1902 SAFA season

1902 SAFA premiership season

26th SAFA season
Pictured above is the 1902 SAFA premiers North Adelaide
Teams 7
Premiers North Adelaide
(2nd premiership)
Minor premiers Port Adelaide
(2nd minor premiership)
Matches played 45
Highest attendance (Grand Final, North Adelaide vs. South Adelaide)
Leading goalkicker Jack Kay
South Adelaide (28 Goals)
Magarey Medallist Tom MacKenzie
West Torrens
1901
1903

The 1902 South Australian Football Association season was the 26th season of the top-level Australian rules football competition in South Australia.

The 1902 premiership was won by the North Adelaide Football Club for the second time with Minor Premiers Port Adelaide disqualified from making the Grand Final after not playing South Adelaide.[1] Meanwhile, Sturt received its second wooden spoon in its second season.

Minor Round

Round 1

Round 1
Saturday, 3 May South Adelaide 4.13 (37) def. West Torrens 4.8 (32) Adelaide Oval [2]
Saturday, 3 May Norwood 13.9 (87) def. West Adelaide 3.3 (21) Norwood Oval [3]
Saturday, 3 May Port Adelaide 8.11 (59) def. North Adelaide 4.7 (31) Alberton Oval [4]
Bye: Sturt
  • Port Adelaide wore its famous black and white prison bar guernsey for the first time.

Ladder

1902 SAFA Ladder
TEAM P W L D PF PA % PTS
1 Port Adelaide 12 10 2 0 672 340 66.40 20
2 North Adelaide (P) 12 9 3 0 639 380 62.71 18
3 South Adelaide 12 8 3 1 548 384 58.80 17
4 West Torrens 12 6 6 0 512 432 54.76 12
5 Norwood 12 6 6 0 501 497 50.20 12
6 West Adelaide 12 1 10 1 372 808 31.53 3
7 Sturt 12 1 11 0 231 643 26.43 2
Key: P = Played, W = Won, L = Lost, D = Drawn, PF = Points For, PA = Points Against, (P) = Premiers Click here for source

Finals Series

Grand Final

 
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References

  1. "THE FOOTBALL PREMIERSHIP.". The Advertiser. Adelaide: National Library of Australia. 8 September 1902. p. 6. Retrieved 29 December 2014.
  2. "FOOTBALL.". The Register. Adelaide: National Library of Australia. 5 May 1902. p. 9. Retrieved 6 March 2015.
  3. "FOOTBALL.". The Register. Adelaide: National Library of Australia. 5 May 1902. p. 9. Retrieved 6 March 2015.
  4. "FOOTBALL.". The Register. Adelaide: National Library of Australia. 5 May 1902. p. 9. Retrieved 6 March 2015.
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