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Postby Booney » Fri Apr 24, 2020 11:59 am

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Russell Ebert's third SANFL league game was on a Thursday afternoon - no ordinary Thursday - at Adelaide Oval in 1968. It was a grand final rematch. But more importantly, most importantly, it was Anzac Day.

In his first six seasons of his club record 392-game career, Ebert played on Anzac Day four times at Adelaide Oval that was a two-up throw from the end of the Anzac march along King William Street.

"With (coach and war veteran) Fos (Williams) having the Diggers in the room, with their medals polished for the Anzac Day march before the game," recalled Ebert, the four-time Magarey Medallist.

"There was Bob Quinn (the Port Adelaide Magarey Medallist who was awarded the Military Medal for his courageous acts and leadership while under enemy attack at Tobruk in 1941).

"There was sadness (for those who had not returned from the battlefront or not returned for the annual Anzac Day march).

"There was elation for seeing old mates, old comrades.

"And on this day, football was their outlet. They embraced the occasion; we (as Port Adelaide) players absorbed their eagerness for the game. They pumped us up.

"We certainly appreciated what they had done in war to give us what we had in peace - and on Anzac Day it was a game of footy, but a game like no other."

Williams, a returned serviceman from the World War II campaigns, had every right to speak in military terms and themes in his pre-match.

"He was emotional," said Ebert. "Leadership, courage, looking after your mates - play like soldiers ... and show respect for the real soldiers who were there to watch us. It was their day."

Ebert had grown up at Waikerie in the Riverland knowing more of the Anzac legend than most league footballers. Around him - from Loxton to Renmark to Barmera - were veterans starting their post-war lives on the fruit blocks granted to their return from World War II.

"I grew up knowing just the significance of the Anzac story from those veterans and their memories, as difficult as it was for them to tell their recollections from the war," said Ebert, born in 1949 - four years after the war's end.

"In 1955, the school assignment was an essay on what Anzac Day meant. For research, you speak to your uncles, your aunties to learn of their wartime experiences. They never spoke too much, not when their stories were pained from memories of POW (prisoner of war) camps or the other horrors of war. You not only learned what Anzac Day meant - you learned to respect the men and women who made great sacrifices in war, for us."

Ebert drove to Adelaide that Thursday morning, reached Adelaide Oval as the siren sounded to start the reserves game at 12.01pm. And as the Diggers rounded up the beers after their march, Ebert collected his boots to continue being Port Adelaide's answer at the goalfront in the absence of Test cricket-playing full forward Eric Freeman.

At three quarter-time, with Port Adelaide leading by 35 points, Williams approached Ebert at the huddle to declare: "Kick two goals this quarter (after 4.4 in the previous three) and we will win."

With no more than a sandwich and a slice of fruit cake in his stomach - and the understanding of the need to honour the Anzacs on his mind - Ebert found the energy to kick two goals. Port Adelaide won by 19 points to be unbeaten after three games.

"And then I was back in the car driving home to Waikerie at the end of a terrific day," Ebert said. "And the next day it was back to work at the Savings Bank at Waikierie."

The Port Adelaide Football Club has a strong commitment to honouring the Anzacs with its annual requests to the AFL on the fixture including the wish to play a home game at Adelaide Oval in the Anzac Round.

This was to have been an Anzac Day night clash with the Western Bulldogs this season. The match is another loss from the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Re: PAFC 150th Anniversary

Postby Booney » Mon May 04, 2020 9:59 am

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WHEN you have waited 150 years, what is another month or two? Port Adelaide's 150th "birthday game" - Saturday afternoon at Adelaide Oval in the club's original blue-and-white hoops - is no longer.

In playing Carlton, as a tribute to the 1914 Invincibles - who won the club's fourth Champions of Australia by convincingly beating the Blues at Adelaide Oval in the end-of-season play-off between SA and Victoria's premier teams - Port Adelaide would have been awash in the pride established in the club's foundation years.

And those of the Australian game itself.

There is good reason why Port Adelaide more than a decade ago lobbied the AFL to have the club's 1870 start-up date placed on the back collar of its guernsey.

Across the 18-team national competition, there are just four clubs with more time in the Australian game:

Melbourne, formed on July 10, 1858 as the nation's first football club - and the oldest in the world.

Geelong, July 18, 1859.

Carlton, July 1864.

North Melbourne, 1869 - and in the VFL-AFL since 1925.

Too often, particularly after the rift that split the Victorian Football Association to create the AFL's foundation in the Victorian Football League at the end of 1896, the Australian game has brushed away its history. Even in South Australia, much of the SANFL's pioneer story was conveniently erased to have the game's records stand from 1907, the season the SA Football Association became the SA Football League.

[For the history buffs, the name change was adopted at the SAFA's annual meeting on Monday, March 25, 1907 "to bring (SA football's) governing body into line with the majority of those in the other States and New Zealand associated with the Australasian Football Council].

As former AFL Commissioner and current Geelong Football Club president Colin Carter repeatedly notes, no other sport in the world would wipe out between 50-70 years of its rich history just to work off "convenient" calendar dates such as 1897 in Victorian football and 1907 in Adelaide.

Carter, in his papers to the AFL Commission, wants Australian football to "reclaim history".

“I look at the history of football and it offends me because it’s wrong,’’ Carter says. “Ignoring (the game's foundation seasons before the VFL start in 1897) is grossly unfair to the players and administrators of that time. It’s time to give them justice."

Hence why Port Adelaide does not carry on its back 1997, the entry date to the AFL. This weekend was to celebrate the Port Adelaide Football Club's start, from that "think tank" meeting between three community leaders at North Parade, Port Adelaide on April 20, 1870 to the formal foundation of the club (as a preliminary add-on to the Port Adelaide Cricket Club) on May 12, 1870 - and that first practice game on May 14, 1870 at Buck's Flat, Glanville.

Port Adelaide's first encounter with Carlton unfolded soon after: On Wednesday, June 15, 1881 at Adelaide Oval. Pre-game expectations were built on great enthusiasm for Port Adelaide. As The Advertiser noted: "The Ports at the beginning of the football season were regarded as a very hard team to beat. This idea arose from the fact of their team including in its ranks Watt and Sandilands of the 'crack' Geelong club, and Frayne, of Melbourne, besides possessing some promising young players selected in Port Adelaide.

"Their subsequent play to some extent justified the confidence placed in them by their partisans that they would make a good fight with Carlton."

To use Carter's theme, there is no "airbrushing" of how the scoreboard told a very different story to the previews - and the hopes of the Port Adelaide fans. After the Port Adelaide players arrived late at Adelaide Oval, they were dispatched early - losing 13.17 to 0.3 (or 13-0 as it was recorded at the time).

Much had changed by 1914 when the two pioneer clubs met again for a title - and Port Adelaide was invincible in one of the club's proudest seasons of unmatched achievements.

Even more change has overcome Australian football in its national era (and looms again with the COVID-19 pandemic). While the Port Adelaide Football Club is one of the game's oldest clubs, it is a relatively new player in the nationally extended VFL (AFL). On the eve of the "birthday game", the Port Adelaide numbers against the "traditional " Victorian-based teams underline how the only non-Victorian club to rise from suburbia has held its own on the big national stage.

Port Adelaide has winning record against seven of the 10 Victorian-based clubs of the old VFL:

Carlton 18-1-13 (win-loss-draw)
Essendon 17-14
Hawthorn 19-16
Footscray/Western Bulldogs 16-14
Melbourne 21-13
Richmond 18-1-13
St Kilda 20-10

Only Collingwood (16-15), Geelong (22-1-10) and North Melbourne (22-13) have winning records against Port Adelaide in AFL premiership matches.

