1877 SAFA season

[1] South Adelaide and Victorian would share the premiership honours as there was no grand final playoff, while the Bankers Football Club, who finished last without a win and forfeited a number of games, folded before the end of the season.

The names of the Adelaide Club players are Messrs. M. Acraman, F. A. Bleechmore, G. Butterworth, W. Cate, Canaway, W. E. Dalton, A.Fesenmeyer, H. and C. Hughes, Morgan, Poole, A. and D. C.Scott, R. N.Twopeny, Wyatt, and Jas, Jno., and E. B.

Non Association Matches Played against Country Clubs on the Holiday Thursday 24 May - Adelaide, 4 goals, beat Kapunda, 2.

[13] Colours - Bankers (Blue) Kensington (Red) Colours - Victorian orange and black, Bankers blue and white The Victorians were short of two of their players — Messrs. Barry and Kingsford — while the Woodvilles, besides being; greatly weakened by the retirement of their late captain and several first-class men, were playing with seven of their second twenty.

The latter match will decide the question of the championship of the season, and will, it is to be hoped, be largely attended, as a hat is to be passed round at half-time for the benefit of the sufferers by the Indian famine.

It was reported that the following players will take part in the game: South Adelaides — Messrs. G. Kennedy (Captain), Mehrtens (Vice), Absalom, Blinman, Colbey, Curtis, Coonan, Dedman, Jones, Kennedy, Kingston, Mehrtens, Reid, Stacey, Shaw, Sellars, Thompson, Toll, Wallace, Woolridge.

Crowd 450 at Gawler[48] Monday 6 August Adelaide, 3 goals, beat Kapunda, 2 at South Adelaide's Ground [49] Intercolonial Matches Saturday 11 August Melbourne, 1 goal, beat Victorian, 0.

Crowd: 2000 at Exhibition Grounds[50] Monday 13 August Melbourne, 5 goals, beat South Australian Combined Team, 0.

Crowd: 1000 at Exhibition Grounds [51] The combined team comprised players selected from the following local Clubs: Victorians, G. Downs (Captain of the South Australian combatants), C. Warren, H.Barry, Knill, Kingsford, W. Lanjmey, H. Allen, and J.

Sharp; Ports, T. Smith, A. LeMessurier, Fletcher, W. Frideaux, and Tysack; Woodvilles, T. Beeves, Letchford, G. Giffen, Aitken, and J.

Victorian finished the season with eight more goals but a slightly inferior record than South Adelaide, but one should consider that Victorian played the Bankers twice whereas South Adelaide did not (their only scheduled match, in Round 6, was a forfeit when the Bankers could only muster 13 players).

It was declared South Adelaide and Victorian would be deemed joint Champion Club (premiers).