1889 SAFA Grand Final

1889 SAFA Grand Final
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
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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	P	W	L	D	GF	BF	GA	BA	Pts
1	Norwood (P)	17	14	2	1	102	165	30	75	29
1	Port Adelaide	17	14	2	1	127	177	33	63	29
3	Adelaide	17	8	9	0	57	95	78	161	16
4	Gawler	11	4	7	0	21	65	76	104	8
5	South Adelaide	17	6	11	0	54	132	71	120	12
6	Medindie	15	0	15	0	19	56	90	158	0
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

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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

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