51 – Australian Rules Football History – Australian Histories Podcast

Australian Rules Football and the earliest clubs formed to compete, are said to be the oldest established football clubs in the world. Started in the late 1850s, initially based loosely on the Rugby School game, within 20 years it had evolved to become the basis of Australia’s very own, different & distinctive code; Aussie Rules Footy.

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women-playing-football-1918 (NMA) Women playing a fundraising football match Adelaide 1918

Tayla Harris takes a mark

The Melbourne Post of 1866 depicted a game in the Richmond Paddock (Blainey)

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HESS, Rob, NICHOLSON, Matthew, STEWART, Bob and DE MOORE, Gregory, 2008. A National Game: The History of Australian Rules Football. Camberwell, Vic.: Penguin Australia. ISBN 978-0-670-07089-3.

SLATTERY, GEOFF (ed.), 2008. The Australian game of football: since 1858. Australian Football League. ISBN 978-0-9803466-6-4.

HOCKING, JENNY and REIDY, NEIL, 2006. Marngrook, Tom Wills and the Continuing Denial of Indigenous History. Meanjin [online]. Winter 2006. [Accessed 2021]. Available from: https://meanjin.com.au/essays/marngrook-tom-wills-and-the-continuing-denial-of-indigenous-history/

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AFL PLAYERS’ ASSOCIATION, 2020. 2021 AFL Players’ Indigenous Map. AFL Players’ Association [online]. 8 December 2020. [Accessed 2021]. Available from: https://www.aflplayers.com.au/resources/indigenous-map

ANU SCHOOL OF LITERATURE LANGUAGES AND LINGUISTICS, Head of, 2017. Meanings and origins of Australian words and idioms. ANU School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics [online]. 2017. [Accessed 2021]. Available from: https://slll.cass.anu.edu.au/centres/andc/meanings-origins/b

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RUGBY SCHOOL UK, 2021. Rugby School – History. [online]. 2021. [Accessed 2021]. Available from: https://www.rugbyschool.co.uk/about/history/

SUTTON, MALCOLM and ABC, 2017. Indigenous influence on AFL “confirmed” by historical transcripts. [online]. 12 April 2017. [Accessed 2021]. Available from: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-04-13/historian-reveals-marngrook-influence-on-afl/8439748

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