1914_SAFL_season

1914 SAFL premiership season
1914 SAFL premiership season
	37th SAFL season; Pictured above is the 1914 Port Adelaide premiership team.
Teams	7
Premiers	Port Adelaide; 8th premiership
Minor premiers	Port Adelaide; 11th minor premiership
Magarey Medallist	Jack Ashley ; Port Adelaide
Leading goalkicker	Jack Dunn ; Port Adelaide (33 goals)
Matches played	45
Highest	15,000 (Round 6, Port Adelaide vs. North Adelaide)
	← 1913 1915 →

1914 SAFL season

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The 1914 South Australian Football League season was the 38th season of the top-level Australian rules football competition in South Australia.

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The season opened on 2 May with a match between South Adelaide and Port Adelaide, and concluded on 19 September with the Grand Final, in which minor premiers Port Adelaide went on to win its eighth premiership, defeating North Adelaide by 79 points.^[1]

West Torrens and Sturt also made the top four teams and participated in the finals series. West Adelaide, South Adelaide and Norwood all missed the top four.

The 1914 South Australian Football League season is the only time in SAFA/SAFL/SANFL history a team has gone through the entire season winning every game. In addition to going undefeated during the SAFL season, Port Adelaide beat a composite team of all the other SAFL sides and the Carlton Football Club in the Champions of Australia match played at Adelaide Oval.

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	Round 1
Saturday, 2 May	South Adelaide 7.8 (50)	def. by	Port Adelaide 10.13 (73)	Adelaide Oval (crowd: 10,500)	^[2]
Saturday, 2 May	Norwood 8.14 (62)	def.	West Adelaide 6.7 (43)	Norwood Oval (crowd: 5,000)	^[2]
Saturday, 2 May	Sturt 9.4 (58)	def.	North Adelaide 6.8 (44)	Unley Oval
	Bye West Torrens


	Round 2
Saturday, 9 May	North Adelaide 9.9 (63)	def.	West Adelaide 8.9 (57)	Adelaide Oval (crowd: 7,300)	^[3]
Monday, 11 May	Norwood 11.12 (78)	def.	West Torrens 4.9 (33)	Adelaide Oval (crowd: 12,000)	^[4]
Monday, 11 May	Sturt 8.11 (59)	def.	South Adelaide 8.9 (57)	Unley Oval
	Bye Port Adelaide


	Round 3
Saturday, 16 May	North Adelaide 11.15 (81)	def.	South Adelaide 8.6 (54)	Adelaide Oval
Saturday, 16 May	West Torrens 9.8 (62)	drew with	West Adelaide 8.14 (62)	Hindmarsh Oval (crowd: 5,000)	^[5]
Saturday, 16 May	Port Adelaide 14.16 (100)	def.	Sturt 4.5 (29)	Alberton Oval (crowd: 5,000)	^[6]
	Bye Norwood


	Round 4
Saturday, 23 May	South Adelaide 4.7 (31)	def. by	West Adelaide 4.10 (34)	Adelaide Oval
Saturday, 23 May	Port Adelaide 13.11 (89)	def.	West Torrens 2.9 (21)	Alberton Oval
Saturday, 23 May	Norwood 5.7 (37)	def. by	Sturt 5.15 (45)	Norwood Oval (crowd: 7,000)	^[7]
	Bye North Adelaide


	Round 5
Saturday, 30 May	North Adelaide 8.12 (60)	def.	West Torrens 8.8 (56)	Adelaide Oval (crowd: 4,200)	^[8]
Saturday, 30 May	Norwood 8.5 (53)	def. by	Port Adelaide 13.13 (91)	Norwood Oval (crowd: 9,000)	^[8]
Saturday, 30 May	Sturt 7.7 (49)	def. by	West Adelaide 8.11 (59)	Unley Oval
	Bye South Adelaide

1914_SAFL_season

1914 SAFL season

1914 SAFL Minor Rounds

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

Ladder

Win/Loss table

1914 SAFL Finals

Week 1

Week 2

Week 3 (1914 SAFL Grand Final)

