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The 1885 season was the inaugural season of what is now the West Australian Football League (WAFL), and the first full season of organised Australian rules football in Western Australia.

Background
The first recorded football game in Western Australia was played on Friday, 18 September 1868, between a team of Perth locals and members of the 14th Regiment. The regiment had been transferred from Victoria earlier in the year, and the match was presumably played under the "Victorian Rules" drafted two years earlier.

September
12 or 19 May: "The World" vs "West Australians" http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/2998554 25 May: "West Australians" vs "The World" http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/2998737 3 or 10 June: Fremantle Rife Volunteers vs Civilians http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/2999289 • 6 June: Rovers vs Victorians http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/2999214, on the Recreation ground, about 300 spectators • 9 or 16 June: Victorians vs Rovers http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/2999442, on the Recreation ground 13 June: High School vs C of E Young Men's Society http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/2999471, at the High School • 20 June: Victorians vs High School http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/2999592, Vics played with 12 men, start at 3:30 PM, • 11 July: Victorians vs Rovers http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/3000281, Moffatt fractured his thigh, start at about 3:30 PM – ball thrown up • 18 July: Fremantle vs Rovers http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/3000767, at Fremantle 25 July: Rovers (mixed team, Perth) vs York http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/3000767 25 July: Unions vs Victorians 2nds http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/3000767 • 25 August or 1 September: Rovers vs Victorians http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/3001789, Recreation Ground, • 9 September: Fremantle vs Rovers http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/3002001?, Recreation Reserve • 12 September: Fremantle vs Victorians http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/3002161, Barrack Green (Fremantle),

missing one or two?