1901 SAFA season

1901 SAFA premiership season
Teams 7
Premiers Norwood
(12th premiership)
Minor premiers Norwood
(3rd minor premiership)
Matches played 64
Highest attendance 7,000 (Grand Final, Norwood vs. Port Adelaide)
Leading goalkicker William Miller
Norwood (44 Goals)
Magarey Medallist Phil Sandland
North Adelaide
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1902 →

The 1901 South Australian Football Association season was the 25th season of the top-level Australian rules football competition in South Australia. Minor premier Norwood won its 12th premiership. The season marked the formation and debut of the new Sturt Football Club.

Season

The season was played under conventions similar to but amended from the previous two seasons and the system introduced in the VFL in 1898. In the minor round, all seven clubs played a double round-robin of twelve matches. Then, in the major round, all seven clubs played a single round-robin of six matches. If the minor premiers won the major round, then that team would automatically win the major premiership. If not, then the major round winner would need to defeat the minor premiers in two separate challenge finals to claim the premiership – in effect giving the minor premiers a triple chance to win the premiership.[1]

The minor premier was Norwood, which finished two games clear on top of the ladder with a 10–2 record; however, the club's major round performance was mediocre, finishing fourth record of 3–3. Conversely, Port Adelaide, who had finished fourth in the minor rounds with a 6–6 record, was the undefeated winner of the major round. Norwood then defeated Port Adelaide by four points in the first challenge match to win the club's twelfth premiership.

Minor round

1901 SAFA Minor Premiership Ladder
TEAM P W L D PF PA % PTS
1 Norwood (P) 12 10 2 0 684 380 64.3 20
2 North Adelaide 12 8 4 0 684 494 58.1 16
3 West Torrens 12 6 6 0 573 489 54.0 12
4 Port Adelaide 12 6 6 0 523 459 53.3 12
5 South Adelaide 12 5 7 0 400 590 40.4 10
6 Sturt 12 4 8 0 409 664 38.1 8
7 West Adelaide 12 3 9 0 467 664 41.3 6
Key: P = Played, W = Won, L = Lost, D = Drawn, A = Abandoned PF = Points For, PA = Points Against, (P) = Premiers [1]

Major round

1901 SAFA Major Premiership Ladder
TEAM P W L D A PF PA % PTS
1 Port Adelaide 6 6 0 0 0 306 176 63.5 12
2 North Adelaide 6 4 2 0 0 272 240 53.1 8
3 West Adelaide 6 4 2 0 0 184 200 47.9 8
4 Norwood 6 3 3 0 0 233 233 50.0 6
5 South Adelaide 5 1 4 0 1 217 149 59.3 2
6 Sturt 5 1 4 0 1 127 191 39.9 2
7 West Torrens 6 0 6 0 0 198 310 39.0 0
Key: P = Played, W = Won, L = Lost, D = Drawn, A = Abandoned PF = Points For, PA = Points Against, (P) = Premiers [2]

Challenge Final

1901 SAFA Final
Saturday, 5 October Norwood def. Port Adelaide Adelaide Oval (Crowd: 6,000–7000) [3]
1.1 (7)
1.3 (9)
4.5 (29)
4.9 (33)		 Q1
Q2
Q3
Final		 2.1 (13)
2.2 (14)
2.5 (17)
4.5 (29)
Dawson, Kirkwood, MacFarlane, Webb Goals J. Davis 2, Healey, Quinn
  • Had Port Adelaide won the match, Norwood would have been entitled to one further challenge match for the major premiership.

Notable events

References

  1. 1 2 Goalpost (17 August 1901). "Football notes". Evening Journal. Adelaide, SA. p. 7.
  2. ↑ Goalpost (30 September 1901). "Football notes". Evening Journal. Adelaide, SA. p. 4.
  3. ↑ Goalpost (7 October 1901). "Football – the Deciding Match". Evening Journal. Adelaide, SA. p. 4.
  4. ↑ Goalpost (7 October 1901). "Retrospect of the season: Premiership won by Norwood". Evening Journal. Adelaide, SA. p. 4.
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