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Date | Saturday, 28 September (2:10 pm) | |||||||||||||||
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Attendance | 57,811 | |||||||||||||||
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The 1968 SANFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football competition. Sturt beat Port Adelaide by 90 to 63. [1]
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1968 SANFL Grand Final [2] | |||||
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Saturday, 28 September | Sturt | def. | Port Adelaide | Adelaide Oval (crowd: 57,871) | |
3.3 (21) 5.11 (41) 10.13 (73) 12.18 (90) | Q1 Q2 Q3 Final | 3.4 (22) 4.4 (28) 6.6 (42) 9.9 (63) | |||
Endersbee — 4 Miels, Schoff, Tilbrook — 2 Chessell, Clarkson — 1 | Goals | Freeman — 2 Leal, Nyland, Haslam, Philp, Spiers, Potter, P. Obst — 1 | |||
Bagshaw, Murphy, Schoff, Clarkson, Endersbee | Best | Elleway, Nyland, T. Obst, Thiele, P. Obst, Potter | |||
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