sentences:  Although football was played in the area in the 1870s, with the Goolwa club dating themselves from 1878, it was not until 1923 that the Great Southern Football Association was formed.The founding clubs were Encounter Bay, Goolwa, Hindmarsh Valley, Port Elliot and Victor Harbour.Since that time a number of clubs have formed part of the Association, which itself changed its name to the Great Southern Football League.