Past Player of the Week – Julian Woods

Julian Woods was a dashing young wingman who, with his older brother Ted, wore the red-and-white colours of Kensington in 1877, the first season of the South Australian Football Association (SAFA). Both transferred their allegiance to the new club, Norwood, in 1878 and were followed there later by their talented brothers John and Charles.

“I think that my brother Ted and myself were really the first players of the Victorian game in this State, because it was introduced at the Sevenhills College by Victorian scholars some time before it had any vogue in Adelaide,” Julian, a prominent journalist,  wrote in 1923.*

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