58-621: Sloss can refer to: People [ edit ] Bruce Sloss (1889–1917), Australian Rules footballer, killed in action in World War I Daniel Sloss (born 1990), Scottish comedian, actor and writer Elizabeth Butler-Sloss (born 1933), President of the Family Division of the UK's family law system James Sloss (1820–1890), founder of Sloss Furnaces Louis Sloss (1823–1902), partner in
116-825: A combined Adelaide Team from the Association against a combined team from the 3 country clubs – Gawler, Kapunda and Willunga was played on the Adelaide Ground. With the Adelaide team winning 5 goals to 1. In 1880 it was proposed to create a Junior Football Association, similar to the Cricket Association, from Clubs such as the North Parks, St. Peter's College, Prince Alfred College, Royal Parks, West Torrens, Woodville, South Suburban, Hotham, and Middlesex. In 1881 - Adelaide and Kensington merged at
174-490: A meeting held on 11 April it was decided that the colour of the merged club be black-and scarlet guernsey, hose, and cap, and navy blue knickerbockers. The SAFA was notified in writing of the amalgamation which was read at a meeting held on 27 April 1881. The merged club played 4 games before resigning on 1st June. In 1882 - The first general meeting of the committee of the Junior Football Association
232-617: A meeting of the South Adelaide Football Club , which had formed the previous year, was held at the Arab Steed Hotel. There was a good attendance, and officers and Committee for the season were elected. Dissatisfaction was expressed relative to the rules by which matches were conducted last season, and the Secretary was instructed to communicate with the various Clubs in order to arrange for regulations. It
290-576: A pulp. An article in The Recorder reported that his invention had "revolutionised the jam-making industry". Sloss enlisted in 1915, and was trained as a machine-gun officer. He was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant on 17 January 1916, and was assigned to the 10th Machine Gun Company, First A.I.F. (the unit in which his oldest brother Roy also served). The Unit arrived in England in July 1916. Whilst
348-579: A seven team competition. Medindie was a foundation member in 1885 of the South Australian Junior Football Association, before spending the 1886 and 1887 seasons competing in the Adelaide and Suburban Football Association. Hotham which renamed to North Adelaide for 1888 merged with Adelaide for the 1889 season. On Friday 5 April 1889 At the Annual General Meeting held on Friday 5 April 1889 in
406-528: A spirit of friendly rivalry, thus making the game enjoyable and interesting not only to players, but to spectators. He then moved that the rules played in Victoria should be considered. They differed but slightly from the old Adelaide rules. If such rules were adopted he felt sure that football would be carried on far more successfully than had bean the case lately, and there would be a greater probability of intercolonial matches being arranged, as he hoped would be
464-554: A uniform set of rules and establish a governing body. The South Australian Football Association was formed at a meeting called at the Prince Alfred Hotel in King William Street, Adelaide on 30 April 1877, and adopted rules similar to those used in Victoria upon the urging of Charles Cameron Kingston . The use of an oval ball, bouncing the ball and pushing from behind forbidden amongst the rules agreed at
522-680: 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 South Australian Football Association on 30 April 1877, the SANFL is the oldest surviving football league of any code in Australia and is the 7th-oldest club football league in the world . Consisting of a single-division competition since
580-527: The Malvern Presbyterian Church – where his name appears on its Roll of Honour . He was handsome, stood tall, and had a wonderful tenor voice. When just 18, Sloss was invited to train with Essendon. He played his first match in round 2 of the 1907 season against Melbourne . He played one more senior match for Essendon that year, against Geelong , in round 8 ; and he played his third and last senior game for Essendon in round 2 of
638-637: The 1908 season . Having realized that he would not gain regular selection with Essendon, he left Essendon after that second round match and went to the VFA Club, Brighton. He played for Brighton for the remainder of the 1908 season, the entire 1909 season, and the first half of the 1910 season. In 1909, he played for the VFA team that was beaten by 19 points by the South Australian Football League (SAFL), 7.8 (50) to 4.7 (31). He
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754-466: The Association comprised six clubs until the turn of the century. The three newer clubs (North, West Adelaide and West Torrens) continued to struggle against the older three clubs (Norwood, Port and South Adelaide). In the First Round both West Adelaide (vs Norwood) and West Torrens (vs Port Adelaide) failed to score for the whole game. There were also a number of walkovers throughout the season when
