1921 SAFL Grand Final

Australian rules football match
1921 SAFL Grand Final

Norwood
Port Adelaide
3.6 (24) 4.8 (32)
1 2 3 4
NOR 0.4 (4) 1.5 (11) 2.6 (18) 3.6 (24)
PTA 3.1 (19) 4.3 (27) 4.6 (30) 4.8 (32)
DateSaturday, 8 October (2:10 pm)
StadiumAdelaide Oval
Attendance34,800
UmpiresMr Haven
Coin toss won byPort Adelaide
Kicked towardScoreboard End
Accolades
Best on GroundPeter Bampton[1]
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The 1921 SAFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Norwood Football Club and the Port Adelaide Football Club, held at the Adelaide Oval in Adelaide on 8 October 1921. It was the 23rd annual Grand Final of the South Australian Football League, staged to determine the premiers for the 1921 SAFL season. The match, attended by 34,000 spectators, was won by Port Adelaide by a margin of 8 points, marking the club's ninth premiership victory.[2]

Teams

Port Adelaide's team was not finalised until just before the game with Taylor, Lloyd and Mayne left out of the squad of 21 and Eric Dewar replacing Maurice Allingham.

0Port Adelaide0
B: Kenneth Slade John Ford Charlie Adams
HB: Clarence Maywald Peter Bampton Bert Olds
C: Sampson Hosking Gordon Beck Ernest Mucklow
HF: Clem Dayman 14. Harold Oliver (c) Clifford Keal
F: Les Dayman Eric Dewar Lindsay Beck
Foll: John Taylor Sam Howie 10. Angelo Congear
Int:
Coach: Sampson Hosking
0Norwood0
B: Basil Scott Roy Bent Clarence Packham
HB: Charles Gwynne Clyde Close Spencer Sibley
C: William Heinrich Roy Townley Claude Toovey
HF: Guy Stephens 7. Walter Scott Syd White (c)
F: Murray Dobson Harry Johns Harold Grantley
Foll: 6. Leslie Bryant William Potts Bert Shumacher
Int:
Coach: William Hutton

Scorecard

1921 SAFL Grand Final
Saturday, 8 October Port Adelaide def. Norwood Adelaide Oval (crowd: 34,000) [3]
3.1 (19)
4.3 (27)
4.6 (30)
 4.8 (32) 		Q1
Q2
Q3
 Final 		0.4 (4)
1.5 (11)
2.6 (18)
 3.6 (24) 		Best on Ground: Bampton
Keal 2
Dewar, Congear 1 		Goals 3 Bent
Bampton, Oliver, Beck, Congear, Dayman, Keal, Hosking, Adams, Slade Best Dobson, Johns, Bryant, White, Toovey, Stephens, Schumacher, Scott, Grantley

References

  1. ^ "LEAGUE PREMIERSHIP". Chronicle. Vol. LXIV, no. 3, 395. South Australia. 15 October 1921. p. 18. Retrieved 21 September 2021 – via National Library of Australia.
  2. ^ "Australian Football - SANFL Season 1921". australianfootball.com. Archived from the original on 11 December 2014. Retrieved 7 March 2015.
  3. ^ "LEAGUE PREMIERSHIP". The Chronicle. Adelaide: National Library of Australia. 15 October 1921. p. 18. Retrieved 28 December 2014.
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