It saw continued dominance by the three Perth clubs and Subiaco, who occupied the top half of the ladder constantly from the fourth round onwards, and finished four games clear of the other four clubs, who were all in a “rebuilding” mode with varying success – late in the season both Swan Districts and Claremont fielded some of the youngest teams in the competition's history, whilst the Tigers, who fielded thirteen first-year players[1] including Graham Moss, Russell Reynolds and Bruce Duperouzel,[2] began disastrously but four wins in five games paved the way to impressive record from 1970 to 1972.
[28] Bill Walker, despite suffering a bad back injury early in the match, constantly brings the ball into the open to have Swans running over Claremont after the Tigers obtained a four-goal quarter-time lead.
After Subiaco led 5.2 (32) to 1.3 (9) into the wind with Robert Kitchin compensating for Ramshaw's eclipse of Robertson, Cable and Graham Jenzen lead Perth to a fine win as the Maroons’ excessive handball in defence costs them dearly.
No WANFL/WAFL/Westar Rules club since 1970 has achieved four consecutive premierships.b Austin Robertson junior was held goalless on only five occasions in his 269 games in the WANFL and VFL (in 1966 with South Melbourne), which occurred in 1962, 1963, 1965 and twice during his final 1974 season.
He had not been held to one goal since his goalless Round 15, 1965 game with South Fremantle.c Subiaco did play in the 1943 second-semi when league football was restricted to players under nineteen years of age as of 1 October.