1932 WANFL season

• Perth defeated South Fremantle by six points after Doug Oliphant kicked a goal after the final bell.

Subiaco's inaccuracy gives them no chance against the Tigers, against whom the Maroons’ score remains the third most inaccurate on record.^[18] At one point Subiaco kicked six behinds without a goal in fourteen minutes of continuous attack with the wind.

West Perth defeated Subiaco with a goal from Sweetapple as the final bell rang.

East Fremantle kicked its most accurate score until 1987,^[28] made the more remarkable by the slippery conditions from rain in late May.^[29]

With nine goals, Ted Tyson moves to the head of the goalkicking despite his name having been mistaken for another player during the previous week's match (so that he was credited with one fewer goal then he kicked).^[33]

• Claremont-Cottesloe did not score its first goal against Subiaco until time-on in the third quarter. Their score was their lowest to that point in the WA(N)FL and remains their second-lowest against the Maroons,^[43] as well as the longest they have ever taken to score their first goal.^{[note 3]}
• The result of that game moved Subiaco off the bottom and away from their first wooden spoon since 1916.
• A brilliant effort by rover/forward B. Ryan on a waterlogged oval ensures a depleted East Perth team remain in second position. On a very heavy ground, he kicked three goals and was rarely beaten in general play.

• West Perth led all day by five goals before Subiaco came back but fell four points short of a win. West Perth's win, despite having eleven fewer scoring shots than Subiaco, remains a club record.^[50]
• A last-quarter miss by Ron Doig from in front after a brilliant clearance denies South Fremantle reward for a fine effort against the leaders.

East Perth ends East Fremantle's eight-match winning streak with a brilliant second half in which they overcome a 33-point deficit – the biggest such reversal against Old Easts until 1940.^[53]

Claremont recorded a huge upset over pacesetter East Fremantle, who kick 9.6 (60) in the second quarter but fade out badly.

• An East Perth team depleted by the loss of its entire regular half-back line is crushed by South Fremantle, effectively sealing the four as Perth require two more wins than the red and whites to take fourth place.
• A fiery match between the western neighbours sees former East Perth star and Tiger recruit "Nails" Western suspended for six and four matches on two striking charges,^[3] whilst Snashall of Subiaco receives two weeks for the same incident.^[66]

Eight goals from Ashton allows South Fremantle to regains its place in the four against a weakened Old Easts team, leaving Perth needing to beat the fast-finishing Subiaco to meet East Perth in the first semi.

A lapse into "listlessness" late in the second quarter – when Subiaco kick four crucial goals – ensures Perth fail to take South Fremantle's place in the four after the red and whites lost to West Perth.

East Perth win a rough but close game to end a horror run of losses, but South Fremantle's captain-coach, Ron Doig died a few hours after the game from a cerebral contusion.^[78][79]

Cardinals won with a brilliant last quarter after being behind all day, to reach their first grand final since 1922.^[80]

East Perth ended East Fremantle's run of four premierships in a row with a hard-fought win in a game that was close all afternoon.^[81]