1875 South Australian football season

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

1875 South Australian football premiership season
Premiers	Kensington 3rd premiership
Highest	800 (10 July, Kensington v Adelaide)
←  1874 1876  →

Clubs

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

Metropolitan

• Adelaide
• Kensington
• Port Adelaide
• South Adelaide (1875)
• Victorian
• Woodville

Country

• Aldinga
• Gawler
• Kapunda
• Willunga

Colleges

• Prince Alfred College
• St Peter's College

Metropolitan football matches

May 15

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

May 29

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

June 5

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

June 12

Football cancelled due to bad weather. [5]

June 19

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

June 21

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

June 26

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

July 3

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

July 10

Saturday, 10 July	Kensington 1	def.	Adelaide 0	Kensington Oval (crowd: 800)	[10]
The match at Kensington Oval was the first at the ground. [11] The match was Adelaide's first interclub game since 1872.

July 24

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

July 31

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

August 6

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

August 14

Saturday, 14 August	Woodville 2	def.	Adelaide 1	Woodville	[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 0	def. by	Port Adelaide 1	North Park Lands	[18]
Saturday, 21 August (3:00pm)	South Adelaide (1875) 1	def. by	Kensington 4	South Park Lands	[18]
Saturday, 21 August (shortly before 3:00pm)	St Peter's College 2	def. by	Victorian 7	St Peter's College	[18]

August 28

Saturday, 28 August (3:00pm)	Victorian 1	drew with	Kensington 1	Montefiore 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.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	D	Senior Results (W-L-D)	GF	GA
1	Kensington	9	4	2	3	3-0-3	15	8
2	Victorian	4	1	1	2	1-0-2	3	2
3	Port Adelaide	7	3	1	3	3-1-3	7	5
4	Woodville	7	1	5	1	1-5-1	4	13
5	Adelaide	5	1	3	1	1-3-1	6	7
6	South Adelaide(1875)	1	0	1	0	0-1-0	1	4

Source: ^{[ citation needed ]}

References

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