148 years of Norwood

This Saturday, February 28, 2026 marks 148 years of the Norwood Football Club, since its establishment in 1878 at the Norfolk Arms Hotel in Rundle Street.

Pictured is Norwood’s first of 32 Premiership winning sides (31 Snr Men’s, 1 Snr Women’s), the 1878 NFC premiership team which kick-started a run of six successive flags from 1878-1883 to set the tone for our great club.

The inaugural 1878 Premiership side: T. Letchford, top left, T. Blinman, H. Thurgaland. A. E. Waldron, L. Kauffmann, F. Terrell, J. It. Osborne (Capt.). T. Green, A. Terrell, F. Letchford, J. Woods, E. Woods, F. Chapman, A. S. Young. J. Coward, middle left, L. Subard, G. Giffen, W. Dedman, H. C. Burnet. J. Low, bottom left, J. Pollock, A. McMichael, Joe Traynor, W. Bracken, A. J. Diamond (Secretary).

For more about the history of the Norwood Football Club click the below link, which directs to the Redlegs Museum website, which is managed by the club’s dedicated History Committee.