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A Game of Our Own

Author : Geoffrey Blainey
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1459602609
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book A Game of Our Own written by Geoffrey Blainey and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today Australian Rules football is a multi - million - dollar business' with superstar players' high - profile presidents and enough scandals to fill a soap opera. The game has changed beyond recognition - or has it? In A Game of Our Own' esteemed historian Geoffrey Blainey documents the birth of our great national game. Who were the characters and champions of the early days of Australian football? How was the VFL formed? Why was the umpire's job so difficult? Blainey takes a sceptical look at the idea that the game had its origins in Ireland or in Aboriginal pastimes. Instead he demonstrates that footy was a series of inventions. The game played in 1880 was very different to that of 1860' just as the game played today is different again. Journey back to an era when the ground was not oval' when captains acted as umpires' when players wore caps and jerseys bearing forgotten colours and kicked a round ball that soon lost its shape. A Game of Our Own is a fascinating social history and a compulsory read for all true fans of the game.

Aboriginal People and Australian Football in the Nineteenth Century

Author : Roy Hay
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780994601957
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Aboriginal People and Australian Football in the Nineteenth Century written by Roy Hay and published by . This book was released on 2021-11-20 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the involvement of Indigenous Australians in the domestic code of football primarily in the second half of the nineteenth century. Excluded from the top level of the game in Victoria, they forced their way into it from the missions and stations around the periphery of the colony/state first of all as individuals then forming teams to compete in and eventually win local leagues. This book will revolutionise the history of Indigenous involvement in Australian football. It was short-listed for the Lord Aberdare prize of the British Society for Sports History in 2020.

The Shared Origins of Football, Rugby, and Soccer

Author : Christopher Rowley
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442246197
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book The Shared Origins of Football, Rugby, and Soccer written by Christopher Rowley and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-09-10 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In today’s hypercompetitive world, contact sports bring about fierce rivalries between fans, between players, and even between countries. From the Ohio State Buckeyes and the Michigan Wolverines in grid iron football, to the Australian Wallabies and the New Zealand All Blacks in rugby, to Real Madrid and Barcelona in association football (soccer), contact sports incite a passion few other games can replicate. Though these modern contests of brawn might vary in ways both subtle and significant, they draw on a common history that dates back centuries. Overcoming rulers, conquerors, and religious leaders, the games of ancient times survived and flourished to become the sports we know and love today. In The Shared Origins of Football, Rugby, and Soccer, Christopher Rowley reveals how ball games arose and took shape into seven distinct forms: American football, association football, Australian rules football, Canadian football, Gaelic football, rugby league football, and rugby union football. Rowley traces ball games back to the Mayans in Meso-America and the Han Dynasty in China, through ancient Egypt and Greece, and on through the Cradle of football in England and Scotland. His narrative includes the relatively recent development of rules, codes, and leagues and concludes with the current state of football around the world. The Shared Origins of Football, Rugby, and Soccer takes the reader through this unique odyssey in world history by bringing to life the little-known games of the past. Rowley recreates ancient games from around the world based on surviving documents and illustrations, and relates first-hand accounts of fossil games still played today. Through careful research, the common ancestry of our modern seven codes of football is finally pieced together to create a fascinating history of the world of football that we know today.

How Football Began

Author : Tony Collins
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351709674
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (517 download)

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Download or read book How Football Began written by Tony Collins and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-08-06 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ambitious and fascinating history considers why, in the space of sixty years between 1850 and 1910, football grew from a marginal and unorganised activity to become the dominant winter entertainment for millions of people around the world. The book explores how the world’s football codes - soccer, rugby league, rugby union, American, Australian, Canadian and Gaelic - developed as part of the commercialised leisure industry in the nineteenth century. Football, however and wherever it was played, was a product of the second industrial revolution, the rise of the mass media, and the spirit of the age of the masses. Important reading for students of sports studies, history, sociology, development and management, this book is also a valuable resource for scholars and academics involved in the study of football in all its forms, as well as an engrossing read for anyone interested in the early history of football.

Death and Life of Australian Soccer

Author : Joe Gorman
Publisher : Univ. of Queensland Press
ISBN 13 : 0702259268
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Death and Life of Australian Soccer written by Joe Gorman and published by Univ. of Queensland Press. This book was released on 2017-07-26 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Death and Life of Australian Soccer, journalist and historian Joe Gorman explores the rise and fall of Australia's first national football competition and shows how soccer came to practice and embody multiculturalism long before it became government policy. Drawing on archival research and interviews with players, supporters and club officials, he tells the incredible and oft-unknown stories of Australian soccer. The Death and Life of Australian Soccer is a fascinating and timely account of the first Australian sport to truly galvanize every ethnic, regional, metropolitan, gender and political group across the country. It examines the myths and legends of Australian sport and offers new ways of understanding the great changes that shaped the nation. This is more than a book about soccer – it is the riveting story of Australia's national identity.

