1907 SAFL Grand Final
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The 1907 SAFL Grand Final was an
Australian rules football Australian football, also called Australian rules football or Aussie rules, or more simply football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of 18 players on an oval field, often a modified cricket ground. Points are scored by k ...
game contested between the
Norwood Football Club Norwood Football Club, nicknamed the Redlegs, is an Australian rules football club competing in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL) in the state of South Australia. Its home ground is Coopers Stadium (Norwood Oval), which is ...
and the
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, held at the Adelaide Oval in Adelaide on the 21 September 1907. It was the 12th annual Grand Final of the South Australian Football League, staged to determine the premiers for the
1907 SAFL season The 1907 South Australian Football League season was the 31st season of the top-level Australian rules football competition in South Australia and the first season under a new name. won their 14 SAFL premiership and a second Championship of Au ...
. The match, attended by 25,000 spectators, was won by Norwood by a margin of 28 points, marking the clubs fourteenth premiership victory. The match was umpired by
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umpire Arthur Norden, who notably collapsed and had to be taken from the field late in the third quarter; after a delay, boundary umpire G. Earle completed the game in Norden's place.


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