1877 SAFA season

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]

1877 SAFA premiership season
Teams8
PremiersSouth Adelaide
Victorian
(1st premiership)
Matches played52 (61 scheduled)
Highest attendance650 (Round 7, Adelaide vs. South Adelaide)
Leading goalkickerWilliam Dedman
South Adelaide (10 goals)

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]
  • 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 that his team would not appear.[24]
  • Teams were affected due to their star players involvement in 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
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 vs. 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 was awarded to Port Adelaide as Woodville forfeited due to a lack of players.[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]

Ladder

While Victorian finished the season with seven more goals but a slightly inferior record than South Adelaide, but one should consider the fact Victorian played the Bankers twice,
while South Adelaide did not their only scheduled match was a forfeit when the Bankers could only muster 13 players in Round 6.
Head to Head results - 1st game 0–0 draw. Last game of the Season Victoria 1 South Adelaide 0.
Adelaide finished with 1 more win than the other two clubs but played more games.

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

1877 SAFA Ladder
TEAMPWLDPFPAPTS
1 South Adelaide (P) 13 10 1 2 22 1 22
1 Victorian (P) 14 10 1 3 30 5 23
3 Adelaide 17 11 3 3 31 13 25
4 Port Adelaide 15 9 4 2 23 13 20
5 Woodville 16 5 9 2 14 18 12
6 South Park 17 5 10 2 16 23 12
7 Kensington 15 3 10 2 12 43 8
8 Bankers 15 0 15 0 4 36 0
Key: P = Played, W = Won, L = Lost, D = Drawn, PF = Points For, PA = Points Against, (P) = Premiers [30]

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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