List of VFL debuts in 1918

The 1918 Victorian Football League (VFL) season was the 22nd season of the VFL. The season saw 74 Australian rules footballers make their senior VFL debut and a further 12 transfer to new clubs having previously played in the VFL.

Club	VFL debuts	Change of club
Carlton	7	4
Collingwood	5	1
Essendon	19	1
Fitzroy	9	2
Geelong	7	0
Richmond	3	2
South Melbourne	11	0
St Kilda	13	2
Total	74	12

Name	Club	Age at debut	Round debuted	Games	Goals	Notes
Fred Johnson	Carlton	22 years, 17 days	1^[1]	77	0
Ern Cowley	Carlton	25 years, 267 days	1^[2]	24	51	Represented Victoria in baseball. Invented Austus, a hybrid of Australian rules and American football that was played during World War II.
Leo Tasker	Carlton	17 years, 202 days	1^[3]	15	13	Previously played for Geelong.
Harry Furnell	Carlton	19 years, 213 days	3^[4]	13	16
Jack Woolley	Carlton	32 years, 130 days	7^[5]	12	7	Previously played for Essendon and Melbourne.
Frank Mercovich	Carlton	20 years, 130 days	11^[6]	10	11	Australian national figure skating champion in 1934 and 1936. Married to Joyce Macbeth, three time world champion women's figure skater.
Jim Howe	Carlton	22 years, 206 days	4^[7]	8	2
Ray Stewart	Carlton	26 years, 147 days	11^[8]	8	1	Previously played for Richmond.
Jack Keily	Carlton	19 years, 278 days	1^[9]	4	0
Percy Jackson	Carlton	24 years, 47 days	2^[10]	1	1	Previously played for South Melbourne and St Kilda.
Bill Clohesy	Carlton	23 years, 222 days	6^[11]	1	0
Bill Twomey	Collingwood	19 years, 46 days	8^[12]	54	5	Father of Mick, Pat, and Bill Twomey Jr., and grandson of David Twomey.
Bill Walton	Collingwood	23 years, 264 days	3^[13]	27	17
Mick Maguire	Collingwood	23 years, 339 days	1^[14]	9	10	Father of Mary Maguire. Previously played for Richmond and Melbourne.
Stan McKenzie	Collingwood	21 years, 261 days	2^[15]	9	0
Stan Yates	Collingwood	17 years, 353 days	3^[16]	8	6	Uncle of Ken Turner and great uncle of Jamie Turner.
Jack O'Connor	Collingwood	17 years, 191 days	2^[17]	3	1
Jimmy Sullivan	Essendon	22 years, 33 days	1^[18]	90	20
Tom Fitzmaurice	Essendon	19 years, 315 days	1^[19]	85	30
Bert Drinkwater	Essendon	22 years, 253 days	5^[20]	27	15
Dave Walsh	Essendon	19 years, 224 days	1^[21]	25	18
Norm Dunn	Essendon	22 years, 110 days	1^[22]	14	3
Leo McInerney	Essendon	20 years, 17 days	1^[23]	12	2
Paddy McDonald	Essendon	21 years, 94 days	8^[24]	9	3	Brother of Frank McDonald.
Phil Furlong	Essendon	25 years, 82 days	1^[25]	5	3
Jim Alexander	Essendon	19 years, 148 days	14^[26]	5	1
Harry Sawyer	Essendon	24 years, 208 days	2^[27]	4	0
Len Phillips	Essendon	28 years, 48 days	4^[28]	4	0	Previously played for St Kilda.
Bill Hanson	Essendon	24 years, 295 days	9^[29]	3	1
Eric Sprague	Essendon	23 years, 291 days	9^[30]	3	0
Jack McGarity	Essendon	21 years, 129 days	3^[31]	2	0
Tom Greenwood	Essendon	28 years, 296 days	8^[32]	2	0
Bill Coffey	Essendon	21 years, 213 days	1^[33]	1	0
Jim Taylor	Essendon	24 years, 203 days	2^[34]	1	0
Sydney Barr	Essendon	25 years, 279 days	8^[35]	1	0
Jim Lavelle	Essendon	22 years, 183 days	11^[36]	1	1
George Hemingway	Essendon	18 years, 2 days	8^[37]	1	0
