.AFL History In 1857‚ Tom Wills‚ one of the founders of Australian Football‚ returned to Australia after schooling in England where he was football captain of Rugby School and a brilliant cricketer. Initially‚ he advocated the winter game of football as a way of keeping cricketers fit during off-season. The new game was devised by Wills‚ his cousin H.C.A. Harrison‚ W.J. Hammersley and J.B. Thompson. The Melbourne Football Club was formed on August 7‚ 1858 – the year of the code’s first recorded
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use to promote football since it is capable of reaching a vast majority of people. It provides publicity and coverage of the game making it known to all and sundry. Potential investors and sponsors are brought into the football industry through the power of radio. The coverage of the Ghanaian local football league that is the Glo premier league by some radio stations puts the game of football at the apex of sports in Ghana. A sports programme on radio is mostly dominated by football indicating the
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Crack! I screamed as I fell to the ground in pain. My teammates rushed over to help me. Next thing I knew‚ I was on crutches for a week. {flash forward} “Grace and Sammy‚ you’re up!” My coach yelled over our small conversations. I got in the small grid‚ Grace smiled at me.I didn’t smile back because I didn’t want to show her how nervous I was. I knew what we were doing‚ with the two soccer nets at each out of bounds line. It was one on one. The one thing was that I was going against the strongest
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On the damp soft ground of a soccer field‚ I stood there in silence thinking how to approach. How to get better at being more accurate with the ball and my touch. Slowly I started to walk toward the ball‚ the connection between the ball and my foot broke the silence. Leading to the sound of the ball connecting with the net‚ putting a smile on my face. I had finally made a shot I liked. Inside I thought‚ “Tyler‚ that was one out of the fifty shots I had taken that and I only liked one.”
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English 105 26 April 2012 Playoff System over Turmoil Why does the NFL use a playoff system to select the teams to play in the Super Bowl? The NFL consists of thirty two teams; whereas‚ college football (Division 1A) has 119 teams and does not have a playoff system. So how does college football decide who plays in the National Championship out of the 119 teams in its division? It uses the Bowl Championship Series or nationally known as the BCS. A flawed system‚ which relies on computer rankings
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What is the best way of explaining football hooliganism? “Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred‚ jealousy‚ boastfulness‚ disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words: it is war minus the shooting." (Oswell‚ 1945) The best way to explain football hooliganism is to perceive it in the same context as war. Like war‚ football hooliganism has different factors that all contribute to the overall goal. Although the
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success‚ in touch football. Figueroa’s framework is a framework that the sociology of sport is based on. There are five levels in which this framework is based on. Those levels include: • cultural level‚ • structural level‚ • institutional level‚ • interpersonal level • Individual level. Touch football is a game that is widely played throughout Australia on a social and completive level. There are a number of factors that influence the participation in touch football‚ and many of these
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The Similarities and Differences between Professional Football and Basketball Elbert L. Hereford COM/170 - ELEMENTS OF UNIVERSITY COMPOSITION AND COMMUNICATION I 11/27/2012 Daniel Gleason Thesis There are several similarities and differences between basketball and football as sports. The competitive nature of games calls for the society to express itself in these types of physical activity. Both of these activities require a finish goal where one team loses or wins in return giving the
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example of a parent believing the benefits of their children learning important values outweighs the costs comes from an article by Mark Edmundson of the Washington Post. In his article “Let your Children Play Football”‚ he states that there are a few different learned values that come from football. One of these values
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Each year millions of Americans watch and play both football and baseball. Whether it be the excitement of a walkoff homer in the bottom of the ninth inning‚ or a Hail Mary pass in the fourth quarter‚ we continue to enjoy them year after year. While Texans may argue that football is the superior sport‚ and Californians the opposite‚ can these sports really be compared? Nearly everything about them is different‚ right down to the shape of the ball. But both sports unite us‚ whether it be on the field
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