1881 SAFA season

1881 SAFA Premiership season
Teams 6
Premiers Norwood
(4th premiership)
Matches played 34
Highest attendance 1,500 (Round 2, Norwood vs. Port Adelaide)
Leading goalkicker Joe Pollock
Norwood (7 Goals)
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.[2]

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 [3]
Saturday, 7 May (3:30 pm) South Park 0.3 (0) def. by Norwood 2.7 (2) South Park Lands (crowd: 550) [4][5]
Saturday, 7 May (3:25 pm) Port Adelaide 3.15 (3) def. Adelaide-Kensington 1.2 (1) Alberton Oval (crowd: 200) [6]

Round 2

Round 2
Saturday, 14 May (3:20 pm) Victorian 3.21 (3) def. Adelaide-Kensington 0.0 (0) Montefiore Hill [7][8]
Saturday, 14 May (2:45 pm) Norwood 4.6 (4) def. Port Adelaide 1.3 (1) Adelaide Oval (crowd: 1,500) [9][10]
Saturday, 14 May (3:00 pm) South Park 0.6 (6) def. by South Adelaide 1.7 (1) South Park Lands [11][12]

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) [13][14]
Saturday, 21 May (3:15 pm) Port Adelaide 3.18 (3) def. South Park 1.2 (1) Alberton Oval [15]
Saturday, 21 May Adelaide-Kensington 0.4 (0) def. by South Adelaide 4.8 (4) Kensington Oval [16]

Round 4

Round 4
Saturday, 28 May (3:30 pm) Victorian 0.1 (0) drew with Port Adelaide 0.2 (0) Adelaide Oval [17]
Saturday, 28 May (3:30 pm) South Adelaide 3.5 (3) drew with Norwood 3.11 (3) South Park Lands [18][19]
Saturday, 28 May Adelaide-Kensington 0.1 (0) def. by South Park 7.14 (7) Adelaide Bridge Ground [20]
  • Adelaide-Kensington's game against South Park would be its last for the season resigning from the competition on the Wednesday 1 June.[21]

Round 5

Round 5
Saturday, 4 June (3:15 pm) Victorian 0.4 (0) def. by South Park 2.6 (2) Adelaide Oval [22]
Saturday, 4 June (3:30 pm) Port Adelaide 0.6 (0) drew with South Adelaide 0.8 (0) Alberton Oval [23]

Round 6

Round 6
Saturday, 25 June South Park 1.5 (1) def. by Norwood 4.6 (4) Adelaide Oval [24]
Saturday, 25 June Victorian 1.9 (1) def. South Adelaide 0.0 (0) Montefiore Hill [25]

Round 7

Round 7
Saturday, 2 July South Adelaide 2.4 (2) def. by South Park 4.6 (4) Adelaide Oval [26]
Saturday, 2 July Port Adelaide 1.11 (1) drew with Norwood 1.16 (1) Alberton Oval [27]

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) [28][29]
Saturday, 9 July (3:00 pm) South Park 3.9 (3) def. Port Adelaide 1.5 (1) South Park Lands [30]

Round 9

Round 9
Saturday, 16 July Norwood 6.17 (6) def. South Adelaide 0.1 (0) Adelaide Oval [31]
Saturday, 16 July (3:25 pm) Port Adelaide 0.11 (0) def. by Victorian 1.4 (1) Alberton Oval [32]

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) [33][34]
Saturday, 23 July South Park 3.10 (3) def. Victorian 0.6 (0) South Park Lands [35]

Round 11

Round 11
Saturday, 30 July (3:20 pm) Norwood 3.6 (3) def. South Park 0.10 (0) Adelaide Oval [36]
Saturday, 30 July (3:30 pm) South Adelaide 2.8 (2) def. Victorian 0.6 (0) South Park Lands [37]

Round 12

Round 12
Saturday, 6 August South Park 1.4 drew with South Adelaide 1.4 South Park Lands [38][39]

Round 13

Round 13
Saturday, 3 September Port Adelaide 0 drew with South Park 0 Alberton Oval [40]
  • 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.[41]

Round 14

Round 14
Saturday, 10 September South Adelaide 0.6 (0) def. by Norwood 3.10 (3) South Park Lands [42]
Saturday, 10 September Victorian Score vs. Port Adelaide Score Montefiore Hill [43]

Round 15

Round 15
Saturday, 17 September (3:30 pm) Victorian 0.5 (0) drew with South Park 0.10 (0) Montefiore Hill [44]
Saturday, 17 September Port Adelaide 1 drew with South Adelaide 1.4 (1) Alberton Oval [45]

Round 16

Round 16
Saturday, 24 September (3:00 pm) Norwood 6.14 (6) vs. Port Adelaide 0.0 (0) East Park Lands [46]

Round 17

Round 17
Saturday, 1 October Victorian 1.2 (1) def. by Norwood 2.9 (2) Montefiore Hill (crowd: 500) [47][48]

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 [49]

Intercolonial matches

1881 Intercolonial Matches
Saturday, 20 August Victoria 8.24 def. South Australia 1.8 East Melbourne Cricket Ground [50]
Wednesday, 24 August Victoria 4.14 def. South Australia 1.5 East Melbourne Cricket Ground (crowd: 1,000) [51]

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 [52]

References

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