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! style="background:black; color:gold" | &nbsp;Career Highlights 
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*GFC League Player Number:  658
*GFC League Debut:  Round 1, 1981
*Glenelg [[1981]] – [[1984]]
** 57 games 
** 64 goals 
* Escort Cup  premiership 1982 
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| align=center style="background:Gold; color:black" | &nbsp;Other Career Highlights
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* Woodville 1969 - 1980, 1985 - 1990
** 325 games
* Best and fairest for Woodville 1978
* Leading goal kicker for Woodville 1975


* Played 12 games for South Australia
* Inducted SANFL Hall of Fame 2002
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[[File:Ralp Sewer 1981.jpg‎|thumb|left|Ralph Sewer 1981]]
== Biographical ==
*Born: 13 September 1951, Adelaide
*Height: 174 cm
*Weight: 79 kg


*Recruited from: Woodville
*GFC League Debut: 1981

Guernsey Number: [[14]]

Nickname: Zip Zap
 

Ralph Sewer is the only player to have played in four decades of football in SANFL (1969 - 1990).  A total of 382 games and 460 goals for Woodville and Glenelg 1969 – 1990, second only to [[Peter Carey]].

Sewer transferred to Glenelg from Woodville seeking Finals success.  His was a test case for the recently instituted SANFL Permit Tribunal points system, which assigned values attributed to age, years of service, games played, State team representation, the winning of club awards, plus a number of intangibles.  Perhaps not surprisingly given Sewer's career to that point, the transfer fee set was an astonishing $50,000.

In the end he only managed an Escort Cup premiership with the Bays and in 1985 he returned to Woodville.


== References ==
1. 1981 Grand Final Budget

2. [http://www.sanfl.com.au/season_07/awards/sa_football_hall_of_fame/ll_of_fame_1961_-_1990/ SANFL Hall of Fame]

3. The South Australian Football Story, Bernard Whimpress, 1983


[[Category:Players|Sewer, Ralph ]]