Australian Rules Football - Port Adelaide Football Club

Date: 1870
Location: Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Surnames/tags: Australia Aussie Rules Football

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Port Adelaide Football Club is a professional Australian rules football club, founded in 1870, and is the oldest professional football club in South Australia. A founding member of the South Australian Football Association (SAFA)—the first ever governing body of Australian rules football later renamed as the South Australian National Football League (SANFL)—and based in Alberton, South Australia, the senior men's team plays in the Australian Football League (AFL) – where they are known as "the Power", while its reserves men's team competes in the SANFL – where they are known as "the Magpies".
The club's motto is "We Exist To Win Premierships", and their colours are black, white, teal, and silver (AFL), and black and white (SANFL).

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Port Adelaide 1884 Premiership Team

Port Adelaide Football Club also known as "Cockledivers", "Seaside Men", "Seasiders", "Magentas", "Portonians", "Ports", "Swampys", "Power".

Photo	Name	Captain (years)	Years Played	Games (Goals)	SAFL/SANFL/AFL Premiership Other Career Highlight(s)	Connected
	Henry "Tick" Phillips	1899-1900	1886 – 1900	198 (125)	2 Premierships as a player (1890, 1897). 4 Port Adelaide Football Club Best & Fairest (1888, 1891, 1892, 1893). Port Adelaide Football Club leading goalkicker (1888). Named in the Port Adelaide Football Club's Greatest Team of All Time on the interchange bench. Port Adelaide Football Club Hall of Fame member. 5 games for South Australia at Intercolonial level	Y
	Sampson "Shine" Hosking	1912	1907–1921; 1927; 1936 (SAFL) 1916–18 (SAPFL)	163 (41) (SAFL) approx. 31 (0) (SAPFL)	4 Premierships as a player (1910, 1913, 1914, 1921) in the SAFL. 2 Premierships as a player (1916, 1917) in the SAPFL. 4 Premierships as a Coach (1921, 1928, 1936 & 1937). Port Adelaide Football Club's Best and Fairest in 1910. 2 Magarey Medals 1910 & 1915. Port Adelaide Football Club Coach 1921, 1927-1931, 1936-1938, 1942-1944. Port Adelaide Football Club Hall of Fame member. South Australian Football Hall Of Fame inductee of 2002. Played for South Australia at Interstate level.	Y
	Angelo Congear	-	1908–1922	160 (222)	4 Premierships a player (1910, 1913, 1914, 1921). Twice the Port Adelaide Football Club's Leading Goal-kicker in 1909 & 1915. Represented South Australia 15 times at Interstate Level. Port Adelaide Football Club Hall of Fame member.	Y
	Harold Oliver	1921	1910–1915, 1919–1922 (SAFL) & 1916–1917 (SAPFL)	107 (89) (SAFL) 13 (11) (SAPFL)	4 Premierships as a player (1910, 1913, 1914, 1921) in the SAFL. 2 Premierships as a player (1916, 1917) in the SAPFL. 2 Port Adelaide Football Club Best and Fairest (1911, 1912). Port Adelaide Football Club's Greatest Team of All Time in 2001. Port Adelaide Football Club Hall of Fame Inductee of 1998. Received Port Adelaide Football Club Life Membership in 1922. Represented South Australia on 14 occasions at interstate level. South Australian National Football League (SANFL) Hall of Fame Inductee in 2002.	Y
	John Robertson	1920	1912 - 1915 & 1919 - 1920	62 (0)	2 Premiership as a player (1913, 1914). He played for the winning Third Australian Divisional team in the famous "Pioneer Exhibition Game" of Australian Rules football, held in London, in October 1916. Played for South Australia at Interstate Level.	N
	Leslie ‘'Bro'’ Dayman	—	1921 - 1931 & 1937	166 (401)	2 Premierships as a Player (1921, 1928). Port Adelaide Football Club's Best and Fairest: 1923-24, 1928. Port Adelaide Football Club's Leading Goalkicker: 1928-31. Port Adelaide Football Club Hall of Fame member. South Australian Football Hall Of Fame inductee of 2002.	Y
	Ken Obst	-	1933–1943	165 (0)	3 Premierships as a player (1936, 1937, 1939).	Y
[[Image:|50px	Geof Motley OAM	1959 - 1966	1953 – 1966	258 (156)	5 Premiership as player (1954 to 1958). 4 Premiership as Captain (1959, 1962, 1963, 1965. Port Adelaide Football Club's Captain-Coach from 1959–1961. 1 Premiership as a Coach (1959). Port Adelaide Football Club's Best & Fairest on 4 occasions: 1958, 1959, 1963 & 1965. Won the Magarey Medal in 1964. Named in the Port Adelaide Football Club's Hall of Fame on 3 occasions. Once as an individual and twice as a member of Club's Premiership sides of 1954-59 and also the 1962, 1963 and 1965 teams. Named in the Port Adelaide Football Club's Greatest Team of All Time in 2001. North Adelaide Football Club Coach from 1967–1969. Australian Football Hall of Fame inductee of 2002. South Australian Football Hall of Fame inductee of 2002. Represented South Australia at Interstate level on 28 occasions.	N
[[Image:|50px]]	Peter Obst	-	1955 – 1964 & 1968 – 1969	171 (167)	6 Premierships as a player (1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1962, 1963). Port Adelaide Football Club's Best and Fairest in 1962. Port Adelaide Football Club Hall of Fame. Represented South Australia at Interstate level.	Y
[[Image:|50px]]	Trevor "Bubbles" Obst	-	1959 – 1972	200 (49)	4 Premiership as a player (1959, 1962, 1963, 1965). Magarey Medal in 1967. twice added to the Port Adelaide Football Club Hall of Fame as a member of the 1954-59 Premiership Teams and then the 1962, '63 and '65 Premiership Teams also. Represented South Australia at Interstate level.	Y
[[Image:|50px]]	Russell Ebert OAM	1974–1978, 1983–1985	1968–1978, 1980–1985	392 (294)	3 Premiership as a player (1977, 1980, 1981). 4 Magarey Medals in 1971, 1974, 1976 & 1980. Named in the Port Adelaide Football Club's Greatest Team of All Time in 2001. 29 games for South Australia at Interstate Level. Australian Football Hall of Fame inductee of 1996, with Legend status from 2022. South Australian Football Hall of Fame in 2002 Named in the Port Adelaide Football Club's Hall of Fame.	Y

Sources

See also:

• Wikipedia : Australian Rules Football

• Australan Football League (AFL) : WE ARE PORT ADELAIDE: Hall of Fame