1890 SAFA premiership season | |
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Premiers | Port Adelaide 2nd premiership |
Leading goalkicker | John McKenzie Port Adelaide (32 goals) |
Matches played | 50 |
Highest | 11,500 (30 August, Norwood vs. Port Adelaide) |
The 1890 South Australian Football Association season was the 14th season of the top-level Australian rules football competition in South Australia.
Despite protests from Gawler the 1890 Programme gave them only five home games (one each against the other clubs) and two away games in Adelaide against each of the city clubs. They forfeited both of their games against Port Adelaide at Alberton and ended up collecting the wooden spoon. The end of year report stated they had a good deal to put up with in the way of a badly arranged programme, for they were brought down to town Saturday after Saturday, and sometimes to play the same team on two successive Saturdays. Despite rumours during the season that they were going resign they voted to complete their scheduled games.
The Gawler Football Association subsequently withdrew their Senior Club from the SAFA before the beginning of 1891 season and continued its own competition with 3 local teams, the predecessor of the current Barossa Light and Gawler Football Association.
The start of the season on 5 May was delayed due to a dispute between the Association and Burnside District Council which owned the Kensington Oval. Initially only 4 matches were programmed for Kensington Oval whilst 17 were for Adelaide Oval. Burnside counter proposed 8 for Kensington and 13 for Adelaide Oval. The matter was settled when the Association presented a revised programme of 6 matches for Kensington Oval.
Game between South Adelaide and Gawler for Kensington Oval was postponed to later in the year. [1]
Round 1 | |||||
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Saturday, 5 May | Adelaide 6.15 (6) | def. | Medindie 1.5 (1) | Adelaide Oval | [2] |
Round 2 | |||||
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Saturday, 12 May | South Adelaide 6.2 (6) | def. | Adelaide 3.7 (3) | Adelaide Oval (crowd: 2,500) | [3] |
Saturday, 12 May (3:30 pm) | Norwood 5.4 (5) | def. | Medindie 4.5 (4) | Kensington Oval (crowd: 3,000) | [4] |
Saturday, 12 May | Port Adelaide | def. | Gawler (Forfeit) | Alberton Oval | [5] |
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Round 3 | |||||
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Saturday, 17 May (3:30 pm) | Port Adelaide 1.4 (1) | def. by | Norwood 2.9 (2) | Alberton Oval (crowd: 3,000) | [6] |
Saturday, 17 May | South Adelaide 5.9 (5) | def. | Medindie 2.5 (2) | Adelaide Oval (crowd: 1,000) | [7] |
Saturday, 17 May (3:30 pm) | Adelaide 8.15 (8) | def. | Gawler 0.2 (0) | Kensington Oval | [8] |
Round 4 | |||||
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Saturday, 24 May (3:16 pm) | Adelaide 2.3 (2) | def. by | Norwood 7.10 (7) | Adelaide Oval (crowd: 4,000) | [9] |
Saturday, 24 May (3:30 pm) | Port Adelaide 6.13 (6) | def. | Medindie 1.1 (1) | Alberton Oval (crowd: 500) | [10] |
Saturday, 24 May (3:30 pm) | South Adelaide 4.10 (4) | def. | Gawler 3.1 (3) | Kensington Oval | [11] |
After the match on Saturday while all the Gawler players were together in the train returning, enjoying themselves in a jovial manner, quite unconscious of their recent defeat, it was unanimously decided to still continue in the Association in spite of the bad treatment, and play the fixtures arranged. A good deal of dissatisfaction was expressed at the action of clubs trying to 'cadge' their players, and the climax was reached when a player selected, and who went down with the intention of helping the Gawlers, informed them that a club's supporters waited at the station with a cab, and securing him abducted him to their playing grounds, thus accounting for his non-appearance at Kensington. |
Round 5 | |||||
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Monday, 26 May (3.05pm) | South Adelaide 3.2 (3) | def. by | Port Adelaide 5.9 (5) | Adelaide Oval (crowd: 5,000) | [13] |
Monday, 26 May (10:40am) | Medindie 5.14 (5) | def. | Gawler 1.2 (1) | Adelaide Oval (crowd: 1000) | [14] |