812-471: The Clubs in and around Adelaide to appoint delegates to consider the question of adopting a uniform code of rules. Nothing, however, had followed the issuing of the circular, and the meeting that evening was called in consequence. He was extremely pleased to see so large an attendance, as it augured well for a revival of the manly game, which, owing to what he considered a foolish modification of what were known as
870-782: The Electoral of East Adelaide and delegates from the Port Natives Football Club stated they would rename and take the West Torrens District. 1897 again saw a number of changes, District football based on the State Electoral Districts was introduced optionally with the aim of zoning players to a SAFA club (and became compulsory in 1899) and was the first season of football in South Australia where behinds contributed to
928-537: The Gawler Association again was affiliated with the SAFA. Subsequently, it tried to rejoin the competition a number of times but was rejected. In 1913, it was admitted but withdrew before the season started. On 14 March 1893, at a meeting held at Temperance Hall, North Adelaide Medindie renamed itself to North Adelaide Football Club . In March 1894, Adelaide withdrew from the Association in writing before
986-662: The Old Adelaide Club, Port Suburban (founded in 1868 and renamed Woodville in 1870), Port Adelaide and Young Australians both formed in 1870 and Kensington were the principal clubs that were organising interclub matches. Country clubs had also been established at Gawler , Kapunda and Willunga and the City clubs would sometimes be hosted by these clubs principally on Public Holidays. The early years of interclub football began to be dogged by arguments over which set of rules to adopt. A meeting of three delegates from each of
1044-520: The SAFA introduced electorate football , meaning that players were allocated to clubs based on the district in which they resided. and the playing teams were reduced from 20 to 18. At a meeting held on Monday 8 May 1899 with a large number of delegates present the Secretary was instructed to write to the Gawler and Port Pirie Associations to inform them that their applications to join the SAFA would not be entertained this year as purely electorate football
1102-642: The Trades Exchange with all the clubs present the United Football Association renamed itself to South Australian Football Association. Gawler after its 4th season notified the Association in writing in April 1891 that it would no longer be joining (principally due to being given only 5 home games at Gawler and 10 away games in Adelaide for the 1890 season). In 1889 it had created its own Junior League consisting of 3 clubs. In May 1892,
1160-636: The Unit was in camp (on 3 September), Sloss was promoted to Lieutenant. On Saturday 28 October 1916, an Australian Rules football match was held between two teams of Australian servicemen in aid of the British and French Red Cross at Queen's Club , West Kensington . Sloss was the captain of the (winning) Third Australian Divisional team in the famous match. His team beat the Australian Training Units team 6.16 (52) to 4.12 (36). A news film
1218-421: The accuracy of his long kicking. He played a number of representative games for Victoria , including in the 1914 Sydney Carnival . In his last VFL match, the 1914 Grand Final against Carlton – which Carlton won 6.9 (45) to an inaccurate South Melbourne's 4.15 (39) – Sloss ran himself into the ground, and nearly won the game off his own boot; and, despite South Melbourne losing, many considered Sloss to be
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#17327829931021276-695: The admission of the Adelaide Crows reserves in 2014, the season has since been a 10-team, 18-round home-and-away (regular) season from April to September. The top five teams play off in a final series culminating in the grand final for the Thomas Seymour Hill Premiership Trophy. The grand final had traditionally been held at Football Park in October, generally the week after the AFL Grand Final , though this
1334-478: The best player on the ground. The eminent sporting journalist Jack Worrall – the former Australian Test cricketer and Fitzroy footballer, and the former Carlton coach and incumbent Essendon coach – writing in The Australasian , had this to say of Sloss's performance: Sloss had no superior on the ground, his glorious efforts in the last quarter stamping him as a great footballer. He possesses all
1392-489: The case at no distant date. (Applause.) Mr. A. Crooks having seconded the motion, the Melbourne Football Rules were considered seriatim and adopted In their entirety, with the exception of Rules 6, 7, and 8. which were amended in a manner to assimilate somewhat to the old Adelaide rules. An addition to Rule 6 provided that no player having claimed his mark should run with the ball. Rule 7 was struck out, and
