1877 SAFA premiership season |
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Teams | 8 |
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Premiers | South Adelaide Victorian 1st premiership |
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Leading goalkicker | William Dedman South Adelaide (10 goals) |
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Matches played | 52 (61 scheduled) |
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Highest | 650 (Round 7, Adelaide vs. South Adelaide) |
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The 1877 South Australian Football Association season was the inaugural season of the top-level league of Australian rules football in South Australia. The clubs participating were Adelaide, Bankers, Kensington, Port Adelaide, South Adelaide, South Park, Victorian, Woodville.[1]
South Adelaide and Victorian would share the premiership honours as there was no grand final playoff, while the Bankers Football Club, who finished last without a win and forfeited a number of games, folded before the end of the season.[2]
The newly formed South Australian Football Association decided that the playing fields for the season must be between 180 and 200 yards (165-183m) long and 120-150 yards (110-137m) wide, with pushing from behind being prohibited. For clubs to gain membership of the association, they would need to pay two guineas for the year.[3]
Premiership Season
Round 1
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| Round 1 | | |
Saturday, 12 May (2:45 pm) | Adelaide 4 | def. | Bankers 1 | Old Adelaide Ground] [4] | [5] |
Saturday, 12 May (3:30 pm) | Kensington 0 | def. by | Port Adelaide 3 | Kensington Oval | [5] |
- The game between Adelaide and Bankers was scheduled for May 5 but was postponed due to the weather.[6]
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Round 2
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| Round 2 | | |
Saturday, 19 May (3:15 pm) | Adelaide 3 | def. | Port Adelaide 2 | Adelaide Oval (crowd: 250) | [7] |
Saturday, 19 May | South Park 1 | def. | Bankers 0 | South Park Lands | [7] |
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Round 3
Round 4
Round 5
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| Round 5 | | |
Saturday, 9 June (3:15 pm) | Kensington 0 | drew with | Adelaide 0 | Kensington Oval | [10] |
Saturday, 9 June (3:45 pm) | Woodville 0 | def. by | South Adelaide 1 * | Woodville | [11] |
Saturday, 9 June | Victorian 2 | def. | South Park 0 | Montefiore Hill | [10] |
- This result was originally reported as a 0-0 draw due to a goal umpire not allowing a goal scored by a South Adelaide player running on after taking a mark.
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Round 6
Round 7
Round 8
Round 9
Round 10
Round 11
Round 12
Round 13
Round 14
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| Round 14 | | |
Saturday, 11 August (3:00 pm) | Woodville 0 | def. by | South Park 5 | Woodville | |
Saturday, 11 August (3:00 pm) | Adelaide 6 | def. | Kensington 2 | Adelaide Oval | [25] |
- A game scheduled between Port Adelaide and the Bankers at Montefiore Hill[26] was awarded to Port Adelaide on forfeit:
Port had a full team on the field when the Bankers' captain informed them and the umpire that the Bankers were unable to field a team.[25] - Teams were affected due to their star players involvement in a combined SAFA team (with players picked from Victorian, Woodville, South Park and Port Adelaide Clubs) vs. Melbourne game being played at the Exhibition Grounds simultaneously: Melbourne defeated the combined team by five goals to nil.
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Round 15
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| Round 15 | | |
Saturday, 25 August (3:15 pm) | Victorian 2 | v | Woodville 0 | Montefiore Hill | |
Saturday, 25 August | South Park 0 | def. by | South Adelaide 4 | South Park Lands | [27] |
The Victorians were short of two of their players — Messrs. Barry and Kingsford — while the Woodvilles, besides being; greatly weakened by the retirement of their late captain and several first-class men, were playing with seven of their second twenty.[28] |
Round 16
Round 17
Round 18
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| Round 18 | | |
Saturday, 15 September | South Park 0 | drew with | Victorian 0 | South Park Lands | [32] |
- Victorian claimed they had won the game, but a South Park protest was upheld and the game's single goal was annulled. The match was noted as the roughest of the season.
- A game was scheduled for September 15 between Port Adelaide and Woodville at Woodville was awarded to Port Adelaide as Woodville forfeited due to a lack of players (their principal players being involved in a practice cricket match at Norwood).[32]
- A game was scheduled for September 15 between Adelaide and Bankers at Adelaide Oval.[33] However, Bankers as announced will not meet Adelaide.[34]
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Round 19
Summary of other matches
Thursday 24th May - Adelaide, 4 goals, beat Kapunda, 2. [37]
Thursday 24th May - Woodville, 1 goal, beat Gawler, 0. [38]
Adelaide, 1 goal tied Gawler, 1.
Adelaide, 3 goals, beat Kapunda, 2.
Melbourne, 1 goal, beat Victorian, 0.
Melbourne, 5 goals, beat Combined Team, 0.
South Australians, 3 goals, beat Victorians, 1.
St. Kilda, 5 goals, beat Adelaide, 2.
St. Kilda. 7 goals, beat South Australians, 2.
Ladder
Victorian finished the season with eight more goals but a slightly inferior record than South Adelaide, but one should consider that Victorian played the Bankers twice whereas South Adelaide did not (their only scheduled match, in Round 6, was a forfeit when the Bankers could only muster 13 players). Further, while Adelaide finished with one more win than the other two clubs, they played 17 games to 13 and 14 respectively.
It was declared South Adelaide and Victorian would be deemed joint Champion Club (premiers).[35]
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| TEAM | P | W | L | D | PF | PA | PTS | Adj Pts |
1 | South Adelaide (P) | 13 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 22 | 1 | 22 | 28.77 |
1 | Victorian (P) | 14 | 10 | 1 | 3 | 30 | 5 | 23 | 27.93 |
3 | Adelaide | 17 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 31 | 13 | 25 | 25.00 |
4 | Port Adelaide | 15 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 23 | 13 | 20 | 22.67 |
5 | Woodville | 16 | 5 | 9 | 2 | 14 | 18 | 12 | 12.75 |
6 | South Park | 17 | 5 | 10 | 2 | 16 | 23 | 12 | 12.00 |
7 | Kensington | 15 | 3 | 10 | 2 | 12 | 43 | 8 | 9.07 |
8 | Bankers | 15 | 0 | 15 | 0 | 4 | 36 | 0 | 0.00 |
Key: P = Played, W = Won, L = Lost, D = Drawn, PF = Points For, PA = Points Against, Adj Pts = Points adjusted for match ratio, (P) = Premiers | [35] |
Note: Woodville were ranked above South Park on head-to-head record (2-1).
Membership
Club | Membership |
Port Adelaide | 85 |
South Adelaide | 85 |
Victorian | 76 |
Kensington | 65 |
South Park | 56 |
Adelaide | 50 |
Woodville | |
Bankers | 50 |
See also
- Sports portal
- Australia portal
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