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SOUTH SYDNEYAffiliated: NSWAFL 1911-16, 1918, 1925-6; NSWANFL 1927-69 & 1972-6 Colours: Green and red Emblem: Rabbits Premierships: 1914, 1934-5 (3 total) Phelan Medallists: F.Smith 1934; F.Gascoigne 1952; K.Bachelor 1958; R.Turner 1959; R.Gwilliam 1964; B.Tyler 1974 (6 total) League Top Goalkickers: P.Flynn (65) 1928; S.Powditch (58) 1932; C.Starr (78) 1934 & (61) 1938; D.Probyn (79) 1936; W.Wood (95) 1943 (6 total)
South Sydney entered the New South Wales Australian Football League in 1911 and quickly emerged as a force. After finishing 3rd in 1913 it reached the following year's grand final where it recorded a 7.7 (49) to 4.15 (39) victory over Sydney. The success was short-lived, however, as the club struggled to field a team during the war years, disbanding temporarily in 1917, and then on a more prolonged basis between 1919 and 1924. The 1930s were South Sydney's halcyon years. The club never once missed the finals, and reached the ultimate match of the year half a dozen times for two premierships. The early war years saw the club continuing to perform consistently well, contesting three consecutive grand finals between 1941 and 1943 only to lose them all. After 1943 the club went into gradual decline. Its last finals appearance for a quarter of a century came in 1949, and most of its last two and a half decades in the competition saw it battling to avoid the wooden spoon - a battle it lost on seven occasions. Where now? or |