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A couple of things here.

1. Prahran was closer to joining the VFL in 1925 than Port Melbourne. Hawthorn got in purely because the VFL wanted an eastern suburban presence. Even then, Hawthorn were the second choice after Footscray to come in, and it came down to Prahran and North for the third spot.

Spot on. North were the lucky side of the three, and if you actually check the minutes of the meeting that it wasn't until the very early hours of the morning that the VFL finally settled on admitting North after earlier favouring Prahan.

This stuff about the Hawks being the lucky side is wrong, and probably stems from that largely fictitious history of the Hawthorn football club that was written a few decades ago.
 

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