1914 Port Adelaide Football Club season

Port Adelaide Football Club
1914 season
President	Dr Alexander Benson
Coach	Jack Londrigan
Captain(s)	Jack Londrigan
Home ground	Alberton Oval
Best and Fairest	Jack Ashley
Highest home attendance	8,500; (Round 6 vs. West Torrens)
← 1913	1915 →

The 1914 Port Adelaide Football Club season was the club's 37th year in the South Australian Football League.

1914 list changes[edit]

New recruits[edit]

New recruits
Player	Former Club
John Dunn	West Torrens
Leonard Wisdom	Port Adelaide B
Cuthbert Lincoln	Port Adelaide B

Retirements and delistings[edit]

Retirements and delistings
Player	Note
Francis Hansen	Retired mid season
Albert Chaplin
Joseph Middleton
John Londrigan
Joseph Watson
Clifford Cock

1914 squad[edit]

Due to World War I, many Port Adelaide players enlisted to take part in the conflict at season's end. Of the 1914 squad, Albert Chaplin, Joseph Watson and William Boon would be killed in action.

Port Adelaide Football Club
1914 Senior list								Coaching staff
3 Angelo Congear Jack Londrigan (c) 9 Sampson Hosking 14 Harold Oliver Jack Ashley John Dunn Francis Hansen Cuthbert Lincoln Leonard Wisdom Samuel Howie William Drummond Alan Maynard		Henry Eaton Joseph Watson Alex McFarlane Francis Magor Charles Andersen Clifford Cock Horace Pope Joseph Middleton Albert Chaplin John Robertson William Boon						Head coach Jack Londrigan Legend: (c) Captain(s) (vc) Vice-captain(s) Updated: 14 October 1914 Source(s): Playing list, Coaching staff

1914 pre-season[edit]

Game 1[edit]


	Game 1
Saturday, 4 April	Port Adelaide 14.10 (94)	def.	Semaphore Central 5.3 (33)	Alberton Oval	^[1]

Game 2[edit]


	Game 2
Saturday, 11 April	Port Adelaide 17.10 (112)	def.	Port Adelaide B 3.2 (20)	Alberton Oval	^[2]

Game 3[edit]


	Game 2
Saturday, 18 April	Port Adelaide 11.19 (85)	def.	Semaphore/Port B 4.7 (27)	Alberton Oval	^[3]

Game 4[edit]


	Game 4
Saturday, 25 April	Port Adelaide 25.25 (175)	def.	West Torrens B 4.1 (25)	Alberton Oval	^[4]

1914 home-and-away season[edit]

Round 1[edit]


	Round 1
Saturday, 2 May	South Adelaide	def. by	Port Adelaide	Adelaide Oval (crowd: 10,500)	^[5]^[6]
	1.1 (7) 2.5 (17) 4.6 (30) 7.8 (50)	Q1 Q2 Q3 Final	3.3 (21) 6.6 (42) 8.10 (56) 10.13 (73)	Umpires: S. Coleman


C. Tredrea, J. Tredrea, Waye, Windsor, Jones, Young, Foale 1		Goals	3 Dunn, Ashley 2 Magor, Congear
Mahoney, Dugan, Mueller, Foale. C. Tredrea McKee, Barry, Wallace, J. Tredrea		Best	Ashley, Oliver, Magor, Pope, Eaton Londrigan, Middleton, Maynard, McFarlane



Record: 1 Win, 0 Losses, 0 Draws (146.00%) Ladder Position: 1st

Round 2[edit]


	Round 2
	Bye Port Adelaide

Round 3[edit]


	Round 3
Saturday, 16 May	Port Adelaide	def.	Sturt	Alberton Oval (crowd: 5,000)	^[7]^[8]
	3.5 (23) 7.10 (52) 8.14 (62) 14.16 (100)	Q1 Q2 Q3 Final	0.2 (2) 2.5 (17) 3.4 (22) 4.5 (29)	Umpires: Mr Hackey (replacing Mr Coleman)


Dunn 6 Magor 4 Congear 2 Chaplin, Watson 1		Goals	2 Offe 1 Sellick, Bannigan
Drummond, Middleton, Ashley, Watson, Oliver Dunn, Robertson, Magor		Best	Bannigan, Hewett, Kappler, Mayman, Sharpe Smith, Mowatt, Nicolle, Baulderstone.



