The Complete Chronological History Of The Port Adelaide Football Club 1870 2020

Download or read book The Complete Chronological History of the Port Adelaide Football Club 1870-2020 written by Mark Shephard and published by . This book was released on 2022-06-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Complete Chronological History of the Port Adelaide Football Club 1870-2020 is available as a four-volume, thesis-bound set. The book, written by the club's historian Professor Mark Shephard, represents the culmination of five years of detailed evidence-based research and analysis conducted by the PAFC History Committee.The book project represents the definitive work on the club's history and is endorsed as an official club project.The four-volume set contains over 710,000 words, 1600 pages and includes over 1100 references. The book is written as a thesis and therefore contains text only. The book traces every season, game by game, year by year and decade by decade across the club's first 150 years from 1870 to 2020 and covers both the SANFL and AFL eras.The book contains 16 chapters that each generally cover a decade in time. Within each decade, each season is described under the following headings: an introduction to the season, a summary of minor round matches, a detailed description of the final series (and premierships), other games played by the club outside the premiership season, Port's representatives in interstate football that season, and an end-of-season summary. There is also a chapter describing Port's successful battle to enter the AFL.