Resource Australian Football History Resource Thread

[The_Wookie]

To assist with enquiries or research, we've listed a number of online resources you may wish to consult - please note this is a work in progress, and if you have any suggestions, please dont hesitiate to suggest.

Official AFL and State league History sites

• Australian Football League History and Chronology
  
• South Australian National Football League
  
• West Australian Football League
  
• AFL Queensland History

Official AFL and State Club History pages

• AFL - Adelaide, Brisbane (Bears), Brisbane (Lions), Carlton, Collingwood, Essendon, Fitzroy, Fremantle, Geelong, Hawthorn, Melbourne, North Melbourne, Port Adelaide, Richmond, St Kilda, Sydney, West Coast, Western Bulldogs.
• SANFL - Central Districts, Glenelg, North Adelaide, Norwood, South Adelaide, Sturt, West Adelaide, Woodville-West Torrens
  
• WAFL - Claremont, East Fremantle, East Perth, Peel, South Fremantle, Subiaco, Swan Districts, West Perth
  
• VFL - Box Hill, Coburg, Frankston, North Ballarat, Northern Blues, Port Melbourne, Sandringham, Werribee, Williamstown,

Unofficial Club History Pages

• Demonwiki (Melbourne Football Club)
• Blueseum (Carlton Football Club)
• Pivotonian (Geelong Football Club) - now discontinued
• Tigerland (Richmond football club)

Unofficial State league Football Video Archives

• SA Football Archive
• WA Video Archive

General Football History pages

• Australianfootball.com - covers all states and territorys.
• Full points footy (2008) - as preserved by trove.
• Footypedia (2003) - pandora version
  
• New South Wales Football Historians Association
• Queensland Australian Football Forensics
• History of VFL/AFL footy jumpers
• Hard ball get
• Boyles football photos
• Footystats
• Scoreboard pressure
• Football Cards
• WAFLFootyfacts

Library sites

• National Library of Australia (trove.nla.gov)
• The Age archive (1954 - 1989) - (google news)
• State Library of Victoria

Australian Society for Sports History

• http://www.sporthistory.org/
• ASSH Archives

Online References and Thesis

• Whimpress, Bernard - Endangered Species and National Football
  
• Booth, Ross - History of Player Recruitment, Transfer and Payment Rules in the Victorian and Australian Football league
  
• Stewart, RK - The Economic Development of the Victorian Football League 1960-1984
  
• Booth, Ross - The Economic Development of the Australian Football League
  
• Collins, Tony - The Invention of Sporting Tradition: National Myths, Imperial Pasts and the Origins of Australian Football

Recommended Reading

• Blainey, Geoffrey. 1991. A Game of Our Own: The Origins of Australian Football.
  
• Pascoe, Robert. 1996. The Winter Game: Over 100 Years of Australian Football.
  
• Hess, Rob, 2008. A National Game: the History of Australian Football.
  
• Bernard Whimpress, 1983. The South Australian Football Story
  
• Stewart, Bob, 1998. More than a game: An unauthorised history of Australian Football
  
• Slattery, Geoff, 2008. The Australian game of Football since 1858.
  
• Linnell, Gary, 1995. Football Ltd: The Inside story of the AFL
• Barker, Anthony J. 2004. Behind the Play - A history of Football in Western Australia from 1868
• Bird, Murray. 2015 - Athenians and Red Invincibles. A History of the origins of Queensland football.
• Main, Jim - Shake down the thunder - the history of the Sydney Swans
• Hore-Lacy, Dyson - Fitzroy!
• Abernethy, Bruce - From Port to a Power
• Ridley, Ian - The Urge to Merge

 

[SJ]

Queensland Australian Football Forensics: http://www.qldfooty.com/
NSW Australian Football History Society: http://nswfootballhistory.com.au/

History of AFL/VFL and WAFL Jumpers: http://footyjumpers.com/

 

[The_Wookie]

Queensland Australian Football Forensics: http://www.qldfooty.com/
NSW Australian Football History Society: http://nswfootballhistory.com.au/

History of AFL/VFL and WAFL Jumpers: http://footyjumpers.com/

Nice i had the nsw one on the list.

