Ralph Sewer

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Career Highlights
GFC League Player Number: 658 GFC League Debut: Round 1, 1981 Glenelg 1981 – 1984 57 games 64 goals Escort Cup premiership 1982
Other Career Highlights
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

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. SANFL Hall of Fame

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