Bankers Football Club
The Bankers Football Club was an Australian rules football club, based in Adelaide, that played in the inaugural 1877 SAFA season.
| Bankers | |
|---|---|
| Names | |
| Full name | Bankers Football Club |
| Club details | |
| Founded | April 1877 |
| Dissolved | 1877 |
| Competition | SAFA 1877 |
The club lost every one of the 15 matches it contested, finishing 8th and collecting the SAFA first wooden spoon, whilst scoring just 4 goals and conceding 36; six of these losses were on forfeit as the club struggled to field a team.
The club's first match was on Saturday 14 May 1877 vs Adelaide. Messr Colton as Captain. Their only goal was kicked by Lindsay in a 1-4 defeat.[1]
Its last recorded game was on Saturday, 28 July, 1877 vs South Park. Mr Crooks as Captain in a 0-3 goals defeat.[2]
It was reported that the Banker's forfeited their game in August 1877 vs Port at Montefiore hill. Port had a full team on the field when the Banker's Captain Mr Cotton informed them that his team would not be present.[3]
It was seen by fans, the media and other teams as being equal to a social club at the elite level: at the end of the 1877 season, ‘Marlborough’, writing in The Advertiser, implicitly echoed these sentiments regarding the Bankers club, and expressed the hope "that no efforts will be made to establish it next season".
The writer got his wish, as the Bankers dropped out of the SAFA and disbanded never to be seen again.[4]
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