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1887 SAFA premiership season
1887 SAFA premiership season
	10th SAFA season; Pictured above is the 1887 premiership team.
Teams	7
Premiers	Norwood; 7th premiership
Leading goalkicker	Alf Bushby ; Port Adelaide (25 goals)
Matches played	55
Highest	11,000 (Round 8, Norwood vs. Port Adelaide)
	← 1886 1888 →

1887 SAFA season

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The 1887 South Australian Football Association season was the 11th season of the top-level Australian rules football competition in South Australia.

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On 15 March 1887 the West Torrens Football Club held a meeting at the Foundry Hotel, Hindley Street in Adelaide where it decided to change the name of the club to West Adelaide and apply for inclusion in the upcoming 1887 SAFA season. The Club has previously applied to join in 1879.

1887 saw Gawler Albions, Hotham and West Adelaide join the SAFA with the last of those bearing no relation to the modern day West Adelaide Bloods.

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	Round 1
Saturday, 7 May (3:10 pm)	Adelaide 7.19 (7)	def.	Hotham 3.7 (3)	Adelaide Oval (crowd: 1,500)	^[1]^[2]
Saturday, 7 May (3:25 pm)	Norwood 9.23 (9)	def.	West Adelaide 0.0 (0)	Kensington Oval	^[3]
Saturday, 7 May (Time pm)	Port Adelaide 12.28 (12)	def.	Gawler 0.1 (0)	Alberton Oval (crowd: 800)	^[4]^[5]
	Bye South Adelaide


	Round 2
Saturday, 14 May (Time pm)	Adelaide 3.12 (3)	drew with	South Adelaide 3.4 (3)	Adelaide Oval (crowd: 2,300)	^[6]
Saturday, 14 May (Time pm)	Port Adelaide 3.22 (3)	def.	West Adelaide 0.2 (0)	Alberton Oval (crowd: 600)	^[7]
Saturday, 14 May (3:15 pm)	Norwood 6.14 (6)	def.	Hotham 0.2 (0)	Kensington Oval	^[8]
	Bye Gawler


	Round 3
Saturday, 21 May (3:15 pm)	Port Adelaide 3.4 (3)	drew with	Norwood 3.7 (3)	Alberton Oval (crowd: 3,000)	^[9]
Saturday, 21 May (3:10 pm)	South Adelaide 9.21 (9)	def.	Hotham 6.5 (6)	Adelaide Oval (crowd: 1,000)	^[10]
Saturday, 21 May (3:10 pm)	Adelaide 9.21 (9)	def.	West Adelaide 0.1 (0)	Kensington Oval (crowd: 100)	^[11]
	Bye Gawler


	Round 4
Saturday, 28 May (3:04 pm)	South Adelaide 7.11 (7)	drew with	Norwood 7.11 (7)	Adelaide Oval (crowd: 3,000)	^[12]^[13]
Saturday, 28 May (3:25 pm)	West Adelaide 3.12 (3)	drew with	Gawler 3.4 (3)	Kensington Oval	^[14]^[15]
Saturday, 28 May	Port Adelaide 7.15 (7)	def.	Hotham 1.6 (1)	Alberton Oval (crowd: 300)	^[16]^[17]
	Bye Adelaide
Adelaide were on an interstate trip to Victoria to play their first ever game on the Melbourne Cricket Ground.


