The 1973 SANFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Glenelg Football Club and North Adelaide Football Club at Adelaide Oval on 29 September 1973. It was the 75th annual grand final of the South Australian National Football League (SANFL), staged to determine the premiers for the 1973 SANFL season. The match, attended by 56,525 spectators, was won by Glenelg by a margin of seven points, marking the club's second SANFL flag, breaking a 39-year premiership drought. It would be the last SANFL Grand Final held at Adelaide Oval until 2014.
Glenelg had been the top team all year, losing only one game all season (to North Adelaide in Round 7). In a tight grand final, Graham Cornes famously took a mark and kicked a goal to give Glenelg 1 point lead in the dying minutes, and then Glenelg kicked one more goal after the final siren.
Teams +Glenelg1. Peter Marker (C).
3. John MacFarlane
4. Bob Tregenza
5. Peter Carey
7. John Sandland
9. Greg Wickens
10. Rex Voigt
11. Greg Bennett
12. Graham Cornes
14. Brian Colbey
15. Peter Anderson
16. Steve Hywood
17. Kerry Hamilton
18. Craig Marriott
19. Fred Phillis
20. Wayne Phillis
21. Bob Tardiff
22. Neville Caldwell
26. Peter Millard
29. Jim Rawson
COACH: Neil Kerley+North Adelaide1. John Spry
2. Terry von Bertouch
4. David Marsh
5. Charlie Payne
7. John Phillips
9. Barry Stringer
10. Barrie Robran (VC)
12. Neil Sachse
13. John Plummer
14. Barry Hearl
15. Alan Howard
16. John Robinson
18. Adrian Rebbeck
20. Rodney Robran
21. Terry Collins
26. Gary Sporn
28. David Burns
29. Bob Hammond
30. Dennis Sachse
35. Bronte Mumford
COACH: Mike Patterson
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