1881 SAFA season

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1881 SAFA premiership season
Teams 6
Premiers Norwood Jumper Design.png Norwood
(4th premiership)
Matches played 34
Highest attendance 1,500 (Round 2, Norwood vs. Port Adelaide)
Leading goalkicker Norwood Jumper Design.png Joe Pollock
Norwood (7 Goals)
Norwood Jumper Design.png W J Duffy
Norwood (7 Goals)
← 1880
1882 →

The 1881 South Australian Football Association season was the 5th season of the top-level Australian rules football competition in South Australia. The premiership season began on Saturday 7 May.

Norwood went on to record its 4th consecutive premiership.

The years premiership trophy was called the Fowler Challenge Cup.[1]

Kensington and Adelaide merged to create a full squad but withdrew after 4 games.[1]

Premiership Season

Round 1

Round 1
Saturday, 7 May (3:12 pm) Victorian 0.7 (0) drew with South Adelaide 0.5 (0) Adelaide Oval [2]
Saturday, 7 May (3:30 pm) South Park 0.3 (0) def. by Norwood 2.7 (2) South Park Lands (crowd: 550) [2][3]
Saturday, 7 May (3:25 pm) Port Adelaide 3.15 (3) def. Adelaide-Kensington 1.2 (1) Alberton Oval (crowd: 200) [2]


Round 2

Round 2
Saturday, 14 May (3:20 pm) Victorian 3.21 (3) def. Adelaide-Kensington 0.0 (0) Montefiore Hill [4][5]
Saturday, 14 May (2:45 pm) Norwood 4.6 (4) def. Port Adelaide 1.3 (1) Adelaide Oval (crowd: 1,500) [6][5]
Saturday, 14 May (3:00 pm) South Park 0.6 (6) def. by South Adelaide 1.7 (1) South Park Lands [7][5]


Round 3

Round 3
Saturday, 21 May (3:15 pm) Norwood 2.5 (2) drew with Victorian 2.3 (2) Adelaide Oval (crowd: 1,500) [8][9]
Saturday, 21 May (3:15 pm) Port Adelaide 3.18 (3) def. South Park 1.2 (1) Alberton Oval [8]
Saturday, 21 May Adelaide-Kensington 0.4 (0) def. by South Adelaide 4.8 (4) Kensington Oval [10]


Round 4

Round 4
Saturday, 28 May (3:30 pm) Victorian 0.1 (0) drew with Port Adelaide 0.2 (0) Adelaide Oval [11]
Saturday, 28 May (3:30 pm) South Adelaide 3.5 (3) drew with Norwood 3.11 (3) South Park Lands [11][12]
Saturday, 28 May Adelaide-Kensington 0.1 (0) def. by South Park 7.14 (7) Adelaide Bridge Ground [13]
  • Adelaide-Kensington's game against South Park would be its last for the season resigning from the competition on the Wednesday 1 June.[14]


Round 5

Round 5
Saturday, 4 June (3:15 pm) Victorian 0.4 (0) def. by South Park 2.6 (2) Adelaide Oval [15]
Saturday, 4 June (3:30 pm) Port Adelaide 0.6 (0) drew with South Adelaide 0.8 (0) Alberton Oval [15]


Round 6

Round 6
Saturday, 25 June South Park 1.5 (1) def. by Norwood 4.6 (4) Adelaide Oval [16]
Saturday, 25 June Victorian 1.9 (1) def. South Adelaide 0.0 (0) Montefiore Hill [16]


Round 7

Round 7
Saturday, 2 July South Adelaide 2.4 (2) def. by South Park 4.6 (4) Adelaide Oval [17]
Saturday, 2 July Port Adelaide 1.11 (1) drew with Norwood 1.16 (1) Alberton Oval [17]


Round 8

Round 8
Saturday, 9 July (3:15 pm) Victorian 0.2 (0) def. by Norwood 4.8 (4) Adelaide Oval (crowd: 1,000) [18][19]
Saturday, 9 July (3:00 pm) South Park 3.9 (3) def. Port Adelaide 1.5 (1) South Park Lands [19]


Round 9

Round 9
Saturday, 16 July Norwood 6.17 (6) def. South Adelaide 0.1 (0) Adelaide Oval [20]
Saturday, 16 July (3:25 pm) Port Adelaide 0.11 (0) def. by Victorian 1.4 (1) Alberton Oval [20]


Round 10

Round 10
Saturday, 23 July (3:20 pm) South Adelaide 5.19 (5) def. Port Adelaide 0.7 (0) Adelaide Oval (crowd: 500) [21][22]
Saturday, 23 July South Park 3.10 (3) def. Victorian 0.6 (0) South Park Lands [21]


Round 11

Round 11
Saturday, 30 July (3:20 pm) Norwood 3.6 (3) def. South Park 0.10 (0) Adelaide Oval [23]
Saturday, 30 July (3:30 pm) South Adelaide 2.8 (2) def. Victorian 0.6 (0) South Park Lands [23]


Round 12

Round 12
Saturday, 6 August South Park 1.4 drew with South Adelaide 1.4 South Park Lands [24][25]


Round 13

Round 13
Saturday, 3 September Port Adelaide 0 drew with South Park 0 Alberton Oval [26]
  • The newspaper reporter at the game was critical of the ground condition at Alberton Oval noting that areas had grass up to one foot high.[26]


Round 14

Round 14
Saturday, 10 September South Adelaide 0.6 (0) def. by Norwood 3.10 (3) South Park Lands [27]
Saturday, 10 September Victorian Score vs. Port Adelaide Score Montefiore Hill [27]


Round 15

Round 15
Saturday, 17 September (3:30 pm) Victorian 0.5 (0) drew with South Park 0.10 (0) Montefiore Hill [28]
Saturday, 17 September Port Adelaide 1 drew with South Adelaide 1.4 (1) Alberton Oval [28]


Round 16

Round 16
Saturday, 24 September (3:00 pm) Norwood 6.14 (6) vs. Port Adelaide 0.0 (0) East Park Lands [29]


Round 17

Round 17
Saturday, 1 October Victorian 1.2 (1) def. by Norwood 2.9 (2) Montefiore Hill (crowd: 500) [30][31]


Ladder

1881 SAFA Ladder
TEAM P W L D GF GA
1 Norwood 13 10 0 3 40 9
2 South Adelaide 13 4 4 5 19 18
3 South Park 13 5 5 3 21 17
4 Victorian 13 4 5 4 8 15
5 Port Adelaide 13 2 6 5 10 23
6 Adelaide / Kensington 4 0 5 0 1 17
Key: P = Played, W = Won, L = Lost, D = Drawn, GF = Goals For, GA = Goals Against, (P) = Premiers [32]

Intercolonial matches

1881 Intercolonial Matches
Saturday, 20 August Victoria 8.24 def. South Australia 1.8 East Melbourne Cricket Ground [33]
Wednesday, 24 August Victoria 4.14 def. South Australia 1.5 East Melbourne Cricket Ground (crowd: 1,000) [34]


Additional matches

South Park vs. South Adelaide rematch
Saturday, 24 September South Park 0.10 (0) drew with South Adelaide 0.8 (0) South Park Lands [35]


References

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