Aussie Rules Football

Author : Don Warner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780645031508
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Aussie Rules Football written by Don Warner and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-21 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An overview of the evolution of Australian Rules football in Victoria from its origins in 1858 to the present day. The opening chapter provides a snapshot of the unusual 2020 AFL season. I then trace the evolution of the game in Victoria during the late 1800s including the background to the 1896 VFA/VFL split, followed by a chapter outlining the development of the two leagues during the 20th century. This is followed by chapters on all 18 AFL teams, including major team rivalries, great coaches, great indigenous players and great goalkickers. There are also chapters on how the various finals' systems work(ed) over the years, State of Origin and Laws of the Game. The book is chock full of statistics, trivia and footy anecdotes which will enthral any Aussie Rules fan.

A National Game

Author : Rob Hess
Publisher : Penguin Group Australia
ISBN 13 : 0670070890
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book A National Game written by Rob Hess and published by Penguin Group Australia. This book was released on 2008-08-04 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'I have yet to find a game that carries as much pleasure, as much harmless excitement, and as much stimulus as the Australasian game of football... The game is Australian in its origin, Australian in its principle, and, I venture to say, essentially Australian in its development.' - Prime Minister Alfred Deakin, 1908 From its humble origins 150 years ago to the multi-million dollar budgets of today's elite teams, Australian Rules football has become a major industry. A truly home-grown sport, it has become embedded into the culture of the nation. But how did it all begin, and what happened along the way to make the game the great spectacle that it is today? And at what cost? Have the grassroots levels of the code been obscured by the commercial interests of the AFL? With original research, and including several never-before-published images, this is the only comprehensive history of the evolution of the game from the nineteenth century to the present day. It describes, for the first time, how and why Australian Rules football came to dominate the national sporting landscape.

Time and Space

Author : James Coventry
Publisher : HarperCollins Australia
ISBN 13 : 1460703545
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (67 download)

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Download or read book Time and Space written by James Coventry and published by HarperCollins Australia. This book was released on 2015-08-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An accomplished book about the genius and ingenuity of the game's greats (and the forgotten) and how they have shaped the game through the innovation of tactics. From Pagan's Paddock to Clarkson's Cluster, from Fitzroy's huddle to Sydney's flood, the tactics of Australian football have become part of the vernacular. In this groundbreaking book, ABC journalist James Coventry reveals the secrets behind them all. You'll meet the German gymnast who taught Geelong how to break the game from its rugby roots; the two Test cricketers who became footy's first great coaches; and the water polo player who shaped the modern AFL. Along the way you'll learn how South Australia pioneered the flick pass; how a rule suggested by Tasmania helped Collingwood win four straight flags; and how Fremantle revolutionised the use of the interchange bench. Time and Space is essential reading for any fan who wants to know why their team does what it does, and why it wins or loses.

Carn

Author : Andrew Mueller
Publisher : HarperCollins Australia
ISBN 13 : 1460706765
Total Pages : 769 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (67 download)

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Download or read book Carn written by Andrew Mueller and published by HarperCollins Australia. This book was released on 2019-07-01 with total page 769 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There have been histories of Australian football before. There has not been one like Carn. Carn tells the story of the Victorian Football League and its successor, the Australian Football League, from 1897 to the present day, by focusing on 50 of the thousands of games which have been played down the decades. Some of these matches have been significant to the game of Australian football; others have been significant to Australia as a whole. Carn recognises that while the game is only a game, it has also always been much more than that: anything which consumes so much of the nation's attention can't help but reflect something of the nation's character. Carn is a book replete, as the Australian game is, with great yarns and extraordinary people. It is a book for fans of Australian football, and fans of Australia.

Myths and Milestones in the History of Sport

Author : S. Wagg
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230320813
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Myths and Milestones in the History of Sport written by S. Wagg and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-11-29 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The conventional history of sport, as conveyed by television and the sports press, has thrown up a great many apparent turning points, but knowledge of these apparently defining moments is often slight. This book offers readable, in-depth studies of a series of these watersheds in sport history and of the circumstances in which they came about.

Barbarians, Gentlemen and Players

Author : Eric Dunning
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 0714653535
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (146 download)

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Download or read book Barbarians, Gentlemen and Players written by Eric Dunning and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This revised edition of a classic text explores the development of rugby from a folk game into its modern forms. Updated with a substantial new foreword and epilogue.

Routledge Handbook of Global Sport

Author : John Nauright
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317500474
Total Pages : 673 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book Routledge Handbook of Global Sport written by John Nauright and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-01-03 with total page 673 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of global sport is the story of expansion from local development to globalized industry, from recreational to marketized activity. Alongside that, each sport has its own distinctive history, sub-cultures, practices and structures. This ambitious new volume offers state-of-the-art overviews of the development of every major sport or classification of sport, examining their history, socio-cultural significance, political economy and international reach, and suggesting directions for future research. Expert authors from around the world provide varied perspectives on the globalization of sport, highlighting diverse and often underrepresented voices. By putting sport itself in the foreground, this book represents the perfect companion to any social scientific course in sport studies, and the perfect jumping-off point for further study or research. The Routledge Handbook of Global Sport is an essential reference for students and scholars of sport history, sport and society, the sociology of sport, sport development, sport and globalization, sports geography, international sports organizations, sports cultures, the governance of sport, sport studies, sport coaching or sport management.

