1891 SAFA season

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1891 SAFA premiership season
Premiers Norwood
10th premiership
Leading goalkickerCharles Woods
Norwood (55 goals)
Matches played40
Highest13,000 (Round 9, Norwood v. Port Adelaide)
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The 1891 South Australian Football Association season was the 15th season of the top-level Australian rules football competition in South Australia.

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The 1891 SAFA season marked the height of interest in South Australian football attendance wise during the 19th century with average attendances not being surpassed until the following century.

The competition was reduced to five clubs when before the season commenced the Gawler Football Association notified that it had no intention of joining for the season i.e. it was withdrawing the Senior Club from the SAFA. It continued its own local junior competition with three local teams, the predecessor of the current Barossa Light and Gawler Football Association.

Premiership Matches

Round 1

 
Saturday, 2 May (3:15pm) Norwood 5.13 (5)def. South Adelaide 2.7 (2) Kensington Oval [1]
Saturday, 2 May (3:10pm) Port Adelaide 7.12 (7)def. Medindie 1.4 (1) Adelaide Oval [2]
Bye
Adelaide

Round 2

 
Saturday, 9 May Port Adelaide 2.7 (2)def. by South Adelaide 3.7 (3) Alberton Oval (crowd: 2,000) [3]
Saturday, 9 May Norwood 14.14 (14)def. Adelaide 0.0 (0) Adelaide Oval (crowd: 600) [4]
Bye
Medindie

Round 3

 
Saturday, 16 May Norwood 4.5 (4)def. by Port Adelaide 6.4 (6) Kensington (crowd: 5,000) [5]
Saturday, 16 May (3:10pm) Medindie 3.6 (3)def. Adelaide 2.8 (2) Adelaide Oval [6]
Bye
South Adelaide

Round 4

 
Saturday, 23 May South Adelaide 6.11 (6)def. Medindie 1.3 (1) Adelaide Oval [7]
Saturday, 23 May Port Adelaide 5.12 (5)def. Adelaide 2.2 (2) Alberton Oval [8]
Bye
Norwood

Round 5

 
Monday, 25 May (3:15pm) South Adelaide 9.12 (9)def. Adelaide 2.0 (2) Adelaide Oval (crowd: 1,500) [9]
Bye
Norwood, Port Adelaide, Medindie

Round 6

 
Saturday, 30 May (3:15pm) South Adelaide 3.15 (3)def. Port Adelaide 1.5 (1) Adelaide Oval [10]
Saturday, 30 May Medindie 3.5 (3)def. Adelaide 1.6 (1) Kensington Oval [11]
Bye
Norwood

Round 7

 
Saturday, 6 June (3:15pm) Adelaide 1.0 (1)def. by Port Adelaide 12.19 (12) Adelaide Oval [12]
Saturday, 6 June Norwood 7.9 (7)def. Medindie 3.5 (3) Kensington Oval [13]
Bye
South Adelaide

South Australia vs. Victoria

 
Saturday, 13 June South Australia 5.9 (5)def. by Victoria 7.8 (7) Adelaide Oval (crowd: 7,500) [14] [15]

Round 8

 
Saturday, 20 June South Adelaide 10.10 (10)def. Medindie 2.0 (2) Adelaide Oval
Saturday, 20 June Norwood 13.16 (13)def. Adelaide 5.2 (5) Kensington Oval (crowd: 200)
Bye
Port Adelaide

Round 9

 
Monday, 21 June Norwood 6.11 (6)def. Port Adelaide 5.6 (5) Adelaide Oval (crowd: 13,000) [16]
Monday, 21 June South Adelaide 14.22 (14)def. Adelaide 1.3 (1) Adelaide Oval [17]
Bye
Medindie

Round 10

 
Saturday, 27 June (3:11pm) Norwood 10.6 (10)def. South Adelaide 6.3 (6) Adelaide Oval (crowd: 8,500) [18]
Saturday, 27 June Port Adelaide 7.11 (7)def. Medindie 4.5 (4) Alberton Oval [19]
Bye
Adelaide

Round 11

 
Saturday, 4 July (3:10pm) South Adelaide 2.4 (2)def. by Port Adelaide 6.9 (6) Adelaide Oval (crowd: 3,500) [20]
Saturday, 4 July Norwood 8.20 (8)def. Medindie 1.5 (1) Kensington Oval [21]
Bye
Adelaide

Ladder

1891 SAFA Ladder
TEAMPWLDGFBFGABAPts
1 Norwood 161330125173497426
2 Port Adelaide 161240122154397424
3 South Adelaide 16115096159527922
4 Medindie 16412037601081458
5 Adelaide 16016027391592130
Key: P = Played, W = Won, L = Lost, D = Drawn, GF = Goals For, BF = Behinds For, Georgia = Goals Against, BA = Behinds Against, (P) = Premiers [22]

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