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Now, any sized person can kick,
But football, you must learn the trick;
With marking the ball
It's good to be tall,
And running, it ought to be quick
But football, you must learn the trick;
With marking the ball
It's good to be tall,
And running, it ought to be quick
AUSSIE RULES FOOTBALl
The Very First Games
Part 1
Part 1
FROM 'THE ARGUS' AUG. 30 1858
Football in Victoria, Australia, started out with school students playing against each other, men betting against each other (3 on 3 etc.) or as a fun activity at events.
In 1858, H .C.A. Harrison (a champion athlete of Victoria), W. Hammersley, J.B.Thompson, and T. Wills, founded the Melbourne Football Club.
The foundations of the Australian game were laid by an old English Rugby player and H.C.A. Harrison, a native of New South Wales, who indeed, could be called the 'father' of the Australian game.
By 1875, in Melbourne and suburbs, there were 96 clubs, with a membership of 4037 and a playing list of about 2800, also in the country districts of Victoria there were 42 clubs
In 1858, H .C.A. Harrison (a champion athlete of Victoria), W. Hammersley, J.B.Thompson, and T. Wills, founded the Melbourne Football Club.
The foundations of the Australian game were laid by an old English Rugby player and H.C.A. Harrison, a native of New South Wales, who indeed, could be called the 'father' of the Australian game.
By 1875, in Melbourne and suburbs, there were 96 clubs, with a membership of 4037 and a playing list of about 2800, also in the country districts of Victoria there were 42 clubs
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Melbourne Daily News (Vic), Saturday 27 July 1850
Port Philip Gazette and Settler's Journal (Vic), Saturday 23 March 1850
The game started to catch on as a fun pastime
Melbourne Daily News (Vic), Saturday 24 August 1850
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1859
Argus (Melbourne, Vic), Saturday 14 May 1859
Argus (Melbourne, Vic), Monday 16 May 1859
Read- Tom Brown's school-days 1822 by Hughes, Thomas
https://archive.org/stream/tombrow Tom Brown's School-days (at the Rugby School) was made into a movie in 1940, a newer 2005 (scroll down to view) Rugby School is a day and boarding co-educational independent school in Rugby,Warwickshire,England. It is one of the oldest independent schools in Britain. Its re-establishment by Thomas Arnold during his time as Headmaster, from 1828 to 1841, was seen as the forerunner of the Victorian Public School. (wiki) A brief history of Rugby 1823 - A commemorative stone at Rugby school claims that 16-year-old student William Webb Ellis, "with a fine disregard for the rules of football...first took the ball in his arms and ran with it, thus originating the distinctive feature of the rugby game" https://www.theguardian.com/sport/ An inflated pig's bladder was used for early ball games Pig's bladder blown up
http://sports.gunaxin.com/didnt Origins of Rugby
Various early ball games were played during the middle ages (5th to 16th century) sometimes referred to as folk football, mob football or Shrove tide football. These games would usually be played between neighboring towns & villages, involving an unlimited number of players on opposing teams, who would fight & struggle to move an inflated pig's bladder by any means possible to markers at each end of a town. Authorities would later attempt to outlaw such dangerous & unproductive pastimes. http://www.rugbyfootballhistory |
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Tom Brown's School Days 1940
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Tom Brown's School Days 2005
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The Australian Cricketer's Guide: Containing the Rules of the Melbourne Football Club (page 92) 1859 https://books.google.com.au/books?id=jqMuAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA14&dq=victorian Clubs started to pop up everywhere, even the country areas like Bendigo, all wanting to play the Melbourne Football Club's new rules |
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Bell's Life in Victoria and Sporting Chronicle (Melbourne, Vic), Saturday 6 August 1859
Of course, in 1859, it wasn't just a case of 'jump in the car' and go to the football, Geelong was a long long way from the Richmond Paddocks.
Argus (Melbourne, Vic), Monday 15 August 1859
Argus (Melbourne, Vic), Monday 5 September 1859
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