	Round 5
Saturday, 4 June (3:25 pm)	South Adelaide 5.20 (5)	def.	West Adelaide 1.8 (1)	Kensington Oval	^[18]
Saturday, 4 June (3:15 pm)	Norwood 7.15	def.	Hotham 1.5	Adelaide Oval	^[19]
Saturday, 4 June (3:30 pm)	Gawler 0.0 (0)	def. by	Port Adelaide 3.14 (3)	Gawler Oval (crowd: 150)	^[20]
	Bye Adelaide

1887_SAFA_season

1887 SAFA season

Premiership season

Round 1

Round 2

Round 3

Round 4

Round 5

Round 6

Round 7

Round 8

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

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1887 SAFA premiership season
10th SAFA season Pictured above is the 1887 premiership team.
Teams	7
Premiers	Norwood 7th premiership
Leading goalkicker	Alf Bushby Port Adelaide (25 goals)
Matches played	55
Highest	11,000 (Round 8, Norwood vs. Port Adelaide)
← 1886 1888 →


	Round 6
Saturday, 11 June (3:00 pm)	Adelaide 2.11 (2)	def. by	Port Adelaide 4.6 (4)	Adelaide Oval (crowd: 4,000)	^[21]
Saturday, 11 June (3:25 pm)	Hotham 2.5 (2)	drew with	West Adelaide 2.4 (2)	Kensington Oval	^[22]
Saturday, 11 June	Gawler 1.2 (1)	def. by	South Adelaide 9.23 (9)	Gawler Oval (crowd: 75)	^[23]^[24]
	Bye Norwood


	Round 7
Saturday, 18 June (3:16 pm)	Norwood 8.21 (8)	def.	West Adelaide 1.1 (1)	Adelaide Oval	^[25]
Saturday, 18 June (3:35 pm)	South Adelaide 5.18 (5)	def.	Hotham 4.2 (4)	Kensington Oval (crowd: 200)	^[26]
Saturday, 18 June (3:30 pm)	Gawler 0.4 (0)	def. by	Adelaide 8.15 (8)	Gawler Oval	^[27]
	Bye Port Adelaide


	Round 8
Monday, 20 June (3:00 pm)	Norwood 6.16 (6)	def.	Port Adelaide 4.3 (4)	Adelaide Oval (crowd: 11,000)	^[28]
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
Saturday, 25 June (3:00 pm)	Adelaide 1.3 (1)	def. by	Norwood 5.15 (5)	Adelaide Oval (crowd: 4,500)	^[30]
Saturday, 25 June (Time pm)	Port Adelaide 6.17 (6)	def.	Hotham 2.5 (2)	Alberton Oval (crowd: 300)	^[31]
Saturday, 25 June (Time pm)	South Adelaide 8.20 (8)	def.	West Adelaide 2.5 (2)	Kensington Oval (crowd: 250)	^[32]
	Bye Gawler


	Round 10
Saturday, 2 July (3:00 pm)	South Adelaide 2.4 (2)	def. by	Norwood 6.6 (6)	Adelaide Oval (crowd: 3,500)	^[33]^[34]
Saturday, 2 July (3:10 pm)	Port Adelaide 3.10 (3)	def. by	Adelaide 4.1 (4)	Alberton Oval (crowd: 1,000)	^[35]
Saturday, 2 July (3.22 pm)	West Adelaide 0.3 (0)	def. by	Gawler 1.8 (1)	Kensington Oval (crowd: Attendance)	^[36]
	Bye Hotham


	Round 11
Saturday, 23 July (3:15 pm)	Adelaide 3.12 (3)	drew with	South Adelaide 3.9 (3)	Adelaide Oval (crowd: 2,000)	^[37]
Saturday, 23 July (Time pm)	Hotham 5.11 (5)	def.	West Adelaide 0.4 (0)	Kensington Oval	^[38]
Saturday, 23 July (3:11 pm)	Port Adelaide 4.1 (4)	drew with	Norwood 4.8 (4)	Alberton Oval (crowd: 3,500)	^[39]
	Bye Gawler


	Round 12
Saturday, 30 July (3:15 pm)	Adelaide 5.16 (5)	def.	Hotham 0.3 (0)	Kensington Oval (crowd: 150)	^[40]^[41]
Saturday, 30 July (3:30 pm)	Gawler 1.4 (1)	def. by	Norwood 7.15 (7)	Gawler Oval (crowd: 350)	^[42]
Saturday, 30 July (3:21 pm)	South Adelaide 6.8 (6)	def. by	Port Adelaide 8.3 (8)	Adelaide Oval (crowd: 2,500)	^[43]
	Bye West Adelaide


