page_title: 1889 SAFA Grand Final
section_title: Police clear Switchback rollercoaster
hierarchical_section_title: 1889 SAFA Grand Final / Ladder / Police clear Switchback rollercoaster
caption_attribution_description: English: Photo of the Adelaide Oval Switchback rollercoaster from 1889 taken by Ernest Gall.
context_page_description: The 1889 SAFA Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Norwood and Port Adelaide, held at the Adelaide Oval on the 5 October 1889. It was the first Grand Final in the SAFA's history, the third in South Australian football history, and the sixth in elite Australian rules football history. The game resulted in a victory for Norwood, who beat Port Adelaide by two goals, marking the club's ninth premiership and third in a row.
  Norwood's captain, Alfred Waldron, was considered the best player on the ground by field umpire John Trait. The match was attended by an estimated 11,000 people.
context_section_description: Extra police were deployed for the match and post game reports suggest that there was little incident apart from the need to clear the switchback railway of people trying to garner a vantage point of the match.
caption: Police were required to clear the Switchback rollercoaster of people trying to garner a vantage point of the match.
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