Stan Molan	Fitzroy	24 years, 277 days	1^[38]	111	59
Clarrie Sherry	Fitzroy	22 years, 255 days	3^[39]	75	3
Clarrie Featherston	Fitzroy	25 years, 151 days	1^[40]	14	4
Billy Billett	Fitzroy	29 years, 355 days	1^[41]	12	2
Les Gibaud	Fitzroy	16 years, 345 days	5^[42]	10	5
Bill Thorpe	Fitzroy	21 years, 169 days	1^[43]	5	3	Previously played for Richmond.
Les Boyne	Fitzroy	18 years, 303 days	8^[44]	4	1
Norm Byron	Fitzroy	20 years, 251 days	10^[45]	2	1
Vic Nankervis	Fitzroy	25 years, 211 days	13^[46]	2	1	Previously played for Essendon.
Cyril Zimmer	Fitzroy	22 years, 20 days	1^[47]	1	1
Wally Beckwith	Fitzroy	24 years, 353 days	2^[48]	1	0	Father of John Beckwith. Boundary umpired the 1929 VFL Grand Final.
Bill Bendle	Geelong	20 years, 230 days	11^[49]	14	6
Duncan Moodie	Geelong	21 years, 4 days	1^[50]	12	0
Ambrose Maher	Geelong	24 years, 136 days	2^[51]	10	3
Tommy Peterson	Geelong	20 years, 123 days	7^[52]	1	0
Jack Sheridan	Geelong	19 years, 277 days	7^[53]	1	0
Ern Everett	Geelong	25 years, 255 days	10^[54]	1	0
Bill Gliddon	Geelong	21 years, 323 days	11^[55]	1	0
Pat Dooley	Richmond	19 years, 203 days	1^[56]	15	1
Ted Fisher	Richmond	30 years, 353 days	8^[57]	4	1	Previously played for St Kilda.
Leo McCulloch	Richmond	21 years, 352 days	2^[58]	3	1
Jim Burchill	Richmond	20 years, 268 days	1^[59]	3	5
Frank Rigaldi	Richmond	20 years, 345 days	3^[60]	2	1	Previously played for Carlton.
Chip Turner	South Melbourne	24 years, 335 days	1^[61]	66	1
Tom O'Halloran	South Melbourne	26 years, 63 days	1^[62]	62	12
Chris Laird	South Melbourne	25 years, 19 days	5^[63]	59	99	Twin brother of Frank Laird.
Tammy Hynes	South Melbourne	20 years, 280 days	2^[64]	57	4
Reg Sampson	South Melbourne	19 years, 38 days	1^[65]	25	3
Jim Graham	South Melbourne	26 years, 24 days	1^[66]	15	0
Harry Bulpit	South Melbourne	23 years, 26 days	7^[67]	6	3
Frank Magill	South Melbourne	22 years, 65 days	4^[68]	2	0
Bill Talbot	South Melbourne	23 years, 138 days	13^[69]	2	0
Frank Cummins	South Melbourne	21 years, 255 days	5^[70]	1	0
Mick Ryan	South Melbourne	20 years, 339 days	7^[71]	1	0	1929 Australian Amateur Golf champion.
Bill Hannan	St Kilda	19 years, 128 days	1^[72]	29	0
Reg Berry	St Kilda	25 years, 324 days	1^[73]	26	9
Roy Ostberg	St Kilda	21 years, 51 days	1^[74]	22	7
Artie Dawson	St Kilda	26 years, 363 days	6^[75]	20	9
Alan Sinclair	St Kilda	18 years, 24 days	1^[76]	19	1
Carlyle Kenley	St Kilda	26 years, 74 days	1^[77]	18	5	Previously played for Melbourne.
Pat Kennedy	St Kilda	19 years, 285 days	1^[78]	11	3
Reg Thompson	St Kilda	23 years, 39 days	2^[79]	8	4
Bert Atkins	St Kilda	33 years, 121 days	2^[80]	7	1	Previously played for South Melbourne.
Joe Rahilly	St Kilda	21 years, 323 days	1^[81]	4	2
Arnold Buntine	St Kilda	19 years, 142 days	2^[82]	4	0	Married to Gladys "Jim" Buntine, Australian Chief Commissioner of Girl Guides from 1962 until 1968.
Edwin Hogan	St Kilda	25 years, 13 days	3^[83]	2	0
Eric Gordon	St Kilda	22 years, 15 days	8^[84]	2	0
Doug Thomson	St Kilda	21 years, 239 days	14^[85]	2	0
Frank McPherson	St Kilda	22 years, 101 days	5^[86]	1	0

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