1896 SAFA season

1896 SAFA premiership season
PremiersSouth Adelaide
5th premiership
Leading goalkickerJack Kay
South Adelaide (25 goals)
Matches played40
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The 1896 South Australian Football Association season was the 20th season of the top-level Australian rules football competition in South Australia.

During the 1896 season a rule was introduced for North Adelaide and the Natives (renamed West Torrens for the 1897 season) allowing them to field an extra three players to be more competitive with the three more established clubs.[1] The Native team played the majority of their games at Kensington despite many of their players living in the Port area.|[2]

  1. ^ "FOOTBALL". Evening Journal. Vol. XXVIII, no. 7977. South Australia. 1 June 1896. p. 3 (ONE O'CLOCK EDITION). Retrieved 19 July 2019 – via National Library of Australia.
  2. ^ "FOOTBALL. RETROSPECT OF THE SEASON". Adelaide Observer. 19 September 1896. p. 45. Retrieved 23 December 2014 – via National Library of Australia.