1917 SAPFL season

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1917 Patriotic season
Premiers Port Adelaide
(2nd premiership)
  1916
1918  

The 1917 SAPFL season was the 2nd season of the South Australian Patriotic Football League, a competition formed in the absence of the South Australian Football League during World War I. The SAFL was opposed to the formation of the Patriotic League and refused to recognise it during and after World War I. [1]

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References

  1. "South Australian football in wartime". australianfootball.com. Retrieved 28 September 2019.