Anonymous
Years ago

Origin of Centrals name?

Why are the Centrals called that,be it Baskeball/soccer/SANFL.Wouldnt Northern match the description better since north is already taken?If Forrestville had that name i get it they are geographically in the center of our city.

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perplexed  
Years ago

years ago the clubs lined their names and colours up with local sanfl teams.

west torrens - blue yellow
sturt 2 blues
glenelg (tigers) black and yellow
and so on....
centrals were playing in a stadium around elizabeth way - hence the names.

at teh time the colours and names i believe were created for the local communities to identify with their local teams be it footy, basketball etc

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Moses Guthrie  
Years ago

Correct weight and all clear. Saw video footage of the West Torrens stadium (aka Forestville) the other day. Never knew they had WT in the centre circle!

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Mantis  
Years ago

According to the Central District FC website, when the Gawler Football League (which included teams from Salisbury and Elizabeth areas) had their application to join the SANFL accepted:

"Officials then faced the difficult task of designing the new entity with delegates from Salisbury, Salisbury North, Elizabeth and Gawler failing to reach consensus on issues such as the Club name and home ground. Eventually the new identity was reached - Central District (derived from the agricultural and meterological definition of the Northern area) was to play its games at Elizabeth Oval (a neutral venue as far as the delegates were concerned). The name Central District was already synonymous with a Queen's Birthday Holiday Football Carnival contested by the Gawler, Barossa, Adelaide Plains and Mid-North Leagues"

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Anonymous  
Years ago

IMO its called Centrals because its the center of the sporting universe.

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ineedmore  
Years ago

It's not the central meeting spot for all the immigrant poms?

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