1875 South Australian football season

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The 1875 South Australian football season was the thirteenth year of interclub football in South Australia.

Contents

1875 South Australian football premiership season
Premiers Kensington
3rd premiership
Highest800 (10 July, Kensington v Adelaide)
  1874
1876  

Clubs

The following clubs participated in interclub matches during 1875: [1]

Metropolitan

Country

Colleges

Metropolitan football matches

May 15

May 15
Saturday, 15 May Port Adelaide 1def.Woodville 0 Glanville Estate [2]

May 29

May 20
Saturday, 29 May (3:30pm) Kensington 2drew with Port Adelaide 2 Kensington Oval [3]
Saturday, 29 May Victorian 0def. by St Peter's College 1Montefiore Hill [3]

June 5

 
Saturday, 5 JuneWoodville 0def. by Port Adelaide 2 [4]

June 12

 

Football cancelled due to bad weather. [5]

June 19

 
Saturday, 19 June (3:00 pm) Port Adelaide 0drew with Victorian 0 Glanville Hall Oval [6]

June 21

 
Monday, 21 June (2:30pm)Willunga 3def. Kensington 1Willunga [7]

June 26

 
Saturday, 26 June (3:00pm)Woodville 0def. by Kensington 2Woodville [8]

July 3

 
Saturday, 3 July (3:15pm) Port Adelaide 0drew with Kensington 0 Glanville Hall Estate [9]
Saturday, 3 July (3:15pm) Victorian 2def.Woodville 0Montefiore Hill [9]

July 10

 
Saturday, 10 July Kensington 1def. Adelaide 0 Kensington Oval (crowd: 800) [10]

July 24

 
Saturday, 24 July (3:00pm) Adelaide 2drew withWoodville 2Adelaide [12]

July 31

 
Saturday, 31 July (3:00pm) Adelaide 3def. Port Adelaide 1Adelaide [13] [14]
Saturday, 31 July (3:00pm) Kensington 4def.Woodville 0 Kensington Oval [13]

August 6

 
Friday, 6 August Kensington 0def. by Willunga 1 Kensington Oval [15]

August 14

 
Saturday, 14 AugustWoodville 2def. Adelaide 1Woodville [16]
Saturday, 14 August Victorian 5? *def.Prince Alfred College 0?Montefiore Hill [17]

(* 5 goals scored by H.Barry) of Victorian

August 21

 
Saturday, 21 August Adelaide 0def. by Port Adelaide 1North Park Lands [18]
Saturday, 21 August (3:00pm)South Adelaide (1875) 1def. by Kensington 4South Park Lands [18]
Saturday, 21 August (shortly before 3:00pm)St Peter's College 2def. by Victorian 7 St Peter's College [18]

August 28

 
Saturday, 28 August (3:00pm) Victorian 1drew with Kensington 1Montefiore Hill [19]

This match was a de facto premiership playoff: as it was drawn, Kensington won the premiership over Victorian on head-to-head records.

Ladder

In the table below, Senior Results is based only upon games played against senior clubs; the record listed under W-L-D is the record over all matches, including those against country, junior and school teams.

PosTeamPldWLDSenior Results (W-L-D)GFGA
1 Kensington 94233-0-3158
2 Victorian 41121-0-232
3 Port Adelaide 73133-1-375
4 Woodville 71511-5-1413
5 Adelaide 51311-3-167
6South Adelaide(1875)10100-1-014
Source: [ citation needed ]

References

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  2. "General News". The Express and Telegraph . Adelaide. 17 May 1875. p. 2. Retrieved 1 November 2015 via National Library of Australia.
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  18. 1 2 3 "New Markets for Colonial Wool". South Australian Register . Adelaide. 23 August 1875. p. 5. Retrieved 9 November 2015 via National Library of Australia.
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