1941 SANFL Season: South Adelaide

These are the details of the premiership results of South Adelaide for the 1941 SANFL season. The team finished the regular season in fifth place.

Season Team Details

Competition: 1941 SANFL Season
Team: South Adelaide
Home Ground: Adelaide Oval

Team Results

Ladder Position: 5th (W-D-L: 6-0-11, P%: 48.4)
Finals Performance: Did not qualify for finals

Team Leaders

Captain: Jack Dawes
Vice-Captain: Laurie Rusby

Player Results

Player Guernseys Matches Goals Rounds
Aistrope, Charles 13 0 R05-17
Baker, Clarence 17 0 R01-17
Ball, Reginald 2 0 R04, R15
Bourne, Donald 9 0 R04-07, R09-13
Boyle, John 17 0 R01-17
Cahill, Laurie 15 0 R02-04, R06-17
Cockburn, Jack 16 0 R01-07, R09-17
Crawford, Alan 12 0 R01-11, R14
Dawes, Jack 11 0 R07-17
Dawes, Jim 15 0 R01-03, R05-15, R17
Disher, James 9 0 R01-02, R08-10, R14-17
Doherty, Jack 14 0 R01-02, R06-17
Dolphin, Harry 2 0 R01, R04
Haines, Colin 11 0 R01-02, R09-17
Hodgson, Maxwell 13 0 R01-03, R05-12, R14, R16
Isaac, William 8 0 R01, R03-05, R08, R12-13, R15
Jarmyn, Brian 7 0 R01-04, R06-08
Jolly, William 7 0 R01-06, R08
Kersley, Herbert 1 0 R01
Lapthorne, Len 14 0 R01-14
Mackay, Basil 1 0 R05
Maley, William 9 0 R08-16
Mason, W. 1 0 R03
Michalanney, William 2 0 R11, R17
Murdy, Max 4 0 R02-05
Parslow, Norm 3 0 R02-04
Pearce, Ross 4 0 R09-11, R17
Redman, Alan 1 0 R16
Rusby, Laurie 17 0 R01-17
Schulze, Sydney 10 0 R01-03, R06-08, R14-17
Scott, Stanley 3 0 R15-17
Smedley, Maxwell 2 0 R04-05
Smith, Arthur 11 0 R03-07, R12-17
Templeton, Jim 17 0 R01-17
Todd, Lewis 2 0 R12-13
Tredrea, Jack 3 0 R13, R16-17
Wilson, C. 17 0 R01-17
Woodburn, John 3 0 R05-07

Coach Results

Coach Matches (W-D-L) Rounds
Ashby, Len 17 6 -0- 11 R01-17

Team Line-Up

Back: C. Wilson John Boyle Clarence Baker
Half-Back: Donald Bourne Jim Dawes Sydney Schulze
Centre: Jack Doherty Jim Templeton Laurie Cahill
Half-Forward: William Isaac Maxwell Hodgson James Disher
Forward: William Maley Jack Cockburn Laurie Rusby
Follower: Alan Crawford Jack Dawes Len Lapthorne

This is an approximation for the typical team line-up based on available complete positional records from this season.
Names in bold indicate that the player was named in this position at least ten times this season (exc. interchange).
Positional information from 17 out of 17 matches was used.

Match Results

Date Round Opponent H/A Result Coach Captain (Nominated)
26/04/1941 Round 1 Norwood AWAY LOSS NRWD by 25 Len Ashby Laurie Rusby
03/05/1941 Round 2 Sturt AWAY LOSS STRT by 35 Len Ashby Laurie Rusby
10/05/1941 Round 3 Port Adelaide HOME WIN SADL by 11 Len Ashby Laurie Rusby
17/05/1941 Round 4 North Adelaide AWAY LOSS NADL by 25 Len Ashby Laurie Rusby
24/05/1941 Round 5 West Torrens HOME LOSS WTRN by 19 Len Ashby Laurie Rusby
31/05/1941 Round 6 Glenelg AWAY LOSS GLNG by 25 Len Ashby Laurie Rusby
07/06/1941 Round 7 West Adelaide HOME LOSS WADL by 16 Len Ashby Jack Dawes
14/06/1941 Round 8 Norwood HOME LOSS NRWD by 44 Len Ashby Jack Dawes
21/06/1941 Round 9 Sturt HOME WIN SADL by 58 Len Ashby Jack Dawes
28/06/1941 Round 10 Port Adelaide AWAY LOSS PADL by 5 Len Ashby Jack Dawes
05/07/1941 Round 11 North Adelaide HOME WIN SADL by 12 Len Ashby Jack Dawes
19/07/1941 Round 12 West Torrens AWAY WIN SADL by 50 Len Ashby Jack Dawes
26/07/1941 Round 13 Glenelg AWAY WIN SADL by 13 Len Ashby Jack Dawes
02/08/1941 Round 14 West Adelaide AWAY LOSS WADL by 19 Len Ashby Jack Dawes
16/08/1941 Round 15 Norwood HOME LOSS NRWD by 18 Len Ashby Jack Dawes
23/08/1941 Round 16 North Adelaide AWAY LOSS NADL by 35 Len Ashby Jack Dawes
06/09/1941 Round 17 Glenelg HOME WIN SADL by 5 Len Ashby Jack Dawes

Ladder Chart

This chart is based on the nominal round, i.e. only one result (win, loss, draw, bye) per round, which may result in not being accurate from a chronological perspective. The positions during the finals series is determined via bespoke logic.