1877 SAFA premiership season
South Adelaide premiership team
Teams8
PremiersSouth Adelaide
Victorian
1st premiership
Leading goalkickerWilliam Dedman
South Adelaide (10 goals)
Matches played52 (61 scheduled)
Highest650 (Round 7, Adelaide vs. South Adelaide)
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The 1877 South Australian Football Association season was the inaugural season of the top-level league of Australian rules football in South Australia. The clubs participating were South Adelaide, Victorian, Adelaide, Port Adelaide, Woodville, South Park, Kensington and Bankers.[1]

South Adelaide and Victorian would share the premiership honours, while the Bankers Football Club, who finished last without a win, folded at the end of the season.[2]

South Australian Football Association

The newly formed South Australian Football Association decided that the playing fields for the season must be between 180 and 200 yards (165-183m) long and 120-150 yards (110-137m) wide, with pushing from behind being prohibited. For clubs to gain membership of the association, they would need to pay two guineas for the year.[3]

Premiership Season

Round 1

Round 1
Saturday, 12 May (2:45 pm) Adelaide 4 def. Bankers 1 Adelaide Oval [4]
Saturday, 12 May (3:30 pm) Kensington 0 def. by Port Adelaide 3 Kensington Oval [4]
  • The game between Adelaide and Bankers was scheduled for May 5 but was postponed due to the weather.[5]

Round 2

Round 2
Saturday, 19 May (3:15 pm) Adelaide 3 def. Port Adelaide 2 Adelaide Oval (crowd: 250) [6]
Saturday, 19 May South Park 1 def. Bankers 0 South Park Lands [6]

Round 3

Round 3
Saturday, 26 May (3:15 pm) Adelaide 1 def. Woodville 0 Adelaide Oval [7]
Saturday, 26 May (3:00 pm) Kensington 1 def. South Park 0 Kensington Oval [7]
Saturday, 26 May Victorian 1 def. Port Adelaide 0 Montefiore Hill [7]

Round 4

Round 4
Saturday, 2 June Kensington 0 def. by South Adelaide 2 Kensington Oval [8]
Saturday, 2 June (3:00 pm) Woodville 0 def. by Victorian 3 Woodville [8]
Saturday, 2 June Adelaide 2 def. South Park 0 Adelaide Oval [8]
Saturday, 2 June Port Adelaide 3 def. Bankers 0 Glanville [8]

Round 5

Round 5
Saturday, 9 June (3:15 pm) Kensington 0 drew with Adelaide 0 Kensington Oval [9]
Saturday, 9 June (3:45 pm) Woodville 0 def. by South Adelaide 1 * Woodville [10]
Saturday, 9 June Victorian 2 def. South Park 0 Montefiore Hill [9]
  • This result was originally reported as a 0-0 draw due to a goal umpire not allowing a goal scored by a South Adelaide player running on after taking a mark.

Round 6

Round 6
Saturday, 16 June Adelaide 1 drew with Victorian 1 Adelaide Oval [11]
Saturday, 16 June South Park 0 def. by Woodville 2 South Park Lands [11]
Saturday, 16 June (3:15 pm) Port Adelaide 4 def. Kensington 0 Glanville [11]
  • The game between Bankers and South Adelaide scheduled for June 16 was awarded to South Adelaide on forfeit as only 13 Bankers players appeared.[11]

Round 7

Round 7
Saturday, 23 June (3:00 pm) Adelaide 0 def. by South Adelaide 1 Adelaide Oval (crowd: 650) [12]
Saturday, 23 June (3:15 pm) Port Adelaide 1 drew with Woodville 1 Glanville [13]
Saturday, 23 June Victorian 7 def. Bankers 0 Montefiore Hill [13]
Saturday, 23 June (3:00 pm) South Park 2 def. Kensington 0 South Park Lands [12]

Round 8

Round 8
Saturday, 30 June South Adelaide 0 drew with Victorian 0 South Park Lands (crowd: 650) [14]
Saturday, 30 June (3:00 pm) Port Adelaide 1 def. South Park 0 Glanville [14]

Round 9

Round 9
Saturday, 7 July (3:15 pm) Adelaide 9 def. Bankers 0 Adelaide Oval [15]
Saturday, 7 July (3:15 pm) South Adelaide 0 drew with Woodville 0 South Park Lands [15]
Saturday, 7 July (3:15 pm) Victorian 3 def. Kensington 0 Montefiore Hill [15]

Round 10

Round 10
Saturday, 14 July (3:00 pm) Woodville 1 def. by South Park 2 Woodville [16]
Saturday, 14 July (3:15 pm) Port Adelaide 1 drew with Adelaide 1 Glanville [17]
Saturday, 14 July (Time pm) Bankers 1 def. by Kensington 4 Adelaide Oval [17]

Round 11

Round 11
Saturday, 21 July (3:15 pm) South Adelaide 3 def. Port Adelaide 0 South Park Lands [18]
Saturday, 21 July Kensington 3 def. by Woodville 8 Kensington Oval [18]
Saturday, 21 July (3:15 pm) Adelaide 2 def. South Park 1 Adelaide Oval [18]
Saturday, 21 July (3:00 pm) Victorian 5 def. Bankers 1 Montefiore Hill [18]

Round 12

Round 12
Saturday, 28 July (3:30 pm) Adelaide 2 def. Woodville 0 Adelaide Oval (crowd: 500) [19]
Saturday, 28 July (3:10 pm) Port Adelaide 2 def. Victorian 1 Glanville [20]
Saturday, 28 July (3:30 pm) South Adelaide 7 def. Kensington 0 South Park Lands [20]
Saturday, 28 July (3:00 pm) South Park 3 def. Bankers 0 South Park Lands [21]
  • The game against South Park would be the Bankers last game as a club.

