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Date | Saturday, 4 October | |||||||||||||||
Stadium | Adelaide Oval | |||||||||||||||
Attendance | 32,631 | |||||||||||||||
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The 1947 SANFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football competition. West Adelaide beat Norwood 75 to 45. [1]
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