1889 SAFA Grand Final

File:Norwood Jumper Design.png 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

Pts

Norwood (P)

102

165

Port Adelaide

127

177

Adelaide

161

Gawler

104

South Adelaide

132

120

Medindie

158

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

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

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