Australian Rules Football
- Australian Football League
- The Victorian Football League is renamed the Australian Football League
- Collingwood wins the 94th AFL premiership (Collingwood 13.11 (89) d Essendon 5.11 (41))
- Brownlow Medal awarded to Tony Liberatore (Footscray)
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