Editing Sydney Swans (section)

====Amalgamation with Albert Park====
In 1880, South Melbourne amalgamated with the nearby [[Albert Park Football Club (VFA)|Albert-park Football Club]], which had a senior football history dating back to May 1867 (Albert-park had, in fact, been known as South Melbourne during its first year of existence).<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=The Argus|page=5|title=Thursday, 23 May 1867|date=23 May 1867|location=Melbourne}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|newspaper=The Australasian|pages=588–589|title=Football|date=8 May 1869|volume=VI|issue=162|location=Melbourne}}</ref> Following the amalgamation, the club retained the name South Melbourne, and adopted the club's now familiar red and white colours from Albert-park.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://vuir.vu.edu.au/344/1/05chapter4.pdf|title=Chapter four – Sydney or bust: the South Melbourne Football Club's 1981 relocation saga|access-date=18 October 2014|page=111|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150630175551/http://vuir.vu.edu.au/344/1/05chapter4.pdf|archive-date=30 June 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref> Nicknamed the "Southerners", the team was more colourfully known as the "Bloods", in reference to the bright red diagonal sash on their white jumpers<ref>[http://home.vicnet.net.au/~nickname/afl.html#swans Nickname – AFL<!-- Bot generated title -->] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080608065725/http://home.vicnet.net.au/~nickname/afl.html |date=8 June 2008 }}</ref><ref>Edited by Ross, J and G. Hutchison, G.,''100 Years of Australian Football'', Published by Viking, Penguin Books Australia Ltd, 1996</ref> The colourful epithet the "Bloodstained Angels" was also in use. Following the 1880 amalgamation it became the strongest in metropolitan Melbourne.<ref name="review">{{cite news|newspaper=The Australasian|date=16 October 1880|title=The Football Season of 1880|author=Peter Pindar|location=Melbourne|page=492|issue=759|volume=XXIX}}</ref>