# 1876 South Australian football season

The 1876 South Australian football season was the fourteenth season of interclub football. It was also the final season of decentralised administration of football in South Australia; the South Australian Football Association was formed the following year to provide a committee-based approach to the administration of the sport.

## Rules Sets

During the 1876 football season in South Australia two dominant rule sets were in use.
* Kensington Rules
* Victorian Rules

## Major Clubs
### Metropolitan

* Adelaide
* Australs (Based in Adelaide)
* Glenelg
* Kensington
* Port Adelaide
* South Adelaide
* Victorian (Based at foot of Montefiore Hill,North Adelaide)
* Woodville

### Outer Metropolitan (Country Clubs)

* Gawler
* Kapunda
* Willunga

### Regional Clubs

* Mount Gambier
* Young Australian (Mount Gambier)
* Penola
* Naracoorte
* Caltowie
* Yangga
* Laura
* Port Pirie

### Educational Institutions

* Adelaide Educational Institution
* North Adelaide Grammar School
* Prince Alfred College, Kent Town
* St Peter's College
* Glenelg Grammar

## Metropolitan Football Matches
### 20 May

| | Round 1 | Round 1 | Round 1 | |
| Saturday, 20 May | Woodville (Blue) 0 | drew with | Kensington (Red) 0 | Woodville |
| Saturday, 20 May (3:00 pm) | Victorian 1 | def. | South Adelaide 0 | Montefiore Hill |

### 25 May

| | Round 2 | Round 2 | Round 2 | |
| Thursday, 25 May (1:00 pm) | Kapunda 3 | def. | Woodville 1 | Kapunda |

### 3 June

| | Round 3 | Round 3 | Round 3 | |
| Saturday, 3 June (3:00 pm) | Port Adelaide 0 | def. by | Victorian 1 | Glanville Hall Estate |

### 10 June

| | Round 4 | Round 4 | Round 4 | |
| Saturday, 10 June (3:00 pm) | Woodville 0 | drew with | South Adelaide 0 | Woodville |
| Mr. J. R. Osborn acted as Captain for the Woodvilles, and Mr. Kennedy, who has recently arrived from Melbourne, for the South Adelaideas, Mr. C. Kingston being umpire. ||||||

### 17 June

| | Round 5 | Round 5 | Round 5 | |
| Saturday, 17 June (3:20 pm) | Woodville 2 | def. | Victorian 1 | Woodville |
| Saturday, 17 June | Port Adelaide 0 | def. by | Kensington 1 | Glanville Hall Estate |
| Woodville (Blue) vs Victorian (Yellow and Black) was played under the Kensington Rules ||||||

### 20 June

| | Round 6 | Round 6 | Round 6 | |
| Tuesday, 20 June (1:30 pm) | Woodville 4 | def. | Gawler 0 | Woodville |
| Tuesday, 20 June (2 to 5pm) | Willunga 3 | def. | Kensington 1 | Noarlunga |

### 1 July

| | Round 7 | Round 7 | Round 7 | |
| Saturday, 1 July (3:00 pm) | Kensington 3 | def. | Woodville 1 | Kensington Oval |
| Saturday, 1 July (3:00 pm) | Port Adelaide 0 | def. by | South Adelaide 1 | Glanville Hall Estate |

### 8 July

| | Round 8 | Round 8 | Round 8 | |
| Saturday, 8 July (3:10 pm) | Adelaide 0 | drew with | South Adelaide 0 | Old Adelaide Ground (crowd: 400) |
| Saturday, 8 July (3:00 pm) | Glenelg 0 | def. by | Victorian 4 | Glenelg |
| Saturday, 8 July | Woodville 0 | def. by | Port Adelaide 1 | Woodville |
| Adelaide vs South Adelaide was played under the Old Adelaide Rules A match was advertised — AUSTRAL V KENSINGTON (second 16), at Kensington, at 2.30 p.m. 8th July by A. S. YOUNG, Hon. Sec., A. F. C. and F. P. PERRY, pro Secretary (Kensington) Match Report - A match between the Austral and the second sixteen of the Kensington Club was played on the ground of the latter at Kensington on Saturday. At 3 o'clock the ball was kicked off, and after about 10 minutes' play a goal was obtained by A. Young for the blues. Goals were then changed, when some good play took place, and after an exciting tussle, in which the Kensingtons had decidedly the best of the game. Dunstan with a rush took the ball up to the Kensington goal, where F. Stanton succeeded in scoring one for Kensington. On play being resumed, C. Wright obtained a goal for the Australs, and half-an-hour afterwards Wicksteed secured a goal for Kensington. At five o'clock the match was declared drawn as each team had scored two goals. Good play was shown on behalf of the Kensington team by Dunstan, Wyatt, Day, Hargraves, and Smith; for the 'Australs' team by Cossins, Mudie, Pettinger, Acraman, Shander, and Stephens. Messrs. A. S. Young and A. Frew captained the respective teams, and Mr. G. Berry acted as umpire. ||||||

