The 19th Century Adelaide Football Club

[The_Wookie]

The Crows ran a three part series about the original Adelaide Football Club

It was the first football club in South Australia. It was the first to play night football. Adelaide Football Club was a trendsetter that won a premiership as the best football club in the State and also beat powerhouse Victorian club Carlton.

Only this Adelaide Football Club was not the Crows. It didn’t last long, coming and going, reforming then disappearing. But 131 years before the Adelaide Football Club spectacularly kicked off its Australian Football League life with that stunning, unforgettable 86-point hammering of Hawthorn at Football Park in 1991, the first Adelaide club took its wobbly infant steps. Footy would give the young men of the 24-year-old colony, many of whom played cricket in the summer months, winter recreation to keep them fit in the off-season. Outstanding cricketer and local entrepreneur John Acraman was the man credited with initiating the club’s founding in 1860. If Acraman could see the Adelaide Football Club of today he would not be able to believe the sporting phenomenon he helped kickstart.

http://www.afc.com.au/news/2014-01-16/the-19th-century-afc
http://www.afc.com.au/news/2014-01-20/pt-2-the-19th-century-afc
http://www.afc.com.au/news/2014-01-23/pt-3-the-19th-century-afc

 

[little graham]

Thank you for that.