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The 1870 Victorian football season was an Australian rules football competition played during the winter of 1870. The season consisted of matches between metropolitan football clubs in Melbourne in the colony of Victoria. The premier club was . ==Historical status== By convention, the 1870 season has often been considered to be the first season of senior football competition in Victoria's history; or, at least, the first for which a premiership can be formally allocated. The reasons for this are somewhat arbitrary, since the competing clubs, the structure of football organisation and the standard and style of play in 1870 were not materially different from 1869. However, the view of 1870 as being the inaugural premiership has existed since 1889, when ''The Argus'' newspaper annually published a table of historical premiers and place-getters dating back to 1870 and no earlier; in the article which adjoined the publication of that table in 1889, the reporter commented that the haphazard nature of scheduling, the frequency of cancelled matches, and the lesser standard of play made it difficult to assign a premier team to seasons during the 1860s. As late as 1915, the VFL's ''Football Record'' also showed the same list of premiers, dating back to 1870 and no earlier.〔 A recommendation was put forward to the AFL Commission in 2014 to formally backdate the history of Victorian senior football to 1870, which would elevate the status of the unaffiliated period from 1870–1876 and the Victorian Football Association from 1877–1896 to be equivalent to that of the Victorian Football League from 1897–1986. The commission has not yet made a decision on whether or not to accept this proposal; if accepted, it will be a formal endorsement of the 1870 season as the inaugural senior premiership in Victorian football. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「1870 Victorian football season」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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