### 15 July

| | Round 9 | Round 9 | Round 9 | |
| Saturday, 15 July (3:25 pm) | Victorian 2 | def. | Woodville 0 | Montefiore Hill |
| Saturday, 15 July (4:00 pm) | Kensington 5 | def. | Port Adelaide 2 | Kensington Oval |
| Saturday, 15 July | Glenelg 0 | def. by | Australs 1 | Glenelg |

### 22 July

| | Round 10 | Round 10 | Round 10 | |
| Saturday, 22 July (3:00 pm) | Adelaide 1 | def. by | Woodville 6 | North Park Lands (crowd: 300) |
| Saturday, 22 July (3:00 pm) | Victorian 4 | def. | Port Adelaide 0 | Montefiore Hill |
| Saturday, 22 July | Kensington 0 | def. by | South Adelaide 1 | Kensington Oval |

### 29 July

| | Round 11 | Round 11 | Round 11 | |
| Saturday, 29 July (3:30 pm) | Woodville 0 | def. by | South Adelaide 2 | Woodville (crowd: 600) |
| Saturday, 29 July | Australs 8 | def. | Glenelg 0 | (crowd: Australs Home Ground) |
| After the Australs had scored six goals the rules were changed and they played according to the old Adelaide Rules. ||||||

### 5 August

| | Round 12 | Round 12 | Round 12 | |
| Saturday, 5 August (3:15 pm) | Adelaide 0 | drew with | South Adelaide 0 | Old Adelaide Ground (crowd: 450) |
| Saturday, 5 August (3:00 pm) | Port Adelaide 0 | def. by | Woodville 1 | Glanville Hall Estate |
| Saturday, 5 August | Willunga 4 | def. | Victorian 1 | Willunga (crowd: 450) |
| Willunga vs Victorians - played using the Kensington Rules ||||||

### 7 August

| | Round 13 | Round 13 | Round 13 | |
| Monday, 7 August (1:30 pm) | Kapunda 0 | drew with | South Adelaide 0 | Kapunda (crowd: 250) |

### 12 August

| | Round 14 | Round 14 | Round 14 | |
| Saturday, 12 August (3:15 pm) | Adelaide 0 | def. by | Woodville 3 | Old Adelaide Ground (crowd: 1,000) |

### 19 August

| | Round 15 | Round 15 | Round 15 | |
| Saturday, 19 August | Adelaide 0 | def. by | Victorian 1 | Adelaide Ground (crowd: 600) |
| Saturday, 19 August (3:15 pm) | South Adelaide 4 | def. | Woodville 0 | South Park Lands |
| Saturday, 19 August | Port Adelaide 2 | def. | Australs 0 | Glanville Hall Estate |
| Saturday, 19 August (3:15 pm) | St Peter's College 4 | def. | Kensington 2 | Adelaide Oval |
| Port Adelaide vs Australs played using the Kensington Rules ||||||

### 2 September

| | Round 16 | Round 16 | Round 16 | |
| Saturday, 2 September | Victorian 2 | drew with | Willunga 2 | Montefiore Hill (crowd: 350) |

## Ladder

In the table below, Senior Results is based only upon games played against senior clubs; the record listed under W-L-D is the record over all matches, including those against country and junior teams.
1876 South Australian Football Ladder :
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | D | Senior Results | GF | GA |
| 1 | Victorian (P) | 9 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 6-1-0 | 17 | 8 |
| 2 | South Adelaide | 9 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 4-1-3 | 8 | 1 |
| 3 | Australs | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2-1-1 | 11 | 4 |
| 4 | Kensington | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3-1-1 | 14 | 13 |
| 5 | Woodville | 14 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 4-5-2 | 13 | 12 |
| 6 | Port Adelaide | 8 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 2-6-0 | 5 | 13 |
| 7 | Adelaide | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0-3-2 | 1 | 10 |
| 8 | Glenelg | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0-3-0 | 0 | 13 |

## Exhibition Matches
### 26 August

| | August 26 | August 26 | August 26 | |
| Day, 26 August (3:00 pm) | Collegians 2 | def. by | Non-Collegians 4 | North Park Lands (crowd: 1,750) |
| The Collegians vs. Non-Collegians was an all star match made up of the best players of the Adelaide, Woodville, Kensington, and College clubs. ||||||