1922 SAFL season

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1922 SAFL premiership season
Norwood Football Club premiership team 1922.png
42nd SAFL season
Pictured above is the 1922 Norwood premiership team.
Teams8
Premiers Norwood
15th premiership
Minor premiers Norwood
5th minor premiership
Magarey Medallist Robert Barnes
West Adelaide (8 Votes)
Leading goalkicker Tom Hart
Norwood (50 Goals)
Matches played59
Highest31,000 (Grand Final, Norwood vs. West Adelaide)
  1921
1923  

The 1922 South Australian Football League season was the 43rd season of the top-level Australian rules football competition in South Australia.

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Ladder

1922 SAFL Ladder
TEAMPWLDPFPA %PTS
1 Norwood (P)141220125471763.6224
2 West Torrens 14103196485752.9421
3 South Adelaide 1486098388152.7416
4 West Adelaide 1477091885751.7214
5 Port Adelaide 1477092691350.3514
6 North Adelaide 1468088898847.3312
7 Sturt 1458193593150.1111
8 Glenelg 140140633135731.810
Key: P = Played, W = Won, L = Lost, D = Drawn, PF = Points For, PA = Points Against, (P) = Premiers [1]

Finals series

Grand Final

1922 SAFL Grand Final
Saturday, 30 September Norwood def. West Adelaide Adelaide Oval (crowd: 31,000)
2.0 (12)
4.5 (29)
4.6 (30)
 9.7 (61)
Q1
Q2
Q3
 Final
0.4 (4)
0.8 (8)
2.14 (26)
 2.16 (28)

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References

  1. "Australian Football – SAFL Season 1922". Archived from the original on 5 January 2015. Retrieved 5 January 2015.