Champion Norwood Football Club Teams 7 | Start date 1901 Matches played 64 | |
Premiers Norwood
(12th premiership) Minor premiers Norwood
(3rd minor premiership) Highest attendance 7,000 (Grand Final, Norwood vs. Port Adelaide) Leading goalkicker William Miller
Norwood (44 Goals) Magarey Medallist Phil Sandland
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The 1901 South Australian Football Association season was the 25th season of the top-level Australian rules football competition in South Australia. Minor premier Norwood won its 12th premiership. The season marked the formation and debut of the new Sturt Football Club.
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Season
The season was played under conventions similar to but amended from the previous two seasons and the system introduced in the VFL in 1898. In the minor round, all seven clubs played a double round-robin of twelve matches. Then, in the major round, all seven clubs played a single round-robin of six matches. If the minor premiers won the major round, then that team would automatically win the major premiership. If not, then the major round winner would need to defeat the minor premiers in two separate challenge finals to claim the premiership – in effect giving the minor premiers a triple chance to win the premiership.
The minor premier was Norwood, which finished two games clear on top of the ladder with a 10–2 record; however, the club's major round performance was mediocre, finishing fourth record of 3–3. Conversely, Port Adelaide, who had finished fourth in the minor rounds with a 6–6 record, was the undefeated winner of the major round. Norwood then defeated Port Adelaide by four points in the first challenge match to win the club's twelfth premiership.