Port Adelaide has once before honoured the 1914 Invincibles in an AFL game - in the league's first heritage round in 2003. At Football Park, in the black-and-white bars jumper with white sleeves, Port Adelaide appropriately beat Carlton by 44 points, 18.17 (125) to 12.9 (81).

In 1914, the sun-baked Adelaide Oval scoreboard read at the end of the "Championship of Australia" game: Port Adelaide 9.16 (70), Carlton 5.6 (36) with Port Adelaide finishing the duel a man short.

The Mail reported Port Adelaide owed a medal to Angelo Congear "whose roving and forward play (for four goals) were invincible; he played the game of his life."

It was an extraordinary season for Port Adelaide - unbeaten in home-and-away football against its six SAFL rivals with the leanest winning margin at 21 points against North Adelaide; dominant in the grand final in which North Adelaide was held to just one goal; Australian champions against Carlton and untouched in a season-closing game at Jubilee Oval against the SAFA's combined team. The game, played on the public holiday to mark Eight-Hour Day (Labour Day), highlighted the power of the Invincibles who won 14.14 (98) to 5.10 (40).

The Daily Herald reviewed the 1914 season concluding: "There can be no two opinions as to the outstanding merit of the (Port Adelaide) team which has won the premiership for the second year in succession. They have gone through the season without a single defeat ... if the reason is to be put in a nutshell, (it is from) the all-round excellence, combined with a (powerful line in the centre) from goal to goal which, perhaps, is not surpassed in Australia.

"They knew this, and appreciated it, and they, with supreme accuracy, confined the game, whenever possible, to this splendid arm of their equipment. Port Adelaide always remember that the centre path was the shortest way to the opponent's goal and with such an overmastering centre there was no cause to lean heavily on the wingmen, good as they were.

"Their goalkicking has been almost beyond criticism, for they kicked more than 10 goals in every game they played."

It was a year to remember - and a phenomenal Port Adelaide team that should never be forgotten in Australian football history. All of it, since 1870 - as Colin Carter would say.
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Re: PAFC 150th Anniversary

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The legend of 'Bro'

CHRIS McDermott grew up in the late 1960s and '70s when "99" was firmly associated with Barbara Felton acting as the ever-patient female agent repeatedly saving the bumbling Maxwell Smart in the top-rating American television sitcom.

But the number 99 did not ring this way with "Bone".

"No, '99' was always about 'Bro'," said McDermott, referring to his grandfather, Les Dayman and his 1930 season as Port Adelaide's leading goalkicker, a year after topping the SANFL goalkicking charts.

McDermott, the South Australian State captain, SANFL club skipper and AFL team captain, took it as fact that Dayman, one of the stars of the goalkicking races that ignited in SA league football in the late 1920s and during the 1930s, was Port Adelaide's "unluckiest" goalkicker - one short of the much-celebrated ton.

Many Test cricketers know, 99 does not draw a celebration .... "Missed it by just that much," as Agent 86, Maxwell Smart, would say when describing a close miss.

"It's in the bible," said McDermott, referring to club patriarch Bob McLean's book from the club's centenary season in 1970, "The Story of the Port Adelaide Football Club - 100 Years with the Magpies".

"It's there in black and white - 99."

Indeed, it also was in gold lettering on the old mahogany honour board on the ground floor of the social club in the RB Quinn MM grandstand at Alberton Oval.

Leading goalkicker, 1930: L. C. Dayman 99.

There are many stories that make up the legend - and the myth - of Leslie Dayman, the centre half-forward in the Port Adelaide Greatest Team, 1870-2000. He was reported for jumping the turnstiles at Adelaide Oval when representing South Australia against Victoria in 1929. He was part of the infamous day at Thebarton Oval in 1930 when West Torrens filed complaints against Port Adelaide for "fielding a 19th man".

And there is the tale of "Bro" being the runner-up for Magarey Medal in 1925 when he was regarded as the SANFL's best ruckman rather than a power forward.

When the SANFL field umpires came together at the end of the 1925 league season, on Wednesday, September 9, to cast their votes for the Magarey Medal, the first ballots ended with a tie - between Norwood centreman Alick Lill and, according to newspaper reports, Dayman.

"Although no definite decision has been reached regarding the winner of the Magarey Medal for 1925," reported The News on Friday, September 11, "it is understood that Lill (Norwood) and L. C. Dayman (Port) tied for the honor. The umpires will decide at a meeting on Tuesday night who is to receive the honor."

Even after it confirmed that Port Adelaide centre half-back Peter Bampton had lost the Magarey Medal on a countback - a decision revoked by the SANFL with 10 retrospective medals in 1998 - Dayman continued to be known as the "Magarey Medal runner-up". Newspapers were still reporting such when Port Adelaide made its end-of-season awards later in the year. Civic leaders at Port Adelaide went as far to present Dayman with their own trophies to ease the disappointment of "losing" the Magarey Medal.

"Missed by one vote, I've always heard," says McDermott.

But back to the 1930 season ... was Dayman the only Port Adelaide player in the club's first 100 seasons to come within one kick of the ton (a feat finally achieved by a Port Adelaide forward in 1980 when Tim Evans rewrote the league record books with his 146 goals)?

Or did a "typo" in Bob McLean's bible become another myth in the legend of "Bro" Dayman?

The Port Adelaide Football Club history committee has the definitive answer.

"The ‘myth’ of 99 goals in 1930 is often reported in different sources and has infiltrated the club records and reports too," says club historian Mark Shephard. "But our history committee, with Jim Crabb having done this research meticulously, is certain that his goal tally was 89 (and NOT 99).

"This has been cross-checked multiple times (including again, just now) through accurate counts of the goals Dayman kicked in each and every match, as recorded in the newspapers of 1930."

Dayman's game-by-game account, according to the newspaper reports of 1930 SANFL league matches, reads:

Round 1, 6 v Sturt; round 2, 6 v West Torrens; round 3, did not play v South Adelaide; round 4, 10 v Glenelg; round 5, 6 v West Adelaide; round 6, 5 v West Torrens (in the match of 19 men); round 7, 4 v South Adelaide; round 8, 7 v Norwood; round 9, 4 v North Adelaide; round 10, 1 v Sturt; round 11, 8 v West Torrens; round 12, 6 v South Adelaide; round 13, 8 v Glenelg; round 14, 2 v North Adelaide; round 15, 4 v Sturt; round 16, 4 v West Adelaide; round 17, 6 v Norwood - total of 84 in the home-and-away fixtures.

Semi-final, 1 v Norwood; preliminary final, 2 v Sturt; grand final, 2 v North Adelaide.

Grand total: 89 (after kicking 86 in Season 1929 to the league's leading goalkicker for the first time).

Dayman ranked third in the SANFL goalkicking charts at the end of the 1930 home-and-season that had thrilled the fans with four men dominating the scoreboards - Ken Farmer (North Adelaide), Jack Owens (Glenelg), Dayman and V. A. Geue (West Torrens) with 101, 99, 84 and 82 respectively. At No. 5 on the charts was C. G. Hall (South Adelaide) with 38 goals.

A "myth" is busted.

And the title of the player who came closest to the ton before Evans moves from Dayman to James Prideaux. He might be compared with Mark Tylor, who came out of the shadows of grand goalkickers in the 1990s after Scott Hodges moved from Alberton for a short stint in the AFL.

