1878 SAFA season

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1878 SAFA premiership season
Norwood premiership team 1878.png
Norwood premiership team
Teams7
Premiers Norwood
1st premiership
Leading goalkickerWilliam Dedman
Norwood (12 Goals)
Matches played42
Highest3,000 (Round 13, Norwood vs Port Adelaide)
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The 1878 South Australian Football Association season was the 2nd season of the top-level Australian rules football competition in South Australia.

Contents

The SAFA competition was contested by seven teams with the admission of newly formed club Norwood, after Bankers and Woodville folded at the end of 1877.

Each team played each other twice this season, the first time a standardised fixture was in place.

In its first season, Norwood won their first premiership, going through the year undefeated. [1]

Pre season

The SAFA clubs played inter club matches on 4 May.

An additional pre season game was played between some South Australian and Victorian residents who live in Adelaide.

South Australian vs. Victorian residents
Saturday, 11 May (Time pm)South Australians 1def.Victorians 0 Adelaide Oval (crowd: 350) [2]

Premiership season

Premiership matches are those that took place after 11 May. [3]

Round 1

Round 1
Saturday, 18 May (3:15 pm) Norwood 1def. South Adelaide 0 Adelaide Oval (crowd: 800) [4]
Saturday, 18 May (3:15 pm)South Park 0def. by Port Adelaide 2South Park Lands [5]
Saturday, 18 May (3:00 pm)Kensington 0def. by Adelaide 5 Kensington Oval [4]

Round 2

Round 2
Saturday, 25 May (3:45 pm) Norwood 1def. Victorians 0East Park Lands (crowd: 500) [6]
Saturday, 25 May (3:40 pm) South Adelaide 0def. by Adelaide 1 Adelaide Oval [6]
Saturday, 25 May (3:00 pm)Kensington 0def. by Port Adelaide 4 Kensington Oval [6]

Non Competition Match - Monday 27th May was Queen's Birthday Holiday.
Norwood (with a strong team) visited Gawler - Winning 7 goals to 1. [7]

Round 3

Round 3
Saturday, 1 June (3:25 pm) South Adelaide 0def. by Port Adelaide 1South Park Lands (crowd: 300) [8]
Saturday, 1 June (3:30 pm)Kensington 0def. bySouth Parks 1 Kensington Oval [8]
Saturday, 1 June (3:00 pm) Adelaide 2drew with Victorians 2 Adelaide Oval [9]
  • The South Adelaide vs. Port Adelaide game was ended early due to the interference of rowdy larrikins.

Round 4

Round 4
Saturday, 8 June (Time pm) Adelaide 0def. by Norwood 1 Adelaide Oval [10]
Saturday, 8 June (3:00 pm) South Adelaide 1vSouth Parks 0South Park Lands [10]

The Port Adelaide vs. Victorian game was called off due to bad weather and rescheduled for 6 July despite Port kicking a goal. [11]

Round 5

Round 5
Saturday, 15 June (3:15 pm) South Adelaide 2def.Kensington 0South Park Lands [12]
Saturday, 15 June (Time pm) Victorians 3def.South Parks 0 Montefiore Hill [12]
Saturday, 15 June (Time pm) Port Adelaide 0def. by Norwood 1 Glanville Estate (crowd: 600) [13]

Round 6

Round 6
Saturday, 22 June (3:00 pm) Norwood 0drew withSouth Parks 0Park Lands, South Tce (crowd: 600) [14]
Saturday, 22 June (3:00 pm) Port Adelaide 2def. Adelaide 0 Glanville Estate (crowd: 300) [14]
Saturday, 22 June (3:45 pm)Kensington 0drew with Victorians 0 Kensington Oval [14]

Round 7

Round 7
Saturday, 29 June (3:00 pm) Victorians 1def. South Adelaide 0 Montefiore Hill (crowd: 1,100) [15]

Round 8

Round 8
Saturday, 6 July (3:15 pm) Port Adelaide 1drew with Victorians 1 Glanville Estate [11]
Saturday, 6 July (Time pm) Norwood 6def.Kensington 0East Park Lands (crowd: 300) [11]

