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  Australian rules football - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Australian football, which is also often known as Australian rules football, or informally as "Aussie Rules" or "footy", is a game played between two teams of 22 players (including interchange players) on cricket ovals, or similar-sized arenas.
Australian football is a full body contact sport, but it has a low injury rate from competitive contact compared to rugby football or American football, and it can be played with minimal padding.
The second Australian Football International Cup was held in Melbourne in 2005, under the direction of the AFL with New Zealand defeating Papua New Guinea in the final.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Australian_rules_football   (4629 words)

  
 Australian rules football - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Australian rules football (also known as Aussie Rules or Footy) is a game played between two teams of 18 players, on cricket ovals, or similar-sized areas.
Australian rules, which was was invented in Melbourne, is the predominant winter sport in most parts of Australia.
The rules are a compromise between the two codes, using a round ball and a rectangular field but allowing the fierce tackling of the Australian code.
encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /australian_rules_football.htm   (3240 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Australian rules football
Australian Football (also informally known as Australian Rules football,Aussie Rules or 'Footy') is a game played between two teams of 22 players on cricket ovals, or similar-sized areas.
Australian Football is a full body contact sport, but with a comparatively low injury rate from competitive contact in comparison to rugby football and can be played with minimal to no padding.
International Rules football is a hybrid sport developed in the 1980s as a mixture of Australian rules football and Gaelic football.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Australian-rules-football   (10285 words)

  
 Australian rules football - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Australian rules football (also known as Aussie Rules) is a game played between two teams of 18 players, generally played on cricket ovals during the winter months.
In Queensland and New South Wales the main winter sports are rugby league and rugby union, although with the establishment of successful Australian Football League teams in Sydney and Brisbane, and hence the growth of amateur football in those areas, this is changing to some degree.
While it is clear even to casual observers that Australian Rules is similar to Gaelic football, the exact relationship is unclear, as the Irish game was not codified until 1887.
open-encyclopedia.com /Australian_rules_football   (3078 words)

  
 Australian Rules :: About   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Australian Rules is the story of 16 year old Gary Black – average football player, budding wordsmith and reluctant hero.
Australian Rules encourages the development of detailed and balanced understandings of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples but also issues and concerns we all share.
Australian Rules also lays bare the stresses of family and social life in a fringe rural seaside community, where many of the young people are bored and aimless and others, like Gary Black, simply don’t fit into local social mores.
www.actf.com.au /learning_centre/title_pages/aur_about.htm   (388 words)

  
 Australian rules football -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The top-level league in (A nation occupying the whole of the Australian continent; aboriginal tribes are thought to have migrated from southeastern Asia 20,000 years ago; first Europeans were British convicts sent there as a penal colony) Australia is the (Click link for more info and facts about Australian Football League) Australian Football League (AFL).
Below is a diagram illustrating the tradition positions of Australian rules football.
It was contested by 11 teams made up exclusively of non-Australians: (An island comprising the republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland) Ireland won the cup, defeating (A parliamentary democracy on the eastern half of the island of New Guinea) Papua New Guinea in the final.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/a/au/australian_rules_football.htm   (3277 words)

  
 DVD.net : Australian Rules - DVD Review
Set in the arid wastes of the South Australian coastal town of Prospect Bay, Gary ‘Blackie’ Black is a white teenager with the weight of a town’s racism on his shoulders.
He plays for the local Australian rules side and half the team is made up of aborigines from the outlying mission.
Australian Rules manages to make us laugh or angry or sad at any point it likes and it tells the shocking truths that must exist in Australia, without pulling punches or hinting at them.
www.dvd.net.au /review.cgi?review_id=3014   (1262 words)

  
 About the Game of Australian Rules Football   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Australian Rules Football (also "Aussie Rules" or " footy") is a physical contact sport.
Its rules were codified in 1858, and probably predate all other modern forms of football, such as American, Canadian, Rugby Union and League, Association (Soccer) and Gaelic football.
Aussie Rules is the main code of football in Victoria, Western Australia, South Australia, Tasmania, and the Northern Territory and has a strong following in the Australian Capital Territory.
www.nyfooty.com /html/about.html   (2614 words)

  
 AUSTRALIAN RULES   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Australian Rules explores the racism and bigotry of the small town and Blacky's conflicting life.
Australian Rules is a heart-wrenching drama which is at some stages difficult to watch.
Australian Rules has the ability to appeal to foreign audiences due to it's uniquely Australian style, landscape and characters, yet it also has elements that are relatable for people from any country.
wwwmcc.murdoch.edu.au /ReadingRoom/film/dbase/2003/australian.htm   (1905 words)

  
 ipedia.com: Australian Rules Football Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Australian rules football is a game played between two teams of 18 players, generally played on cricket ovals during the winter months.
Meanwhile, a rift in the Victorian Football Association (VFA) led to the formation of the Victorian Football League (VFL), which commenced play in 1897 as an eight-team breakaway of the stronger clubs in the VFA competition: Carlton, Collingwood, Essendon, Fitzroy, Geelong, Melbourne, St Kilda and South Melbourne.
The inaugural Australian Rules International Cup was held in Melbourne, Australia in 2002.
www.ipedia.com /australian_rules_football_1.html   (2386 words)

  
 Australia Online - Australian Rules Football   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The focus of this FAQ will be primarily upon the Australian Football League as this is the competition that generates the most interest of supporters being the elite competition of Australian football.
1995 rule change is for tripping by hand to still be an infringement of the rules allowing a free kick or 50 metre penalty, but to not be a reportable offence.
The role of the coach in Aussie Rules is different compared to other sports in that the coach is only able to address his players before the game, and then during the quarter-time, half-time and three-quarter-time intervals.
australia-online.com /FAQ1v1-4.html   (4091 words)