A member of three premiership teams in the 1930s, Prideaux followed Dayman as the power forward in the Port Adelaide attack, topping the club's goalkicking list in 1934 (73 goals), 1935 (95) and 1936 (86). He played for just four seasons (1933-1936), kicking a total of 276 goals in his 63 league games.

So who was L. C. "Bro" Dayman - and was the turnstile report fact or another myth?

"Bro" Dayman was born in Salisbury in 1901 and played for Salisbury in the Gawler Football Association. In 1921, he had three letters arrive on the same day from three SANFL clubs - North Adelaide, Norwood and Port Adelaide - offering him the chance to play league football.

His older brother Clem, born in 1892, had quit North Adelaide at the end of 1919 and stood out of football in 1920 to secure his clearance to Port Adelaide. Younger brother, Leslie, followed.

"Bro" Dayman played 165 league games - and kicked 401 goals, averaging five goals a match when he was used solely as a forward rather than a ruckman - for Port Adelaide from 1921-1931. Then, after many years of being offered opportunities interstate, he finally answered the persistent calls of the Footscray Football Club.

The 'Dogs had left Dayman with a seven-year itch.

" I was only 21 when, one afternoon in 1924. a motor car pulled up outside my home and three strangers came in and asked for me," Dayman recalled in an interview in 1946. "One was Charlie Zinnick. He introduced himself as a committeeman for Footscray.

"Footscray that year were in the Victorian Football Association. They had won the premiership and were being promoted to Victorian Football League. In fact, they met Essendon, the league premiers, in a challenge match, and to the amazement of the Victorian football public, beat them.

"So Footscray were sitting on top of the world and were after men to fill certain key points.

"That afternoon at my home Charlie Zinnick offered me £8 a week ($700 in 2020 currency), and a job, to play with Footscray. He wanted me to jump in the car and go to Melbourne there and then, to qualify for the next season. For some reason, of which I'm not quite clear now, I refused the offer.

"Later, I was approached by Fitzroy, and then even by Cannanore, a Tasmanian club. Cannanore wanted both my brother Clem and me to go over.

"I stayed with Port for 10 years, until it happened that while the South Australian team was in Melbourne for the match against Victoria in 1931, Footscray officials again contacted me.

"This time I was agreeable. After the interstate game the details were settled, and in 1932 wore the Footscray guernsey for the first time."

Dayman played 34 VFL games for Footscray from 1932-1934, kicking 68 goals - averaging two a match and topping the Dogs goalkicking list in 1932 (37 goals). He then moved to VFA club Coburg for two seasons, finishing his senior career with one league game with Port Adelaide in 1937 when he dedicated himself to long-time duty in off-field roles at Alberton.

The playing resume reads extremely well: Two SANFL premierships with Port Adelaide (1921 on debut and 1928); club best-and-fairest three times (1923, 1924 and 1928) and club leading goalkicker four times (1928, 1929, 1930 and 1931 with 41, 86, 89 and 62 goals). He also is an inaugural member of the SA Football Hall of Fame.

"I was brought up in a hard school of football,'' reflected Dayman.

"Clem, my brother, taught me many of the finer points. Clem was a great insurance against my becoming too sure of myself. Often, after a match in which I'd played well, he would say to me when we got home, 'You'll have to pull your socks up, or you won't make the team next week.'

"He used to have me worried a bit, with the result that I'd train harder than ever the next week. I think many of the younger players of today are spoilt by praise too early in their career."

And the turnstile story?

It is fact.

On July 13, 1929, when Dayman was the SANFL's best forward, "Bro" was reported to the SANFL by SA Cricket Association officials for jumping the turnstiles at the southern end of Adelaide Oval before playing a State game. He also was accused of using abusive language when challenged by the gate attendant.

Letters to the editor columns in Adelaide newspapers carried some amusing reactions to the news Dayman was reported by cricket officials before taking on the Victorians in a football match at Adelaide Oval.

By the end of the month, the SANFL - with a 14-2 vote - Dayman was censured by the league chairman. In response, Dayman expressed regret for the incident and assured the SANFL that it would not happen again. But the league appeared to hold Dayman in a bad light, as noted a few weeks later when he was dropped from the SA State team to play in Perth - only to earn a recall when a Port Adelaide team-mate, Reg Conole, had to stay in Adelaide for business reasons.

It was second time in two years that Dayman had faced a censure from the league - the previous case in 1928 relating to his withdrawal from the State team that played Victoria in Melbourne.

Dayman was a legend, loaded with a few myths ...

PORT ADELAIDE ALL-TIME GOALKICKING LIST
Tim Evans - 1019 goals
Scott Hodges - 671
Warren Tredrea - 582 (549 AFL, 33 SANFL)
Rex Johns - 451
Brian Cunningham - 428
Bob McLean - 414
Leslie Dayman - 401
Eric Freeman - 390
Bob Quinn - 386
Darrell Cahill - 375
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Re: PAFC 150th Anniversary

Postby amber_fluid » Wed May 06, 2020 2:15 pm

I didn’t read the article but I think the goal kicking list has missed off Darren Smith.
He kicked near on 500 goals.
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Re: PAFC 150th Anniversary

Postby Booney » Wed May 06, 2020 3:55 pm

amber_fluid wrote:I didn’t read the article but I think the goal kicking list has missed off Darren Smith.
He kicked near on 500 goals.


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Re: PAFC 150th Anniversary

Postby gazzamagoo » Thu May 07, 2020 11:07 am

Booney wrote:The legend of 'Bro'

CHRIS McDermott grew up in the late 1960s and '70s when "99" was firmly associated with Barbara Felton acting as the ever-patient female agent repeatedly saving the bumbling Maxwell Smart in the top-rating American television sitcom.

But the number 99 did not ring this way with "Bone".

"No, '99' was always about 'Bro'," said McDermott, referring to his grandfather, Les Dayman and his 1930 season as Port Adelaide's leading goalkicker, a year after topping the SANFL goalkicking charts.

McDermott, the South Australian State captain, SANFL club skipper and AFL team captain, took it as fact that Dayman, one of the stars of the goalkicking races that ignited in SA league football in the late 1920s and during the 1930s, was Port Adelaide's "unluckiest" goalkicker - one short of the much-celebrated ton.

Many Test cricketers know, 99 does not draw a celebration .... "Missed it by just that much," as Agent 86, Maxwell Smart, would say when describing a close miss.

"It's in the bible," said McDermott, referring to club patriarch Bob McLean's book from the club's centenary season in 1970, "The Story of the Port Adelaide Football Club - 100 Years with the Magpies".

"It's there in black and white - 99."

Indeed, it also was in gold lettering on the old mahogany honour board on the ground floor of the social club in the RB Quinn MM grandstand at Alberton Oval.

Leading goalkicker, 1930: L. C. Dayman 99.

There are many stories that make up the legend - and the myth - of Leslie Dayman, the centre half-forward in the Port Adelaide Greatest Team, 1870-2000. He was reported for jumping the turnstiles at Adelaide Oval when representing South Australia against Victoria in 1929. He was part of the infamous day at Thebarton Oval in 1930 when West Torrens filed complaints against Port Adelaide for "fielding a 19th man".

And there is the tale of "Bro" being the runner-up for Magarey Medal in 1925 when he was regarded as the SANFL's best ruckman rather than a power forward.

When the SANFL field umpires came together at the end of the 1925 league season, on Wednesday, September 9, to cast their votes for the Magarey Medal, the first ballots ended with a tie - between Norwood centreman Alick Lill and, according to newspaper reports, Dayman.