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Saturday, 31 May (3:20pm) | Norwood 9.11 (9) | def. | Medindie 0.2 (0) | Adelaide Oval (crowd: 500) | [15] |
Saturday, 31 May | South Adelaide | def. | Gawler (forfeit) | Kensington Oval (crowd: Cancelled) | |
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Saturday, 7 June (3:10pm) | Norwood 5.6 (5) | def. | South Adelaide 1.2 (1) | Adelaide Oval (crowd: 3,000) | [18] |
Saturday, 7 June | Adelaide 4.5 (4) | def. | Medindie 3.6 (3) | Kensington Oval | [19] |
Saturday, 7 June (3:35pm) | Gawler 1.5 (1) | def. by | Port Adelaide 4.7 (4) | Gawler Oval (crowd: 500) | [20] |
Gawler vs Port Adelaide game started 35 mins late and as a consequence the last quarter was played in darkness |
Saturday, 14 June (3:25pm) | Adelaide 0.3 (0) | def. by | Port Adelaide 4.13 (4) | Adelaide Oval (crowd: 1,500) | [21] |
Saturday, 14 June | Gawler (Forfeit) | def. by | Norwood | Gawler Oval | |
A match was scheduled at Gawler Oval between Gawler and Norwood. But owing to fhe sloppy state of the ground the Gawlers forfeited. |
Friday, 20 June | Gawler 2.5 (2) | drew with | Adelaide 2.6 (2) | Gawler (crowd: 600) | [23] |
Saturday, 21 June (3:20pm) | Adelaide 2.2 (2) | drew with | South Adelaide 2.10 (2) | Kensington Oval (crowd: 600) | [24] |
Saturday, 21 June (3:30pm) | Port Adelaide 6.12 (6) | def. | Medindie 2.1 (2) | Alberton Oval (crowd: 400) | [25] |
Saturday, 21 June (3:25pm) | Norwood 7.13 (7) | def. | Gawler 4.2 (4) | Adelaide Oval | [26] |
Saturday, 28 June (3:20pm) | Norwood 10.13 (10) | def. | Adelaide 1.3 (1) | Kensington Oval | [27] |
Saturday, 28 June (3:20pm) | South Adelaide 2.4 (2) | def. by | Port Adelaide 6.14 (6) | Adelaide Oval (crowd: 3,000) | [28] |
On the weekends of 5 July and 12 July intercolonial matches were held and SAFA premiership matches suspended. [29]
Victoria vs. South Australia | |||||
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Saturday, 5 July (Time pm) | Victoria 13.8 (13) | def. | South Australia 6.5 (6) | Melbourne Cricket Ground (crowd: 16000) | [30] |
The Victorian uniform consisted of blue jersey with yellow sash, blue hose and caps, white knickerbockers. |
Medindie [33] vs Gawler at Kensington Oval – Game abandoned due to the weather and ground.
On Saturday 12 July 1890 the Gawlers journeyed to Kensington to fufil their engagement with the Medindie club. The weather was wretchedly bad, and after the Gawlers had 'stripped' and were in the field the Medindie captain refused to play, and appealed to the umpire, Mr. McIntyre, who acquiesced, and would not sanction the game owing to the bad state of the weather and the grounds, notwithstanding the fact that the Gawlers had a fully representative team on the field practising to keep themselves warm. When the result was made known to the Gawler players it was received with great dissention, and references were made to the Victorian Association, where engagements are kept whether playing in a lake or in a mud puddle. [34]
Saturday, 19 July (3:20pm) | Adelaide 0.5 (0) | def. by | Port Adelaide 11.12 (11) | Adelaide Oval | [35] |
Saturday, 19 July (3:30pm) | South Adelaide 4.11 (4) | def. | Medindie 1.5 (1) | Kensington Oval (crowd: 200) | [36] |
Saturday, 19 July (3:30pm) | Gawler 1.2 (1) | def. by | Norwood 9.10 (9) | Gawler (crowd: 350) | [37] |
Norwood vs Gawler was originally programmed for Adelaide Oval but was moved to Gawler by mutual consent. |
Saturday, 26 July | Norwood 6.7 (6) | def. | Port Adelaide 3.7 (3) | Kensington Oval (crowd: 8,500) | [38] |
Saturday, 26 July (3:15pm) | South Adelaide 5.7 (5) | def. | Adelaide 2.7 (2) | Adelaide Oval | [39] |
Saturday, 2 August | Norwood 5.7 (5) | def. by | South Adelaide 8.8 (8) | Kensington Oval (crowd: 3,000) | [40] |
Saturday, 2 August (3:25pm) | Medindie 1.1 (1) | def. by | Port Adelaide 20.15 (20) | Adelaide Oval | [41] |
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Saturday, 9 August | South Adelaide 4.9 (4) | def. by | Port Adelaide 9.13 (9) | Adelaide Oval (crowd: 3,000) | [42] |
Saturday, 9 August (3:30pm) | Norwood 16.13 (16) | def. | Adelaide 1.4 (1) | Kensington Oval | |
