1874 South Australian football season

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The 1874 South Australian football season was the fifth year of interclub football in South Australia.

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1874 South Australian football premiership season
Premiers Kensington
2nd premiership
←  1873
1875  →

Major Clubs

Metropolitan

Country Clubs

Colleges

Annual Meetings and Opening Games

April 23

The Kensington Club held it's Annual Meeting on April 23. [1]

April 28

The Kensington Football Club held their first meeting for the season on Tuesday, April 28, at Mr. Caterer's schoolroom, Norwood. There were 22 members present. It was resolved, that the Club's uniform be scarlet cap and jacket and white trousers. [2]

May 6

A meeting of members of the Adelaide Football Club was held at the Prince Alfred Hotel on Wednesday evening, May 6, to receive the reports for the last year, and make arrangements for the forthcoming season. There were about a dozen gentlemen present, and Mr. S.G. Kingston presided. Upwards of 40 members were enrolled. [3]

May 9

The football season commenced in the afternoon when the Adelaide Football club played their opening game with a 15 a side game intraclub match. [4] [5]

May 21

At an adjourned meeting of the Adelaide Football Club it was reported that His Excellency Governor Musgrave had accepted the office of President, and that Mr. J. Acraman had again intimated his willingness to accept the position of Vice-President. [6]

May 23

Port Adelaide Football Club advertised they will have their opening game of the season this (Saturday) afternoon at Glanville. The Concordia Band has been engaged, and the members are to appear in uniform.

The Kensington Club also began the season playing for colours.
The following are to be the teams of 25 each:—
Red — Ashwin, Bakewell, Beresford, Bonney, Burton, Calder, Duffield, Foale, R. Gwynne, H. and J. Hall, C. Hargrave, M. Jay, Kaye, Meredith, Muirhead, Noltenius, F. Perry, Roberts, Scott, Sowter, Tardiff, Trimmer, Wigg, ana Wright.
White — Aldridge, Colton, Farr, Gliddon, Gwynne, Haigh, Hargrave, Harvey, Hewer, Hughes, Kaines, Lucas, Marshall, Millner, Moulden, H. and H. R. Perry, Pope, Reid, H. and R.Shell, Schomburgk, Sunter, Tassie, Waterhouse, Whittell, and Williams. [7]

June 6

Metropolitan and Country football matches

May 2

Intercollege Match
Saturday, 2 May Adelaide Educational Institution 0drew with Prince Alfred College 0 Parkside [8]

Adelaide Educational Institution founded in 1852 moved to Young Street, Parkside in 1872. It was founded by John Lorenzo Young.

May 9

Intercollege Match
Saturday, 9 May St Peter's College 1def. Prince Alfred College 0 St Peter's College [9]

May 9

Adelaide Football club Intra Club Match
Saturday, 9 May 3pmAdelaide (Blue) 2def.Adelaide (Red) 1Adelaide [10]

Adelaide Intraclub match - 15 each side. Captains : H.Holthouse (Blue) and G.S.Kington (Red)

June 6

Kensington advertised a game against St Peter's Collegians for 2.30pm on the Kensington Grounds. [11]
Adelaide Football Club advertised a practice game. [12]

June 13

June 13
Saturday, June 13Young's 0def. by Victorian 1Parkside [13] [14] [15]

Game was advertised for 3pm start at Parkside. [16] Goal Scorer - H. Barry
Adelaide Educational Institution founded was founded by John Lorenzo Young in 1852 and moved to Young Street, Parkside in 1872.
Adelaide and Kensington Clubs both advertise practice games. [17]

June 22

Anniversary of the Queen's Accession Public Holiday Match [18]
Monday, June 22 Gawler 1drew with Kensington 1Gawler Park (crowd: 600 -1000) [19] [20] [21]

Game commenced at 1pm and concluded at 5pm (4 hours of play). Colours - Gawler Magneta and White, Kensington Scarlet. Each team consisted of 17 players. Gawler Team - The following are the names of the Gawler competitors : — G. Beade, F. Harris (Captain), H. Harris, E. T. Annells, A. Schwann, J. Wilkinson, T. Wilkinson, J. Robertson, E. Saint, C.Niquet, J. Gordon, E. Filsell, J. Crump, J. Martin, W. Dawkins, J. Ferguson. [22]

July 4

 
Saturday, July 4 Port Adelaide 0drew with Kensington 0 Glanville Hall Estate [23]

The first match of the season between these Clubs. The new rules were observed, and were considered a decided improvement on the old ones, taking away the risk of broken collarbones and sprained ankles.