"Although no definite decision has been reached regarding the winner of the Magarey Medal for 1925," reported The News on Friday, September 11, "it is understood that Lill (Norwood) and L. C. Dayman (Port) tied for the honor. The umpires will decide at a meeting on Tuesday night who is to receive the honor."

Even after it confirmed that Port Adelaide centre half-back Peter Bampton had lost the Magarey Medal on a countback - a decision revoked by the SANFL with 10 retrospective medals in 1998 - Dayman continued to be known as the "Magarey Medal runner-up". Newspapers were still reporting such when Port Adelaide made its end-of-season awards later in the year. Civic leaders at Port Adelaide went as far to present Dayman with their own trophies to ease the disappointment of "losing" the Magarey Medal.

"Missed by one vote, I've always heard," says McDermott.

But back to the 1930 season ... was Dayman the only Port Adelaide player in the club's first 100 seasons to come within one kick of the ton (a feat finally achieved by a Port Adelaide forward in 1980 when Tim Evans rewrote the league record books with his 146 goals)?

Or did a "typo" in Bob McLean's bible become another myth in the legend of "Bro" Dayman?

The Port Adelaide Football Club history committee has the definitive answer.

"The ‘myth’ of 99 goals in 1930 is often reported in different sources and has infiltrated the club records and reports too," says club historian Mark Shephard. "But our history committee, with Jim Crabb having done this research meticulously, is certain that his goal tally was 89 (and NOT 99).

"This has been cross-checked multiple times (including again, just now) through accurate counts of the goals Dayman kicked in each and every match, as recorded in the newspapers of 1930."

Dayman's game-by-game account, according to the newspaper reports of 1930 SANFL league matches, reads:

Round 1, 6 v Sturt; round 2, 6 v West Torrens; round 3, did not play v South Adelaide; round 4, 10 v Glenelg; round 5, 6 v West Adelaide; round 6, 5 v West Torrens (in the match of 19 men); round 7, 4 v South Adelaide; round 8, 7 v Norwood; round 9, 4 v North Adelaide; round 10, 1 v Sturt; round 11, 8 v West Torrens; round 12, 6 v South Adelaide; round 13, 8 v Glenelg; round 14, 2 v North Adelaide; round 15, 4 v Sturt; round 16, 4 v West Adelaide; round 17, 6 v Norwood - total of 84 in the home-and-away fixtures.

Semi-final, 1 v Norwood; preliminary final, 2 v Sturt; grand final, 2 v North Adelaide.

Grand total: 89 (after kicking 86 in Season 1929 to the league's leading goalkicker for the first time).

Dayman ranked third in the SANFL goalkicking charts at the end of the 1930 home-and-season that had thrilled the fans with four men dominating the scoreboards - Ken Farmer (North Adelaide), Jack Owens (Glenelg), Dayman and V. A. Geue (West Torrens) with 101, 99, 84 and 82 respectively. At No. 5 on the charts was C. G. Hall (South Adelaide) with 38 goals.

A "myth" is busted.

And the title of the player who came closest to the ton before Evans moves from Dayman to James Prideaux. He might be compared with Mark Tylor, who came out of the shadows of grand goalkickers in the 1990s after Scott Hodges moved from Alberton for a short stint in the AFL.

A member of three premiership teams in the 1930s, Prideaux followed Dayman as the power forward in the Port Adelaide attack, topping the club's goalkicking list in 1934 (73 goals), 1935 (95) and 1936 (86). He played for just four seasons (1933-1936), kicking a total of 276 goals in his 63 league games.

So who was L. C. "Bro" Dayman - and was the turnstile report fact or another myth?

"Bro" Dayman was born in Salisbury in 1901 and played for Salisbury in the Gawler Football Association. In 1921, he had three letters arrive on the same day from three SANFL clubs - North Adelaide, Norwood and Port Adelaide - offering him the chance to play league football.

His older brother Clem, born in 1892, had quit North Adelaide at the end of 1919 and stood out of football in 1920 to secure his clearance to Port Adelaide. Younger brother, Leslie, followed.

"Bro" Dayman played 165 league games - and kicked 401 goals, averaging five goals a match when he was used solely as a forward rather than a ruckman - for Port Adelaide from 1921-1931. Then, after many years of being offered opportunities interstate, he finally answered the persistent calls of the Footscray Football Club.

The 'Dogs had left Dayman with a seven-year itch.

" I was only 21 when, one afternoon in 1924. a motor car pulled up outside my home and three strangers came in and asked for me," Dayman recalled in an interview in 1946. "One was Charlie Zinnick. He introduced himself as a committeeman for Footscray.

"Footscray that year were in the Victorian Football Association. They had won the premiership and were being promoted to Victorian Football League. In fact, they met Essendon, the league premiers, in a challenge match, and to the amazement of the Victorian football public, beat them.

"So Footscray were sitting on top of the world and were after men to fill certain key points.

"That afternoon at my home Charlie Zinnick offered me £8 a week ($700 in 2020 currency), and a job, to play with Footscray. He wanted me to jump in the car and go to Melbourne there and then, to qualify for the next season. For some reason, of which I'm not quite clear now, I refused the offer.

"Later, I was approached by Fitzroy, and then even by Cannanore, a Tasmanian club. Cannanore wanted both my brother Clem and me to go over.

"I stayed with Port for 10 years, until it happened that while the South Australian team was in Melbourne for the match against Victoria in 1931, Footscray officials again contacted me.

"This time I was agreeable. After the interstate game the details were settled, and in 1932 wore the Footscray guernsey for the first time."

Dayman played 34 VFL games for Footscray from 1932-1934, kicking 68 goals - averaging two a match and topping the Dogs goalkicking list in 1932 (37 goals). He then moved to VFA club Coburg for two seasons, finishing his senior career with one league game with Port Adelaide in 1937 when he dedicated himself to long-time duty in off-field roles at Alberton.

The playing resume reads extremely well: Two SANFL premierships with Port Adelaide (1921 on debut and 1928); club best-and-fairest three times (1923, 1924 and 1928) and club leading goalkicker four times (1928, 1929, 1930 and 1931 with 41, 86, 89 and 62 goals). He also is an inaugural member of the SA Football Hall of Fame.

"I was brought up in a hard school of football,'' reflected Dayman.

"Clem, my brother, taught me many of the finer points. Clem was a great insurance against my becoming too sure of myself. Often, after a match in which I'd played well, he would say to me when we got home, 'You'll have to pull your socks up, or you won't make the team next week.'

"He used to have me worried a bit, with the result that I'd train harder than ever the next week. I think many of the younger players of today are spoilt by praise too early in their career."

And the turnstile story?

It is fact.

On July 13, 1929, when Dayman was the SANFL's best forward, "Bro" was reported to the SANFL by SA Cricket Association officials for jumping the turnstiles at the southern end of Adelaide Oval before playing a State game. He also was accused of using abusive language when challenged by the gate attendant.

Letters to the editor columns in Adelaide newspapers carried some amusing reactions to the news Dayman was reported by cricket officials before taking on the Victorians in a football match at Adelaide Oval.

By the end of the month, the SANFL - with a 14-2 vote - Dayman was censured by the league chairman. In response, Dayman expressed regret for the incident and assured the SANFL that it would not happen again. But the league appeared to hold Dayman in a bad light, as noted a few weeks later when he was dropped from the SA State team to play in Perth - only to earn a recall when a Port Adelaide team-mate, Reg Conole, had to stay in Adelaide for business reasons.

