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Dynasty: A Legend, a Family, and the Port Adelaide Football Club : the Story of the Williams Family
Fos Williams is a legend in South Australian football. He turned the proud Port Adelaide Football Club into a power in Australian football. Nine premierships from 16 grand finals from the day the West Adelaide rover arrived at Alberton in has Williams stand as the patriarch of Port Adelaide. The traditions Williams established through his era continue with his sons Mark and Stephen leading the dynasty into the 21st Century. No man, no family, has had such an enduring influence on a football club extending to the culture of South Australia. Williams made South Australians either love or hate Port Adelaide, but they all admired and respected the man and his club. So strong is the Port Adelaide empire built by Williams and his family that it became irresistible to the Australian Football League. Foster Neil Williams rewrote the traditions of the Port Adelaide. Now he tells the story
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Rucci's Monday Review: From the wharfs to a dynasty
UNCORK the champagne. Strike up the band, as they did in for Port Adelaide games. The moment has come. April 20 - the day, years ago, when three men started a football club - and no ordinary football club.
John Albert Rann.
Richard William John Leicester.
And George Henry Ireland.
It was a Wednesday. They met at North Parade at Port Adelaide. They had a vision for their growing community, its people - and the new game of Australian football that was less than a decade-old in Adelaide.
By May 12, Rann had set up this new football club at the Port Adelaide Cricket Club, where he was president. The club's first committee was established with the presidency taken up by John Hart junior, the son of South Australia's 10th Premier, John Hart.
Leicester was the club's first sekreterare. Ireland, the first treasurer. Rann became a committee member, along with Messrs. R. Carr and F. Bridgeman.
The first practice game was played t
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Port Gazette: Alberton's Shining Star
RUSSELL EBERT has the record for the most senior appearances for the Port Adelaide Football Club - games from and It is a record that, as a challenge, is meant to be broken.
Kane Cornes holds the record for the most AFL league appearances for the Port Adelaide Football Club - matches from This too will fall one day.
If all is restored to "normal" after the COVID pandemic, it is most likely both records will fall to a Port Adelaide player with a combined SANFL-AFL tally.
But when it comes to tenure as a senior footballer at the Port Adelaide Football Club, no-one will touch Sampson "Shine" Hosking.
His first league game was in the SANFL season-opener on May 4, against Sturt at Unley Oval (for a point win). He was 19 years old. Plus four months.
His last league match was on June 6, He was 48 years and days. No-one will rewrite that record in SANFL football.
Hosking's league career lasted for 30 seasons, from start to finish. There w