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1879 SAFA season

1879 SAFA premiership season
Norwood 1879.jpg
3rd SAFA season
Pictured above is the 1879 Norwood premiership team.
Teams 7
Premiers Norwood Jumper Design.png Norwood
(2nd premiership)
Matches played 34
Highest attendance 3,000 (Round 11, Norwood vs. Port Adelaide)
Leading goalkicker Norwood Jumper Design.png William Dedman
Norwood (7 Goals)
1878
1880

The 1879 South Australian Football Association season was the 3rd season of the top-level Australian rules football competition in South Australia.

The Norwood Football Club went on to record its 2nd consecutive premiership, going through the season undefeated. The Kensington football club received its second consecutive wooden spoon failing to win a game.

During 1879, a team representing the South Australian Football Association) toured Victoria, and played two intercolonial matches against an Association representative team; the first on a public holiday Tuesday, and the other on the following Saturday. The games were the first ever intercolonial matches between colony representative teams.


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