Awards

Best and fairest

Club leadership

Post-season

1914 Championship of Australia

1914 SAFL Combined State Game

References

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1914 SAFL premiership season
37th SAFL season Pictured above is the 1914 Port Adelaide premiership team.
Teams	7
Premiers	Port Adelaide 8th premiership
Minor premiers	Port Adelaide 11th minor premiership
Magarey Medallist	Jack Ashley Port Adelaide
Leading goalkicker	Jack Dunn Port Adelaide (33 goals)
Matches played	45
Highest	15,000 (Round 6, Port Adelaide vs. North Adelaide)
← 1913 1915 →


	Round 6
Saturday, 6 June	South Adelaide 7.15 (57)	def.	Norwood 5.11 (41)	Adelaide Oval (crowd: 7,000)	^[9]
Saturday, 6 June	West Torrens 11.11 (77)	def. by	Sturt 13.5 (83)	Hindmarsh Oval
Monday, 8 June	North Adelaide 6.19 (46)	def. by	Port Adelaide 11.8 (74)	Adelaide Oval (crowd: 15,000)	^[10]
	Bye West Adelaide


	Round 7
Saturday, 13 June	North Adelaide 7.17 (59)	def.	Norwood 8.9 (57)	Adelaide Oval
Saturday, 13 June	Port Adelaide 14.21 (105)	def.	West Adelaide 4.6 (30)	Alberton Oval (crowd: 5,000)	^[11]
Saturday, 13 June	South Adelaide 10.8 (68)	def.	West Torrens 7.11 (53)	Jubilee Oval
	Bye Sturt


	Round 8
Saturday, 20 June	North Adelaide 9.10 (64)	def. by	Sturt 10.11 (71)	Adelaide Oval (crowd: 6,500)	^[12]
Saturday, 20 June	Port Adelaide 9.15 (69)	def.	South Adelaide 5.7 (37)	Alberton Oval (crowd: 5,500)	^[12]
Saturday, 20 June	West Adelaide 8.19 (67)	def.	Norwood 8.9 (57)	Jubilee Oval (crowd: 3,000)	^[12]
	Bye West Torrens


	Round 9
Saturday, 27 June	Port Adelaide 11.15 (81)	def.	West Torrens 9.5 (59)	Adelaide Oval (crowd: 8,500)	^[13]
Monday, 29 June	South Adelaide 11.10 (76)	def.	West Adelaide 5.7 (37)	Adelaide Oval (crowd: 10,200)	^[14]
Monday, 29 June	Sturt 10.9 (69)	def.	Norwood 6.3 (39)	Unley Oval (crowd: 6,000)	^[14]
	Bye North Adelaide


	Round 10
Saturday, 4 July	North Adelaide 8.16 (64)	def.	West Adelaide 8.7 (55)	Adelaide Oval
Saturday, 4 July	West Torrens 13.9 (87)	def.	Norwood 9.12 (66)	Hindmarsh Oval (crowd: 5,000)	^[15]
Saturday, 4 July	South Adelaide 11.6 (72)	def.	Sturt 10.11 (71)	Jubilee Oval (crowd: 6,500)	^[16]
	Bye Port Adelaide


	Round 11
Saturday, 11 July	North Adelaide 12.9 (81)	def.	South Adelaide 12.8 (80)	Jubilee Oval (crowd: 4,000)	^[17]
Saturday, 11 July	Sturt 6.5 (41)	def. by	Port Adelaide 13.10 (88)	Unley Oval
Tuesday, 14 July	West Adelaide 6.15 (51)	def. by	West Torrens 9.8 (62)	Adelaide Oval (crowd: 6,000)	^[17]
	Bye Norwood
After half time at Unley Oval Port Adelaide kicked 65 points to Sturt's 2.^[18]


	Round 12
Saturday, 18 July	Port Adelaide 19.17 (131)	def.	Norwood 7.8 (50)	Alberton Oval (crowd: 4,500)	^[19]
Saturday, 18 July	West Torrens 8.21 (69)	def.	North Adelaide 6.15 (51)	Hindmarsh Oval (crowd: 5,000)	^[20]
Saturday, 18 July	West Adelaide 13.13 (91)	def.	Sturt 5.19 (49)	Jubilee Oval
	Bye South Adelaide


	Round 13
Saturday, 22 August	North Adelaide 8.11 (59)	def. by	Port Adelaide 11.14 (80)	Adelaide Oval (crowd: 9,000)	^[21]
Saturday, 22 August	Norwood 8.10 (58)	def.	South Adelaide 8.6 (54)	Norwood Oval
Saturday, 22 August	Sturt 5.11 (41)	def. by	West Torrens 10.11 (71)	Unley Oval
	Bye West Adelaide


