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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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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.
- ^ ""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.