The West Torrens Football Club began in 1894 when a number of players from Port Adelaide left that club to form their own team, Port Natives. Initially part of the Adelaide and Suburban Association, in 1895 they joined the South Australian Football Association later known as the South Australia National Football League (SANFL). The club changed its name to West Torrens in 1897 upon the inception of district football.

The Eagles, as they became known, wore blue and gold. Their first home ground was at Hindmarsh Oval from 1905, before moving to Thebarton Oval in 1922. West Torrens won four SANFL premierships, 1924, 1933, 1945 and 1953 and many fine players have donned the various styles of blue and gold guernsey.

Magarey Medallists from the club were Tom MacKenzie 1902 (who also won the 1905 and 1906 Magarey Medals with North Adelaide), Dave Low 1912, John Karney 1921, Max Pontifex 1932, Bob Hank 1946 and 1947 and Lindsay Head 1955, 1958 and 1963. Other club greats include the club's first premiership captain Roy Brown, ruckman Stan Patten, Ossie O'Grady, Len 'Booby' Mills, Jim Coverlid, Mick Clingly, Fred Bills, Peter Phillipou, Kevin McSporran, Matt Rendell and Bruce Lindsay.

After their 1953 premiership West Torrens never again competed in a Grand Final and were in fact irregular competitors in any final matches. In 1990 it was decided to merge the club with the Woodville Football Club and West Torrens played their last game in round 20 of the 1990 season. The new club, known as the Woodville-West Torrens Eagles, played their first game in 1991 and won the SANFL premiership in 1993.

Football supporters are eager to show their loyalty to a particular club whether by wearing a badge to a match or displaying a sticker on their car window or school folder. Businesses, interested in using the popularity of football to promote their wares, produce these and many other colourful items.

Item 1 : SA Invalid Club badge of Bob Hank from 1951/52

Item 2 : SA Invalid Club badge from 1951/52

Item 3 : Souvenir club colours circa early 1960s

Item 4 : Amscol sticker 1973

Item 5 : Caltex sticker early 1970s

Item 5 : Photograph of Roy Brown 1923 Archival number PRG 280/1/36/201

Item 6 : Football West Torrens v Norwood at Hindmarsh Oval 1908 Archival number B 52798

Storer, John. The records of the West Torrens Football Club / compiled by John Storer from newspaper articles at the Mortlock Library and the West Torrens annual reports (2 volumes), Flagstaff Hill, S. Aust. : John Charles Storer, [2006-2007]

Whimpress, Bernard. The South Australian football story, West Lakes, S. Aust. : South Australian National Football League, 1983.

Kay, Brian. The master : the Bob Hank story, Norwood, S. Aust. : Peacock Publications, 2003.

O'Grady, Oswald James. Oswald James O'Grady : an autobiography, together with the story of Reid Murray Holdings, [Adelaide : O'Grady Family, 1997?]

Full Points Footy : West Torrens Football Club page : includes links to player biographies