July 18

 
Saturday, July 18 Kensington 1def. Port Adelaide 0Kensington [24]

Return match [25]

August 1

 
Saturday, August 1 Port Adelaide (2nds) 3def. Victorian 0 Glanville [26] [27]

Kensington played at colour match [28]

August 7

Public Holiday Games
Friday, August 7 Gawler 1def. Port Adelaide 0 Gawler Park Lands [29]
Friday, August 7 Willunga 2def. Kensington 0 Noarlunga [30]
  • Gawler scored a second goal shortly after the first early in the game but it was disputed owing to the interpretation of

one of the rules. However, the game was subsequently continued with great spirit for about two hours. [31]

August 8

 
Saturday, August 8 2.30pm Prince Alfred College 0drew with Victorian 0 Prince Alfred College Grounds [33]

J. Melrose and A. Barry captains respectively
Kensington Club advertised a practice match at 2.45pm [34]

August 22

 
Saturday, August 22 Victorian 0def. by Port Adelaide 2nds 1Montefiore Hill [35]

Return match - Captains : Victorian G.Downs and Port Seconds G.H.Warren. Goal Scorer H.Ford (Port Adelaide)

August 29

 
Saturday, August 29 2.30pm [36] Victorian 1def. East Terrace 0Montefiore Hill [37]
Saturday, August 29 (3:00pm) Kensington 2def. Willunga 1Adelaide Football Grounds [38]

September 5

 
Saturday, September 5 Port Adelaide 0def. by Kensington 2 Glanville [39]
  • This match was arranged to determine the conquering match between the two clubs. Port Adelaide team were weakened due to the absence of a number of leading players.

Senior Ladder

In the table below, Senior Results is based only upon games played against other senior clubs; the record listed under W-L-D is the record over all matches. Victorian Club is excluded as they did not contest any match against any senior club.

There was no formal process by which the clubs were ranked, so the below order should be considered indicative only, particularly since the fixturing of matches was not standardised.

PosTeamPldWLDSenior ResultsGFGA
1 Kensington 63123-1-264
2 Gawler 21011-0-121
3 Willunga 21101-1-032
4 Port Adelaide 40310-3-104
Source: [ citation needed ]

Ladder - Port Adelaide 2nds and Victorian

PosTeamPldWLDSenior ResultsGFGA
1 Port Adelaide 2nd Twenty-two 22000-0-040
2 Victorian 20200-0-004
Source: [ citation needed ]

Ladder - Colleges

PosTeamPldWLDSenior ResultsGFGA
1 St Peter's College 11000-0-010
2 Prince Alfred College 31110-0-021
3 Adelaide Educational Institution 20110-0-002
Source: [ citation needed ]

References

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  2. ↑ https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/28730498
  3. ↑ https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/39821501
  4. ↑ https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/28730790
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  6. ↑ https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/207716733
  7. ↑ https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/196749559
  8. ↑ "Topics of the Day". The South Australian Advertiser . Adelaide. 6 May 1874. p. 2. Retrieved 15 December 2025– via National Library of Australia.- }}
  9. ↑ "Football". South Australian Register . Adelaide. 12 May 1874. p. 7. Retrieved 15 December 2025– via National Library of Australia.- }}
  10. ↑ "Football". South Australian Register . Adelaide. 11 May 1874. p. 5. Retrieved 15 December 2025– via National Library of Australia.- }}
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  12. ↑ https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/196749931?searchTerm=Football
  13. ↑ "TOPICS OF THE DAY". The South Australian Advertiser . Adelaide. 15 June 1874. p. 2. Retrieved 10 November 2015– via National Library of Australia.
  14. ↑ https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/196750141
  15. ↑ https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/39818759
  16. ↑ https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/73062052?searchTerm=Youngs
  17. ↑ https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/196750111?searchTerm=Football
  18. ↑ https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/97207557?searchTerm=Gawler%20Football
  19. ↑ "FOOTBALL". South Australian Register . Adelaide. 24 June 1874. p. 3. Retrieved 10 November 2015– via National Library of Australia.
  20. ↑ https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/207717623?searchTerm=Gawler%20Football
  21. ↑ https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/97208538
  22. ↑ https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/97207560
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  27. ↑ https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/197673280
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  31. ↑ https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/97207196
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  33. ↑ "GENERAL NEWS". The Telegraph (Adelaide) . Adelaide. 10 August 1874. p. 2. Retrieved 15 December 2025– via National Library of Australia.- }}
  34. ↑ https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/208171817?searchTerm=VICTORIANS
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  36. ↑ https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/208172333
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