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.

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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.

ClubGamesWinsLossDrawSenior ResultsGFGA
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

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