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First
Premiership 1997 |
| 1997 saw the Crows win their first
Premiership after only seven seasons in the AFL. They defeated the more fancied
St Kilda who wilted under the pressure of carrying the hopes of all Victoria. It
was the third time in five seasons that the AFL Premiership Cup headed west with
the Eagles having won in 1993 and 1995. The final scores were Adelaide 19.11.125
to St Kilda 13.16.94. Australia Post
released a special postmark (PM 2055) and overprinted "Aboriginal Art" PSE to
commemorate the historic win. 50,000 were cancelled. |
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| Two private covers (50 sets) were
also released to commemorate the win. Cover 1 is shown below.
Cover 2. |
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| Two 1996 AFL Centenay covers overprinted with all
the
Premiership Winners
since 1897 were later overprinted with the
Crow's 1997 Premiership Details.
The Norm Smith Medallist for best on the Ground went
to aboriginal player Andrew Mcleod. He also won the club championship.
His win was commemorated by two private
covers, one with the Adelaide Premiership PM (PM 2005) (50 produced) and the
other with the MCG Commemorative APM23600 (50 produced) This is shown below.
Cover 2. |
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| Three covers for "Premiership Heroes"
Andrew McLeod,
Darren Jarman
and
Mark Bickley
were also released. Six Bird PSEs
postmarked with the Premiership postmark were released with cachets showing the
Cup Presentation,
Norm Smith Medalist,
Andrew McLeod,
Tony Modra,
Shaun Rehn,
Darren Jarman
and
Matthew Robran. |
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