Norths shorts

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Note the colour of NAFC shorts. Black it appears. Horrid!

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[Mr66]

I think this is the first time I have seen B&W photos of North
wearing black shorts.
Thanks Dasher!
And if Spellys out there, would you be able to shed light on the SANFL's home/black,away/white shorts policy.
I have noticed that in some games, up until the late '50s, both teams wore black shorts.
I noticed this while looking up finals scores in Advertiser during this time.

[spell_check]

Well, I think that the home and away shorts policy was around in the 70s' but I'm not sure how further back it goes.

[Groucho]

I have followed SANFL, Centrals in particular since 1964. As I remember it there wasn't a set home & away,black shorts white shorts policy in my time following Football.

I'm pretty sure that each team had a preferred shorts colour and would change to the opposite when playing other teams with the same choice. I believe the preferences were


Central District White
Glenelg Black
North Adelaide White
Norwood Black (later Navy, before coloured shorts were introduced in 1975)
Port Adelaide Black
South Adelaide White (not 100% sure on this one)
Sturt Black
West Adelaide Black
West Torrens White
Woodville Black

As you can see from this list it was far better to choose white shorts as you only needed to change a couple of times per season. I remember that Centrals didn't look that good in black shorts and I much preferred them wearing white shorts. It was only away games against North, Torrens and South that they needed to wear them.

Naturally with the introduction of Colour Television in 1975 this custom was discontinued. I think teams chose another colour when there was a clash with some wearing white, but I remember Glenelg in gold, West in Red & Torrens in yellow.

Strangely my records don't show Centrals wearing red shorts until 1988 so maybe they didn't change when there was a clash before this. In 1993 Centrals adopted white shorts as their alternates and since round 21, 1994 have made white their first choice.

Simple really no need to change shorts as we always wear white. A fact that eluded Port Adelaide in one finals game as they wore white until half time. Deliberate?
Also, Sturt turned up to Elizabeth with white shorts one year (an oversight they had corrected by the start of the League game.)

[McAlmanac]

Woodville Black

Woodville wore white until changing to black in 1972.

[bayman]

as far as i can remember home sides wore black & the away sides wore white, my memory of this goes back to the late 60's & the color tv bit is also right but the gold shorts we had looked ordinary as did westies red (essendons red was worse)

[Adelaide Hawk]

as far as i can remember home sides wore black & the away sides wore white, my memory of this goes back to the late 60's & the color tv bit is also right but the gold shorts we had looked ordinary as did westies red (essendons red was worse)

Ostensibly that was correct, but if Norwood played North Adelaide, Norwood always wore the darker shorts and North wore white, no matter whose home game it was.

[robranosgod]

I have followed SANFL, Centrals in particular since 1964. As I remember it there wasn't a set home & away,black shorts white shorts policy in my time following Football.

I'm pretty sure that each team had a preferred shorts colour and would change to the opposite when playing other teams with the same choice. I believe the preferences were


Central District White
Glenelg Black
North Adelaide White
Norwood Black (later Navy, before coloured shorts were introduced in 1975)
Port Adelaide Black
South Adelaide White (not 100% sure on this one)
Sturt Black
West Adelaide Black
West Torrens White
Woodville Black

As you can see from this list it was far better to choose white shorts as you only needed to change a couple of times per season. I remember that Centrals didn't look that good in black shorts and I much preferred them wearing white shorts. It was only away games against North, Torrens and South that they needed to wear them.

Naturally with the introduction of Colour Television in 1975 this custom was discontinued. I think teams chose another colour when there was a clash with some wearing white, but I remember Glenelg in gold, West in Red & Torrens in yellow.

Strangely my records don't show Centrals wearing red shorts until 1988 so maybe they didn't change when there was a clash before this. In 1993 Centrals adopted white shorts as their alternates and since round 21, 1994 have made white their first choice.

Simple really no need to change shorts as we always wear white. A fact that eluded Port Adelaide in one finals game as they wore white until half time. Deliberate?
Also, Sturt turned up to Elizabeth with white shorts one year (an oversight they had corrected by the start of the League game.)

You are on the right track. In the 1960s six teams had white shorts as there home shorts :

North
South
West
Torrens
Woodville
Central

The rest wore black as their home shorts. The ridiculous situation was that when North played West at Richmond North wore black. Thus both teams had combinations of red, black and white. Even in the 1968 first semi, West won the toss for shorts and wore white. It was ludicrous. West changed to black in the early 1970s, at about the same time as Woodville.

[Snaggletooth Tiger]

Darker shorts hide the stains when soiled from the anticipation of facing the MIGHTY BAYS
in another losing Grand Final!!!
(forget 1987)
Punk, Wedgie, Sheik Yerbouti...
Go on take your shots I'm ready!

