1973 SANFL season
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1973 SANFL season | |
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Teams | 10 |
Premiers | Glenelg 2nd premiership |
Minor premiers | Glenelg 2nd minor premiership |
Magarey Medallist | Barrie Robran North Adelaide |
Ken Farmer Medallist | Ken Whelan Sturt (107 Goals) |
Attendance | |
Matches played | 111 |
Total attendance | 1,131,287 (10,192 per match) |
Highest | 56,525 (Grand Final, Glenelg vs. North Adelaide) |
The 1973 South Australian National Football League season was the 94th season of the top-level Australian rules football competition in South Australia.
Glenelg were the dominant team of the season. They lost only one game all season, to North Adelaide in Round 7.
Glenelg narrowly won the Grand Final against North Adelaide, 21-11 (137) to 19-16 (130). Graham Cornes famously took a mark and goaled to put them one point ahead in the final minutes; and they scored one more goal after the final siren to win by 7 points. If was their first premiership in 39 years.
Ladder
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TEAM | P | W | L | D | PF | PA | % | PTS | ||||
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1 | Glenelg (P) | 21 | 20 | 1 | 0 | 2847 | 1857 | 60.52 | 40 | |||
2 | Sturt | 21 | 17 | 4 | 0 | 2534 | 1612 | 61.12 | 34 | |||
3 | North Adelaide | 21 | 16 | 5 | 0 | 2230 | 1945 | 53.41 | 32 | |||
4 | Port Adelaide | 21 | 11 | 10 | 0 | 2191 | 2087 | 51.22 | 22 | |||
5 | Norwood | 21 | 10 | 11 | 0 | 2194 | 1987 | 52.48 | 20 | |||
6 | Central District | 21 | 10 | 11 | 0 | 2076 | 2084 | 49.90 | 20 | |||
7 | West Torrens | 21 | 9 | 12 | 0 | 1967 | 2153 | 47.74 | 18 | |||
8 | Woodville | 21 | 4 | 16 | 1 | 2024 | 2589 | 43.88 | 9 | |||
9 | South Adelaide | 21 | 4 | 17 | 0 | 1734 | 2840 | 37.91 | 8 | |||
10 | West Adelaide | 21 | 3 | 17 | 1 | 1780 | 2423 | 42.35 | 7 | |||
Key: P = Played, W = Won, L = Lost, D = Drawn, PF = Points For, PA = Points Against, (P) = Premiers | [1] |
Finals Series
Grand Final
1973 SANFL Grand Final | |||||
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Saturday, 29 September (2:10 pm) |
Glenelg | def. | North Adelaide | Adelaide Oval (crowd: 56,525) | [2] |
4.3 (27) 9.10 (64) 16.10 (106) |
Q1 Q2 Q3 |
7.6 (48) 8.10 (58) 14.14 (98) |
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21.11 (137) | Final | 19.16 (130) | |||
References
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 24 July 2015. Retrieved 16 December 2018.
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