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Another forward who might have been even better than Hudson or Coleman but who was ruined by injury at a quite young age was Kelvin Templeton. He joined Footscray as a teenager and had kicked 82 goals as a nineteen-year-old in 1976, before losing the second half of 1977 to injury, then playing...

It has recently occurred to me that the NFL might gain status in global sports through escaping the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic struck at the beginning of the league’s off-season – the perfect time for the NFL to gain fans from rival sports. Even if the pandemic lasts into the 2020 NFL...

As I was walking home this afternoon after reading the front page of the Herald Sun and discussing with my mother, one interesting point occurred to me. That is that – if the AFL succeeds in making enough money from its television revenues without crowds to even outweigh the losses caused by...

In the New South Wales Rugby League, a player draft was declared illegal by the Supreme Court in 1991, and I have strong memories of claims the AFL Draft would be declared illegal soon after (circa 1992). Many scholars – such as Ross Booth - have argued that without the player draft clubs such...

I’ve never seen this question asked before, but I would suspect assuming no large-scale mergers between the VFL and VFA: The VFL would have been less regulated because there would have been less need to support struggling clubs during the depression without having to bail out Hawthorn and North...

It was eight goals, actually. However, he kicked only eleven goals in eight more games and was entirely dropped after twelve games. Five of those eleven goals were in the third round against North Melbourne, when Footscray “had a monopoly on possession of the ball but failed to do anything with...

Around a month ago now, the British magazine New Musical Express published its list, based on the votes of a number of its writers, of the top five hundred albums of all time. Being a great lover of “lists”, I will print the full list for your benefit and am eager to see what you think of it...

Looking through a table of SANFL scores, I was amazed by what I saw for the fourteenth round of 1956, on the fourth of August: Adelaide Oval: South Adelaide:.....5-3 (33).....6-3 (39)...11-4 (70).....13-5 (83) Port Adelaide:.......2-1 (13).....4-6 (30).....6-9 (45)....10-11 (71) Norwood...

Those who have looked around BigFooty will be aware that there is quite a bit of discussion of the absence of the 1962 to 1964 Grand Finals (see here and here) and even about the lack of footage of the 1956 to 1960 Grand Finals that were never fully televised. Having studied the Name A Game...

As a result of reviewing 1991 issues of Inside Football in the State Library, I discovered that eight games from that year originally listed on Name A Game VHS are not in that organisation’s master library. When I first noticed this with two games of great historical importance for being the...

I wonder how many of you can recall a game that today is lost in obscurity it seems, but logically must rank as one of the best games St. Kilda have ever played. It is most definitely the biggest win they have ever had over a premiership-winning side. It was played at Waverley Park on July 19...

On the morning of Tuesday 29 June at 1:30 (set your alarms on Monday night), 7TWO will be showing North Melbourne’s win over the Western Bulldogs in the last round of 1998. The Kangaroos won by five points after being two goals behind for most of the night, in from of a crowd of 68,000. The...

Recently from Name A Game I bought Carlton’s 68-point win over Sydney in Round 19 of 1987. Being curious about what caused the Swans’ downfall that year, I wanted a look and was amazed at how utterly perfect - at least in the second half - Carlton’s defence was. The fact that, in weather I...

Following on from a thread relating to the SANFL's admission of new clubs in 1965, I have become curious as to whether similar logic is applicable to the VFL's admission of North Melbourne and Hawthorn in 1925. Footscray, it is clear: were such a dominant team in the VFA occupied an area with...

One statistic that I have known for twenty-five years and resultant question that has interested me for quite some time is this: Why have Hawthorn played only nine drawn games in its 85 years in the VFL? In the same period since 1925, every other established V/AFL club has played at least...

One interesting question about football history that I have been highly curious about is whether South Melbourne could have been able to move itself from the declining inner-city area of its original support base to the outer southern suburbs before St. Kilda (and later, via country zoning...

One question which I have been curious about is: Was the decline of Fitzroy as a VFL force to any extent due to the admittance of Hawthorn to the League? In recent years, I have wondered whether Hawthorn's admission to the VFL in 1925 was to any extent a cause of Fitzroy's decline from a...

One of the most remarkable facets of VFL/AFL history that I have noted for a long time is the striking parallel between the following three pairs of games between Richmond and Footscray: 1958: Round 2 (Punt Road, April 19): Richmond 7-4 (46) 12-5 (77) 17-10 (112) 21-12 (138)...