The History of Australian Football

Nines · Post by **Nines** » Sat Jul 18, 2009 11:18 am

This is M P Sharp's account of the early history of Australain Football ,which is debated frequently to have it's own thread . http://www.la84foundation.org/SportsLib ... t0401d.pdf

We can see that the NSWFL used just the single term "Football" in it's title and encouraged people to play "Australian Football" in their advertising .

The current Erskineville Oval was home to the Newtown Bloods for most of the last century . It's encouraging to see that a junior team now exists in that area .

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Deagan · Post by **Deagan** » Sat Jul 18, 2009 11:25 am

God your boring. I've playyed WAFL all my life, except for when the game was called Westar Rules when I played that instead and even, I dont care.

Egan · Post by **Egan** » Sat Jul 18, 2009 1:56 pm

Nines is trying to 'sanitise' the forums with his agenda ridden caimpaign from the AFL...

nobleoz · Post by **nobleoz** » Sat Jul 18, 2009 11:34 pm

Well, Deagan, it's nice to have someone on this site who actually has played League Football. The best I could do was play with Riverside in SAAFL

gyfox · Post by **gyfox** » Sun Jul 19, 2009 10:40 am

nobleoz wrote:Well, Deagan, it's nice to have someone on this site who actually has played League Football. The best I could do was play with Riverside in SAAFL

I dare say there are quite a few of us on here who have played League Football. Its been played in Australia since 1908.

Waz · Post by **Waz** » Sun Jul 19, 2009 6:21 pm

[facepalm][/facepalm]

nobleoz · Post by **nobleoz** » Sun Jul 19, 2009 11:17 pm

Gyfox - I thought you had lived in Tassie long enough to understand the different culture & language in states where Aussie Rules is the # 1 football. "League Football" refers to the major leagues in those states (SANFL, WAFL, etc) as opposed to junior & district leagues. I know Rugby League started in NSW in 1908 - but I didn't know it was referred to as league football - I understood the ref was just League or Union.

nobleoz · Post by **nobleoz** » Sun Jul 19, 2009 11:48 pm

EDIT: should have said "Rugby League only started in NSW in 1908"

gyfox · Post by **gyfox** » Mon Jul 20, 2009 12:18 am

nobleoz wrote:Gyfox - I thought you had lived in Tassie long enough to understand the different culture & language in states where Aussie Rules is the # 1 football. "League Football" refers to the major leagues in those states (SANFL, WAFL, etc) as opposed to junior & district leagues. I know Rugby League started in NSW in 1908 - but I didn't know it was referred to as league football - I understood the ref was just League or Union.

Oh dear, I forgot to put the

in my last post. I do understand the lingo in the so called southern states but it not used in Tassie to my knowledge. Players have always been referred to as playing TFL (formed in 1879) or sometimes State League players.

Actually Rugby League had a game in Melbourne in 1908 too. The VFL were a bit concerned about this new professional sport, seeing it had outdrawn the 26,000 crowd at the VFL game in Sydney that year by 4,000, so they had the League bods locked out of all enclosed grounds just like Rugby Union did to the NSWFA in the 1880's.

Like Aussie Rules there are many ways to refer to League but you wouldn't normally put "football" at the end because everyone knows that it is football.

nobleoz · Post by **nobleoz** » Mon Jul 20, 2009 12:52 am

That's what I thought, Gyfox. But do read my edit again

gyfox · Post by **gyfox** » Mon Jul 20, 2009 12:56 am

nobleoz wrote:That's what I thought, Gyfox. But do read my edit again

Yes but Rugby was played in Sydney in the late 1840's.

Nines · Post by **Nines** » Thu Jul 30, 2009 2:09 pm

Deagan wrote:I've playyed WAFL all my life, except for when the game was called Westar Rules when I played that instead and even, I dont care.

That was an interesting time .
Who'd you play for ?

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bazza · Post by **bazza** » Thu Jul 30, 2009 5:40 pm

Marconi are probably one of the most famous clubs in Australian Football.

Personally, I am hoping that the new Gold Coast Galaxy can better them

Nines · Post by **Nines** » Thu Jul 30, 2009 7:47 pm

Nines wrote:
Deagan wrote:I've playyed WAFL all my life, except for when the game was called Westar Rules when I played that instead and even, I dont care.
That was an interesting time .
Who'd you play for ?

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Silence

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nobleoz · Post by **nobleoz** » Fri Jul 31, 2009 1:07 am

I noticed that also. Think he was pulling our legs!