Round 9

Round 9
Saturday, 13 July (Time pm)Kensington 0drew with Norwood 0 Kensington Oval [16]
Saturday, 13 July (3:15 pm) Adelaide 0drew with Port Adelaide 0 Adelaide Oval [17]

Round 10

Round 10
Saturday, 20 July (3:00 pm) South Adelaide 0drew with Adelaide 0South Park Lands (crowd: 600) [18]
Saturday, 20 July (3:15 pm) Port Adelaide 2def.South Park 0 Glanville Estate [18]
Saturday, 20 July (3:30 pm) Victorian 1def.Kensington 0 Montefiore Hill [18]

Round 11

Round 11
Saturday, 27 July (3:30 pm) South Adelaide 0drew with Norwood 0South Park Lands (crowd: 700) [19]
Saturday, 27 July (3:00 pm) Victorian 0drew with Port Adelaide 0 Montefiore Hill (crowd: 500) [19]
Saturday, 27 July (3:35 pm)South Park 0drew withKensington 0South Park Lands [20]

Round 12

Round 12
Saturday, 3 August (Time pm) Norwood 4def.South Park 1East Park Lands (crowd: 800) [21]
Saturday, 3 August (Time pm) Victorian 2def. Adelaide 0 Montefiore Hill [21]

Round 13

Round 13
Saturday, 10 August (3:00 pm) Norwood 0drew with Port Adelaide 0East Park Lands (crowd: 3,000) [22]
Saturday, 10 August (Time pm) Adelaide 4vKensington 1 Adelaide Oval [22]

Round 14

Round 14
Saturday, 17 August (Time pm) Adelaide 1vSouth Parks 0 Adelaide Oval [23]
Saturday, 17 August (Time pm) Port Adelaide 0def. by South Adelaide 1 Glanville Estate (crowd: 300) [23]

Round 15

Round 15
Saturday, 24 August (Time pm) Norwood 1def. Adelaide 0East Park Lands (crowd: 700) [24]

Round 16

Round 16
Saturday, 31 August (3:00 pm) South Adelaide 0v Victorian 0South Park Land (crowd: 1,200) [25]
  • Victorian had kicked a goal, but it was deleted after a head count revealed they had 21 men on the ground.

Round 17

Round 17
Saturday, 7 September (3:30 pm) Victorian 0def. by Norwood 1 Montefiore Hill (crowd: 2,750) [26]

Ladder

1878 SAFA Ladder
PosTeamPldWLDPFPAPPPts
1 Norwood 1280416194.1220
2 Port Adelaide 1262413476.4716
3 Victorian 124267653.8514
4 South Adelaide 125438466.6713
5 Adelaide 12444141058.3312
6 South Park 1217421412.506
7 Kensington 120931253.853
Source: [ citation needed ]
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) percentage; 3) number of points for.

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  2. ↑ "13 May 1878 - FOOTBALL". nla.gov.au.
  3. ↑ "21 Sep 1878 - football THE PAST SEASON". nla.gov.au. 21 September 1878.
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  5. ↑ "29 May 1878 - FOOTBALL. PORT V. SOUTH PARK". nla.gov.au. 29 May 1878.
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  7. ↑ https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/106559856 [ bare URL ]
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  9. ↑ "06 Jun 1878 - FOOTBALL. ADELAIDE V. VICTORIAN". nla.gov.au. 6 June 1878.
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  12. 1 2 "17 Jun 1878 - FOOTBALL. SOUTH ADELAIDE v. KENSINGTON". nla.gov.au.
  13. ↑ "18 Jun 1878 - FOOTBALL. NORWOODS v. PORTS". nla.gov.au.
  14. 1 2 3 "24 Jun 1878 - FOOTBALL. NORWOODS V. SOUTH PARKS". nla.gov.au.
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  17. ↑ "16 Jul 1878 - FOOTBALL. ADELAIDES V. PORTS". nla.gov.au.
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  22. 1 2 "12 Aug 1878 - FOOTBALL. NORWOODS v. PORT ADELAIDES". nla.gov.au.
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