The 1945 SANFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Port Adelaide Football Club and the West Torrens Football Club, held at Adelaide Oval in Adelaide on 29 September 1945. It was the 47th Grand Final of the South Australian National Football League, staged to determine the premiers for the 1945 SANFL season. The match, attended by 47,500 spectators, was won by West Torrens by a margin of 13 points, marking that club's third premiership victory.[3] The game is also remembered for being the final game of Haydn Bunton Sr's career.
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| Date | Saturday, 29 September (2:10 pm) | |||||||||||||||
| Stadium | Adelaide Oval | |||||||||||||||
| Attendance | 47,500 | |||||||||||||||
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| Best on Ground | Jim Thoms[1] | |||||||||||||||
| Australian Football Hall of Fame | Haydn Bunton Sr. (1996; Legend) Bob Quinn (1996) Bob Hank (1999) Bob McLean (2007) | |||||||||||||||
| Commentators | Steve McKee (5AD)[2] | |||||||||||||||
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Background edit
This was the first SANFL Grand Final held after World War Two, with Japan surrendering 27 days prior to the game.[4]
Match summary edit
First quarter edit
Port Adelaide's first quarter score of 8.3 (51) remains the largest opening term to any SANFL grand final.
Second quarter edit
Third quarter edit
Fourth quarter edit
Teams edit
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Scorecard edit
| Grand Final | |||||
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| {{{date}}} | Port Adelaide | def. by | West Torrens | Adelaide Oval (crowd: 47,500) | |
| 8.3 (51) 9.7 (61) 13.11 (81) 15.12 (102) |
Q1 Q2 Q3 Final |
2.7 (19) 9.11 (65) 13.17 (83) 15.25 (115) |
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| Quinn 5 Grimm, Hoffman 3 A. McLean 2 Hall, Dayman 1 |
Goals | 4 Turner 3 Nicholls, McInnes 2 Thoms 1 Hodgens, Prior, Coverlid | |||
| Fletcher, L. McLean, Bunton, A. McLean, McFarlane, Quinn, Hall | Best | R. Roberts, Edwards, Wood, THoms, Nicholls, Turner, Prior | |||
Post game edit
Record attendance edit
The crowd of 47,500 broke the attendance for a football match in South Australia that was previously 44,300 held by the 1924 SAFL Grand Final.
Haydn Bunton Sr last game edit
The 1945 SANFL Grand Final was Haydn Bunton Sr's last game.
References edit
- ^ ""GOOD THING" THAT FAILED". Recorder. No. 12, 732. South Australia. 1 October 1945. p. 4. Retrieved 19 September 2021 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "New Features From 5AD". The Advertiser (Adelaide). Vol. 88, no. 27141. South Australia. 29 September 1945. p. 5. Retrieved 19 September 2021 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "Australian Football - SANFL Season 1945". australianfootball.com. Archived from the original on 8 January 2015. Retrieved 7 March 2015.
- ^ Beevor 2012, p. 776.
Bibliography edit
- Beevor, Antony (2012). The Second World War. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. ISBN 978-0-297-84497-6.
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