The 1875 South Australian football season was the sixth year of interclub football https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/244715688?searchTerm=Adelaide%20Football in South Australia.

Clubs The following clubs participated in interclub matches during 1875:

Metropolitan Adelaide Kensington Port Adelaide South Adelaide (1875)https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/40089533?searchTerm=ROSCOBLA Victorian Woodvillehttps://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/208188522?searchTerm=Woodville%20Football

Country Gawler Kapunda (Light) Willunga

Notes: Kapunda renamed itself Light at a meeting held at Sir John Franklin Hotel, Kapunda on 27 April 1875 and Mr. T. H. Smith was unanimously elected Captain. The club also ordered a rugby ball from Melbourne as not one was available in the Colony of South Australia.https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/108368679?searchTerm=Light%20Football

Colleges Prince Alfred College St Peter's College

Opening Colour Matches

Woodville Football Club - The opening colour match of the Club was played on Saturday, 3 April 1875 on the grounds of T.Terrell, Esq., Woodville.https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/40085309?searchTerm=Woodville%20Football

Victorian Football Club opening game was played on their new grounds at the west of Montefiore Hill, on Saturday, May 22, 1875. It was reported a good game was played, which resulted in a goal being obtained by J. Fleming and another by G. Downs, the Captains of the sides.https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/93958934?searchTerm=Opening%20game%20Football

Interclub football matches

May 15

May 15

Queen's Birthday Holiday

May 29

June 5

June 12

June 19

June 24 https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/108368978?searchTerm=Gawler%20Match%20Football

June 26

July 3

July 10

July 10

July 24

July 24

July 24

July 31

Teams July 31 Woodville— Annells, Baker, Beck, Dale, Darby, Holthouse, Ive, Letchford, lines, Newman, Osborne, Stevens, Taylor, Townsend, Trimmer, Terrell (3). Young (2). Kensington— Acraman, Burton, Crooks, Farr, Gale, Green, Hall (2), Hallett, Jay, Milne, Moulden, Perry (2), Sholl, Sunter, Tardif, Tassie, Williams, and Wood.https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/197682954?searchTerm=Victorians%20Port%20Adelaide%20Football

August 6

August 14

August 21

August 28

Ladder

In the table below the record listed under Metro Senior W-L-D is the record in matches, excluding those against Country, Seconds and College teams. Any matches against Seconds and College Teams have been excluded and appear in other tables.

There was no formal process by which the clubs were ranked, so the below order should be considered indicative only, particularly since the fixturing of matches was not standardised.

Summary of Results - Victorian Firsts, Kensington and Port Adelaide Seconds

Summary of Results - Victorian Firsts and Colleges

Note: No record can be found for a rematch (2nd game) between Victorian and Prince Alfred College.

Annual Dinners and Closing Games

Victorian Club at the 1875 annual dinner held at the Crown and Sceptre Hotel on Wednesday evening, 15 September the secretary, George Downs reported that the club had only lost the opening match out of nine matches played, and that they had obtained 23 goals in these matches to four goals scored against them.

Woodville Club played their closing game at Woodville on Saturday 18 September https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/208178050?searchTerm=Holthouse%20Football between two teams Blues (Captain Mr. T. Terrell) and Black and Whites (Captain Mr. J. Beck) starting at 3pm played in 2 halves of approximately 1 hour each. The Blues team kicked two goals - one in each half which brought the half time adjournment and the end of play.https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/93953786?searchTerm=Woodville%20Football

The closing game for the season of the Port Adelaide, Football Club Club was played at Glanville on Saturday, October 2. After playing for an hour, the Blues secured a goal, which was the only one obtained during the afternoon. There was a good number of spectators, and Mrs. Wells distributed the prizes at the close. The Club's fifth annual ball took place in the Town Hall on Friday, October 8. Although the weather was rough, there were about 200 persons present. The Hall was tastefully decorated with flags and evergreens, and on the platform was a small goal with a ball suspended in the centre.https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/93953932

Miscellaneous

An advertisement was placed on 19 April 1876 in the Adelaide Evening Journal titled - THE FOOTBALLER, 1875.— An Annual Record of Football. Price 1s. GEORGE ROBERTSON, Opposite the Town Hall.https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/197689939?searchTerm=Football

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