 

[The_Wookie]

i wonder whatever happened to sa football historians.org

RussellEbertHandball

 

[Michael Riley]

see http://boylesfootballphotos.net.au/tiki-index.php?page=Useful Links
http://members.optusnet.com.au/~dgreen2/ - Football Cards
http://scoreboardpressure.com/ - Ground Identification
[URL='http://nswfootballhistory.com.au/']http://nswfootballhistory.com.au/ -NSW Football History Society[/URL]
[URL='http://www.hardballget.net/']http://www.hardballget.net/ - Interstate Footy[/URL]

[URL='http://www.hardballget.net/']Full Points Footy (2008 Pandora Version)
[url]http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/87904/20080821-0952/www.fullpointsfooty.net/index.html

Footypedia (2003 Pandora Version)
http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/34349/20030911-0000/www.footypedia.com/index.html[/URL][/URL]

 

[Michael Riley]

Australian Society for Sports History
http://www.sporthistory.org/

ASSH Archives
http://library.la84.org/SportsLibrary/ASSH Bulletins/

 

[The_Wookie]

Unofficial State league Football Video Archives

• SA Football Archive
• WA Video Archive

 

[sherb]

Kevin Taylor's site is worth a look. Unfortunately it is on freeservers (which can make the info a bit all over the place and hard to find), but there are some gems on there - eg, an extensive research article on the early days of the game in Sydney.
http://footystats.freeservers.com/Daily/Diary.html

 

[AussieHool]

Trove will be adding The Sporting Globe (up to 1954) to their online archives!!!

 

[The_Wookie]

Added link to the Age archive on google news (1854 - 1989)

 

[greatwhiteshark]

 

[blueycarlton]

Mark Pennings has released the Origins of Australian Football.
Volume 1 1858- 1876 and Volume 2 1877-1885 available now, and Volume 3 1886-1890 to be released in April 2015.
These contain all the results, best players, attendances, ladders etc.
There will be 5 Volumes all up, and Vol 5 will contain the names of every Pre VFL player from 1858-1896. A herculean task by Mark, congratulations.
These are a great resource as well as a great read, and contains some great photos.
Funding has been a problem and had delayed the release of Vol 2. I believe the AFL, Victorian and Federal Govts. weren't interested in putting their hands in their pockets!
Do yourself a favour and get these two volumes, ensuring Vol 3 will be released.
Also get your local library to obtain Vol 1 and Vol 2 editions and subsequent volumes. Glen Eira's Carnegie Library is getting them in.
I wish these had been available earlier, it would have made our tasks at Blueseum at lot easier.

 

[Supermercado]

Unofficial Club History Pages

• Pivotonian (Geelong Football Club)

Sad to see this site has been discontinued.

 

[The_Wookie]

that is sad

 

[The_Wookie]

Ive now updated the main list with all suggestions

 

[the croucher]

Good news. The National Library's Trove newspaper site has started to prepare items from
The Sporting Judge, and from The Age too.
Footy articles will be visible within the next few weeks:
http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/result?l-title=798&q=football

http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/result?l-title=809&q=football

 

[Supermercado]

Good news. The National Library's Trove newspaper site has started to prepare items from
The Sporting Judge, and from The Age too.
Footy articles will be visible within the next few weeks:
http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/result?l-title=798&q=football

http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/result?l-title=809&q=football

Great result, but they need a bulk "tell me when it's available" option that will just send one email with all the links.

 

[thejester]

The SLV has put all of the Footy Records online:

http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/football-record

On that note, does anyone remember the comics that used to be in the records in the mid-90s? They're not in the digitised copes so I guess there must have been a kids lift-out?

 

[AussieHool]

Trove have added the Winner, which is sensational.

http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/title/800

 

[Supermercado]

The SLV has put all of the Footy Records online:

http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/football-record

On that note, does anyone remember the comics that used to be in the records in the mid-90s? They're not in the digitised copes so I guess there must have been a kids lift-out?

Was that Star Track?

 

[thejester]

Was that Star Track?

Maybe. I just remember the one before the 95 GF in which a mysterious figure (Jeff Kennett) sabotaged the balls at Carlton training

 

[Supermercado]

Maybe. I just remember the one before the 95 GF in which a mysterious figure (Jeff Kennett) sabotaged the balls at Carlton training

It was some kid and his computer. At one point he convinced Wayne Carey to stay at North instead of chasing dollars elsewhere by using computer magic.

 

[thejester]

It was some kid and his computer. At one point he convinced Wayne Carey to stay at North instead of chasing dollars elsewhere by using computer magic.

Wait, some kid was using computer magic to make Jeff Kennett sabotage balls at Carlton training? That's some Phillip K. Dick-esque complexity.

 

[SJ]

rbartlett's Tigerland Archive: http://www.tigerlandarchive.org/

 

[the croucher]

Further good news from the National Library's Trove newspaper site. They have started to load some of the Brisbane Daily Telegraph with a dozen or so articles from 1922 showing up for Australian Football. Should be able to read full text within next few weeks:
http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/result?l-title=840

No doubt numbers of footy articles will grow during the year. I'll be particularly interested to see the 1914 items when they show up as there was a club series played in Brisbane whilst the National Carnival was on in Sydney at same time. Collingwood, Cananore, a team from Perth, and one from Adelaide took part.