It was second time in two years that Dayman had faced a censure from the league - the previous case in 1928 relating to his withdrawal from the State team that played Victoria in Melbourne.

Dayman was a legend, loaded with a few myths ...

PORT ADELAIDE ALL-TIME GOALKICKING LIST
Tim Evans - 1019 goals
Scott Hodges - 671
Warren Tredrea - 582 (549 AFL, 33 SANFL)
Rex Johns - 451
Brian Cunningham - 428
Bob McLean - 414
Leslie Dayman - 401
Eric Freeman - 390
Bob Quinn - 386
Darrell Cahill - 375

I wonder if he's related to Les Dayman, the actor.
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Postby DOC » Thu May 07, 2020 6:22 pm

He is his father,
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Postby robranisgod » Thu May 07, 2020 8:23 pm

DOC wrote:He is his father,


L.C. Dayman was also Chris McDermott's grandfather.
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Postby Booney » Mon May 11, 2020 9:20 am

Timmy G Time Machine, Brian Leys, well worth a watch. Fair to say he made the right decision when he came to SA. :D

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Postby robranisgod » Mon May 11, 2020 11:23 am

Booney wrote:Timmy G Time Machine, Brian Leys, well worth a watch. Fair to say he made the right decision when he came to SA. :D

https://www.portadelaidefc.com.au/news/ ... brian-leys


And once again, for the trainspotters amongst us, he was the 100th player to play 100 games for Richmond.

He was almost as good as he thought he was. Seriously, he was a great recruit. Four flags in four years. I doubt that anyone else has that 100% record for Port (or any other club). Tommy Williams in the 50s might have gone close, I know he started in 1955 and played in five flags, but I am not sure whether he played in 1960 or not. At worst he had an 83.33% record.
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Postby Booney » Mon May 11, 2020 11:40 am

robranisgod wrote:
Booney wrote:Timmy G Time Machine, Brian Leys, well worth a watch. Fair to say he made the right decision when he came to SA. :D

https://www.portadelaidefc.com.au/news/ ... brian-leys


And once again, for the trainspotters amongst us, he was the 100th player to play 100 games for Richmond.

He was almost as good as he thought he was. Seriously, he was a great recruit. Four flags in four years. I doubt that anyone else has that 100% record for Port (or any other club). Tommy Williams in the 50s might have gone close, I know he started in 1955 and played in five flags, but I am not sure whether he played in 1960 or not. At worst he had an 83.33% record.


He was a very good player indeed, filled some big shoes/boots replacing Phillips as the centre half back general in a time when our AFL entry changed the on and off field dynamic forever more.

He's sure him leaving in '97 cost his team mates 6 in a row. :lol:
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Postby JK » Wed May 13, 2020 11:41 pm

Booney wrote:
robranisgod wrote:
Booney wrote:Timmy G Time Machine, Brian Leys, well worth a watch. Fair to say he made the right decision when he came to SA. :D

https://www.portadelaidefc.com.au/news/ ... brian-leys


And once again, for the trainspotters amongst us, he was the 100th player to play 100 games for Richmond.

He was almost as good as he thought he was. Seriously, he was a great recruit. Four flags in four years. I doubt that anyone else has that 100% record for Port (or any other club). Tommy Williams in the 50s might have gone close, I know he started in 1955 and played in five flags, but I am not sure whether he played in 1960 or not. At worst he had an 83.33% record.


He was a very good player indeed, filled some big shoes/boots replacing Phillips as the centre half back general in a time when our AFL entry changed the on and off field dynamic forever more.

He's sure him leaving in '97 cost his team mates 6 in a row. :lol:


:lol: :lol:

I couldnt stand the bloke lol, BUT, I wished we'd had him. Hows the key defenders Port had over the years - Phillips, Leslie, Leys, then look at their surrounding cast! :shock:
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Postby gazzamagoo » Fri May 15, 2020 11:07 am

gave as good as he got, we gave him soooooo much shit from behind the goals!
Especially about his relationship with Nick Daffy :D :D
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Postby Booney » Fri May 15, 2020 11:26 am

gazzamagoo wrote:gave as good as he got, we gave him soooooo much shit from behind the goals!
Especially about his relationship with Nick Daffy :D :D


Have you watched the interview? Mentioned he nearly joined Centrals, imagine him and those two Gowans' dickheads in the one team.
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"A grand final every second year ..."

On the Port Adelaide Football Club's 150th anniversary earlier this month (May 12), the social media team at Alberton crystalised the club's story in eight numbers ... including the tally of 76 grand finals.

A grand final every second year.

In the club's appropriately blessed "Golden Era" during the 1950s and 1960s, it was almost every year: 1951, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967 and 1968. And what happened in 1952, 1960 and 1961? Port Adelaide reached the preliminary finals in each of these three seasons to rank third.

By 1958, when Port Adelaide was playing in its sixth consecutive grand final and saluting captain-coach Fos Williams in his last league match as a player with a fifth successive premiership, the insatiable drive for success at Alberton was being matched by an external desire to see the club finally fail.

Port Adelaide administrative giant Bob McLean wrote in the club's 1958 annual report: "Our dominance of the game in this State has prompted many to say, 'Good for football if Ports get beaten'. Whilst it is understandable that it is not good for any sport for one team to dominate any contest or competition for a considerable period, we would hasten to assure members and supporters that neither our players nor administrators have any intention of relaxing their efforts in any way whatsoever in order to bring about a more even competition in league football."

By the 1990s, the theme was the same, but for a different end game: The rise from suburbia to the national AFL competition. From John Cahill's return as senior coach in 1988 to the club's entry to the AFL in 1997, there were six flags - and just two grand finals (1991 and 1993) missed.

Even with an AFL licence in the club's holding by December 1994, then club chief executive Brian Cunningham notes Port Adelaide did not discount the value of continuing to chase - and winning - SANFL league premierships while preparing for its national league entry in 1997.

“We had to win every (SANFL) premiership we could to ensure we were seen as a club that could enter the AFL on the back of success,” Cunningham said.

Port Adelaide's 37 titles - 36 in the SANFL and one in the AFL - have been won through every model of premiership play: With and without finals, one-off play-offs and major rounds that have featured as few as three teams and as many as eight.

Not every final Saturday in the season has been dubbed the "grand final". There were championship play-offs and "challenge finals", the system that allowed the minor premier to challenge for the flag if it failed in the major round early in the 20th century. Some might wish that method had lingered to the 21st century to have allowed Port Adelaide to make more of those three consecutive McClelland Trophies won as AFL minor premier in 2002, 2003 and 2004.

Here is how Port Adelaide has made it to the last Saturday since 1889.

CHAMPIONSHIP PLAY-OFF
Port Adelaide and Norwood completed the 1889 SA Football Association season with identical win-loss-records after championship play: 17 matches in a six-team competition with 14-1-2 win-draw-loss counts.

Port Adelaide had the better scoring rate, 127.177 compared with Norwood's 102.165. Had percentage been in vogue, Port Adelaide would have ranked as minor premier - 78.25 per cent to 75.29.

Rather than have a tie for the premiership, the SA Football Association opted for a championship play-off - the first in Australian football history. Port Adelaide and Norwood gathered at Adelaide Oval on 3pm on Saturday, October 5 - with a Victorian umpire, Mr Tait, in control - for SA football's first "grand final".

Norwood won, 7-5 (or 7.3 to 5.9 with Port Adelaide kicking 2.6 in the second half while Norwood added 3.2 in an era when only goals counted in deciding a match).