	Round 14
Saturday, 29 August	West Adelaide 5.5 (35)	def. by	Port Adelaide 12.15 (87)	Adelaide Oval
Saturday, 29 August	West Torrens 10.5 (65)	def.	South Adelaide 7.14 (56)	Hindmarsh Oval
Saturday, 29 August	Norwood 8.10 (58)	def.	North Adelaide 7.9 (51)	Norwood Oval (crowd: 2,000)	^[22]
	Bye Sturt

+	Win		Qualified for finals
-	Loss	X	Bye
	Draw		Eliminated

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	F1	F2	GF
Port Adelaide	SthA 23	X	Stu 71	WT 68	Nor 38	NthA 28	WstA 75	SthA 32	WT 22	X	Stu 47	Nor 81	NthA 21	WstA 52	Stu 54	X	NthA 79
North Adelaide	Stu 14	WstA 6	SthA 27	X	WT 4	Port 28	Nor 2	Stu 7	X	WstA 9	SthA 1	WT 18	Port 21	Nor 7	X	WT 9	Port 79
Sturt	NthA 14	SthA 2	Port 71	Nor 8	WstA 10	WT 6	X	NthA 7	Nor 30	SthA 1	Port 47	WstA 42	WT 30	X	Port 54
West Torrens	X	Nor 45	WstA 0	Port 68	NthA 4	Stu 6	SthA 15	X	Port 22	Nor 21	WstA 11	NthA 18	Stu 30	SthA 9	X	NthA 9
West Adelaide	Nor 19	NthA 6	WT 0	SthA 3	Stu 10	X	Port 75	Nor 10	SthA 39	NthA 9	WT 11	Stu 42	X	Port 52
South Adelaide	Port 23	Stu 2	NthA 27	WstA 3	X	Nor 16	WT 15	Port 32	WstA 39	Stu 1	NthA 1	X	Nor 4	WT 9
Norwood	WstA 19	WT 45	X	Stu 8	Port 38	SthA 16	NthA 2	WstA 10	Stu 30	WT 21	X	Port 81	SthA 4	NthA 7
Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	F1	F2	GF


	Grand Final
Saturday, 19 September	Port Adelaide	def.	North Adelaide	Adelaide Oval (crowd: 11,000)	Report
	2.1 (13) 5.7 (37) 7.8 (50) 13.15 (93)	Q1 Q2 Q3 Final	0.3 (3) 0.4 (4) 0.8 (8) 1.8 (14)


Congear 4 Chaplin 3 Drummond, Andersen 2 Dunn, McFarlane 1		Goals	1 Thomas
Congear, Chaplin, Watson, Magor, Drummond, Andersen, Londrigan, Boon, Pope, Oliver, Robertson		Best	Secombe, Klose, Lewis, O'Brien, Pratten, Thomas, Wainwright, Russell, Trescowthick, Murch

Club	Coach	Captain(s)
North Adelaide	-	Johns, EEB
Norwood	Algy Millhouse	Algy Millhouse
Port Adelaide	Jack Londrigan	Jack Londrigan
South Adelaide	Jack Tredrea	Bert Renfry
Sturt	William Mayman	William Mayman
West Adelaide		Joseph Dailey
West Torrens	Stewart Geddes	William Hutton


	Semi Final
Saturday, 5 September	Port Adelaide 12.17 (89)	def.	Sturt 5.5 (35)	Adelaide Oval (crowd: 8,000)	^[24]


	Qualifying Finals
Saturday, 12 September	North Adelaide 5.10 (40)	def.	West Torrens 3.13 (31)	Adelaide Oval (crowd: 8,000)	^[25]

Club	Player
North Adelaide	Tom Leahy
Norwood	Sidney White
Port Adelaide	Jack Ashley
South Adelaide	—
Sturt	William Mayman
West Adelaide	—
West Torrens	Stan Patten


	1914 Championship of Australia
Wednesday, 3 October	Port Adelaide 9.16 (70)	def.	Carlton 5.6 (36)	Adelaide Oval


	South Australia vs. Port Adelaide
Wednesday, 14 October	South Australia 5.10 (40)	def. by	Port Adelaide 14.14 (98)	Jubilee Oval	^[26]