1915 SAFL season

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1915 SAFL premiership season
Sturt 1915 Premiers.jpg
38th SAFL season
Pictured above is the 1915 Sturt premiership team.
Teams7
Premiers Sturt
1st premiership
Minor premiers Port Adelaide
12th minor premiership
Magarey Medallist Frank Barry
South Adelaide
Charlie Perry
Norwood
Sampson Hosking
Port Adelaide
Leading goalkickerF Fitzgerald
West Adelaide (31 goals)
Matches played45
Highest13,000 (Grand Final, Sturt vs. Port Adelaide)

The 1915 South Australian Football League season was the 39th season of the top-level Australian rules football competition in South Australia.

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This was the last season of the SAFL as the competition was suspended due to the escalation of World War I. The competition would resume again in 1919.

Ladder

1915 SAFL Ladder
TEAMPWLDPFPA %PTS
1 Port Adelaide 1292179245363.6119
2 South Adelaide 1283160254752.3917
3 West Adelaide 1266057855650.9712
4 Sturt (P)1266063867148.7412
5 West Torrens 1257056468645.1210
6 North Adelaide 1248058461848.598
7 Norwood 1239047470140.346
Key: P = Played, W = Won, L = Lost, D = Drawn, PF = Points For, PA = Points Against, (P) = Premiers [1]

1915 SAFL Finals

Grand Final

1915 SAFL Grand Final
Saturday, 25 September Sturt def. Port Adelaide Adelaide Oval (crowd: 13,000)
2.1 (13)
3.5 (23)
6.7 (43)
 6.10 (46)
Q1
Q2
Q3
 Final
3.1 (19)
3.4 (22)
4.5 (29)
 4.10 (34)

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References

  1. "Australian Football – SANFL Season 1915". Archived from the original on 4 January 2015. Retrieved 4 January 2015.