The South Australian National Football League, or SANFL, is an Australian rules football league based in the Australian state of South Australia. It is also the state's governing body for the sport.
Woodville-West Torrens Football Club is an Australian rules football club playing in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL). The club was formed in 1990 from a merger of the neighbouring Woodville and West Torrens football clubs and played its inaugural game in 1991. Since 1993, the Eagles have played most of their home games at Woodville's home ground of Woodville Oval, having previously used Football Park.
West Torrens Football Club was an Australian rules football club that competed in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL) from 1897 to 1990. In 1991, the club merged with neighbouring Woodville Football Club to form the Woodville-West Torrens Eagles.
Sampson Hosking was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Port Adelaide Football Club in the South Australian Football League (SAFL). He was twice a recipient of the Magarey Medal, an individual award given in recognition of being the best and fairest player in the SAFL. After his playing career Hosking was also an accomplished football coach successfully leading Port Adelaide and the West Torrens Football Club to a combined six premierships. In 1929 he was described in the Register as "one of the most prominent figures in the game during the past 20 years. Combining exceptional pace with a football brain of rare fertility".
Thomas Joseph Leahy was an Australian rules footballer who played 111 games with North Adelaide and 58 games with West Adelaide in the SAFL.
Stewart Drummond "Nip" Geddes was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Melbourne Football Club and St Kilda Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
The East Torrens Football Association (ETFA) was an Australian rules football competition based in the eastern and north-eastern suburbs of Adelaide, South Australia until it merged with the North Adelaide District Football Association to form the Norwood-North Football Association at the end of the 1968 season. It was formed in 1916 for the purpose of “fostering junior football in the Norwood district."
William Harold Oliver was an Australian rules footballer. Harold Oliver was a key player to some of South Australian football's most successful teams. He starred in South Australia's victorious 1911 Australian football championship along with Port Adelaide's 1914 "Invincibles" team. After being close to retiring from the game after World War I, he returned to captain both Port Adelaide to the 1921 SAFL premiership and South Australia in a game against Western Australia. His reputation as an early exponent of the spectacular mark—along with his general skill at playing the game—saw him regarded as one of the best players South Australia has produced.
The 1914 South Australian Football League season was the 38th season of the top-level Australian rules football competition in South Australia.
The 1924 South Australian Football League season was the 45th season of the top-level Australian rules football competition in South Australia.
The 1945 SANFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Port Adelaide Football Club and the West Torrens Football Club, held at Adelaide Oval in Adelaide on 29 September 1945. It was the 47th Grand Final of the South Australian National Football League, staged to determine the premiers for the 1945 SANFL season. The match, attended by 47,500 spectators, was won by West Torrens by a margin of 13 points, marking that club's third premiership victory. The game is also remembered for being the final game of Haydn Bunton Sr's career.
The 1921 SAFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Norwood Football Club and the Port Adelaide Football Club, held at the Adelaide Oval in Adelaide on 8 October 1921. It was the 23rd annual Grand Final of the South Australian Football League, staged to determine the premiers for the 1921 SAFL season. The match, attended by 34,000 spectators, was won by Port Adelaide by a margin of 8 points, marking the club's ninth premiership victory.
The 1907 SAFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Norwood Football Club and the Port Adelaide Football Club, held at the Adelaide Oval in Adelaide on the 21 September 1907. It was the 12th annual Grand Final of the South Australian Football League, staged to determine the premiers for the 1907 SAFL season. The match, attended by 25,000 spectators, was won by Norwood by a margin of 28 points, marking the clubs fourteenth premiership victory.
The 1922 SAFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Norwood Football Club and the West Adelaide Football Club, held at the Adelaide Oval in Adelaide on the 30 September 1922. It was the 24th annual Grand Final of the South Australian Football League, staged to determine the premiers for the 1922 SAFL season. The match, attended by 31,000 spectators, was won by Norwood by a margin of 33 points, marking the clubs fifteenth premiership victory.
The 1923 SAFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Norwood Football Club and the North Adelaide Football Club, held at the Adelaide Oval in Adelaide on the 29 September 1922.
The 1925 SAFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Norwood Football Club and the West Torrens Football Club, held at the Adelaide Oval in Adelaide on the 26 September 1925.
The 1926 SAFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Sturt Football Club and the North Adelaide Football Club, held at the Adelaide Oval in Adelaide on the 26 October 1926.
The South Australian Patriotic Football League or Patriotic League was a short lived Australian rules football wartime competition formed during World War I in South Australia to fill the void left by the South Australian Football League (SAFL) which elected to go into recess at the time. Games held were used to raise funds for the war effort. The SAFL was opposed to the formation of the Patriotic League and refused to recognise it during and after World War I.
The 1917 SAPFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Port Adelaide Football Club and the West Torrens Football Club, held at Alberton Oval on Saturday 1 September 1917. It was the 2nd Grand Final of the South Australian Patriotic Football League, staged to determine the premiers of the 1917 SAPFL season. The match was won by Port Adelaide by a margin of 16 points, marking that clubs second patriotic premiership victory.
The 1918 SAPFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the West Torrens Football Club and the West Adelaide Football Club, held at Jubilee Oval on Saturday 9 October 1918. It was the 3rd Grand Final of the South Australian Patriotic Football League, staged to determine the premiers of the 1918 SAPFL season. The match was won by West Torrens by a margin of 14 points, marking that clubs first patriotic premiership victory.