Record: 2 Win, 0 Losses, 0 Draws (218.99%) Ladder Position: 1st

Round 4[edit]


	Round 4
Saturday, 23 May	Port Adelaide	def.	West Torrens	Alberton Oval	^[9]
	2.3 (15) 6.5 (41) 8.9 (57) 13.11 (89)	Q1 Q2 Q3 Final	1.1 (7) 1.2 (8) 2.4 (16) 2.9 (21)


Anderson 3 Drummond, Ashley, Dunn 2 McFarlane, Chaplin, Congear, Watson 1		Goals	2 Gibbons
Watson, Congear, Robertson, Pope, Ashley Oliver, Drummond		Best	Patten, Hutton, Waite, Richmond, Rimes Scott, Miller



Record: 3 Win, 0 Losses, 0 Draws (262.00%) Ladder Position: 1st

Round 5[edit]


	Round 5
Saturday, 30 May	Norwood	def. by	Port Adelaide	Norwood Oval (crowd: 9,000)	^[10]
	1.2 (8) 2.5 (17) 5.5 (35) 8.5 (53)	Q1 Q2 Q3 Final	4.3 (27) 5.5 (35) 9.8 (62) 13.13 (91)


Chamberlain 3 Packham 1 Short, Trembath, Kearney 1		Goals	4 Ashley 3 Congear 2 Magor, Dunn 1 Anderson, Druminond
Packham, Robin, Trembath, Short, Crawford, Chamberlain, Millhouse, Grantley, Kearney		Best	Oliver, Ashley, Robertson, Anderson, Maynard, McFarlane, Drummond, Pope.



Record: 4 Win, 0 Losses, 0 Draws (230.72%) Ladder Position: 1st

Round 6 (Queen's Birthday)[edit]


	Round 6 (Queen's Birthday)
Monday, 8 June	North Adelaide 6.19 (46)	def. by	Port Adelaide 11.8 (74)	Adelaide Oval (crowd: 15,000)	^[11]
Record: 5 Win, 0 Losses, 0 Draws (214.57%) Ladder Position: 1st

Round 7[edit]


	Round 7
Saturday, 13 June	Port Adelaide 14.21 (105)	def.	West Adelaide 4.6 (30)	Alberton Oval (crowd: 5,000)	^[12]
Record: 6 Win, 0 Losses, 0 Draws (232.31%) Ladder Position: 1st

Round 8[edit]


	Round 8
Saturday, 20 June	Port Adelaide 9.15 (69)	def.	South Adelaide 5.7 (37)	Alberton Oval (crowd: 5,500)	^[13]
Record: 7 Win, 0 Losses, 0 Draws (225.94%) Ladder Position: 1st

Round 9[edit]


	Round 9
Saturday, 27 June	Port Adelaide 11.15 (81)	def.	West Torrens 9.5 (59)	Adelaide Oval (crowd: 8,500)	^[14]
Record: 8 Win, 0 Losses, 0 Draws (209.85%) Ladder Position: 1st

Round 10[edit]


	Round 10
	Bye Port Adelaide

Round 11[edit]


	Round 11
Saturday, 11 July	Sturt 6.5 (41)	def. by	Port Adelaide 13.10 (88)	Unley Oval (crowd: 7,000)	^[15]^[16]
Record: 9 Win, 0 Losses, 0 Draws (210.38%) Ladder Position: 1st

Round 12[edit]


	Round 12
Saturday, 18 July	Port Adelaide 19.17 (131)	def.	Norwood 7.8 (50)	Alberton Oval
Record: 10 Win, 0 Losses, 0 Draws (216.59%) Ladder Position: 1st

Round 13[edit]


	Round 13
Saturday, 22 August	North Adelaide 8.11 (59)	def. by	Port Adelaide 11.14 (80)	Adelaide Oval (crowd: 9,000)	^[17]
Record: 11 Win, 0 Losses, 0 Draws (206.53%) Ladder Position: 1st

Round 14[edit]


	Round 14
Saturday, 29 August	West Adelaide 5.5 (35)	def. by	Port Adelaide 12.15 (87)	Adelaide Oval (crowd: 6,500)	^[18]
Record: 12 Win, 0 Losses, 0 Draws (209.41%) Ladder Position: 1st

Ladder[edit]

1914 SAFL Ladder

TEAM

P

W

L

D

PF

PA

%

PTS

1

Port Adelaide (P)

12

0

1068

510

67.68

24

2

North Adelaide

12

6

0

723

769

48.46

12

3

Sturt

12

6

0

665

799

45.42

12

4

West Torrens

12

5

6

1

715

786

47.63

11

5

West Adelaide

12

4

7

1

621

767

44.74

9

6

South Adelaide

12

4

8

0

692

722

48.94

8

7

Norwood

12

4

8

0

656

787

45.46

8

Key: P = Played, W = Won, L = Lost, D = Drawn, PF = Points For, PA = Points Against, (P) = Premiers

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Finals[edit]

Semi-final[edit]