1450-673: The competition by the start of the 1885 Season. Only Port Adelaide and South Adelaide hadn't folded or resigned. In 1885, a new Adelaide Club joined the senior competition and won the Premiership the following season. The club was formed from a merger of North Adelaide Juniors (which had renamed to Adelaide in 1884) and North Parks. Upon merger and admission the Club took up the Old Adelaide colours of Black and Red. In 1887 another three Clubs were admitted Hotham and West Adelaide and
1508-415: The country clubs Gawler and Kapunda on public holidays but these weren't counted in the premiership table at the end of the season. South Adelaide and Victorian were declared joint Club Champions. In 1878, a brand new club Norwood was formed following the entire collapse of Woodville by a number of former players and it joined the Association for the season. An end of season match on 31 August between
1566-523: The five premierships from 1908 to 1912 (including Championship of Australia in 1908 and 1913), the most successful period in West Adelaide's history. The Constitution of the Association allowed up to eight teams based on the State's Electoral Districts and the competition expanded to seven teams when a new football club Sturt formed by the local cricket club joined the Association in 1901 to fill
1624-426: The following substituted:— " The ball may be taken in hand at any time, but the player shall be liable to be held or thrown until he drops it." An addition to Rule 8 provided that pushing from behind should only be allowable when the player was running. The chief alterations in the game as hitherto played in Adelaide are the dispensing with the cross bar and top rope in favour of two upright posts of unlimited height, and
1682-421: The introduction of Clubs being zoned to Electoral Districts South Adelaide lost the dominance it had between 1892 and 1900 (six flags and runner up three times) and was replaced by Norwood and Port Adelaide, who were joined by West Adelaide and North Adelaide; between them, the four clubs won all premierships between 1901 and 1913. West Adelaide followed three straight wooden spoons from 1904 to 1906 with four out of
1740-585: The introduction of the Electoral System. In 1896, North Adelaide and the Natives were permitted to field 23 players (3 extra players). At an Association committee meeting held on 10th August 1896, a proposal was tabled to introduce having no more than eight clubs in the association and that all clubs and any new players be zoned based on the state electoral districts . At an adjourned meeting on Monday 26 Oct 1896, South Adelaide agreed to be zoned to
1798-591: The local Irish community in 1843 to celebrate St Patrick's Day. In 1844, there was debate amongst the South Australian Legislative Council whether it be allowed that "foot-ball" be played on Sundays, with arguments against preferring the quiet worship of God. In 1859, the Gawler Institute ran a rural fete which included a game of football being staged. The earliest recorded Australian rules football club in South Australia
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1856-455: The management of all levels of football in the state. This includes junior football, country football, amateur football and specific programs rolled out across schools, indigenous communities (including the APY Lands in the state's north) and newly arrived migrant communities. The SANFL owned Football Park , formerly the largest stadium in South Australia. The stadium, which opened in 1974,
1914-399: The meeting. The clubs that sent 2 delegates each to the meeting were: South Park, Willunga, Port Adelaide, Adelaide, North Adelaide, Prince Alfred College, Gawler, Kapunda, Bankers, Woodville, South Adelaide, Kensington, and Victorian. The inaugural 1877 SAFA season was contested by 8 clubs. A total of 4 games were also played by Adelaide and Woodville when they were hosted twice each by
1972-464: The newer clubs failed to field a team. In 1898, the Magarey Medal was awarded to the fairest and most brilliant player for the first time. In 1899, after a period of declining public interest in football due to the long term inequality between the three traditional clubs ( Port Adelaide , South Adelaide and Norwood) and the three younger clubs (West Adelaide, West Torrens and North Adelaide),
2030-511: The old Adelaide rules, had sadly degenerated. The regulations generally known as the Kensington roles had during the last two seasons in which they had been adopted only provoked continual disputes when matches were engaged in. He was sure they all desired to see the game prosper in the colony, and that by a suitable code of rules encouragement should be given to the exhibition of skill, strength, and pluck, while all matches might be played under
