Notable Events
- Geelong and South Melbourne, having refused to compete in 1916 on "patriotic grounds" return to the VFL competition, having concluded that the drop in the number of recruits in 1916 indicated that the VFL competition had no effect on military recruitment. The Geelong team members met their own expenses and played as amateurs, with the club donating all of its 1918 profits to war funds.
- In 1917, whilst winning nine of its 15 home-and-away matches, the South Melbourne team is notorious for its inaccurate kicking and finishes the season with 214 behinds and only 122 goals.
- On 12 May 1917, recruiting officers visiting VFL grounds are heckled by spectators. On another occasion a Fitzroy crowd attacks a recruiting sergeant,
- On 4 August, the entire thirteenth round was put back a week, at the request of the State War Council, so that recruiting meetings could be held at each VFL ground.
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