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1929 SANFL season | |
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Teams | 8 |
Premiers | Norwood 18th premiership |
Minor premiers | Norwood 8th minor premiership |
Magarey Medallist | Robert Snell West Adelaide |
Ken Farmer Medallist | Les Dayman Port Adelaide (86 Goals) |
Matches played | 72 |
Highest | 35,504 (Grand Final, Norwood vs. Port Adelaide) |
The 1929 South Australian National Football League season was the 50th season of the top-level Australian rules football competition in South Australia.
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TEAM | P | W | L | D | PF | PA | % | PTS | ||||
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1 | Norwood (P) | 17 | 13 | 3 | 1 | 1521 | 1160 | 56.73 | 27 | |||
2 | Port Adelaide | 17 | 13 | 4 | 0 | 1568 | 1004 | 60.96 | 26 | |||
3 | West Adelaide | 17 | 10 | 7 | 0 | 1313 | 1282 | 50.60 | 20 | |||
4 | West Torrens | 17 | 9 | 8 | 0 | 1352 | 1276 | 51.45 | 18 | |||
5 | North Adelaide | 17 | 8 | 8 | 1 | 1328 | 1367 | 49.28 | 17 | |||
6 | Sturt | 17 | 6 | 11 | 0 | 1238 | 1435 | 46.32 | 12 | |||
7 | Glenelg | 17 | 5 | 12 | 0 | 1275 | 1572 | 44.78 | 10 | |||
8 | South Adelaide | 17 | 3 | 14 | 0 | 1257 | 1756 | 41.72 | 6 | |||
Key: P = Played, W = Won, L = Lost, D = Drawn, PF = Points For, PA = Points Against, (P) = Premiers | [1] |
1929 SANFL Grand Final | |||||
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Saturday, 5 October | Norwood | def. | Port Adelaide | Adelaide Oval (crowd: 35,504) | |
4.5 (29) 7.9 (51) 9.11 (65) 16.14 (110) | Q1 Q2 Q3 Final | 2.2 (14) 2.7 (19) 6.9 (45) 10.9 (69) | |||
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