Notable Events
- The VFL introduce a new, "15-yard rule" designed to prevent time-wasting.
- Despite this, the high aggregate score for the year was only 207 points, which is the lowest for any V/AFL season since 1922. As in 1953, no match where both teams scored a century occurred in 1955.
- St. Kilda's Points For of 861 at an average of 47.8 per match is the lowest average by any team since 1919.
- Towards the end of the round 4 match between Fitzroy and Geelong at the Brunswick Street Oval Fitzroy full-forward Tony Ongarello was so upset with his own inaccurate kicking that, upon taking a mark, he indicated to the field umpire that he was going to kick a place-kick. He scored a goal. He was so impressed that he kicked one more goal in that match (lost by Fitzroy) with a place kick. Although he made several attempts to kick goals with place-kicks in other matches during 1955, he was never successful again. Thus, although it has never been (and is still not) against the rules to do so, he is on record as the last player ever to score a goal with a place kick in a senior VFL match.
- After North Melbourne's humiliating round 11 (2 July 1955) loss to St Kilda — who had not won a match since 14 August 1954 and were now captain-coached by former North Melbourne star Les Foote — the North Melbourne committee suspend two of its senior players (Mick Grambeau and Laurie Icke) indefinitely from both playing and training with the club for "not having tried hard enough" in the match.
- Defending Premiers Footscray misses out on a place in the Final Four by just 0.6%.
- In the dying minutes of the Grand Final, Melbourne's 19th man Frank "Bluey" Adams rushed from the bench to take his place on the field and collided with the (unsighted by Adams) Collingwood winger Des Healey who, up to that stage, had been one of the best on the ground. Both participants in this horrific head clash were carried off unconscious. "Bluey" Adams 15-second playing time is the shortest in VFL history (Ross, 1996, p. 202).
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