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Australian rules football, also called Australian football or Aussie rules, or more simply football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of ...
The Australian Football League (AFL) is the pre-eminent and only fully professional competition of Australian rules football. It was originally named the ...
The oldest surviving set of rules of Australian rules football were drawn up on 17 May 1859, three days after the re-formation of the Melbourne Football Club ...
During general play, players may position themselves anywhere on the field and use any part of their bodies to move the ball. The primary methods are kicking, ...
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The sport is played by more than half a million Australians. Players participate at an organised level in various forms from Auskick (age 5) through to school- ...
Since then, research has challenged various origin myths, including the view that Australian rules football is derived from the Irish sport of Gaelic football.