Round 13

Round 13
Saturday, 4 August (3:00 pm) Victorian 2 def. Adelaide 0 Montefiore Hill [22]
Saturday, 4 August (3:20 pm) Port Adelaide 0 def. by South Adelaide 1 Glanville (crowd: 500) [22]
Saturday, 4 August South Park 1 drew with Kensington 1 South Park Lands [23]

Round 14

Round 14
Saturday, 11 August (3:00 pm) Woodville 0 def. by South Park 5 Woodville
Saturday, 11 August (3:00 pm) Adelaide 6 def. Kensington 2 Adelaide Oval [24]
  • A game scheduled between Port Adelaide and the Bankers at Montefiore Hill was awarded to Port Adelaide on forfeit:
    Port had a full team on the field when the Bankers' captain informed them and the umpire that the Bankers were unable to field a team.[24]
  • Teams were affected due to their star players involvement in a combined SAFA team (with players picked from Victorian, Woodville, South Park and Port Adelaide Clubs) vs. Melbourne game being played at the Exhibition Grounds simultaneously: Melbourne defeated the combined team by five goals to nil.

Round 15

Round 15
Saturday, 25 August (3:15 pm) Victorian 2 v Woodville 0 Montefiore Hill
Saturday, 25 August South Park 0 def. by South Adelaide 4 South Park Lands [25]

Round 16

Round 16
Saturday, 1 September (3:15 pm) South Adelaide 2 def. Adelaide 0 South Park Lands (crowd: 400) [26]
Saturday, 1 September Port Adelaide 2 def. South Park 1 Glanville [27]
Saturday, 1 September Woodville 3 def. Kensington 0 Woodville [27]

Round 17

Round 17
Saturday, 8 September South Adelaide 1 def. South Park 0 South Park Lands (crowd: 500) [28]
Saturday, 8 September (3:45 pm) Kensington 1 v Victorian 2 Kensington Oval [28]

Round 18

Round 18
Saturday, 15 September South Park 0 drew with Victorian 0 South Park Lands [29]
  • Victorian claimed they had won the game, but a South Park protest was upheld and the game's single goal was annulled. The match was noted as the roughest of the season.
  • A game was scheduled for September 15 between Port Adelaide and Woodville at Woodville was awarded to Port Adelaide as Woodville forfeited due to a lack of players (their principal players being involved in a practice cricket match at Norwood).[29]

Round 19

Round 19
Saturday, 29 September (3:30 pm) South Park 1 def. by Port Adelaide 3 South Park Lands [30]


Saturday, 29 September (3:15 pm) Victorian 1 def. South Adelaide 0 Montefiore Hill [31]


Summary of other matches

Adelaide, 4 goals, beat Kapunda, 2.
Woodville, 1 goal, beat Gawler, 0.
Adelaide, 1 goal, tied Gawler, 1.
Adelaide, 3 goals, beat Kapunda, 2.
Melbourne, 1 goal, beat Victorian, 0.
Melbourne, 5 goals, beat Combined Team, 0.
South Australians, 3 goals, beat Victorians, 1.
St. Kilda, 5 goals, beat Adelaide, 2.
St. Kilda. 7 goals, beat South Australians, 2.

Ladder

Victorian finished the season with eight more goals but a slightly inferior record than South Adelaide, but one should consider that Victorian played the Bankers twice whereas South Adelaide did not (their only scheduled match, in Round 6, was a forfeit when the Bankers could only muster 13 players). Further, while Adelaide finished with one more win than the other two clubs, they played 17 games to 13 and 14 respectively.

It was declared South Adelaide and Victorian would be deemed joint Champion Club (premiers).[30]

1877 SAFA Ladder
TEAM P W L D PF PA PTS Adj Pts
1 South Adelaide (P) 13 10 1 2 22 1 22 28.77
1 Victorian (P) 14 10 1 3 30 5 23 27.93
3 Adelaide 17 11 3 3 31 13 25 25.00
4 Port Adelaide 15 9 4 2 23 13 20 22.67
5 Woodville 16 5 9 2 14 18 12 12.75
6 South Park 17 5 10 2 16 23 12 12.00
7 Kensington 15 3 10 2 12 43 8 9.07
8 Bankers 15 0 15 0 4 36 0 0.00
Key: P = Played, W = Won, L = Lost, D = Drawn, PF = Points For, PA = Points Against, Adj Pts = Points adjusted for match ratio, (P) = Premiers [30]

Note: Woodville were ranked above South Park on head-to-head record (2-1).

Membership

Club Membership
Port Adelaide 85
South Adelaide 85
Victorian 76
Kensington 65
South Park 56
Adelaide 50
Woodville
Bankers

See also

References

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