Footy Banners

Author : Leigh Meyrick
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1761101056
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (611 download)

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Download or read book Footy Banners written by Leigh Meyrick and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-07-28 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrating one of AFL's longest-standing and most iconic traditions Have you ever wondered what makes Australian Rules Football so unique? Sure, the rules are unmistakably different to other sports, but it's the bizarre traditions and idiosyncrasies that make the game uniquely ours. One of those quirks is the team banner – an essential element of the pre-match build-up that has connected fans with their heroes for more than 80 years. The humble banner, or run-through as it's known by the purists, has become an iconic symbol of our love for the game. It's why cheer squads around the country dedicate countless hours each and every week to delicately craft their messages on crepe. This painstaking process culminates in a fleeting moment of glory as the teams run onto the ground before the banner is torn (quite literally) to shreds. From the funny to the offensive, the emotional to the political, banners come in all shapes and sizes and have evolved considerably, reflecting not only a changing cultural landscape but a changing game itself. Footy Banners: A Complete Run-Through is a collection of historical images, stories and unforgettable moments that pay homage to one of our game's longest-lasting rituals.

Tom Wills

Author : Greg De Moore
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
ISBN 13 : 174176548X
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (417 download)

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Download or read book Tom Wills written by Greg De Moore and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2008 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive biography of the visionary sportsman who brought us Australian Rules football.

The Danihers

Author : Terry Daniher
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
ISBN 13 : 1741766818
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (417 download)

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Download or read book The Danihers written by Terry Daniher and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revealing account of how four unassuming blokes from the bush endeared themselves to Australian Rules fans and became part of football folklore. On 1 September 1990, four brothers made Australian Rules history by playing together for the one team, the Essendon Football Club, something that is unlikely to ever happen again. Terry, Neale, Anthony and Chris Daniher grew up in a tiny Riverina town where they played footy on Saturdays and Rugby League after mass on Sundays. They reached the elite level in an era when tobacco sponsorship and a few beers with the opposition after a game were the norm. It was a time when Jim Daniher could throw a teenage son into a trade deal and Kevin Sheedy and Edna Daniher could conspire to make a dream come true. But it wasn't all plain sailing: injuries cut short a promising career, trading between clubs was largely unregulated, the Swans were shunted off to Sydney and coaching changed dramatically. This is an action-packed story of the period when the national Aussie Rules competition emerged and football became big business, and an unassuming bunch of blokes from the bush endeared themselves to footy fans and became part of football folklore.

A History of Australian Baseball

Author : Joe Clark
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803264403
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (644 download)

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Download or read book A History of Australian Baseball written by Joe Clark and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through extensive interviews and archival research, Joe Clark has uncovered the engaging details of Australian baseball’s unique, and often turbulent, 125-year history, and for the first time the dynamic story of Australian baseball is told. Initially accepted only grudgingly in the late nineteenth century as an off-season substitute for cricket, baseball in Australia steadily rose in prominence. Starting with neighborhood games played between improvised teams, the sport grew to include state and national leagues and a spirited international competition. Both the shortcomings and the triumphs of Australian baseball are revealed in A History of Australian Baseball: Time and Game, from an ill-fated late-nineteenth-century baseball tour of America and the political firestorm surrounding the formation of the Australian Baseball League in the 1990s, to the amazing defeat of the powerhouse Cuban team in the Intercontinental Cup of 1999.

Football Solution, The

Author : George Megalogenis
Publisher : Random House Australia
ISBN 13 : 0143791729
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (437 download)

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Download or read book Football Solution, The written by George Megalogenis and published by Random House Australia. This book was released on 2018-07-30 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sport unlike any other in the world, football has always been Australia's bellwether. But at a time when politics is increasingly conducted like sports - full of one-eyed tribalism, captain's calls and policy dictated by the Newspoll scoreboard - football is the one institution that's more relevant than ever. And it's Richmond that's out in front of the pack. Before it could win the 2017 premiership, the club had to change how it thought about good leadership. By weaving together the game's conflicted history, a sharp-eyed analysis of Richmond's off-field turbulence and his own love of the Tigers, Megalogenis reveals just how Richmond found a new way to win - and how Australia might do the same. 'Megalogenis has done it again, but with an unexpected twist.' HUGH MACKAY 'A public intellectual who barracks for Richmond argues that the Tigers' 2017 flag contains the seeds of our national resurgence. That's some footy argument . . .' MARTIN FLANAGAN 'Richmond are not yet ahead in the premiership wars, but through inspired leadership, they're streets ahead in the culture wars.' BARRIE CASSIDY 'Manages the incredible feat of igniting hope again for something called Australia. Whatever football code you follow, or even if you don't follow sport at all, I urge you to read this book. It's bracingly sane and beautifully told.' CHRISTOS TSIOLKAS