Saturday, 16 August (3:30pm) | Adelaide 3.3 (3) | def. by | Port Adelaide 13.8 (13) | Adelaide Oval | [43] |
Saturday, 16 August | Norwood 8.14 (8) | def. | Medindie 1.4 (1) | Kensington Oval | [44] |
Saturday, 16 August | Gawler 1.11 (1) | def. by | South Adelaide 6.13 (6) | Gawler | [45] |
Saturday, 23 August | Norwood 11.15 (11) | def. | South Adelaide 5.8 (5) | Kensington Oval (crowd: 2,000) | [46] |
Saturday, 23 August (3:30pm) | Adelaide 7.10 (7) | v | Medindie 5.10 (5) | Adelaide Oval | [47] |
Saturday, 23 August | Port Adelaide | def. | Gawler (Forfeit) | Alberton Oval | [48] |
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Saturday, 30 August | Port Adelaide 3.2 (3) | def. | Norwood 2.7 (2) | Adelaide Oval (crowd: 11,500) | [49] |
Saturday, 30 August (3:25pm) | South Adelaide 8.9 (8) | def. | Medindie 1.7 (1) | Kensington Oval (crowd: 25) | [50] |
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Monday, 1 September (10:30am) | Medindie 11.17 (11) | def. | Gawler 0.8 (0) | Adelaide Oval | [53] |
Monday, 1 September (3:15pm) | Adelaide 5.7 (5) | def. | South Adelaide 4.7 (4) | Adelaide Oval | [54] |
Monday 1 September was 8 Hour Day Public Holiday |
Saturday, 6 September | Adelaide 3.8 (3) | def. by | Norwood 4.8 (4) | Adelaide Oval (crowd: 1,000) | [55] |
Saturday, 6 September | Port Adelaide 8.13 (8) | def. | South Adelaide 2.9 (2) | Alberton Oval (crowd: 650) | [56] |
Saturday, 6 September | Gawler 0.3 (0) | drew with | Medindie 0.1 (0) | Gawler | [57] |
The game between Gawler and Medindie was abandoned at half-time due to torrential rain during the 2nd quarter when all but 3 of the Gawler players had left the field. When the shower passed over the bell was rung, but only the Gawlers and the umpire came on the ground. Shortly after the captain of the Medindies appeared and a dispute arose. The Medindies claimed a draw, as they said they had been ordered off the field. The umpire then tried to persuade them, but they still refused and said tha rules were in their favor. The ground certainly was wet, and there were pools of water about, but matches have been played when it was in a worse condition. A considerable amount of argument took place in the pavilion, but the Medindies would not give way, and subsequently left the ground amid the hooting of the spectators. Gawler's team, said that the umpire stated that the ground was fit to play on, and that the Gawlers were willing to continue the game, but that the Medindies refused. The Gawler team claims the game, and the matter will be laid before the association. This game at Gawler Oval was the last South Australian league level match at the venue as Gawler then withdrew from the competition before the start of 1891 season. |
Saturday, 13 September | Norwood 11.8 (11) | def. | South Adelaide 2.6 (2) | Adelaide Oval (crowd: 2,000) | [58] |
Saturday, 20 September | Adelaide 0.1 (0) | def. by | Port Adelaide 20.20 (20) | Adelaide Oval | [59] |
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TEAM | P | W | L | D | GF | BF | GA | BA | Pts | Adj Pts | |||||
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1 | Port Adelaide | 18 | 16 | 2 | 0 | 124 | 172 | 32 | 70 | 32 | 32.00 | ||||
2 | Norwood | 18 | 15 | 3 | 0 | 120 | 158 | 45 | 81 | 30 | 30.00 | ||||
3 | South Adelaide | 18 | 9 | 8 | 1 | 71 | 126 | 80 | 137 | 19 | 19.00 | ||||
4 | Adelaide | 17 | 5 | 10 | 2 | 48 | 105 | 113 | 142 | 12 | 12.71 | ||||
5 | Medindie | 15 | 2 | 12 | 1 | 39 | 76 | 89 | 141 | 5 | 6.00 | ||||
6 | Gawler | 14 | 0 | 12 | 2 | 13 | 40 | 56 | 106 | 2 | 2.57 | ||||
Key: P = Played, W = Won, L = Lost, D = Drawn, GF = Goals For, BF = Behinds For, Georgia = Goals Against, BA = Behinds Against, Pts = Points, Adj Pts = Points adjusted for match ratio, (P) = Premiers | [61] |
Notes: Medindie played each Club 3 times.
Gawler also played each Club 3 times (except Adelaide who they only played twice)
See Round 15 – Adelaide forfeited to Gawler. Match was to be played at Alberton Oval.
Gawler were programmed one home game and two away games against all the clubs.
All the other clubs played each other 4 times.
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