I need to know the history of football before 10/13/06?

Question

I need to know the history of football before 10/13/06?

Answer 1

which football

Answer 2

And because he is wrong to assume you mean Rugby League, as that is "League" not "football" - you obviously are referring to Aussie Rules! I will give you the right answer ;)

Tom Wills began to devise Australian rules in Melbourne in 1858. Later that year it was formally codified, and a Melbourne League started between Melbourne Football Club, and Melbourne Grammer and Scotch College schools, making it the oldest football competition in the world (even older than Soccer's FA cup!)

The influence of British public school and university football codes, while undetermined, was clearly substantial. Wills had been educated at Rugby School in England It is also often said that the founders were partly inspired by the ball games of the local Aboriginal people in western Victoria. Marn Grook, a sport that used a ball made out of possum hide, and is said to have featured jumping to catch the ball, called mumarki (meaning to catch), which resembles the high marking in Australian football. Some also say Gaelic football has an influence, but it was not formally codified until 1887. Although Aussie Rules did prove popular amongst Irish immigrants, so they may have left an influence on the game.

The first proper league started in 1877 with the formation of the Victorian Football Association. The game quickly grew in popularity in EVERY Australian state, and was even popular in QLD & NSW despite the populairty of Rugby. Rugby was seen as egalitarian and elite - for the rich, and Aussie Rules was the working class game until the promotion of the new Rugby League format by famous cricketer Victor Trumper.

In the last half of the 19th century there was even regular inter-colonial representative competitions, and NZ even sent teams.For most of the 20th century, the absence of a national club competition – and the inability of players to compete internationally – meant that matches between state representative teams were regarded with great importance.

A rift in the VFA led to the formation of the Victorian Football League (VFL), which commenced play in 1897 as an eight-team breakaway of the stronger clubs in the VFA competition. By 1925, the VFL consisted of 12 teams, and had become the most prominent league in the game. Although there were also strong leagues in each state. But VFL remained the predominant, and attracted the best players from each of the other State's leagues.

In 1982, in a move which heralded big changes within the sport, one of the original VFL clubs, South Melbourne Football Club, relocated to the rugby league stronghold of Sydney and became known as the Sydney Swans. In the late 1980s, strong interstate interest in the VFL led to a more national competition; two more non-Victorian clubs, the West Coast Eagles and the Brisbane Bears began playing in 1987. The league changed its name to the Australian Football League (AFL) following the 1989 season. In 1991, it gained its first South Australian team, Adelaide. In the next five years, two more non-Victorian teams, Port Adelaide and Fremantle,  joined the league. Despite mergers to strengthen some of the weaker clubs, for example Brisbane Bears and Fitzroy Lions becoming Brisbane Lions, most of the clubs retain their traditional local roots. Tasmania remains the games only heartland without national representation, although Melbourne clubs such as Hawthorn and St.Kilda chose to play home games sometimes in Launceston, as they acheive larger crowds than in Melbourne. The AFL, currently with 16 member clubs, is the sport's elite competition and the most powerful body in the world of Australian rules football.

The biggest legends in the history of the game are:

Ron Barassi Junior, Melbourne, Carlton (VIC 1936-)

Haydn Bunton Senior, Fitzroy (NSW 1911-1955)

Roy Cazaly, St. Kilda, Sth. Melbourne (VIC 1896-1963)

John Coleman VC, Essendon (VIC 1928-1973)

Jack Dyer, Richmond (VIC 1913-2003)

Graham "Polly" Farmer, Geeolong (WA 1935-)

Leigh Matthews, Hawthorn (VIC 1952-)

John Nicholls, Carlton (VIC 1939-)

Bob Pratt, Sth. Melbourne (VIC 1912-2001)

d**k Reynolds, Essendon (VIC 1915-2002)

Bob Skilton, Sth. Melbourne, Melbourne (VIC 1938-)

Ted Whitten Sr., Footscray (VIC 1933-1995)

Ian Stewart, St. Kilda, Richmond (TAS 1943-)

Gordon Coventry, Collingwood (VIC 1901-1968)

Peter Hudson, Hawthorn (TAS 1946-)

Kevin Bartlett, Richmond (VIC 1947-)

Barrie Robran, Nth. Adelaide (SA 1947-)

Bill Hutchison, Essendon (VIC 1923-1982)

Jock McHale, Collingwood (VIC 1882-1953)

Darrel Baldock, St. Kilda (TAS 1938-)

Answer 3

I'll assume you mean rugby league because I know a fair bit.

1908-1909 - Foundation - Rugby League is formed. A few Rugby Union clubs join forces with the newly formed New South Wales Rugby League. The foundation clubs are: Eastern Suburbs (Roosters), South Sydney (Rabbitohs), Balmain, Western Suburbs, North Sydney, Newtown, Glebe (first ever club formed), Newcastle and Cumberland.

PLAYER OF ERA: HERBERT 'DALLY' MESSENGER



1910-1981 - Golden Era - This is considered the 'Golden Era' by many. The formation of many of the clubs that compete today eg. St. George, Canturbury-Bankstown, Manly-Warringah and Parramatta, makes the competition all that more fierce. Many clubs have dropped out of the competition and some come and go. But the ones that stay rise to greatness at some point.

One of the great feats of this long era is the Premiership winning streak of 11 by St George between 1956-66. In 1980, the highly successful State of Origin series was created.

PLAYER OF ERA: CLIVE CHURCHILL

1982-96 - Decentralisation - this was the Era in which rugby league expanded its empire - in some cases unsuccessfully. Most of the teams stick around and are extremely successful, for example, the Canberra team of the late 80s and early 90s has sometimes been described as the team of the century. Once again, teams come and go with little success. But this era produced a few of the 15 teams around today.

PLAYER OF ERA: WALLY LEWIS

1997 - 10/13/06 - Rationalisation - The stabilisation of the NRL after the Super League war - one of the most contraversial stories in the history of the game. In this short era, 3 teams were created that now play today. Melbourne, in 1999, won the premiership after only one year in the competition - unprecedented since the foundation of Rugby league.

PLAYER OF ERA: BRAD FITLER

In all, 32 teams have played Rugby League including 3 mergers (St George Illawarra, Wests Tigers, Northern Eagles - now Manly again). 15 different teams have one the Premiership. South Sydney have won the most with 20 premierships. Cronulla are the only team to have never one a premiership. Only 2 teams have one the Premiership more than 3 times in a row - St George and South Sydney.

In 98 years of Rugby League football, the most over-rated player of all time is Andrew Johns.

I hope this gives you a general idea of Rugby League before the given date.

Thankyou for my time.

GREATEST PLAYER OF ALL TIME: CLIVE CHURCHILL