1877 SAFA premiership season | |
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![]() South Adelaide premiership team | |
Teams | 8 |
Premiers | South Adelaide Victorian 1st premiership |
Leading goalkicker | William Dedman South Adelaide (10 goals) |
Matches played | 52 (61 scheduled) |
Highest | 650 (Round 7, Adelaide vs. South Adelaide) |
The 1877 South Australian Football Association season was the inaugural season of the South Australian Football Association, the top-level league of Australian rules football in South Australia.
The clubs participating were Adelaide, Bankers, Kensington, Port Adelaide, South Adelaide, South Park, Victorian, Woodville. [1]
South Adelaide and Victorian would share the premiership honours as there was no grand final playoff, while the Bankers Football Club, who finished last without a win and forfeited a number of games, folded before the end of the season. [2]
The newly formed South Australian Football Association decided that the playing fields for the season must be between 180 and 200 yards (165-183m) long and 120-150 yards (110-137m) wide, with pushing from behind being prohibited. For clubs to gain membership of the association, they would need to pay two guineas for the year. [3]
Round 1 | |||||
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Saturday, 12 May (2:45 pm) | Adelaide 4 | def. | Bankers 1 | Old Adelaide Ground [4] | [5] |
Saturday, 12 May (3:30 pm) | Kensington 0 | def. by | Port Adelaide 3 | Kensington Oval | [5] |
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Round 2 | |||||
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Saturday, 19 May (3:15 pm) | Adelaide 3 | def. | Port Adelaide 2 | Adelaide Oval (crowd: 250) | [7] |
Saturday, 19 May | South Park 1 | def. | Bankers 0 | South Park Lands | [7] |
Round 3 | |||||
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Saturday, 26 May (3:15 pm) | Adelaide 1 | def. | Woodville 0 | Adelaide Oval | [8] |
Saturday, 26 May (3:00 pm) | Kensington 1 | def. | South Park 0 | Kensington Oval | [8] |
Saturday, 26 May | Victorian 1 | def. | Port Adelaide 0 | Montefiore Hill | [8] |
Round 4 | |||||
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Saturday, 2 June | Kensington 0 | def. by | South Adelaide 2 | Kensington Oval | [9] |
Saturday, 2 June (3:00 pm) | Woodville 0 | def. by | Victorian 3 | Woodville | [9] |
Saturday, 2 June | Adelaide 2 | def. | South Park 0 | Adelaide Oval | [9] |
Saturday, 2 June | Port Adelaide 3 | def. | Bankers 0 | Glanville | [9] |
Round 5 | |||||
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Saturday, 9 June (3:15 pm) | Kensington 0 | drew with | Adelaide 0 | Kensington Oval | [10] |
Saturday, 9 June (3:45 pm) | Woodville 0 | def. by | South Adelaide 1 * | Woodville | [11] |
Saturday, 9 June | Victorian 2 | def. | South Park 0 | Montefiore Hill | [10] |
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Round 6 | |||||
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Saturday, 16 June | Adelaide 1 | drew with | Victorian 1 | Adelaide Oval | [12] |
Saturday, 16 June | South Park 0 | def. by | Woodville 2 | South Park Lands | [12] |
Saturday, 16 June (3:15 pm) | Port Adelaide 4 | def. | Kensington 0 | Glanville | [12] |
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Round 7 | |||||
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Saturday, 23 June (3:00 pm) | Adelaide 0 | def. by | South Adelaide 1 | Adelaide Oval (crowd: 650) | [13] |
Saturday, 23 June (3:15 pm) | Port Adelaide 1 | drew with | Woodville 1 | Glanville | [14] |
Saturday, 23 June | Victorian 7 | def. | Bankers 0 | Montefiore Hill | [14] |
Saturday, 23 June (3:00 pm) | South Park 2 | def. | Kensington 0 | South Park Lands | [13] |
Round 8 | |||||
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Saturday, 30 June | South Adelaide 0 | drew with | Victorian 0 | South Park Lands (crowd: 650) | [15] |
Saturday, 30 June (3:00 pm) | Port Adelaide 1 | def. | South Park 0 | Glanville | [15] |
Round 9 | |||||
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Saturday, 7 July (3:15 pm) | Adelaide 9 | def. | Bankers 0 | Old Adelaide Ground | [16] |
Saturday, 7 July (3:15 pm) | South Adelaide 0 | drew with | Woodville 0 | South Park Lands | [16] |
Saturday, 7 July (3:15 pm) | Victorian 3 | def. | Kensington 0 | Montefiore Hill | [16] |
Round 10 | |||||
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Saturday, 14 July (3:00 pm) | Woodville 1 | def. by | South Park 2 | Woodville | [17] |
Saturday, 14 July (3:15 pm) | Port Adelaide 1 | drew with | Adelaide 1 | Glanville | [18] |
Saturday, 14 July (Time pm) | Bankers 1 | def. by | Kensington 4 | Old Adelaide Ground | [18] |
Round 11 | |||||
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Saturday, 21 July (3:15 pm) | South Adelaide 3 | def. | Port Adelaide 0 | South Park Lands | [19] |
Saturday, 21 July | Kensington 3 | def. by | Woodville 8 | Kensington Oval | [19] |
Saturday, 21 July (3:15 pm) | Adelaide 2 | def. | South Park 1 | Adelaide Oval | [19] |
Saturday, 21 July (3:00 pm) | Victorian 5 | def. | Bankers 1 | Montefiore Hill | [19] |
