1903 SAFA season

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1903 SAFA premiership season
Port adelaide fc team 1903.jpg
27th season
Pictured above is the 1903 Port Adelaide
premiership team.
Teams7
Premiers Port Adelaide
(4th premiership)
Minor premiers Port Adelaide
(3rd minor premiership)
Matches played46
Highest attendance14,000 (Grand Final, Port Adelaide vs. North Adelaide)
Leading goalkickerAnthony Daly
North Adelaide (54 Goals)
Magarey Medallist Hendrick Waye
Sturt
  1902
1904  

The 1903 South Australian Football Association season was the 27th season of the top-level Australian rules football competition in South Australia.

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Ladder

1903 SAFA Ladder
TEAMPWLDPFPA %PTS
1 Port Adelaide (P)12101180132371.2621
2 North Adelaide 12102085842866.7220
3 Norwood 1284057338260.0016
4 South Adelaide 1246252152749.7110
5 West Torrens 1239042169637.696
6 West Adelaide 1239035090527.896
7 Sturt 1229132058335.445
Key: P = Played, W = Won, L = Lost, D = Drawn, PF = Points For, PA = Points Against, (P) = Premiers [1]

Finals Series

Grand Final

 
Port Adelaide 6.6 (42)vs. South Adelaide 5.5 (35) Adelaide Oval (crowd: 14,000)

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References

  1. "FOOTBALL". The Register . Adelaide: National Library of Australia. 14 September 1903. p. 7. Retrieved 2 January 2015.