[Wedgie]

Darker shorts hide the stains when soiled from the anticipation of facing the MIGHTY BAYS
in another losing Grand Final!!!
(forget 1987)
Punk, Wedgie, Sheik Yerbouti...
Go on take your shots I'm ready!

I'll take a shot, why did Glenelg elect to wear Black and North elect to wear White in the old days then?

[Snaggletooth Tiger]

I'll take a shot, why did Glenelg elect to wear Black and North elect to wear White in the old days then?

Chuck Norris film 'Good Guys wear Black'

[Magpiespower]

Be remiss not to mention Sturt's sky blue shorts from the 1980s...

[Punk Rooster]

Darker shorts hide the stains when soiled from the anticipation of facing the MIGHTY BAYS
in another losing Grand Final!!!
(forget 1987)
Punk, Wedgie, Sheik Yerbouti...
Go on take your shots I'm ready!

Mighty Bays?
4 Flags (39, 73, 85, 86)
Sensational effort fellas, keep dominating the competition

[Snaggletooth Tiger]

Mighty Bays?
4 Flags (39, 73, 85, 86)
Sensational effort fellas, keep dominating the competition

1934
Glenelg 18.15 (123) beat Ports 16.18 (114)
...Talk about the 'Great Depression' eh?
The other 75% of Tiger Premiership Glory was against your mob!
Mind you, the Bays have lost 12 grand Finals in their 80+ year history...
(only 1 of them to the Roosters tho!)

[Wedgie]

Mighty Bays?
4 Flags (39, 73, 85, 86)
Sensational effort fellas, keep dominating the competition

1934
Glenelg 18.15 (123) beat Ports 16.18 (114)
...Talk about the 'Great Depression' eh?
The other 75% of Tiger Premiership Glory was against your mob!
Mind you, the Bays have lost 12 grand Finals in their 80+ year history...
(only 1 of them to the Roosters tho!)

When you beat Port in two Grand Finals in a row come and talk to me.

[Punk Rooster]

Mighty Bays?
4 Flags (39, 73, 85, 86)
Sensational effort fellas, keep dominating the competition

1934
Glenelg 18.15 (123) beat Ports 16.18 (114)
...Talk about the 'Great Depression' eh?
The other 75% of Tiger Premiership Glory was against your mob!
Mind you, the Bays have lost 12 grand Finals in their 80+ year history...
(only 1 of them to the Roosters tho!)

When you beat Port in two Grand Finals in a row come and talk to me.

even then, unless you can back that up with a Champions of Australia trophy, I wouldn't even bother!

[Ian]

....and Carlton just after the 2nd one

[RustyCage]

Mighty Bays?
4 Flags (39, 73, 85, 86)
Sensational effort fellas, keep dominating the competition

1934
Glenelg 18.15 (123) beat Ports 16.18 (114)
...Talk about the 'Great Depression' eh?
The other 75% of Tiger Premiership Glory was against your mob!
Mind you, the Bays have lost 12 grand Finals in their 80+ year history...
(only 1 of them to the Roosters tho!)

When you beat Port in two Grand Finals in a row come and talk to me.

Next time you play Port in a GF and kick more than one goal, come talk to me

[RustyCage]

Mighty Bays?
4 Flags (39, 73, 85, 86)
Sensational effort fellas, keep dominating the competition

1934
Glenelg 18.15 (123) beat Ports 16.18 (114)
...Talk about the 'Great Depression' eh?
The other 75% of Tiger Premiership Glory was against your mob!
Mind you, the Bays have lost 12 grand Finals in their 80+ year history...
(only 1 of them to the Roosters tho!)

When you beat Port in two Grand Finals in a row come and talk to me.

even then, unless you can back that up with a Champions of Australia trophy, I wouldn't even bother!

And go through the season undefeated in winning the Champions of Australia trophy.

[Wedgie]

Mighty Bays?
4 Flags (39, 73, 85, 86)
Sensational effort fellas, keep dominating the competition

1934
Glenelg 18.15 (123) beat Ports 16.18 (114)
...Talk about the 'Great Depression' eh?
The other 75% of Tiger Premiership Glory was against your mob!
Mind you, the Bays have lost 12 grand Finals in their 80+ year history...
(only 1 of them to the Roosters tho!)

When you beat Port in two Grand Finals in a row come and talk to me.

even then, unless you can back that up with a Champions of Australia trophy, I wouldn't even bother!

And go through the season undefeated in winning the Champions of Australia trophy.

BAh, come talk to me when you keep a side to 1 goal 6 points in a GF like we did to Port in 1905.
To this day I still can't believe Port supporters got excited about being 2nd best and keeping North to 1 goal 8 points in a GF.
I can only assume they have less in their lives to get excited about than regular people?