1914 SAFL Grand Final | ||||||||||||||||
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Date | Saturday, 19 September | |||||||||||||||
Stadium | Adelaide Oval | |||||||||||||||
Attendance | 11,000 | |||||||||||||||
Umpires | O'Connor [1] | |||||||||||||||
Accolades | ||||||||||||||||
Best on Ground | Stanley Seccombe (Adelaide Journal) [2] | |||||||||||||||
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The 1914 SAFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football competition. Port Adelaide beat North Adelaide by a margin of 79 points (93 to 14). [3]
Teams were announced the morning of the match. [4]
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Saturday, 19 September | Port Adelaide | def. | North Adelaide | Adelaide Oval (crowd: 11,000) | Report |
2.1 (13) 5.7 (37) 7.8 (50) 13.15 (93) | Q1 Q2 Q3 Final | 0.3 (3) 0.4 (4) 0.8 (8) 1.8 (14) | |||
Congear 4 Chaplin 3 Drummond, Andersen 2 Dunn, McFarlane 1 | Goals | 1 Thomas | |||
Congear, Chaplin, Watson, Magor, Drummond, Andersen, Londrigan, Boon, Pope, Oliver, Robertson | Best | Secombe, Klose, Lewis, O'Brien, Pratten, Thomas, Wainwright, Russell, Trescowthick, Murch | |||
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