1887 SAFA premiership season 10th SAFA season Pictured above is the 1887 premiership team.
Teams 7 Premiers Norwood (7th premiership)Matches played 55 Highest attendance 11,000 (Round 8, Norwood vs. Port Adelaide ) Leading goalkicker Alf Bushby Port Adelaide (25 goals)
The 1887 South Australian Football Association season was the 11th season of the top-level Australian rules football competition in South Australia .
1887 saw Gawler, Hotham and West Adelaide join the SAFA with the last of those bearing no relation to the modern day West Adelaide Bloods.
Premiership season [ ]
Round 1 [ ]
Round 2 [ ]
Round 3 [ ]
Round 4 [ ]
Round 5 [ ]
Round 6 [ ]
Round 7 [ ]
Round 8 [ ]
Round 8
Monday, 20 June (3:00 pm)
Norwood 6.16 (6)
def.
Port Adelaide 4.3 (4)
Adelaide Oval (crowd: 11,000)
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The match was under the patronage of the Chinese Commissioners to the Jubilee Exhibition General Wong Yang Ho and Console-General Yu Chiung.[29]
The match attendance of approximately 11,000 was the largest in South Australian football history at the time.
Round 9 [ ]
Round 10 [ ]
Round 11 [ ]
Round 12 [ ]
Round 13 [ ]
Round 14 [ ]
Round 15 [ ]
Round 16 [ ]
Round 17 [ ]
Round 18 [ ]
Round 19 [ ]
Round 20 [ ]
Ladder [ ]
TEAM
P
W
L
D
GF
BF
GA
BA
Pts
Adj Pts
1
Norwood
18
12
2
4
119
257
40
73
28
28.00
2
Port Adelaide
17
12
3
2
110
220
46
103
26
27.53
3
Adelaide
16
9
4
3
67
195
43
109
21
23.63
4
South Adelaide
17
8
5
4
102
221
72
101
20
21.18
5
Hotham
15
3
10
2
37
98
77
227
8
9.60
6
Gawler
11
1
9
1
13
48
72
197
3
4.91
7
West Adelaide
16
1
13
2
18
52
114
288
4
4.50
Key: P = Played, W = Won, L = Lost, D = Drawn, GF = Goals For, BF = Behinds For, GA = Goals Against, BA = Behinds Against, Pts = Points, Adj Pts = Points adjusted for match ratio, (P) = Premiers
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