CONFERENCE PLAY-OFFS
Season 1898 marked the SA Football Association's first attempt at a finals series (at the same time when the new Victorian Football League was tinkering with conference systems).

The SA Football Association had six clubs (Port Adelaide, Norwood and South Adelaide as the pacesetters ahead of North Adelaide and West Torrens while West Adelaide did not win a game).

After the 14 home-and-away games were played, South Adelaide had a 14-2 win-loss record, Port Adelaide 10-4 and Norwood was 8-6. The Advertiser reported: "The Ports, Norwoods, and South Adelaides were level in the first round of the season and the Souths are ahead in the second round. The Football Association decided that the Magentas (Port Adelaide) and the Norwoods should play on Saturday (September 3) to decide which of the two has to meet the blue-and-whites next Saturday for the premiership."

So the SAFA had a semi-final for the first time (up against the horse racing at Morphettville that worked against a strong attendance at Adelaide Oval) on Saturday, September 3. Port Adelaide advanced, winning 4.16 (40) to 2.6 (18) - with behinds counting for the second season.

The "grand final" on September 10 ended Port Adelaide's premiership defence after a well-rested South Adelaide made the best start scoring 4.3 to 0.1 for a 26-point lead at quarter-time that extended to 44 points at half-time (8.5 to 1.3). Despite a stronger second half (that included keeping South Adelaide scoreless in the third term), Port Adelaide lost by 24 points - 4.8 (32) to 8.8 (56).

CHALLENGE FINAL

Port Adelaide's final season in magenta and blue - 1901 - put the club into a "Challenge Final".

Norwood was minor premier with a 13-5 record - and had the best record in the "first round" of the conference or divisional play. Port Adelaide had won 12 of its 18 matches - and was unbeaten in six games in the second stage of the home-and-away series.

As The Advertiser reported: "On Thursday evening (October 3) a special meeting was held at the Prince Alfred Hotel: The chairman, Mr. J. B. Anderson, presided. All the clubs were represented.

"The match West Adelaide v. West Torrens on the Adelaide Oval last Saturday concluded the second series of matches, and (on Saturday, October 5) Norwood play Port Adelaide for the premiership.

"The former have two chances, for should magenta win the first game the red and blues have the right to challenge them again; In the event of there being a second contest it will take place on the Unley Oval on October 12."

Deciding the SAFA premiership in October - rather than September - did not go down well with some of the game's observers, as noted with this report in the aptly titled journal, The Critic:

"The season is being prolonged in a ridiculous manner. Though Port Adelaide have completed their matches, and absolutely won the final round, the play off with Norwood will not eventuate until Saturday week, unless some arrangement is made this week.

"The only match down for Saturday is West Adelaide and West Torrens, in the result of which no one takes a grain of interest. Why could not Norwood and Port play on Saturday? The summer is (fast coming on, and the players get very hard knocks on the hard ground even in September.

"As matters are now we shall not finish until perhaps October 12. No wonder the delegates have decided that this shall not happen next season."

Had Edward Strawn - after being handed a free kick from a "respectable kicking distance" - kicked accurately rather than out-of-bounds on the full, Port Adelaide would have been playing for a premiership at Unley Oval seven days later. Instead, Norwood won by four points - 4.9 (33) to 4.5 (29) - after being held goal-less in the last term.

In magenta and blue, Port Adelaide played in three "grand finals" and lost all three. The move to black-and-white with the bars in 1902 - when the SAFA introduced the final-four finals - was memorable for Port Adelaide, as minor premier, being disqualified after its refused to play its semi-final while the association persisted with appointing Phil Kneebone as the umpire.

FINAL FOUR - AND CHALLENGE FINALS

Port Adelaide's first win in a "grand final" was in 1903 - after it used the challenge system.

In black-and-white bars, Port Adelaide rebounded from the controversy of the 1902 season to again win the minor premiership with a 10-1-1 win-draw-loss record.

Port Adelaide won its semi-final, beating Norwood by 16 points but lost the first grand final to South Adelaide by eight points. Using the challenge rights of the minor premier, Port Adelaide overcame South Adelaide by seven points seven days later at Adelaide Oval.

In 1904, Port Adelaide was not so fortunate. Again, Port Adelaide won the minor premiership with a 10-1-1 record. This time it lost the semi-final to South Adelaide by 18 points - and waited for Norwood to beat South Adelaide in the battle of the semi-final winners before issuing the "challenge". Norwood held up, winning the "challenge final" by four points.

From 1902 to the end of the challenge system in 1930, Port Adelaide played on the last Saturday of the SAFA-SAFL football season 16 times out of a possible 26 (with three seasons abandoned for war, 1916-1918). Port Adelaide won seven premierships - 1903, 1906, 1910, 1913, 1914 with the "Invincible" season, 1921 and 1928.

Port Adelaide, as minor premier, used the "challenge" card 10 times for a 4-6 strike rate - 1903 (won the premiership against South Adelaide), 1904 (lost to Norwood), 1906 (won against North Adelaide), 1907 (lost to Norwood), 1909, 1911 (lost both times to West Adelaide), 1915 (lost to Sturt), 1921 (won against Norwood) and 1928 (won against Norwood).

The 1921 final series was the most-testing in this challenge format. Port Adelaide was minor premier. It drew with third-ranked Norwood in the semi-finals; lost the replay by 41 points and a fortnight later won the premiership by challenging and beating Norwood in the "grand final" by eight points after not managing a goal in the second half.

Port Adelaide converted its minor premierships to straight-sets victories for the flag twice - in 1913 and 1914.

Without the minor premiership, Port Adelaide made it to the "grand final" three times - losing to minor premier North Adelaide in 1905 and 1930 and to Norwood in 1929.

FINAL FOUR - AND McINTYRE
Ken McIntyre, a lawyer and lecturer, changed Australian football from 1931 removing the "challenge" rights of a minor premier. The race to the premiership played out across three weekends with four finals in the major round - two semi-finals, one preliminary final and one grand final.

From 1931 to the end of the final four in the SANFL in 1972, Port Adelaide played in 25 of a possible 35 grand finals (with the 1942, 1943 and 1944 seasons not counted while the SANFL reduced from eight to four teams with Port Adelaide merging with West Torrens - and playing in all three grand finals, winning the first).

Port Adelaide won 13 grand finals - 1936, 1937, 1939, 1951, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1962, 1963 and 1965 with a record crowd at Adelaide Oval (62,543).

Fos Williams won nine of these flags, including the first five of the "Six in a Row" run from 1954-1959 that was completed with Geof Motley as captain-coach.

Port Adelaide lost 12 grand finals - 1934, 1935, 1938, 1945, 1946, 1953, 1964, 1966, 1967, 1968.

From 1953-1958, as a playing coach, and from 1962-1968, as a non-playing coach, Fos Williams completed 13 seasons as Port Adelaide's coach with grand final appearances (for an 8-5 win-loss count).

So dominant was Port Adelaide through this "Golden Era" that Williams never forgot how the eagerness to see his team fail advanced from the terraces to the halls of power in the SANFL. In his last game as a player, the 1958 SANFL grand final, recalled league president Stanley Lewis shaking his hand before the match at Adelaide Oval and saying: "Good luck ... but I hope you lose."

FINAL FIVE
In 1973, with the SANFL competition comprising 10 teams after the elevation of Central District and Woodville in 1964, the league progressed to a final five - adding the elimination and qualifying finals and giving the minor premier a break from the first weekend of the new-look major round.

Since 1973, Port Adelaide has played in 19 of the 47 SANFL grand finals.

