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1979 TANFL season

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1979 TANFL premiership season
Teams
PremiersClarence
Minor premiersGlenorchy
Attendance
Matches played64
Total attendance160,950 (2,515 per match)
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The 1979 Tasmanian Australian National Football League (TANFL) premiership season was an Australian rules football competition staged in Hobart, Tasmania over twenty (20) roster rounds and four (4) finals series matches between 7 April and 22 September 1979.

This was the centenary season of the Tasmanian Football League, the finals series was sponsored by the Winfield tobacco company to the tune of A$10,000.

The Grand Final of this year set an all-time record football match attendance in Tasmania of 24,968 patrons, this was also a single-day sporting record attendance in the state of Tasmania for twenty five years until it was broken when a crowd of 30,150 attended Symmons Plains Raceway in Northern Tasmania for a V8 Supercar Championship event in 2004.[1]

Participating Clubs

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1979 TANFL Club Coaches

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TANFL Reserves Grand Final

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TANFL Under-19's Grand Final

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TANFL Under-17's Grand Final

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  • Hobart 13.10 (88) v Glenorchy 9.7 (61) – New Town Oval

Interstate Matches

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TFL Centenary Interstate Match (Monday, 18 June 1979)

See: 1979 Perth State of Origin Carnival

Section One Qualifying Match (Thursday, 4 October 1979)

  • Tasmania 17.20 (122) v Queensland 13.12 (90) at Perth Oval

Semi Final 1 (Saturday, 6 October 1979)

  • Western Australia 23.33 (171) v Tasmania 9.10 (64) - Att: 15,186 at Subiaco Oval

3rd Place Playoff (Monday, 8 October 1979)

  • South Australia 22.20 (152) v Tasmania 17.11 (113) - Att: 30,876 at Subiaco Oval

Intrastate Matches

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Jubilee Shield (Wednesday, 25 April 1979)

Jubilee Shield (Saturday, 26 May 1979)

Leading Goalkickers: TANFL

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  • Peter Hudson (Glenorchy) – 179 (TFL Record)
  • Paul Courto (Hobart) – 71
  • L.Barwick (Nth Hobart) – 53
  • Michael Elliot (Sandy Bay) – 48

Medal Winners

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  • Peter Hudson (Glenorchy) – William Leitch Medal
  • Noel Bester (New Norfolk) – George Watt Medal (Reserves)
  • Mark Kreune (Clarence) – V.A Geard Medal (Under-19's)
  • Gary Webster (Nth Hobart) – D.R Plaister Medal (Under-17's)
  • Murray Dickson (Hobart) & Scott Brain (Hobart) – Weller Arnold Medal (Best TANFL player in Intrastate Matches)

1979 TANFL Ladder

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Pos Team Pld W L D PF PA PP Pts
1 Glenorchy 20 18 2 0 2661 1430 186.1 72
2 Clarence 20 14 6 0 1784 1679 106.3 56
3 Sandy Bay 20 10 10 0 1507 1591 94.7 40
4 North Hobart 20 9 11 0 1699 2139 79.4 36
5 New Norfolk 20 6 14 0 1669 1885 88.5 24
6 Hobart 20 3 17 0 1667 2253 74.0 12
Source: [citation needed]

Round 1

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(Saturday, 7 April 1979)

Round 2

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(Saturday, 14 April & Monday, 16 April 1979)

Round 3

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(Saturday, 21 April 1979)

Round 4

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(Saturday, 28 April 1979)

Round 5

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(Saturday, 5 May 1979)

Round 6

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(Saturday, 12 May 1979)

Round 7

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(Saturday, 19 May 1979)

Round 8

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(Saturday, 26 May 1979)

Round 9

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(Saturday, 2 June 1979)

Round 10

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(Saturday, 9 June & Sunday, 10 June 1979)

  • Glenorchy 23.17 (155) v Clarence 7.9 (51) – Att: 4,142 at North Hobart Oval
  • Sandy Bay 15.20 (110) v Hobart 15.15 (105) – Att: 864 at TCA Ground
  • New Norfolk 14.22 (106) v Nth Hobart 6.14 (50) – Att: 1,140 at Boyer Oval (Sunday)

Round 11

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(Saturday, 23 June 1979)

Round 12

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(Saturday, 30 June 1979)

Note: Peter Hudson kicks all-time TANFL record of 18 goals in this match and kicks his 100th goal for the season.

Round 13

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(Saturday, 7 July & Sunday, 8 July 1979)

Round 14

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(Saturday, 14 July 1979)

Round 15

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(Saturday, 21 July 1979)

Round 16

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(Saturday, 28 July 1979)

Round 17

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(Saturday, 4 August 1979)

Round 18

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(Saturday, 11 August 1979)

Note: Peter Hudson kicks second highest TANFL goal total of all-time (to that stage) with 16.4.

Round 19

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(Saturday, 18 August 1979)

Round 20

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(Saturday, 25 August 1979)

First Semi Final

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(Saturday, 1 September 1979)

  • Sandy Bay: 3.3 (21) | 9.7 (61) | 14.12 (96) | 18.12 (120)
  • Nth Hobart: 1.0 (6) | 4.3 (27) | 5.8 (38) | 6.13 (49)
  • Attendance: 5,629 at North Hobart Oval

Second Semi Final

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(Saturday, 8 September 1979)

  • Glenorchy: 4.4 (28) | 8.5 (53) | 12.7 (79) | 19.8 (122)
  • Clarence: 3.4 (22) | 5.7 (37) | 8.11 (59) | 11.12 (78)
  • Attendance: 10,282 at North Hobart Oval

Preliminary Final

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(Saturday, 15 September 1979)

  • Clarence: 3.3 (21) | 5.9 (39) | 7.16 (58) | 10.19 (79)
  • Sandy Bay: 0.2 (2) | 1.3 (9) | 4.6 (30) | 9.6 (60)
  • Attendance: 8,428 at North Hobart Oval

Grand Final

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(Saturday, 22 September 1979)

  • Clarence: 3.4 (22) | 9.6 (60) | 10.8 (68) | 12.11 (83)
  • Glenorchy: 4.7 (31) | 6.8 (44) | 10.13 (73) | 11.14 (80)
  • Attendance: 24,968 at North Hobart Oval (Including 2,683 pre-sold tickets) (Tasmanian Record)

References

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  1. ^ "Motorcar Racing". www.utas.edu.au. Retrieved 6 September 2024.

Source: All scores and statistics courtesy of the Hobart Mercury and Saturday Evening Mercury (SEM) publications.