	1914 SAFL Semi-final
Saturday, 5 September	Port Adelaide	def.	Sturt	Adelaide Oval (crowd: 8,000)	Report
	3.7 (25) 3.11 (29) 6.13 (49) 12.17 (89)	Q1 Q2 Q3 Final	0.0 (0) 4.3 (27) 5.3 (33) 5.5 (35)	Umpires: O'Connor


Dunn 4 Chaplin, Drummond 2 Ashley, Magor, Watson, Congear 1		Goals	2 Smith 1 Golding, Sellick, Neate

Grand Final[edit]


	1914 SAFL Grand Final
Saturday, 19 September	Port Adelaide	def.	North Adelaide	Adelaide Oval (crowd: 11,200)	Report
	2.1 (13) 5.7 (37) 7.8 (50) 13.15 (93)	Q1 Q2 Q3 Final	0.3 (3) 0.4 (4) 0.8 (8) 1.8 (14)


Congear 4 Chaplin 3 Drummond, Andersen 2 Dunn, McFarlane 1		Goals	1 Thomas
Congear, Chaplin, Watson, Magor, Drummond, Andersen, Londrigan, Boon, Pope, Oliver, Robertson		Best	Secombe, Klose, Lewis, O'Brien, Pratten, Thomas, Wainwright, Russell, Trescowthick, Murch

Post season[edit]

Championship of Australia[edit]


	1914 Championship of Australia
Wednesday, 3 October	Port Adelaide	def.	Carlton	Adelaide Oval (crowd: 5,000)
	2.4 (16) 5.6 (36) 6.9 (45) 9.16 (70)	Q1 Q2 Q3 Final	1.3 (9) 3.3 (21) 4.4 (28) 5.6 (36)	Umpires: O'Connor


Congear 4 Watson 2 Chaplin, Drummond, Wisdom 1		Goals	McKenzie 2 Baud, Morris, Sharp 1

Port Adelaide vs. South Australia[edit]


	Port Adelaide vs. South Australia
Wednesday, 14 October	Port Adelaide	def.	South Australia	Jubilee Oval
	1.2 (8) 6.7 (43) 8.9 (57) 14.14 (98)	Q1 Q2 Q3 Final	2.3 (15) 2.7 (19) 5.10 (40) 5.10 (40)


Chaplin 4 Watson 3 Drummond, Congear, Wisdom, McFarlane, Andersen, Ashley, Oliver 1		Goals	2 Packham 1 Barry, Stephens, Fitzgerald




A medal for best on ground was awarded to Harold Oliver of Port Adelaide.

References[edit]

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^ "FOOTBALL NOTES FACTS ABOUT SATURDAY'S GAMES". Daily Herald. Adelaide. 16 July 1914. p. 7. Retrieved 8 January 2015 – via National Library of Australia.
^ "SATURDAY'S FOOTBALL MATCHES PORT ADELAIDE STILL ON TOP". Daily Herald. Adelaide. 24 August 1914. p. 3. Retrieved 8 January 2015 – via National Library of Australia.
^ "TORRENS DEFEATED SOUTH". The Register. Adelaide. 31 August 1914. p. 6. Retrieved 14 July 2015 – via National Library of Australia.
^ "Australian Football – SANFL Season 1913". Archived from the original on 4 January 2015. Retrieved 4 January 2015.

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[2] "FOOTBALL". The Mail. Adelaide. 11 April 1914. p. 2 Section: SATURDAY'S NEWS SECTION. Retrieved 15 July 2015 – via National Library of Australia.

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[4] "FOOTBALL". The Register. Adelaide. 29 April 1914. p. 6. Retrieved 15 July 2015 – via National Library of Australia.

[5] "PORT V. SOUTH". Daily Herald. Adelaide. 4 May 1914. p. 7. Retrieved 15 July 2015 – via National Library of Australia.

[6] "THE SEASON OPENS". The Advertiser. Adelaide. 4 May 1914. p. 12. Retrieved 15 July 2015 – via National Library of Australia.

[7] "THE LEAGUE GAMES". Daily Herald. Adelaide. 21 May 1914. p. 7. Retrieved 15 July 2015 – via National Library of Australia.

[8] "SPORTING NEWS". The Advertiser. Adelaide. 18 May 1914. p. 19. Retrieved 15 July 2015 – via National Library of Australia.

[9] "PORT ADELAIDE V. WEST TORRENS". The Mail. Adelaide. 23 May 1914. p. 4 Section: SATURDAY'S NEWS SECTION. Retrieved 15 July 2015 – via National Library of Australia.

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v t e Port Adelaide Football Club • 1914 SAFL premiers
Port Adelaide 13.15 (93) defeated North Adelaide 1.8 (14), at Adelaide Oval
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v t e Championship of Australia
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