Port Adelaide has won 13 grand finals under the final-five system - 1977, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1992, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1998 and 1999. John Cahill was coach for 10 of these premierships - and SANFL record shared with Jack Oatey.

Port Adelaide has lost six grand finals in this era - 1976 (with the record crowd officially listed at 66,897 at Football Park), 1984, 1997, 2014, 2017 and 2019.


FINAL EIGHT - AND AFL
Port Adelaide joined the AFL in 1997 when the national league had been working a final-eight system since 1994. The club has qualified for two national grand finals - winning in 2004 against Brisbane and losing to Geelong in 2007.

Port Adelaide's motto is: We exist to win premierships. Since the turn of the 20th century, this has required qualifying for grand finals - and Port Adelaide has a grand count of making it to the last Saturday in the season.
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Postby mal » Wed May 27, 2020 8:14 pm

Really enjoying these snippets about this magnificent club
I can remember this cliche from last century by Port barrackers
" There are 2 types of supPORTers, those that barrack for Port and those that wish they did."
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Postby FOURTH ESTATE » Wed May 27, 2020 10:54 pm

I can remember that saying in the 1980's & 90's in the Amateur League

There are only two types of Amateur League players

BROADVIEW PLAYERS

AND THOSE THAT WISHED TO HELL THEY WERE!!!


Our motto during that era was

"Premierships are expected and losing is not tolerated".
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Postby Booney » Thu Jun 04, 2020 9:07 am

Can't wait to watch this one tonight :

IN THE latest edition of Timmy G's Tyrepower Time Machine, Tim Ginever sits down with triple premiership star Stephen "Bomber" Clifford.

Ginever may have met his match when it comes to lovable larrikins with three-time best and fairest winner Clifford spinning plenty of funny yarns.

Stay tuned to portadelaidefc.com.au over the coming weeks for further episodes with other Port Adelaide legends as Timmy G's Tyrepower Time Machine reveals more untold stories of the legends and characters of the club.


https://www.portadelaidefc.com.au/news/ ... r-clifford
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Postby amber_fluid » Thu Jun 04, 2020 9:19 am

Booney wrote:Can't wait to watch this one tonight :

IN THE latest edition of Timmy G's Tyrepower Time Machine, Tim Ginever sits down with triple premiership star Stephen "Bomber" Clifford.

Ginever may have met his match when it comes to lovable larrikins with three-time best and fairest winner Clifford spinning plenty of funny yarns.

Stay tuned to portadelaidefc.com.au over the coming weeks for further episodes with other Port Adelaide legends as Timmy G's Tyrepower Time Machine reveals more untold stories of the legends and characters of the club.


https://www.portadelaidefc.com.au/news/ ... r-clifford


Yep looking forward too it as well.
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https://www.portadelaidefc.com.au/news/ ... _b1Td9FS4U

AMAZINGLY, the stories on how two famous clubs - Port Adelaide in Australian football and Juventus in the world game - adopted black-and-white jumpers begins in the same way at virtually the same time ... and with a similar touch of perfect mystery.

As fact, both clubs tired of their red-based shirts - Port Adelaide with magenta; Juventus with pink - fading as the season wore on.

History records, Port Adelaide formally made the change from magenta and blue to black and white at the SA Football Association meeting at the Prince Alfred Hotel in Adelaide on Monday, April 28, 1902. A year later, Juventus dumped its pink and black (first worn in 1899 to stand out from the crowd ... a thought Port Adelaide picked up in 1902 when the SAFA was overwhelmed with blue jumpers).

The record books certainly tell that both clubs built their unrivalled success in their home football competitions in black-and-white (Port Adelaide with 33 of its 37 AFL-SANFL premierships in black and white; Juventus with all its 35 Italian top-flight titles in black and white after complete failure in pink).

And now for the mystery and myth.

At Juventus, the change to black-and-white is attributed to Englishman Tom Gordon Savage - better known as "John" Savage - ordering a new kit for the Italian club from his former home at Nottingham. One version of the story is the English manufacturer completely misread his instructions and sent Notts County's black-and-white stripes to Savage; the other is Savage simply went down the path of nostaglia by having his new team wear the colours of his old home club.

At the Juventus museum in Turin, the Italian club simply hails Savage saying: "Nel 1903 importo la maglia bianconero dal Notts County; He bought the black and white jersey over from Notts County in 1903."

At Port Adelaide, there is no definitive soul to praise for giving the club - and Australian football - a jumper that stirs the emotions for those who admire its heritage and importance to the club's community; and those who have come to "hate" the Port Adelaide Football Club and what its traditional jumper stands for.

In Port Adelaide's 150th anniversary season - and amid another jumper brawl with the Collingwood Football Club - it is worth dealing with fact and revisiting some myths on the black-and-white guernsey.


HISTORY
Port Adelaide's annual meeting on Wednesday, March 26, 1902 at the Railways Hotel carried on the agenda the need to address the players' concerns with their fading magenta-and-blue jumpers.

With the club's early records lost in a fire, the newspapers of the day - "newspapers of record" - offer an independent account of the moment.

The Register reported: "A discussion took place on the question of the colours. It was mentioned that the magenta and blue jackets were very unsatisfactory to the players, and that it was impossible to properly dyed costumes. A proposal to submit to a committee for consideration was not entertained, and after a lengthy discussion it was decided to retain the old colours."

The Advertiser told the same story: "A discussion took place concerning the question of the club's colours. It was argued the present colour faded rapidly, and black-and-white was suggested as a substitute. A majority, however, decided for the retention of the magenta and blue." The newspaper story did not detail how the black-and-white colours were put forward or by whom.

The sentimental traditionalists who wanted Port Adelaide to resist change soon were to be surprised.

On April 28, a month after the debate had seemed cleared away with a commitment to stay in the premiership-winning combination of magenta and blue, Port Adelaide formally became black and white.

RECEPTION
In the following week - with the newspapers filling column inches with previews to the 1902 SA Football League season - the football critics turned into fashionistas.

True to a Port Adelaide way that has been the club's story for more than a century, the new jumper divided opinion. Some were impressed with Port Adelaide's new look declaring "the new costumes look exceedingly well"; one noted commentator was not so convinced. At The Register, "Goalpost" was standing alongside those who maintained the magenta jumper symbolised Port Adelaide's victory in the struggle for premiership supremacy after being bridesmaids in the early colours of blue-and-white and pink.

"Goalpost" wanted Port Adelaide to make its traditions in magenta writing:

A section of the club objected to the innovation on sentimental grounds, but the majority overruled them, and the players will from the opening match appear in a natty costume.

I rather think I would have been on the side of those who desired to retain the magenta on sentimental grounds. The magenta banner has floated at the top after many a desperate battle. It has a distinctly Port association, and even if my costume was not so dainty as other teams' I think I would have stuck to the old colour.

(For those without a dictionary nearby for old English speak, "natty" means smart and fashionable; well designed, clever." It is a pity no-one at the time recorded just how the novel bars design came to be.)

Port Adelaide first wore the black-and-white bars in a SA Football League premiership match on May 3, 1902 at Alberton Oval - against North Adelaide. The game ended in a 28-point win for Port Adelaide, now known as the "black and whites" rather than the "magentas".

The Advertiser's match report on Monday, May 5 reported: "The Ports appeared in their new costume of black-and-white. It much improves the appearance of the team."

Almost 120 years later, this initial thought on how the Port Adelaide black-and-white jumper changes the look of a football team still applies.

