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Demonstration sport, 1956 Melbourne Olympics. Australian rules football, also called Australian football or Aussie rules, [2] or more simply football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of 18 players on an oval field, often a modified cricket ground. Points are scored by kicking the oval ball between the central goal posts ...
The laws of Australian rules football were first defined by the Melbourne Football Club in 1859 and have been amended over the years as Australian rules football evolved into its modern form. The Australian Football Council (AFC), was formed in 1905 and became responsible for the laws, although individual leagues retained a wide discretion to ...
Break: short for "break in play"; e.g. quarter-time, half-time, or three-quarter-time. [13] Break a line: teams often set up in defensive lines across the ground which can be hard for an opposition to get through; to 'break a line' is to find a way through such a defensive line, e.g., by run-and-carry rather than kicking.
Possession skills. Player takes a contested mark. Possession of the football is required to score so a core group of skills relate to possessing the football. These include: Marking – e.g. arm or chest mark, overhead mark. Bouncing the ball – e.g. running bounce. Pick up – e.g. collecting an unclaimed ball while it is loose on the ground.
In Australian rules football, if a player takes a mark or is awarded a free kick before the siren sounds to end a quarter, and the siren sounds before the player takes a set shot, the player is allowed to take the kick after the siren. Often, the result of this kick is of little consequence, but if the player is within range of goal, any score ...
Universal football was a proposed hybrid sport of Australian rules football and rugby league, as a means of unifying Australia under a single dominant football code. First codified in 1914, the game was originally designed to be played by teams of 15 on rectangular fields with rugby-style goalposts featuring a crossbar.
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. It changed its name to Australian Football ...
Time on in Australian rules football is the portion of each quarter allocated for extra play which could not occur due to time being stopped. Each quarter has a specific length of playing time, which can vary in different forms of the game, but at senior level is usually 20 minutes. When the umpire stops play for a score, injury, the blood rule ...