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Does anyone know of a good resource on this topic? It's interesting to think there must have been an individual or team who was the first to first to trot out the sleeveless shirt. I wonder if this moment has been pinpointed and how others reacted at the time.

Has anyone read the fifth and final volume of Mark Pennings' Origins of Australian Football? In it he has selected a "Team of the 19th Century", and I'm curious to know who made the cut if anyone can share (I can't find the book in any local libraries and unfortunately cannot afford a copy right...

A docudrama about Tom Wills is due to air at 1pm on Channel 10 this Sunday, 7 August. I think there will be repeats over the next few days too. Here's the website and trailer:

Who is there besides Tom Wills and George Coulthard? I love learning about old footy players who act as a sort of symbolic relation to their time period - a window into social history as much as footy history.

The origins of footy will be covered in an upcoming episode of 7's Australia: The Story of Us series: "Gold brings new wealth to the Australian colonies but not everyone’s prepared to dig for their share. A heroic race across the continent enables the construction of the Overland Telegraph...

This is going to auction on 18 August: signed and dated 'Fred Woodhouse / 1901' lower right oil on canvas 68.5 x 50.0cm (26 15/16 x 19 11/16in). "Frederick Woodhouse Jr's painting of Geoff Moriarty is one of the earliest portraits of an Australian rules football player. Moriarty played in...

Hello, I was wondering if anyone here has the Bulldogs v GWS match downloaded on their computer? There is a moment that occurs with around 2 mins left in the second quarter - Tom Liberatore clotheslines Liam Sumner, giving away a free kick. At this moment I think Gerard Healy references Tom...

This thread is for sharing old footy photos that exist only as copies in newspapers. The quality is often poor but better than nothing. Here's one I saved ages ago, unfortunately I can't find the article it's taken from from. In future I'll make sure to add a description and link along with the...

This is what I've been able to find after combing Trove. If anyone has found an older source that notes a resemblance, or claims an influence, between the two codes, then I'd love to see it. The first person I can find who notes a similarity between the Australian and Gaelic codes is an...

Cool. Does anyone know when this will be released?

According to this article, "[Tom Wills] also deserves the credit for the Geelong blue and white colours. He had always had an interest in Aboriginal culture and the various words and meanings. He learned that Geelong took its name from the Aboriginal word Jillerlong, meaning white birds coming...

For me, it's Tom Wills, Australian Rules pioneer and the first "Australian wild man of sport". His life story could be the basis of the most epic film imaginable, if it falls in the right director's hands, like an Australian Paul Thomas Anderson, if there exists one. Or maybe we should just hire...

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I'm looking for resources on Magpies legend Peter McKenna, specifically his role as football's first "multimedia star". Anyone have books that cover McKenna's career in music and television?