1901 SAFA season
1901 SAFA premiership season | |
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Teams | 7 |
Premiers | Norwood 12th premiership |
Minor premiers | Norwood 3rd minor premiership |
Magarey Medallist | Phil Sandland North Adelaide |
Leading goalkicker | William Miller Norwood (44 Goals) |
Matches played | 64 |
Highest | 7,000 (Grand Final, Norwood vs. Port Adelaide) |
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 was amended from, the previous two seasons and the system used in the VFL in 1898–1900.
In the minor round, all seven clubs played a double round-robin of twelve matches, and 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 they did not, then the major round winner would be required to defeat the minor premiers in two separate challenge finals to claim the premiership, effectively 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 with a 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. If the major round had been counted as part of the minor round, then Norwood would have been minor premiers with a 13–5 record, while Port Adelaide would have finished second: both they and North Adelaide finished 12–6, but Port Adelaide had a superior percentage.
Norwood then defeated Port Adelaide by four points in the first challenge match to win the club's twelfth premiership.
Minor round
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TEAM | P | W | L | D | PF | PA | % | PTS | ||||
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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
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TEAM | P | W | L | D | A | PF | PA | % | PTS | ||||
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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 | |||||
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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) |
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Dawson, Kirkwood, MacFarlane, Webb | Goals | J. Davis 2, Healey, Quinn | |||
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Notable events
- South Adelaide did not play its final two major round matches, scheduled for 21 and 28 September against West Adelaide and Sturt. The match against West Adelaide was ruled to have been forfeited by the SAFA after the Jubilee Oval had been double-booked, meaning that West Adelaide arrived at the ground to discover there was a cricket match in progress. The match against Sturt was scratched as the ladder would not be affected; this is historically considered to be an unplayed game, with no competition points awarded to either team.[4]
References
- ^ a b Goalpost (17 August 1901). "Football notes". Evening Journal. Adelaide, SA. p. 7.
- ^ Goalpost (30 September 1901). "Football notes". Evening Journal. Adelaide, SA. p. 4.
- ^ Goalpost (7 October 1901). "Football – the Deciding Match". Evening Journal. Adelaide, SA. p. 4.
- ^ Goalpost (7 October 1901). "Retrospect of the season: Premiership won by Norwood". Evening Journal. Adelaide, SA. p. 4.