The 1945 SANFL 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 Port Adelaide Football Club and the West Torrens Football Club, held at
Adelaide Oval
Adelaide Oval is a sports ground in Adelaide, South Australia, located in the parklands between the city centre and North Adelaide. The venue is predominantly used for cricket and Australian rules football, but has also played host to rugby ...
in Adelaide on 29 September 1945. It was the 47th
Grand Final
Primarily in Australian sports, a grand final (sometimes colloquially abbreviated to "grannie") is a game that decides a sports league's premiership (or championship) winning team, i.e. the conclusive game of a finals (or play-off) series. Sy ...
of the
South Australian National Football League
The South Australian National Football League, or SANFL ( or ''S-A-N-F-L''), is an Australian rules football league based in the Australian state of South Australia. It is also the state's governing body for the sport.
Originally formed as the ...
, staged to determine the
premiers
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A premier will normally be a head of governm ...
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.
The game is also remembered for being the final game of
Haydn Bunton Sr's career.
Background
![Charles Hayter Haydn Bunton 1945](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a0/Charles_Hayter_Haydn_Bunton_1945.png)
This was the first SANFL Grand Final held after World War Two, with Japan surrendering 27 days prior to the game.
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Match summary
First quarter
Port Adelaide's first quarter score of 8.3 (51) remains the largest opening term to any SANFL grand final.
Second quarter
Third quarter
Fourth quarter
Teams
Scorecard
Post game
Record attendance
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
The 1945 SANFL Grand Final was Haydn Bunton Sr's last game.
References
Bibliography
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SANFL Grand Finals
SANFL Grand Final, 1945
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