RECEPTION
In the following week - with the newspapers filling column inches with previews to the 1902 SA Football League season - the football critics turned into fashionistas.

True to a Port Adelaide way that has been the club's story for more than a century, the new jumper divided opinion. Some were impressed with Port Adelaide's new look declaring "the new costumes look exceedingly well"; one noted commentator was not so convinced. At The Register, "Goalpost" was standing alongside those who maintained the magenta jumper symbolised Port Adelaide's victory in the struggle for premiership supremacy after being bridesmaids in the early colours of blue-and-white and pink.

"Goalpost" wanted Port Adelaide to make its traditions in magenta writing:

A section of the club objected to the innovation on sentimental grounds, but the majority overruled them, and the players will from the opening match appear in a natty costume.

I rather think I would have been on the side of those who desired to retain the magenta on sentimental grounds. The magenta banner has floated at the top after many a desperate battle. It has a distinctly Port association, and even if my costume was not so dainty as other teams' I think I would have stuck to the old colour.

(For those without a dictionary nearby for old English speak, "natty" means smart and fashionable; well designed, clever." It is a pity no-one at the time recorded just how the novel bars design came to be.)

Port Adelaide first wore the black-and-white bars in a SA Football League premiership match on May 3, 1902 at Alberton Oval - against North Adelaide. The game ended in a 28-point win for Port Adelaide, now known as the "black and whites" rather than the "magentas".

The Advertiser's match report on Monday, May 5 reported: "The Ports appeared in their new costume of black-and-white. It much improves the appearance of the team."

Almost 120 years later, this initial thought on how the Port Adelaide black-and-white jumper changes the look of a football team still applies.

2003: For the first heritage round, Port Adelaide wore the 1914 "Invincibles" jumper against Carlton at Football Park.

2007: Heritage round was billed as a return to the 1970s and Port Adelaide opted - drawing objections from Collingwood - for its 1977 SANFL centenary premiership jumper. This is the only time Port Adelaide has worn the bars for an AFL game outside Football Park and Adelaide Oval - to play (and lose to) the Western Bulldogs at the Docklands in Melbourne in round 14.

2013: For the club's last AFL game at Football Park, Port Adelaide returned to the black-and-white bars - with the guernsey "engraved" with the names of SANFL premiership winners at West Lakes - against Carlton.

2014: For the first AFL final at Adelaide Oval, Port Adelaide appealed to wear the bars rather than its white AFL away guernsey - after the league handed the lower-ranked Richmond rights to its home, predominantly black jumper.

2020: To honour the club's 150th anniversary, Port Adelaide returned to the bars in the home Showdown XLVIII against Adelaide.

From these five matches, Port Adelaide has a 3-2 win-loss record.

There are three notable moments on Port Adelaide's "agreements" on black-and-white appearances in the AFL.

ON entry to the AFL in 1997: Inaugural AFL chief executive Brian Cunningham takes up this critical point in club history saying: "We did not want to lose black and white, not when it had been our club colours for such a long time.

"Black and white had to be part of the mix.

"The AFL (accepting Collingwood's protest there could be just one team in black-and-white stripes) wanted us to come up with another colour not being used by any other club."

Port Adelaide added teal and the oft-forgotten silver to its uniform.

HERITAGE ROUNDS: When the AFL devised the 1970s theme for the 2007 heritage round, Port Adelaide had only one jumper it could wear to recognise its heritage of the 70s decade - the black-and-white bars. The AFL first rejected this option in fear of the backlash from Collingwood, particularly with the fixture taking Port Adelaide into the Melbourne market.

The breakthrough agreement from this episode was Collingwood accepting Port Adelaide could wear its historical jumpers - including the black-and-white guernsey - in heritage-round games in Adelaide, provided these did not involve Collingwood.

It became a meaningless agreement.

Heritage round in 2008 involved only Melbourne and Geelong. The AFL rebadged the round in honour of Tom Wills, to recognise the 150th anniversary of his part in setting up the Australian game and Melbourne Football Club in 1858.

Heritage rounds ended in 2009, making the Port Adelaide-Collingwood agreement completely redundant - but not without relevance for future debates.

Pot Adelaide wore the bars in two heritage rounds (the first in 2003 and last in 2007) and opted for magenta in 2004; and the original 1870s blue-and-white hoops in the heritage Showdown in 2005. It was denied the bars for the return to the 1980s theme adopted for the 2006 heritage round. Port Adelaide went to Launceston to play St Kilda in round 16, 2006 with a jumper that had no relevance to the club's 1980s heritage - a teal jumper with lightning images sprawled across black and silver triangles.

FOR the 150th anniversary in 2020: Before COVID-19 changed the world, Collingwood was prepared to endorse Port Adelaide wearing the black-and-white bars in BOTH Showdowns - provided the guernsey was then assigned to a museum. Port Adelaide accepted wearing the bars in its home Showdown (as it did on June 13 in Showdown XLVIII) and to revisit the debate on future use of the guernsey.

This debate is now real.

In Turin, Juventus has - despite the pink jersey having no success tied to its image - worn its historical/heritage strip on special occasions, mostly on the road, to acknowledge its past.

COMMENT
COLLINGWOOD president Eddie McGuire says: "The Port Adelaide Football Club should respect the history and tradition of the Collingwood Football Club."

Respect is a two-way street.

This column seeks to tell the history - by fact rather than fiction - of Port Adelaide's change to the black-and-white colours in 1902.

The bars play a significant part in the club's story and image, both on and off the field.

The importance of this traditional jumper is well noted by the response the Port Adelaide fans have declared by putting more than 25,000 signatures to the petition seeking the bars to become the club's uniform in AFL Showdowns. This is the match that appropriately pays respect to the history and traditions of the Port Adelaide Football Club, SA football and the derby that was built on Port Adelaide's decision to stand alone from its nine SANFL rivals in 1990 and beyond.

If 2020 has proven any point it is the need to remember the fans - and their wishes.

After 24 years of debating when and where Port Adelaide should pay respect to its history and traditions in black and white there is no greater answer than the Showdowns.

Critical to this debate is respecting Collingwood as well. Does the Collingwood Football Club suffer from Port Adelaide twice a year in Adelaide wearing its black-and-white jumper that is so different to the Collingwood black-and-white stripes? No. Not at all.

And there is the question of why does Collingwood get this special treatment in the black-and-white debate, particularly when McGuire throws into the debate the trademark question on the black and white colours? Did VFL foundation club Fitzroy get this protection in 1991 when Adelaide joined the AFL with the same colour combination of red, blue and yellow? Did Adelaide get the veto right in 2008 when Gold Coast listed red, gold and blue as its official colours?

There are four AFL clubs with black in their strip - Essendon, Port Adelaide, Richmond and St Kilda.

Eight have white - Carlton, Fremantle, Geelong, North Melbourne, Port Adelaide, St Kilda, Sydney and the Western Bulldogs.

Almost every club uses white as the basis of an away or clash jumper.

Does all this tumble if Collingwood has the AFL enforce a trademark debate on the use of black and white?

It is time to end the farce by paying respect to a famous jumper, the heritage of SA football and a grand new rivalry on the national stage.

Meanwhile in Turin, Juventus - like Port Adelaide with respect for Collingwood's history - acknowledges it was not first in black and white ... but no-one, not even Notts County, demands the Old Lady redesign its stripes in pink and black. In the same way, McGuire's "solution" to have Port Adelaide keep the bars with a magenta-and-blue theme is simply disrespectful to the club's heritage. Even Bradman would bat this one to the boundary.
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