Round 12 | |||||
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Saturday, 28 July (3:30 pm) | Adelaide 2 | def. | Woodville 0 | Adelaide Oval (crowd: 500) | [20] |
Saturday, 28 July (3:10 pm) | Port Adelaide 2 | def. | Victorian 1 | Glanville | [21] |
Saturday, 28 July (3:30 pm) | South Adelaide 7 | def. | Kensington 0 | South Park Lands | [21] |
Saturday, 28 July (3:00 pm) | South Park 3 | def. | Bankers 0 | South Park Lands | [22] |
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Round 13 | |||||
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Saturday, 4 August (3:00 pm) | Victorian 2 | def. | Adelaide 0 | Montefiore Hill | [23] |
Saturday, 4 August (3:20 pm) | Port Adelaide 0 | def. by | South Adelaide 1 | Glanville (crowd: 500) | [23] |
Saturday, 4 August | South Park 1 | drew with | Kensington 1 | South Park Lands | [24] |
Round 14 | |||||
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Saturday, 11 August (3:00 pm) | Woodville 0 | def. by | South Park 5 | Woodville | |
Saturday, 11 August (3:00 pm) | Adelaide 6 | def. | Kensington 2 | Old Adelaide Ground | [25] |
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Round 15 | |||||
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Saturday, 25 August (3:15 pm) | Victorian 2 | v | Woodville 0 | Montefiore Hill | |
Saturday, 25 August | South Park 0 | def. by | South Adelaide 4 | South Park Lands | [27] |
The Victorians were short of two of their players — Messrs. Barry and Kingsford — while the Woodvilles, besides being; greatly weakened by the retirement of their late captain and several first-class men, were playing with seven of their second twenty. [28] |
Round 16 | |||||
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Saturday, 1 September (3:15 pm) | South Adelaide 2 | def. | Adelaide 0 | South Park Lands (crowd: 400) | [29] |
Saturday, 1 September | Port Adelaide 2 | def. | South Park 1 | Glanville | [30] |
Saturday, 1 September | Woodville 3 | def. | Kensington 0 | Woodville | [30] |
Round 17 | |||||
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Saturday, 8 September | South Adelaide 1 | def. | South Park 0 | South Park Lands (crowd: 500) | [31] |
Saturday, 8 September (3:45 pm) | Kensington 1 | v | Victorian 2 | Kensington Oval | [31] |
Round 18 | |||||
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Saturday, 15 September | South Park 0 | drew with | Victorian 0 | South Park Lands | [32] |
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Round 19 | |||||
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Saturday, 29 September (3:30 pm) | South Park 1 | def. by | Port Adelaide 3 | South Park Lands | [35] |
Saturday, 29 September (3:15 pm) | Victorian 1 | def. | South Adelaide 0 | Montefiore Hill | [36] |
Thursday 24th May - Adelaide, 4 goals, beat Kapunda, 2. [37]
Thursday 24th May - Woodville, 1 goal, beat Gawler, 0. [38]
Adelaide, 1 goal tied Gawler, 1.
Adelaide, 3 goals, beat Kapunda, 2.
Melbourne, 1 goal, beat Victorian, 0.
Melbourne, 5 goals, beat Combined Team, 0.
South Australians, 3 goals, beat Victorians, 1.
St. Kilda, 5 goals, beat Adelaide, 2.
St. Kilda. 7 goals, beat South Australians, 2.
Victorian finished the season with eight more goals but a slightly inferior record than South Adelaide, but one should consider that Victorian played the Bankers twice whereas South Adelaide did not (their only scheduled match, in Round 6, was a forfeit when the Bankers could only muster 13 players). Further, while Adelaide finished with one more win than the other two clubs, they played 17 games to 13 and 14 respectively.
It was declared South Adelaide and Victorian would be deemed joint Champion Club (premiers). [35]
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TEAM | P | W | L | D | PF | PA | PTS | Adj Pts | ||||
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1 | South Adelaide (P) | 13 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 22 | 1 | 22 | 28.77 | |||
1 | Victorian (P) | 14 | 10 | 1 | 3 | 30 | 5 | 23 | 27.93 | |||
3 | Adelaide | 17 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 31 | 13 | 25 | 25.00 | |||
4 | Port Adelaide | 15 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 23 | 13 | 20 | 22.67 | |||
5 | Woodville | 16 | 5 | 9 | 2 | 14 | 18 | 12 | 12.75 | |||
6 | South Park | 17 | 5 | 10 | 2 | 16 | 23 | 12 | 12.00 | |||
7 | Kensington | 15 | 3 | 10 | 2 | 12 | 43 | 8 | 9.07 | |||
8 | Bankers | 15 | 0 | 15 | 0 | 4 | 36 | 0 | 0.00 | |||
Key: P = Played, W = Won, L = Lost, D = Drawn, PF = Points For, PA = Points Against, Adj Pts = Points adjusted for match ratio, (P) = Premiers | [35] |
Note: Woodville were ranked above South Park on head-to-head record (2-1).
It was reported at the end of the season that Bankers had forfeited 6 out of their 15 games. (Adelaide, Port Adelaide, South Adelaide, Kensington 1 each, and Woodville 2)
Club | Membership |
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Port Adelaide | 85 |
South Adelaide | 85 |
Victorian | 76 |
Kensington | 65 |
South Park | 56 |
Adelaide | 50 |
Woodville | |
Bankers | 50 |
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