1921 SAFL season

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1921 SAFL premiership season
Port Adelaide 1921.jpg
41st SAFL season
Teams8
Premiers Port Adelaide
9th premiership
Minor premiers Port Adelaide
13th minor premiership
Magarey Medallist John Karney
West Torrens (5 votes)
Charlie Adams
Port Adelaide (5 votes)
Dan Moriarty
South Adelaide (5 votes)
Wat Scott
Norwood (5 votes)
Leading goalkickerRoy Bent
Norwood (42 goals)
Matches played61
Highest34,000 (Grand Final, Port Adelaide vs Norwood)
  1920
1922  

The 1921 South Australian Football League season was the 42nd season of the top-level Australian rules football competition in South Australia.

Contents

The competition expanded from seven to eight teams with Glenelg being admitted to the seniors after one year in the B Grade (Reserves). [1]

The season opened on Saturday 7 May with the opening fixture between West Adelaide and Glenelg, and concluded on Saturday 8 October with the Grand Final, in which Minor Premiers Port Adelaide went on to record its 9th premiership, defeating Norwood by 8 points.

South Adelaide, Sturt also made the top (final) four teams and participated in the finals series. North Adelaide, West Torrens, West Adelaide, Glenelg all missed the top four. Glenelg finished winless (as they also did in next three seasons 1922–1924) to "win" the wooden spoon in its first season. [2]

Ladder

1921 Ladder
PosTeamPldWLDPFPAPPPts
1 Port Adelaide (P)141220125769164.5324
2 South Adelaide 14950104087954.1918
3 Norwood 1495097689852.0818
4 Sturt 1486092683852.4916
5 North Adelaide 1476184984050.2715
6 West Torrens 1477097792051.5014
7 West Adelaide 14310178193645.497
8 Glenelg 140140603140730.000
Source:
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) percentage; 3) number of points for.
(P) Premiers

1921 SAFL Finals

Week 4 (1921 SAFL Grand Final)

1921 SAFL Grand Final
Saturday, 8 October Port Adelaide def. Norwood Adelaide Oval (crowd: 34,000) [3]
3.1 (19)
4.3 (27)
4.6 (30)
4.8 (32)
Q1
Q2
Q3
Final
0.4 (4)
1.5 (11)
2.6 (18)
3.6 (24)
Best on Ground: Bampton
Keal 2
Dewar, Congear 1
Goals3 Bent
Bampton, Oliver, Beck, Congear, Dayman, Keal, Hosking, Adams, SladeBestDobson, Johns, Bryant, White, Toovey, Stephens, Schumacher, Scott, Grantley

References

  1. "Glenelg Football Club". Glenelg Guardian (Sa : 1914 – 1936). 24 February 1921. p. 1.
  2. "Glenelg".
  3. "LEAGUE PREMIERSHIP". The Chronicle . Adelaide. 15 October 1921. p. 18. Retrieved 28 December 2014 via National Library of Australia.