Notable Events
- Still struggling to recover from the injury that kept him out of the 1936 Grand Final, Bob Pratt only plays six matches (kicking 12 goals) for South Melbourne in the 1937 season.
- Having kicked Collingwood's only goal in the last quarter of the Grand Final, Gordon Coventry retires having played 306 senior VFL games and having scored 1299 goals.
- In Round 15, Coventry became the first player to play 300 VFL games
- In Round 16, Collingwood and Melbourne set numerous record for high scoring:
- a record match aggregate of 295 points, beating by two the record of Essendon and North Melbourne in 1934
- highest losing score, beating Collingwood's own record against St. Kilda in 1931 and still a club record for Collingwood
- Collingwood's losing score was the seventh highest of the season, beating Carlton's record of losing with the ninth-highest score of 1924
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