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First league football match at Glenelg Oval
Title : First league football match at Glenelg Oval First league football match at Glenelg Oval
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Date of creation : 1921
Format : Photograph
Dimensions : 115 x 155 mm
Contributor : State Library of South Australia
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Sir Archibald Weigall, Governor of South Australia, starting the first league football match played at Glenelg Oval by bouncing the ball, 21 May 1921. He opened the new stand on the same day. The league was then known as the South Australian Football League (SAFL), changing its name to the South Australian National Football League (SANFL) in 1927.

The teams featured are Glenelg and North Adelaide (in the hooped guernsey).

1921 was the first year that Glenelg participated in the SAFL and they were not to win a match until the first round of the 1925 season when they beat the 1924 premiers, West Torrens.

The Glenelg Oval had its largest crowd in 1968, when 17,171 spectators squeezed in to see Glenelg take on Sturt.

Sir Archibald Weigall was Governor of SA from 9 June 1920 to 30 May 1922.

Subjects
Coverage year : 1921
Period : 1919-1927
Region : Adelaide metropolitan area
Further reading :
Whimpress, Bernard. The South Australian football story, West Lakes, S. Aust. : South Australian National Football League, 1983.
Cornwall, Peter and Wood, John. Pride of the Bay : the story of Glenelg Football Club, 1920 -2003, Richmond, S. Aust. : Graphic Print Group, 2003
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