1877 SAFA season

1877 SAFA premiership season
Teams	8
Premiers	South Adelaide Victorian (1st premiership)
Matches played	52
Highest attendance	650 (Round 7, Adelaide vs. South Adelaide)
Leading goalkicker	John Young Adelaide (14 Goals)
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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, Victoria, Adelaide, Port Adelaide, Woodville, South Park, Kensington and Bankers.^[1]

South Adelaide and Victorian would share the premiership honours after tying at the years end. The Bankers Football Club would finish the season last and would cease to exist at years end.^[2]

South Australian Football Association

The newly formed South Australian Football Association decided that the playing fields for the season must be between 180-200 yards (165-183m) long and 120-150 yards (110-137m) wide and that pushing from behind be prohibited. For clubs to gain membership of the association would cost them 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 0	Woodville	[10]
Saturday, 9 June	Victorian 2	def.	South Park 0	Montefiore Hill	[9]

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]
A game between Bankers and South Adelaide was scheduled for June 16 but Bankers forfeited with only 13 players.[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 cancelled when the Bankers forfeited.[24] Teams were affected due to the SAFA vs. Melbourne game being played at the Exhibition Grounds simultaneously.

Round 15

	Round 15
Saturday, 25 August (3:15 pm)	Victorian 2	vs.	Woodville 0	Montefiore Hill	[25]
Saturday, 25 August	South Park 0	def. by	South Adelaide 4	South Park Lands	[26]

Round 16

	Round 16
Saturday, 1 September (3:15 pm)	South Adelaide 2	def.	Adelaide 0	South Park Lands (crowd: 400)	[27]
Saturday, 1 September	Port Adelaide 2	def.	South Park 1	Glanville	[28]
Saturday, 1 September	Woodville 3	def.	Kensington 0	Woodville	[28]

Round 17

	Round 17
Saturday, 8 September	South Adelaide 1	def.	South Park 0	South Park Lands (crowd: 500)	[29]
Saturday, 8 September (3:45 pm)	Kensington 1	vs.	Victorian 2	Kensington Oval	[29]

Round 18

	Round 18
Saturday, 15 September	South Park 0	drew with	Victorian 0	South Park Lands	[30]
Victorian claimed to win the game but South Park protested that the games single goal be disallowed. The match was noted as the roughest of the season. A game was scheduled for September 15 between Port Adelaide and Woodville but it fell through due to the latter forfeiting.[30]

Round 19

	Round 19
Saturday, 29 September (3:30 pm)	South Park 1	def. by	Port Adelaide 3	South Park Lands	[31]
Saturday, 29 September (3:15 pm)	Victorian 1	def.	South Adelaide 0	Montefiore Hill	[31]

Ladder

Despite finishing the season with more goals and an extra draw it was decided that Victorian would share the premiership with South Adelaide, especially considering the prior played the Bankers twice while the latter never did.^[32]

1877 SAFA Ladder
	TEAM	P	W	L	D	PF	PA	PTS
1	South Adelaide (P)	12	10	1	2	23	1	22
1	Victorian (P)	14	10*	1	3	31	5	23
3	Adelaide	14	10	3	3	31	13	23
4	Port Adelaide	13	9	4	2	23	13	20
5	Woodville	12	5	9	2	14	18	12
6	South Park	17	5	10	2	16	20	12
7	Kensington	14	3	10	2	12	36	8
8	Bankers	9	0	15	0	4	31	0
Key: P = Played, W = Won, L = Lost, D = Drawn, PF = Points For, PA = Points Against, (P) = Premiers								[31]

Membership

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

References

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