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A glorious 150 year history!
UNCORK the champagne. Strike up the band, as they did in 1870 for Port Adelaide games. The moment has come. April 20 - the day, 150 years ago, when three men started a football club - and no ordinary football club.
John Albert Rann.
Richard William John Leicester.
And George Henry Ireland.
It was a Wednesday. They met at North Parade at Port Adelaide. They had a vision for their growing community, its people - and the new game of Australian football that was less than a decade-old in Adelaide.
By May 12, Rann had set up this new football club at the Port Adelaide Cricket Club, where he was president. The club's first committee was established with the presidency taken up by John Hart junior, the son of South Australia's 10th Premier, John Hart.
Leicester was the club's first secretary. Ireland, the first treasurer. Rann became a committee member, along with Messrs. R. Carr and F. Bridgeman.
The first practice game was played two days later on the Hart's family estate at Glanville.
And, as they say, the rest is history with 37 premierships - and eight other titles - making the Port Adelaide Football Club the most successful in Australian football.
https://www.portadelaidefc.com.au/news/586028
UNCORK the champagne. Strike up the band, as they did in 1870 for Port Adelaide games. The moment has come. April 20 - the day, 150 years ago, when three men started a football club - and no ordinary football club.
John Albert Rann.
Richard William John Leicester.
And George Henry Ireland.
It was a Wednesday. They met at North Parade at Port Adelaide. They had a vision for their growing community, its people - and the new game of Australian football that was less than a decade-old in Adelaide.
By May 12, Rann had set up this new football club at the Port Adelaide Cricket Club, where he was president. The club's first committee was established with the presidency taken up by John Hart junior, the son of South Australia's 10th Premier, John Hart.
Leicester was the club's first secretary. Ireland, the first treasurer. Rann became a committee member, along with Messrs. R. Carr and F. Bridgeman.
The first practice game was played two days later on the Hart's family estate at Glanville.
And, as they say, the rest is history with 37 premierships - and eight other titles - making the Port Adelaide Football Club the most successful in Australian football.
https://www.portadelaidefc.com.au/news/586028
ala Tyson Stengle and the Camries. 
