Notable Events
- The VFL reduced the size of its teams to 18 on-the-field players, with no "reserves".
- Norman "Hackenschmidt" Clark, a footballer with the North Adelaide Football Club in the South Australian Football Association, wins the 1899, 130-yard Stawell Gift in eleven and four-fifths seconds, off a handicap of 14 and a half yards. Clark would later play 125 senior games for Carlton (1905–1912), and captain-coach Brighton Football Club (1913), and coach Carlton (1914–1918; 1920–1922), North Melbourne (1924; 1931), Richmond (1919), and St Kilda (1925–1926).
- In the third sectional round, Geelong set records for (a) highest score in a game, scoring 23.24 (162), and (b) winning margin of 161 points, against St Kilda. These records would both stand for twelve years and twenty years respectively.
- Geelong's Jim McShane kicked 11 goals in the match against St Kilda, a VFL record that was not equalled until Collingwood's Dick Lee's 11 goals in 1914; this is more impressive considering that McShane was usually a ruckman.
- St Kilda's score of 0.1 (1) in the same match set the record for the lowest score in a VFL/AFL game, which has neither been matched nor broken since. Notably, the solitary behind was actually the first score of the match.
- The third round, Queen's Birthday holiday match, between Collingwood and St Kilda at Victoria Park was held in the morning of Wednesday 24 May 1899.
- Warwick Armstrong (6'3", 190 cm), later captain of the Australian Test Cricket team, plays in the ruck for the South Melbourne team that lost the 1899 "Grand Final".
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