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KEY FACTS

Official name
Sturt Football Club

Known as
Sturt

Nickname
Double Blues

Formed
1901

Colours
Oxford and Cambridge blue

Associated clubs
Sturt Reserves; Sturt U18s; Sturt-South Adelaide; Sturt U16s; Sturt WFC; Sturt U14s

Affiliation (Current)
South Australian National Football league (SANFL) 1901–2025

Home Ground
Peter Motley Oval

SANFL Premierships
1915, 1919, 1926, 1932, 1940, 1966-67-68-69-70, 1974, 1976, 2002, 2016-17 (15 total)

Senior Premierships
Stanley H Lewis Memorial Trophy: 1968, 1978, 1983, 2008 (4 total); SANFL Night/Knock-out/Pre-season Series: 1954, 1975 (2 total)

Most Games
360 - Paul Bagshaw (1964-1980)

Most Goals
672 - Brant Chambers (2002-10)

League Top Goalkickers
Frank Golding (30) 1920; Paul Caust (57) 1955; Ross Sawley (70) 1964; Ken Whelan (107) 1973 & (108) 1974; Rick Davies (151) 1983; Brant Chambers (112) 2007, (97) 2008 and (80) 2009; Mark Evans (40) 2018 (10 total)

Magarey Medalists
Hendrick Waye 1903; Harry Cumberland 1911; Vic Richardson 1920; Horrie Riley 1923; Keith Dunn 1933; Len Fitzgerald 1952, 1954 & 1959; John Halbert 1961; Greg Whittlesea 1988; Brodie Atkinson 1997; Damian Squire 1999 & 2000; Jade Sheedy 2002; Tim Weatherald 2002; Luke Crane 2008; Zane Kirkwood 2014 & 2016 (15 medallists/18 medals)

Headquarters
39 Oxford Terrace, Unley, SA 5061

Phone: (08) 8271 4611 

Email
general@sturtfc.com.au

Website
sturtfc.com.au

CEO
WG Noal

President
ER Brown / JK Alderman

Sturt



"Try a word association test involving the name ‘Sturt’ with South Australian football followers of more than fifty years of age - and long memories - and the chances are that the most popular responses would be terms like “skilful”, “brilliant”, “classy” and “dazzling”. The Sturt side that dominated South Australian football during the second half of the 1960s had an impact which no other team in the history of the SANFL, with the possible exception of the great Port Adelaide side which won six successive premierships during the 1950s, ever managed ... "

  • John Devaney looks at the history of the Double Blues and their extraordinary run of success in the late 1960s

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1937 Season (SANFL) Fixture

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Sturt's 1937 Fixture

Rnd
H&A
Club
Q1
Q2
Q3
Q4
S
R
Opponent
Q1
Q2
Q3
Q4
S
Mgn
Grd
Date
SC
1 A Sturt 4.56.710.913.11 89 WON South Adelaide 4.38.410.713.10 88 1 ADO Apr 24 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
2 H Sturt 4.56.711.1017.11 113 WON Port Adelaide 1.29.610.813.12 90 23 UNL May 1 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
3 A Sturt 5.16.910.1114.15 99 LOST Glenelg 4.45.711.1215.16 106 -7 GLE May 8 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
4 H Sturt 3.77.811.1612.17 89 DRAW North Adelaide 2.48.89.1212.17 89 0 UNL May 15 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
5 A Sturt 2.27.610.712.8 80 LOST West Torrens 3.25.510.613.11 89 -9 THB May 22 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
6 H Sturt 4.54.86.128.14 62 LOST West Adelaide 2.66.117.159.21 75 -13 ADO May 29 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
7 A Sturt 3.36.99.1310.16 76 LOST Norwood 5.47.99.1912.24 96 -20 NOR Jun 5 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
8 A Sturt 4.38.710.1114.14 98 LOST Port Adelaide 4.714.918.1625.24 174 -76 ALB Jun 12 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
9 H Sturt 2.06.28.910.13 73 LOST South Adelaide 4.38.613.1018.13 121 -48 UNL Jun 19 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
10 A Sturt 0.35.96.119.13 67 LOST North Adelaide 6.210.218.522.5 137 -70 PRO Jun 26 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
11 H Sturt 3.29.912.1415.21 111 WON Glenelg 2.76.108.1313.15 93 18 UNL Jul 3 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
12 H Sturt 3.56.89.1011.13 79 LOST West Torrens 4.27.812.1412.20 92 -13 UNL Jul 10 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
13 H Sturt 3.27.48.713.10 88 LOST Norwood 5.27.312.1016.11 107 -19 UNL Jul 24 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
14 A Sturt 5.55.513.617.9 111 WON West Adelaide 1.07.48.414.10 94 17 ASG Jul 31 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
15 A Sturt 4.48.810.1311.14 80 LOST West Torrens 4.27.69.813.11 89 -9 ADO Aug 21 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
16 H Sturt 4.410.716.1621.17 143 WON West Adelaide 3.36.510.813.13 91 52 UNL Aug 28 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
17 A Sturt 3.26.48.69.16 70 LOST South Adelaide 2.27.39.711.9 75 -5 ADO Sep 4 (Sat, 12:00) Scores
 

Footnotes

* Behinds calculated from the 1965 season on.
+ Score at the end of extra time.