1889 SAFA Grand Final

1889 SAFA Grand Final

Norwood

Port Adelaide
7.4 (7) 5.9 (5)
1 2 3 4
NOR 3.1 (3) 4.1 (4) 5.3 (5) 7.4 (7)
PTA 3.1 (3) 3.3 (3) 4.7 (4) 5.9 (5)
Date Saturday 5 October (2:45 pm)
Stadium Adelaide Oval
Attendance 7,227 ticketed
11,000 estimate
Umpires Field umpire: Mr. J. Trait
Goal umpires: Messrs. I.A. Fisher and J. McKenzie
Coin toss won by Norwood
Kicked toward Scoreboard End
1894 

The 1889 SAFA Grand Final was the concluding championship match of the 1889 SAFA season. The game resulted in a victory for Norwood who beat Port Adelaide by two goals.[1]

This match was the first Grand Final in a major Australian rules football league.

1889 SAFA Ladder

1889 SAFA Ladder
TEAM P W L D GF BF GA BA Pts
1 Norwood (P) 17 14 2 1 102 165 30 75 29
1 Port Adelaide 17 14 2 1 127 177 33 63 29
3 Adelaide 17 8 9 0 57 95 78 161 16
4 Gawler 11 4 7 0 21 65 76 104 8
5 South Adelaide 17 6 11 0 54 132 71 120 12
6 Medindie 15 0 15 0 19 56 90 158 0
Key: P = Played, W = Won, L = Lost, D = Drawn, GF = Goals For, BF = Behinds For, GA = Goals Against, BA = Behinds Against, (P) = Premiers [2]

Teams

[3]

Norwood
Robert Bertram Oswald Bertram George Combe
William Dixon John Daly W. Guster
Alfred Grayson A. Jackson George McKee
J. McGaffin J. McGrath W. Rawson
Alfred Roberts Patrick Roachock Jim Shaw
William Slattery John Woods Charles Woods
Wilson Alfred Waldron (c)
Port Adelaide
Alfred Bushby William Bushby (c) Richard Correll
George Davis Rudolph Ewers James Fry
Charlie Fry Percy Gardiner Hamilton
Hills Kempster Le Leu
Maurice Lowe John McKenzie Kenneth McKenzie
Alfred Miers Harry Phillips Henry Stephens
Albert Tomlin George Webb

Scorecard

Grand Final
Saturday, 5 October (3:00 pm) Norwood def. Port Adelaide Adelaide Oval (Crowd: 11,000) [4][5]
3.1 (3)
4.1 (4)
5.3 (5)
7.3 (7)
Q1
Q2
Q3
Final
3.1 (3)
3.3 (3)
4.7 (4)
5.9 (5)
Goals 1 Hamilton, Davis, C. Fry, Le Leu, Phillips
McGaffin, Rawson, Dixon, Daly, J. Woods, Shaw, Roberts, O. Bertram Best Hamilton, Kempster, Kwers, Gardiner, Tomlin, J.McKenzie, Phillips, Hills, Fry

References

  1. http://www.norwoodfc.com.au/site/DefaultSite/filesystem/documents/memorablematches/1889TheFirstGrandFinalSAFAPremiership.pdf
  2. "FOOTBALL.". Adelaide Observer (National Library of Australia). 12 October 1889. p. 18. Retrieved 21 December 2014.
  3. Devaney, John. "1889 SAFA Premiership Play-Off: Norwood vs. Port Adelaide - The First Grand Final" (PDF). Norwoodfc.com.au.
  4. "Football.". South Australian Chronicle (Adelaide, SA: National Library of Australia). 12 October 1889. p. 15. Retrieved 21 December 2014.
  5. "FOOTBALL.". The South Australian Advertiser (Adelaide: National Library of Australia). 21 June 1887. p. 7. Retrieved 25 February 2015.


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