2088-448: The only country team ever admitted Gawler Albion but all only lasted for a few seasons. West Adelaide folded after just one season (1887), their resignation was accepted at the Annual General Meeting held on 5th April 1888, as they were unable to get a team together. At the same meeting permission was given for Hotham to change their name to North Adelaide and for Gawler to remove the word Albion from their name. The 1888 SAFA season
2146-425: The qualities, but is apt to attempt the impossible on occasions. He marked, kicked, and ran like a champion, and almost pulled the match out of the fire by his brilliant efforts. Sloss was employed as a maintenance engineer at a jam factory. He invented (and patented) a method for cutting melons into cubes that involved revolving circular wheels (instead of fixed knife blades) which prevented the fruit being reduced to
2204-484: The question of a uniform code of rules to be adopted by the various Clubs. There were 56 persons present, including representatives from the Old Adelaide, South Adelaide, Woodville, and Victorian Clubs. Mr. T. Lotchford presided. Mr. C. C. Kingston, in explaining the object of the meeting, mentioned that a circular bad been issued about six weeks previously by the Kensington Football Club , calling upon
2262-444: The season commenced. This reduced the number of senior clubs to just 4 - Port Adelaide, South Adelaide, Norwood and North Adelaide (originally called Medindie). In March 1895, a new club called Natives applied to join as the 5th Senior Club. It was formed from players from various districts and a group of former Port Adelaide players from a junior club called Port Natives. "The Natives" was adopted so as to prevent any feeling that it
2320-494: The senior Association (SAFA) with the Junior Association (called the Adelaide and Suburban Association) was started with 5 delegates from each Association to confer as what steps can be taken but was in the end rejected by the SAFA. Of the original senior clubs – Bankers (1877), Woodville (1877), Adelaide and Kensington (1881 after merging), South Park (1884), Victorian (1884) - i.e. 6 of the original 8 had all left
2378-527: The sub-licences for South Australia's two AFL clubs— Adelaide Football Club and Port Adelaide Football Club —until March 2014, when South Australian Football Commission reached an agreement with the Adelaide and Port Adelaide clubs—endorsed by the AFL—which will see the two AFL licences transferred to the clubs in return for payments totalling more than $ 18 million. The league is also responsible for
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2436-656: The substitution of an oval football for the round one. Messrs. C. C. Kingston, A. Crooks, J. A. Osborne, T.Letchford, and C. D. Perkins were appointed a Committee to confer with the Secretaries of other Clubs with a view to securing their concurrence in the action taken by the meeting. They were also empowered to consider the question of offering a Challenge Cup for next season. The meeting then closed. In 1877, following an initial meeting called by Richard Twopeny on Thursday 19 April 1877 at Prince Alfred Hotel delegates from 13 of South Australia's football clubs met to develop
2494-563: The three clubs— Adelaide , Kensington and Port Adelaide —held a meeting on 10 March 1873, with Charles Kingston from Adelaide voted as chair in an attempted to draw up a standard code of playing rules. However, after a match between Port Adelaide and Kensington in July 1873, it was remarked that neither side understood the rules clearly. As the years progressed, there became a growing push for uniformity and structure in South Australian football. On Wednesday 22 March 1876,
2552-543: The title Sloss . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sloss&oldid=1157817508 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Bruce Sloss Bruce Moses Farquhar Sloss (21 January 1889 – 4 January 1917)
2610-592: The total score, not just goals. (which brought it in to line with the VFA ). On 5 April 1897, The Association approved the application of the current West Adelaide Football Club to join the SAFA from the Suburban Association and The Native Football Club (1895–1896) altered its name to West Torrens Football Club ,. Despite the constitution allowing 8 clubs based on the Electoral Districts
2668-639: The zone based on the Electoral District of Sturt , but it performed poorly initially, finishing last in its first four seasons. In 1902, Port Adelaide adopted its now famous black and white colours. In 1907, the association changed its name to the South Australian Football League. In 1910 Adelaide University made an application to enter the competition as the 8th team. This led to players such as Jack Londrigan leaving league clubs such as Sturt in anticipation for
2726-469: Was Adelaide Football Club (unrelated to the modern day Adelaide Football Club ), formed in April 1860. An advertisement, sponsored by John Acraman , W.J. Fullarton and R. Cussen noted that group had already gathered 30 members. The club initially only played internal matches between players located North and South of the River Torrens. By 1871 a number of new clubs were formed. In addition to
