Pennsylvania State University - Fall 2021 Chemistry 243, Chapter 4 Presentation
Professor Moreno, Section 8 March 05, 2021
Additionally, Alberton Oval is a sports oval located in Alberton, a north-western suburb of Adelaide, South Australia. Furthermore, It has been the home of the Port Adelaide Football Club since 1880.
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Slide 1 Title: Key Points
The ground is a public park and is exclusively leased to Port Adelaide for Australian rules football. == History ==
With the nearby Queenstown Oval built upon in 1876, the Alberton and Queenstown Council opted to construct a cricketing ground on the land adjacent Brougham Place in 1876. The land was donated by the former Mayor of Port Adelaide, John Formby. The Queen and Albert Oval was officially opened on 8 November 1877 for a game between the touring Tasmanian cricket team and a selected eleven of the Queen and Albert Cricket Association.
== Port Adelaide Football Club ==
While several teams played at the Alberton Oval in the ground's early days, it is most famous for being the training and administration base for the Port Adelaide Football Club
since it played its first game on 15 May 1880 and defeated the original, now-defunct Kensington Football Club 1-nil. Port Adelaide has played all its South Australian National Football League (SANFL) home games at the ground since 1880.
Slide 2 Title: Important Facts
When the club commenced playing in the Australian Football League (AFL) in 1997, it played home matches at Football Park in West Lakes, until 2014 when AFL matches were moved to the Adelaide Oval near the city. The club continued fielding a team in the SANFL after accession to the AFL, and continued to play home matches at Alberton Oval. Initially the SANFL team was legally separate from the club's AFL operations, until the two were re- unified in 2010. Since 2014 Port Adelaide's SANFL team has been a reserve team for the club. The club commenced fielding a women's team in the AFL Women's league in 2022, and play home matches at Alberton Oval. All of the club's teams, including its AFL, AFLW and SANFL teams, conduct their principal trainings at the ground.
Slide 3 Title: Key Topics
The Allan Scott Power Headquarters stands adjacent to the oval. So too does The Port Club, a social venue for the club's supporters and players, which was opened on 14 November 1954. Alberton is regarded as the "spiritual home" of Port Adelaide due to the club (in the SANFL) playing almost all of their homes games there since commencing its tenancy. The club's AFL team usually plays one or two trial games at the ground during the pre-season.
Many notable Australian rules footballers have played for Port Adelaide on the ground, including 3 time Brownlow and Sandover Medalist Haydn Bunton Sr, four time SANFL Magarey Medal winner and club games record holder (392) Russell Ebert, nine time premiership coach Fos Williams, local junior and future Carlton player Craig Bradley, 1992
Best and Fairest winner Nathan Buckley, 1993 Brownlow Medallist Gavin Wanganeen and Port Adelaide's first ever AFL coach, John Cahill who also coached the club to 10 SANFL premierships. === Cheltenham Cemetery curse ===
For a long time such was the Port Adelaide Football Club's dominance at Alberton Oval with a win percentage of 78% from its first year at the ground in 1880 to joining the AFL in 1997 there has been conjecture that opposition teams became cursed as they passed by
Cheltenham Cemetery on the way to the ground.
Slide 4 Title: Discussion
Your fellows are beaten as soon as they pass the Cheltenham Cemetery. Malcolm Blight as coach for Woodville played up the curse for his players in the lead up to a match, parking the bus before the cemetery, and making his players walk past Cheltenham Cemetery.
Unfortunately it didn't work and Woodville still lost but Blight suggests his team would've lost by more if he didn't make everyone walk past. The adage, you lose five goals every time you came to Alberton Oval as soon as you passed Cheltenham Cemetery. === Interstate pre- season matches ===
1888 September 17 – Port Adelaide vs. Broken Hill 1913 July 26 – Port Adelaide vs. North Fremantle 1925 August 25 – Port Adelaide vs. South Fremantle 1931 October 15 – Port Adelaide vs. Geelong
1968 – Port Adelaide vs. Melbourne 1968 – Port Adelaide vs. South Melbourne 1969 March 22 – Port Adelaide vs. Melbourne 1971 March 14 – Port Adelaide vs. Melbourne 1979 March 31 – Port Adelaide vs. Footscray
1981 March 14 – Port Adelaide vs. Richmond 1982 March 13 – Port Adelaide vs. Richmond 1997 February 9 – Port Adelaide vs. Richmond 2014 March 8 – Port Adelaide vs. St Kilda
2019 March 9 – Port Adelaide vs. North Melbourne
=== 2022/23 redevelopment ===
In 2021, Port Adelaide club officials revealed plans for a redevelopment of the Alberton Oval and surrounding precinct, to include an additional indoor training and administration venue for football, which would feature two basketball courts and an adjacent outdoor soccer pitch. Upgrades to the existing change-rooms and training buildings for men's and women's players were also proposed, as well as spectator amenities and additional spaces for parked cars. The plans were opposed by many local residents who were opposed to the loss of the public park and removal of a dozen significant trees while others claimed it would exacerbate traffic and congestion issues, though club officials pointed to the
expanded car-park spaces available for staff and players, and the opportunities available for local community sports groups to utilise the facilities. The proposal was granted approval by the City of Port Adelaide Enfield council on 9 November 2021.
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1. Wikipedia (n.d.)