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Date | Saturday, 2 October | |||||||||||||||
Stadium | Adelaide Oval | |||||||||||||||
Attendance | 48,755 | |||||||||||||||
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The 1948 SANFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football competition. Norwood beat West Adelaide 106 to 49. [1]
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