Teams played each other in a home-and-away season of 16 rounds.
Total match attendance for the home-and-away season was 3,810,868 people.
It started out with six teams who played a home-and-away season to determine the German champion.
Geelong set a record for the most points scored in the home-and-away season, 2916.
During the 1898 home-and-away season, all teams played each other twice.
They won all 18 games of the home-and-away season, a record that still stand today.
Richmond covered the loss and finished the home-and-away season on top for the first time in eight years.
The competition was carried out in a home-and-away season, a final was not played.
The club was fifth at the end of the home-and-away season.
The final game of the home-and-away season became particularly controversial through circumstance.