown unknown
01/08/1908 Round 15 Melbourne AWAY WIN UNIV by 4 unknown Tom Fogarty
08/08/1908 Round 16 Fitzroy AWAY LOSS FITZ by 21 unknown Tom Fogarty
15/08/1908 Round 17 Geelong HOME WIN UNIV by 52 unknown Tom Fogarty
05/09/1908 Round 18 Carlton AWAY LOSS CARL by 39 unknown unknown