Notable Events
- Geelong half-back flanker Jack Grant won the 1938 130-yard Stawell Gift in eleven and eleven-sixteenths seconds, off a handicap of 11½ yards.
- The VFL investigated an allegation from the Carlton Football Club that Collingwood rover Harry Collier had king-hit Carlton wingman Jack Carney (one of the smallest ever VFL players at 160 cm) as the teams left the field after the final bell of the round 5 match at Victoria Park. Collier was suspended for the rest of the 1938 season.
- Jack Titus reveals that he had been offered ₤50 by a betting syndicate to play "dead" in Richmond's round 8 match against South Melbourne. Richmond thrashed South Melbourne 20.15 (135) to 8.14 (62).
- In round 13, four of the matches were decided by a single point.
- Footscray becomes the first of the three new teams added in 1925 to make the finals. North Melbourne would not make its first final appearance until 1945 and Hawthorn's first appearance came in 1957, after Footscray had already won its first (and only) Major Premiership (1954).
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