1942 SANFL season

1942 SANFL season
Teams 4
Premiers Port Adelaide/West Torrens
Highest attendance 34,000 (Grand Final, Port Adelaide/West Torrens vs. West Adelaide/Glenelg)
Ken Farmer Medallist R Reynolds
Sturt/South Adelaide (45 Goals)
1941
1943

The 1942 South Australian National Football League season was the first of three war-interrupted season with the Port Adelaide-West Torrens merger the last team to temporarily merge and win the premiership. Attendances during World War II were inflated due to servicemen being granted free entry.[1]

References

  1. "Football FIGURES SHOW SEASON BIG SUCCESS.". The News (Adelaide: National Library of Australia). 21 September 1942. p. 6. Retrieved 27 December 2014.


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