1885 SAFA season

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1885 SAFA premiership season
South Adelaide Football Club, Premiers 1885.jpg
South Adelaide, premiers
Teams4
Premiers South Adelaide
2nd premiership
Leading goalkickerH R Hill
South Adelaide (19 goals)
Attendance
Matches played30
Total attendance54,000 (1,800 per match)
Highest8,000 (Round 6, Adelaide vs. South Adelaide)
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The 1885 South Australian Football Association season was the 9th season of the top-level Australian rules football competition in South Australia.

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A new senior Adelaide Football Club formed from a merger of North Adelaide Junior and North Parks clubs from the Adelaide and Suburban Football Association joined.

The 1885 SAFA season was the first time since 1878 that all clubs played a fixed number of games.

Twenty three of the thirty games played had crowd figures quoted for an approximate average of 1,800 spectators per game.

Premiership season

Round 1

Round 1
Saturday, 2 May (3:15 pm) Norwood 6.15 (6)def. Adelaide 1.5 (1) Kensington Oval [1]
Saturday, 2 May (3:15 pm) South Adelaide 4.11 (4)def. Port Adelaide 3.3 (3) Adelaide Oval (crowd: 1,500) [2]

Round 2

Round 2
Monday, 25 May South Adelaide 5.13 (5)def. Norwood 0.8 (0) Adelaide Oval (crowd: 4,500) [3]
Bye
Port Adelaide, Adelaide
  • Port Adelaide was on a football trip in Victoria during rounds 2 and 3.

Round 3

Round 3
Saturday, 31 May South Adelaide 4.9def. Adelaide 2.11 Adelaide Oval (crowd: 950) [4] [5]
Bye
Port Adelaide, Norwood
  • Adelaide Oval's surface was in poor condition due to the famous Indigenous Corrobee the night before.

Round 4

Round 4
Saturday, 6 June (3:10 pm) South Adelaide 3.11 (3)def. by Norwood 5.8 (5) Adelaide Oval (crowd: 2,000) [6] [7]
Saturday, 6 June (3:10 pm) Port Adelaide 10.14 (10)def. Adelaide 2.11 (2) Alberton Oval (crowd: 800) [8] [9]

Round 5

Round 5
Saturday, 27 June (3:00 pm) Port Adelaide 2.5 (2)def. by South Adelaide 3.16 (3) Alberton Oval (crowd: 1,500) [10]
Saturday, 27 June (3:15 pm) Adelaide 4.5 (4)def. Norwood 0.13 (0) Adelaide Oval [11] [12]

Round 6

Round 6
Wednesday, 1 July (8:00 pm) Adelaide 1.8 (1)def. South Adelaide 0.8 (0) Adelaide Oval (crowd: 8,000) [13]
Saturday, 4 July Port Adelaide 2.12 (2)def. by Norwood 3.8 (3) Alberton Oval (crowd: 2,000) [14]
Bye
Adelaide, South Adelaide

Round 7

Round 7
Saturday, 11 July (3:25 pm) Norwood 0.5 (0)drew with South Adelaide 0.12 (0) Kensington Oval [15]
Saturday, 11 July (3:18 pm) Adelaide 0.10 (0)def. by Port Adelaide 2.10 (2) Adelaide Oval (crowd: 600) [16]

Round 8

Round 8
Saturday, 18 July Norwood 1.20 (1)def. by Adelaide 4.10 (4) Kensington Oval (crowd: 400) [17]
Saturday, 18 July (3:13 pm) South Adelaide 2.8 (2)drew with Port Adelaide 2.15 (2) Adelaide Oval (crowd: 3,000) [18]

Round 9

Round 9
Saturday, 25 July (3:25 pm) Norwood 3.11 (3)def. Port Adelaide 2.16 (2) Kensington Oval (crowd: 1,000) [19]
Saturday, 25 July Adelaide 0.5 (0)def. by South Adelaide 6.14 (6) Adelaide Oval [20]

Round 10

Round 10
Saturday, 1 August (3:16 pm) South Adelaide 8.11 (8)def. Norwood 4.5 (4) Adelaide Oval (crowd: 2,000) [21] [22]
Saturday, 1 August (3:20 pm) Port Adelaide 8.17 (8)def. Adelaide 1.8 (1) Alberton Oval (crowd: 500) [23]

Round 11

Round 11
Saturday, 8 August (3:10 pm) South Adelaide 5.10 (5)def. Adelaide 3.11 (3) Kensington Oval (crowd: 500) [24] [25]
Bye
Port Adelaide, Norwood

Round 12

Round 12
Saturday, 15 August (3:29 pm) Port Adelaide 2.11 (2)def. South Adelaide 1.5 (1) Alberton Oval (crowd: 2,000) [26]
Saturday, 15 August (3:28 pm) Adelaide 3.5 (3)def. by Norwood 4.6 (4) Adelaide Oval (crowd: 1,000) [27] [28]

Round 13

Round 13
Saturday, 22 August (3:25 pm) Port Adelaide 1.13 (1)def. by Norwood 6.16 (6) Alberton Oval (crowd: 2,000) [29] [30]
Saturday, 22 August (3:20 pm) Adelaide 2.4 (2)def. by South Adelaide 11.13 (11) Kensington Oval (crowd: 300) [31]

Round 14

Round 14
Saturday, 29 August (3:20 pm) Adelaide 6.9 (6)def. Norwood 1.13 (1) Kensington Oval [32] [33]
Saturday, 29 August (3:15 pm) South Adelaide 6.14 (6)drew with Port Adelaide 6.2 (6) Adelaide Oval (crowd: 5,000) [34] [35]

Round 15

Round 15
Saturday, 5 September Norwood 2.11 (2)def. by South Adelaide 8.10 (8) Kensington Oval (crowd: 550) [36]
Saturday, 5 September Adelaide 2.6 (2)def. by Port Adelaide 3.13 (3) Adelaide Oval (crowd: 500) [37] [38]

Round 16

Round 16
Saturday, 12 September (3:18 pm) Adelaide 5.5 (5)def. by South Adelaide 8.7 (8) Adelaide Oval [39]
Saturday, 12 September (3:30 pm) Norwood 4.14 (4)def. Port Adelaide 2.8 (2) Kensington Oval (crowd: 800) [40]

Round 17

Round 17
Saturday, 18 September (3:30 pm) Adelaide 3.5 (3)def. Port Adelaide 1.14 (1) Adelaide Oval [41]

Ladder

1885 SAFA Ladder
TEAMPWLDGFBFGABA
1 South Adelaide 151122721593696
2 Norwood 157714216254161
3 Port Adelaide 156814915941146
4 Adelaide 1541103811170188
Key: P = Played, W = Won, L = Lost, D = Drawn, GF = Goals For, BF = Behinds For, GA = Goals Against, BA = Behinds Against, (P) = Premiers [42]

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