2784-583: Was altered ahead of the 2014 season , resulting in Adelaide Oval hosting the grand final in the penultimate weekend of September. The semi-professional league is considered the strongest competition after the fully professional Australian Football League (AFL) and the strongest state-based competition with its representative team has been undefeated in competition against the Victorian Football League since 2020. The league owned
2842-556: Was an Australian rules footballer who played as a follower with Essendon and South Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL), and with Brighton in the Victorian Football Association (VFA). Bruce Sloss, the youngest son of James Davis and Christina Sloss, was born in East Malvern on 21 January 1889. As he grew up, he was a keen footballer and cricketer, and he taught Bible classes at
2900-560: Was being tried. In mid to late 1900 there was growing interest to form a senior club in the Sturt Electoral District based around Unley to join the SAFA. In 1900, North Adelaide won the Grand Final against South Adelaide breaking the dominance of the 3 old traditional Clubs – Norwood (11), South Adelaide (8) and Port Adelaide (3) which together had won 22 of the first 23 premierships (1877–1899). With
2958-511: Was confined to any given locality. Principally the members were drawn from the Port Natives, who were the premiers of the Adelaide and Suburban Association. After initially having their application refused. At a meeting on the 5th April 1895 the Natives then submitted a list of 50 players to show their strength. They were then admitted by 13 votes to 5 against. This new senior club would rename itself and be called West Torrens in 1897 with
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#17327829931023016-494: Was held at the Prince Alfred Hotel on Monday evening, March 27. All the clubs - North Parks, North Adelaide Juniors, Kensington, Kent Town, Albion, Triton, and West Torrens were represented. Later some of these clubs would be admitted to the Senior Association - North Parks would merge with North Adelaide Juniors and join as Adelaide in 1885 and West Torrens as West Adelaide in 1887. In May 1884 - A proposal to merge
3074-447: Was one of the best on the ground for the VFA team. South Melbourne took some time to obtain a VFL clearance permit for him to play with them. He was not able to play his first match for South Melbourne until the round 10 match of the 1910 season against Richmond . Playing as a follower, he was tallish for his era and somewhat lightly framed; he was, however, renowned for his speed and agility, and for his high marking ability, and
3132-524: Was primarily used for Australian Football League matches up until 2013 and had a capacity of over 51,000 prior to being demolished. The stadium was the headquarters for the league from 1974 to 2013. The SANFL competition is the second highest attended Australian rules football league behind the AFL. The first recorded game of any "football" in South Australia was that of 'Caid' played in Thebarton by people of
3190-533: Was remarked that scarcely a game was played last season without some misunderstanding arising, some playing by the Old Adelaide Club , and others the Kensington Club rules. After a lengthy discussion the meeting adjourned to receive a report from the Secretary and Committee. A meeting of those interested in football was held at the Prince Alfred Hotel on Thursday evening, July 20, to consider
3248-413: Was started under a cloud, as a dispute arose when the old senior clubs Adelaide, Port Adelaide and South Adelaide all withdrew and resigned from the SAFA and created their own Association and had invited a junior club Medindie to join them. The split meant Norwood was the only senior club left in the original SAFA along with the two new clubs which had just joined the year before Gawler and Hotham. The result
3306-775: Was taken at the match. Sloss arrived in France in 1916 and was headquartered behind the front at Armentieres . On 4 January 1917, after returning from the frontlines and talking to a fellow soldier, Sloss was killed instantly when a stray German artillery shell landed at his feet, showering him with white-hot shrapnel . He is buried at the Cité Bonjean Military Cemetery, Armentières, in Northern France. South Australian National Football League The South Australian National Football League , or SANFL ( / ˈ s æ n f əl / or S-A-N-F-L ),
3364-444: Was the old South Australian Football Association being wound up and a new one formed termed 'The South Australian United Football Association' . The three remaining SAFA clubs Norwood, Gawler and Hotham (North Adelaide) then had to applied to join this new Association which had a number of new rules. In 1888, a junior club Medindie (which would rename itself North Adelaide Football Club in 1893) joined this new Association to maintain
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