Australian rules football - Similarities to Gaelic football

Australian football, which is also known as Australian rules football, or less formally as "Aussie rules" or "footy" is a code of football which originated in Melbourne, Australia. The game is played between two teams of 18 players (plus interchange players), on cricket ovals or similar-sized arenas which vary in size and may be up to 185 metres (200 yards) long; these are much larger than those used by other codes of football. The game is also distinguished from other games by the fast, relatively f ...

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Australian rules football - Origins of the game. Tom Wills began to devise Australian rules in Melbourne, in 1858. (Although H.C.A. Harrison, Wills' cousin, was also named much later as an official "father of the game", his role does not now seem to have been significant at this very early stage.) A letter by Wills was published in Bell's Life in Victoria & Sporting Chronicle on July 10, 1858,[13] calling for a "foot-ball club" with a "code of laws" to keep cricketers fit during winter. An experimental ...

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Australian rules football - Origins of the game. Tom Wills began to devise Australian rules in Melbourne, in 1858. (Although H.C.A. Harrison, Wills' cousin, was also named much later as an official "father of the game", his role does not now seem to have been significant at this very early stage.) A letter by Wills was published in Bell's Life in Victoria & Sporting Chronicle on July 10, 1858,[9] calling for a "foot-ball club" with a "code of laws" to keep cricketers fit during winter. An experimental ...

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For the centenary of the VFL/AFL in 1996, an Australian Football Hall of Fame was established. That year 136 identities were inducted, including 100 players, 10 coaches, 10 umpires, 10 administrators and 6 media representatives. The selections have caused some controversy, partly because of the predominance of VFL players at the expense of those who played in other leagues, in the years before there was a national competition. Gary Ablett's induction was deferred for several years until 2005 due to a controversy associated with the death of a young woman acquaintance shortly after ...

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The most powerful organisation and competition within the game is the elite, professional, Australian Football League (AFL). There are also seven state (and/or territory)-based organisations: AFL NSW/ACT, Football Tasmania, the Northern Territory Football League, the South Australian National Football League (SANFL), the Queensland Australian Football League, the Victorian Football League (VFL), and the Western Australian Football League (WAFL). Most of these hold annual semi-professional club competitions, while the others oversee more than one league. Local semi-professional or amateur or ...

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Both the ball and the field of play are oval in shape. No more than 18 players of each team are permitted to be on the field at any time. Up to four interchange (reserve) players may be swapped for those on the field at any time during the game. There is no offside rule nor are there set positions in the rules - unlike soccer players from both teams disperse across the whole field before the start of play. The ball can be propelled in any direction by way of a foot, clenched fist (called a handball or < ...

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Australian football is a major spectator sport only in Australia and Nauru, although occasional exhibition games are staged in other countries. However, amateur competition has grown in countries such as New Zealand, Ireland, United Kingdom, Denmark, Sweden the USA, Canada, Germany, France, Japan, Samoa, China, South Africa, Tonga and Indonesia, since the late 1980s. Many of these were initially established by Australian expatriates but collecting growing numbers of native players. The largest such competition is the Ontario Australian Footb ...

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Australian rules football has attracted more overall interest among Australians than any other winter sport for at least several years.[1][2] A recent survey has suggested that the sport recently took over from swimming as the most popular sport in Australia [3]. It is popular in two countries which are former Australian territories: Papua New Guinea and Nauru. Cricket is the most common summer spectator sport in Australia, and is usually played on the same grounds as Australian football. In the past, many elite-level footballers played representative cricket, but the increasingly profession ...

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Both the ball and the field of play are oval in shape. No more than 18 players of each team are permitted to be on the field at any time. Up to four interchange (reserve) players may be swapped for those on the field at any time during the game. There is no offside rule nor are there set positions in the rules - unlike Soccer players from both teams disperse across the whole field before the start of play. The ball can be propelled in any direction by way of a foot, clenched fist (called a handball or handpass) or open hand tap, but it cannot be thrown under any c ...

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The most powerful organisation and competition within the game is the elite, professional, Australian Football League (AFL). There are also seven state (and/or territory)-based organisations: AFL NSW/ACT, Football Tasmania, the Northern Territory Football League, the South Australian National Football League (SANFL), the Queensland Australian Football League, the Victorian Football League (VFL), and the Western Australian Football League (WAFL). Most of these hold annual semi-professional club competitions, while the others oversee more than one league. Local semi-professional or amateur or ...

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Australian football is a major spectator sport only in Australia and Nauru, although occasional exhibition games are staged in other countries. However, amateur competition has grown in countries such as New Zealand, Ireland, United Kingdom, Denmark, the USA, Canada, Germany, Japan, Samoa, China, South Africa, Tonga and Indonesia, since the late 1980s. Many of these were initially established by Australian expatriates but collecting growing numbers of native players. The largest such competition is the Ontario Australian Football League, in ...

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For the centenary of the VFL/AFL in 1996, an Australian Football Hall of Fame was established. That year 136 identities were inducted, including 100 players, 10 coaches, 10 umpires, 10 administrators and 6 media representatives. The selections have caused some controversy, partly because of the predominance of VFL players at the expense of those who played in other leagues, in the years before there was a national competition. Gary Ablett's induction was deferred for several years until 2005 due to a controversy associated with the death of a young woman acquaintance shortly after ...

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Australian rules football - Audience. Australian football is the most highly attended spectator sport in Australia: government figures show that more than 2.5 million people (16.8% of the population) attended games in 1999 [1]. It also attracts more overall interest than any other winter sport.[2] & [3] In 2005, 6,761,952 people attended Australian Football League (AFL) matches, a record for the competition. As of 2005 the AFL is one of only five professional sports leagues in the world with an average attend ...

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