  
 Australian Rules
Australian Rules is the new indigenous film on the block in Australia.
The major protest against Australian Rules is that this scene mirrors an actual event that took place in Gwynne’s hometown in 1977, a number of years after he had left.
A member of the Point Pearce community and then coordinator of the South Australian Indigenous Screen Culture Organisation, David was the script assessor of the film and the first to raise the alarm bells with the families of the dead boys.
www.abc.net.au /message/blackarts/review/s655039.htm   (2235 words)

  
 Australian Rules Football Frequently Asked Questions 1/4
There are several WWW Page's for Australian Rules Football resources.
The umpire in the third where the ball is currently being disputed is the umpire in charge at any one time, however either of the other field umpires may bring attention to infringements of the rules that occur 'behind the play'.
Some propose that it comes from Australian's anti-authoritarian feelings as an ex-convict settlement that leads supporters to generally dislike umpires, but now, it comes as almost a tradition that the umpires are hated.
www.footy.com.au /dags/FAQ1v1-5.html   (3687 words)

  
 Australian Road Rules
The agreement by the Australian Transport Council, comprising Australia's Transport and Roads Ministers, to commence introduction of national road rules from December 1999, is a milestone in Australia's transportation history and something that has eluded traffic planners and lawmakers for over 50 years.
When fully implemented, almost all road rules will be consistent throughout Australia, eliminating dozens of differences at State and Territory borders - many of these road law differences have existed purely for historical reasons.
Common rules of the road will make travel easier for international tourists and for people living in border towns, travelling interstate on holiday and on business, and when shifting interstate.
www.rta.nsw.gov.au /rulesregulations/roadrules/australianroadrules.html   (205 words)

  
 Open Directory - Sports:Football:Australian Rules
Australian Rules Football is a fast growing sport which originated in Victoria, Australia and was originally called the Victorian Football League (VFL).
The Melbourne Demons are an Australian Rules football club in the highest level of competition - the Australian Football League.
Richmond was admitted to the League in 1908 and the former working class suburb east of the city centre quickly built a huge supporter base and a strong reputation.
dmoz.org /Sports/Football/Australian_Rules/desc.html   (1666 words)

  
 Australian Rules (2002)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Plot Summary: In Prospect Bay, a remote outpost on the South Australian coast, two communities, the Goonyas (whites) and the Nungas (fls)...
Discuss this movie with other users on IMDb message board for Australian Rules (2002)
Does anyone know where Australian Rules was filmed?
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 Rules of Card Games: Five Hundred
In the rules above I said that when all players except one have passed, that one player is the contractor, playing the contract of the final bid.
I believe that the most widespread rule is that as soon as the other three players have passed, the contract is fixed as your last bid and cannot be altered.
A common ruling is that if in raising the bid, the contractor changes the suit (or no trump), the other players have another chance to bod.
www.pagat.com /euchre/500.html   (5838 words)

  
 Electric Shadows - Australian Rules
Eventually the township was cobbled together from several South Australian rural locations.
Among the adults, the film is notable for a beautiful cameo from Kevin Harrington (from THE DISH) as the would-be inspirational football coach who is constantly getting tangled up in his speeches to the kids.
AUSTRALIAN RULES is the first feature from Paul Goldman, director and co-writer (with the novelist Phillip Gwynne).
www.electricshadows.com.au /film/2206174419.html   (485 words)

  
 nofreelist.com - Australian Rules (2002)
Australian Rules (2002) is also mentioned in pearly's review of One Perfect Day (2004), pearly's review of Take Away (2003) and pearly's review of Under the Radar (2004).
Australian releases have a history of being ignored in Australian cinemas: this results, I fear, in paranoid studios insisting on changes to make movies more commercially appealing.
i hated this movie with passion to think australians are portrayed to be maggot breeding, foul mouthed low lifes is a massive disgrace.
nofreelist.com /review?movieid=229   (1426 words)

  
 Australian Rules Football - .   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Australian AFL football is truly a great patriotic game - get the latest gossip and information free here.
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Australian Rules Football has been played competitively in Denmark since 1991...
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 eBay - australian rules, Vintage, Advertising items on eBay.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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 AFL Football Australia - Australian Rules Footy Site - Aussie Rules - Talking Football
We provide loyal Aussie rules fans and supporters an active forum where they may discuss their opinions on footy matters with like-minded people.
Every week during the Aussie Rules season, millions of dollars are wagered on the outcome of eight games of AFL footy.
We are happy to swap links, trade banners and exchange traffic with other Aussie Rules and other sports-related sites.
www.talkingfootball.net   (899 words)

  
 Australia Online - Australian Rules Football   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Australian Football League or AFL is the national league for Australian Rules Football in Australia.
This rule also applies to fathers having played in the QAFL or SFL (NSWAFL) at any time (providing it is not to provide entitlement under this rule) for AFL clubs in the respective states of those competitions.
These are the West Australian Football League (WAFL) based in Western Australia, and the South Australian National Football League (SANFL) based in South Australia.
australia-online.com /FAQ2v1-4.html   (2766 words)

  
 Cincinnati Dockers: Australian Rules Football Club   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
We gathered in the locker room, went over the game plan for the last time, and for the first time we had to show our passport to prove our nationality.
This was done on the heel of rumors that other teams had brought in Australians to play for them or players who were not on their roster.
The Cincinnati Dockers are founding members of the United States Australian Football League.
www.cincinnatidockers.com   (4588 words)

  
 Australian Road Rules
To open or download documents, 'right-click' on the title for PC and 'control-click' on the title for Mac and choose an option.
Part 16 - Rules for persons travelling in or on vehicles
Part 17 - Additional rules for drivers of trams and public buses
www.rta.nsw.gov.au /rulesregulations/downloads/roadraustr_dl1.html   (145 words)

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