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The current Melbourne rules were debated, there was an unsuccessful motion by South Yarra for a "push in the back rule". The rules adopted were printed and called " The Victorian Football Rules." which included all but one of the Melbourne rules. Geelong Football Club who could not attend the meeting was sent a copy of the rules for their approval.
Graeme Atkinson, writing in Everything You Wanted Know About Australian Rules Football ... considers it likely that these Geelong rules were drawn up prior to the first rules of the Melbourne Football Club which were drafted on 17 May 1859.: [12] [page needed] 1. Distance between goals and the goal posts to be decided by captains. 2.
Formed under its own rules. Began to adopt Melbourne rules in early 1860s. One of the founding members of both the VFA and VFL. 1859 (Prior to August) Prahran FC † Prahran (Melbourne) Victoria: Defunct (unknown) Date of formation unknown [11] Merged with St Kilda Football Club in 1888. 1859 (Prior to August) Emerald Hill FC † Emerald Hill ...
See also Origins of the Game, History of Australian rules football in Victoria (1859–1900) A game at the Richmond Paddock in the 1860s. A pavilion at the MCG is on the left in the background. (A wood engraving made by Robert Bruce on 27 July 1866) Tom Wills began to devise Australian rules in Melbourne in 1858.
These ten rules, instituted by the Melbourne Football Club, were originally known as "The rules of the Melbourne Football Club – May 1859."The original rules were widely published and distributed by James Thompson in the 1859 edition of The Victorian Cricketer's Guide as the "Laws of the Melbourne Football Club as played at Richmond Paddock 1859".
[2] [3] The following year, four members of the newly formed Melbourne Football Club codified the laws from which Australian rules football evolved. Professional historians began taking a serious interest in the origins of Australian rules football in the late 1970s, and the first academic study of the sport's origins was published in 1982.
The Australian Football League (AFL) is the pre-eminent professional competition of Australian rules football.It was originally named the Victorian Football League (VFL) and was founded in 1896 as a breakaway competition from the Victorian Football Association (VFA), with its inaugural season in 1897.
Australian rules football is known by several nicknames, including Aussie rules, football and footy. [8] In some regions, where other codes of football are more popular, the sport is most often called AFL after the Australian Football League, while the league itself also uses this name for local competitions in some areas.