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The Original Football League

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There is no other sport in Australia, or perhaps the world, that evokes the emotions like Aussie Rules. It is the second fastest open field game in the world behind Ice Hockey and is, some argue, the most talented game in the world. A game of speed, kicking ability, ball control and fierce tackling, it is played right across Australia and now has a national league involving eight games each week of the season that are watched by over a quarter of a million people live each week. The grand final of the competition is played on the last Saturday of September each year and is watched by close to 100,000 people at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, lovingly called "the G".

A classic feature of Aussie Rules is the high marking.

The term 'mark' comes from the Aboriginal word 'memarka' which means 'to catch'.
Here Essendons Gary Moorcroft jumps over his height to stand on the shoulders of Western Bulldogs opponent Brad Johnson to claim Mark Of The Year for 2001.

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Based partly on an Indigenous Aboriginal game called Marn Grook Aussie Rules was devised by Thomas Wills and his associates around 1857 in Victoria. Thomas had been educated in England where he played the developing game of Rugby (Union) but had grown up in the Western District of Victoria where he watched, and possibly played, the Indigenous game. Coming home from England he declared to his friends that they should create a game "we can call our own".

The group of four then organised the first game of Australian Rules Football in 1858 between two colleges in Victoria - Melbourne Grammer School and Scotch College - and soon after the first two registered football clubs in the world were established - Melbourne Football Club in 1858 and Geelong Football Club in 1859.

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The game quickly spread to South Australia and the rest of Australia and before the First Would War was played also in Scotland, Holland, South Africa and New Zealand as well as possibly other countries. The war and then a social separation from Victoria by New South Wales saw the game diminish overseas and in the northern states but now the game is again gaining a stronghold both all over Australia and overseas.

World Footy News is a group who brings you the latest news of the progress of Aussie Rules around the world and is a great place to link up to a number of websites of the countries now playing Aussie Rules.

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