	Round 13
Saturday, 6 August (3:06 pm)	Adelaide 4.8 (4)	def.	Norwood 2.13 (2)	Adelaide Oval (crowd: 4,000)	^[44]
Saturday, 6 August (3:20 pm)	Port Adelaide 11.29 (11)	def.	West Adelaide 1.3 (1)	Alberton Oval (crowd: 200)	^[45]^[46]
Saturday, 6 August (3:30 pm)	South Adelaide 3.13 (3)	drew with	Hotham 3.4 (3)	Kensington Oval (crowd: 200)	^[47]^[48]
	Bye Gawler


	Round 14
Saturday, 13 August (3:15 pm)	Port Adelaide 6.14 (6)	def.	Adelaide 2.9 (2)	Alberton Oval (crowd: 3,000)	^[49]
Saturday, 13 August (3:00 pm)	South Adelaide 16.27 (16)	def.	Gawler 2.3 (2)	Adelaide Oval (crowd: 400)	^[50]^[51]
Saturday, 13 August (3:30 pm)	Norwood 14.26 (14)	def.	West Adelaide 0.0 (0)	Kensington Oval (crowd: 200)	^[52]
	Bye Hotham


	Round 15
Saturday, 20 August (3:08 pm)	Norwood 5.11 (5)	def.	Port Adelaide 2.9 (2)	Adelaide Oval (crowd: 8,000)	^[53]
Saturday, 20 August	South Adelaide 4.20 (4)	drew with	Hotham 4.7 (4)	Kensington Oval (crowd: 100)	^[54]
	Bye Gawler, West Adelaide, Adelaide


	Round 16
Saturday, 27 August (3:00 pm)	South Adelaide 7.5 (7)	def.	Norwood 5.6 (5)	Adelaide Oval (crowd: 3,000)	^[55]^[56]
Saturday, 27 August (3:25 pm)	Adelaide 4.17 (4)	def.	Hotham 1.9 (1)	Kensington Oval	^[57]^[58]
Saturday, 27 August (3:15 pm)	Port Adelaide 17.27 (17)	def.	West Adelaide 2.0 (2)	Alberton Oval (crowd: 200)	^[59]^[60]
	Bye Gawler
Port Adelaide's score of 17.27 (17) was the highest total ever at the time in South Australian league football.


	Round 17
Thursday, 1 September (3:08 pm)	Adelaide 1.2 (1)	def. by	South Adelaide 6.2 (6)	Adelaide Oval (crowd: 2,500)	^[61]


	Round 18
Saturday, 3 September	Port Adelaide 11.11 (11)	def.	South Adelaide 4.8 (4)	Alberton Oval (crowd: 2,000)	^[62]
Saturday, 3 September (3:15 pm)	Adelaide 7.20 (7)	v	Gawler 1.4 (1)	Adelaide Oval (crowd: 100)	^[63]
Saturday, 3 September	Norwood 14.20 (14)	def.	West Adelaide 0.1 (0)	Kensington Oval (crowd: 100)	^[64]
	Bye Hotham


	Round 19
Saturday, 10 September	Norwood 8.23 (8)	def.	Hotham 0.4 (0)	Adelaide Oval (crowd: 1,000)	^[65]
Saturday, 10 September (3:20 pm)	Adelaide 4.21 (4)	def.	West Adelaide 3.3 (3)	Kensington Oval	^[66]^[67]
	Bye Port Adelaide, South Adelaide, Gawler


	Round 20
Saturday, 17 September	Adelaide 4.7 (4)	def. by	Port Adelaide 5.12 (5)	Adelaide Oval	^[68]
	Bye South Adelaide, Norwood, Gawler, Hotham, West Adelaide