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On 17 May 1859, Thompson, along with Tom Wills, Thomas H. Smith and William Hammersley (with some sources also including Wills' cousin H. C. A. Harrison), co-founded the Melbourne Football Club, the first ever Australian rules football club, of which he was inaugural secretary, at the Parade Hotel in East Melbourne. [10]
Tom Wills. The original local football rules were drafted on 17 May 1859, in a meeting between four members of the Melbourne Cricket Club (MCC), which included Tom Wills, William Hammersley, J. B. Thompson and Thomas Smith. [13] The meeting was held at the Parade Hotel on the site of the present MCG Hotel. Wills, a renowned cricketer, was ...
William Josiah Sumner Hammersley (25 September 1826 – 15 November 1886) was an English-born first-class cricketer and sports journalist in Victoria, Australia, one of the four men credited with setting down the original rules of Australian rules football.
The Victorian cricket team, 1859. In May of that year, Tom Wills (seated, far left), William Hammersley (standing, third from left), J. B. Thompson (seated, second from left) and Thomas H. Smith (not pictured) met at the Parade Hotel, run by Jerry Bryant (standing, second from right), where they wrote the first laws of Australian football.
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De Moore rejects this view, noting that the contributions of Hammersley, Smith, Thompson and other pioneers, rather than those of Wills, were generally overlooked. [323] In her analysis of early football, Hibbins concludes that Thompson's journalistic ability as a promoter of the game "probably" makes him the most significant pioneer, and that ...
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