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	THE RULES OF SOCCER FOOTBALL
		Football is played at a professional level all over the world, and millions of people regularly go to football stadia to follow their favourite team, whilst millions more avidly watch the game on television.
		Football is generally a free-flowing game with the ball in play at all times except when the ball has left the field of play by wholly crossing over a boundary line (either on the ground or in the air), or play has been stopped by the referee.
		The rules of football were codified in England by the Football Association in 1863, and the name association football was coined to distinguish the game from the other forms of football played at the time, specifically rugby football.
	www.solarnavigator.net /sport/football_rules.htm (8437 words)

	Australian Rules Football In Australia
		Australian rules football, also known as Australian football, Aussie rules, or simply "football" or "footy" is a code of football played with a prolate spheroid ball, on large oval shaped fields (cricket fields), with four posts at each end.
		Australian rules football goal posts - the two tall central posts are the goal posts, and the two shorter outer posts are the behind posts.
		Australian rules is often referred to as the people's game due to its ability to transcend class and racial boundaries, unify supporters and attract crowds.
	www.squidoo.com /aussie-rules (3810 words)

	ipedia.com: American football Article (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The minor Arena Football League (1987-present) plays an indoor adaptation of American football, at a faster pace, on a smaller field with no built-in sidelines -- the edges of the grid are coincident with padded walls similar to those found in a baseball outfield.
		However, rugby league does have a similar system where each side is allowed to be tackled five times while in possession (see the entry for rugby league for an explanation of the play-the-ball and the limited tackles rule).
		The school's head football coach, Gary Barnett, in responding to the charge by his only female player that a teammate had raped her, accused her of being an incompetent player.
	www.ipedia.com /american_football.html (5188 words)

	NFL Rules
		The football season, proper, is from March to August (early autumn to late winter in Australia) with finals being held in September.
		Rugby Football Rugby play begins with a kickoff and is often followed by a scrum, in which the forwards lock shoulders and push against the opposing forwards, as both teams try to hook the ball to their halfbacks with their feet.
		Rugby Union Football Field In rugby union football, the objective is to run the ball into the opposing team's goal area or to kick the ball through the uprights of the opposing team's goal.
	www.angelfire.com /ia3/coltsnflrules/typesoffootball.htm (9449 words)

	Qwika - similar:Football
		As the term football has diverged, the name of the ball itself may refer to one of two basic shapes: A sphere used in football/soccer (or "association football") as well as Gaelic football An approximate prolate spheroid, which may be either: those with more rounded ends used in rugby football and Australian footbal...
		The history of American football is an important part of both the culture of the United States and the broader history of various football games around the world, in which a ball is kicked at a goal and/or or carried over a line.
		Canadian football is a sport in which two teams of twelve players each compete for territorial control of a field of play 110 yards (100.6 m) long and 65 yards (59.4 m) wide, with end zones 20 yards (18.3 m) deep.
	www.qwika.com /rels/Football (1643 words)

	Open Directory - Sports:Football
		Australian Rules Football is a fast growing sport which originated in Victoria, Australia and was originally called the Victorian Football League (VFL).
		International Rules is a recently developed football code which is a hybrid of Australian Rules Football and Gaelic Football.
		The object of the game is that two teams of fifteen, ten or seven players each, observing fair play according to the Laws and sporting spirit, should by carrying, passing, kicking and grounding the ball score as many points as possible, the team scoring the greater number of points being the winner of the match.
	www.dmoz.org /Sports/Football/desc.html (1114 words)

	History of Football
		The English word "football" is also applied to American football, Australian rules football, Canadian football, Gaelic football, rugby football (rugby union and rugby league), and related games.
		While it is widely believed that the word "football" (or "foot ball") originated in reference to the action of a foot kicking a ball, there is a rival explanation, which has it that football originally referred to a variety of games in medieval Europe, which were played on foot.
		The Intercollegiate Football Association was dissolved in 1894, and in the same year a rules committee, dominated by the Yale graduate and football pioneer Walter Chauncey Camp, was formed by the influential eastern schools.
	www.angelfire.com /ia3/coltsnflrules/historyoffootball.htm (3163 words)

	Open Directory - Sports:Football
		This category is for topics relating to American rules football, by various measures the most popular spectator team sport in the United States.
		Australian Rules Football is a fast growing sport which originated in Victoria, Australia and was originally called the Victorian Football League (VFL).
		The object of the game is that two teams of fifteen, ten or seven players each, observing fair play according to the Laws and sporting spirit, should by carrying, passing, kicking and grounding the ball score as many points as possible, the team scoring the greater number of points being the winner of the match.
	dmoz.org /Sports/Football/desc.html (1007 words)

	AFL Football- Aussie Rules - Australian Football
		Australian Rules Football, “Aussie Rules” or Footy is an Australian contact sport with 16 teams participating in the famous Australian Football League (AFL).
		Australian Rules football originated in Melbourne but has since become a significant part of the Australian culture and is now played in every state and territory in Australia.
		AFL Football is the most highly attended spectator sport in Australia with over 6 million people attending games in 2006.
	www.iasbet.com /whatsnew/AFL_Football.aspx (263 words)

	Australian rules football - WikiLeasing.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		However, the rules used by the two teams in 1858 could not have had much in common with the eventual form of Australian football since Wills had not yet begun to write them.The Melbourne Football Club rules of 1859 are he oldest surviving set of laws for Australian football.
		Interstate migration trends and the growth f amateur football mean that the demographic of Australian football is changing.In recent years, Australian rules has become increasingly popular in Queensland due to the recent success of the Brisbane Lions, who won three premierships in a row (2001-2003) and finished runner-up in 2004.
		The Tiwi Islands is said to have the highest participation rate in Australia (35%).Amongst children aged 5 to 14 years, football is the third most popular organised sport for children to aprticipate in (beyond soccer and swimming).
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	Athletes.com - Athletes Topic Of The Week - What Is The Most Exciting Sport To Watch? (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Australian Football is played between two teams of 18 players per side (plus 4 interchange players) on an oval shaped field, which varies in length (around 150-180m long) and width (around 115m-140m wide at the center), and with an oval shaped ball.
		Australian football is the most highly attended spectator sport in Australia, with over 6.7 million fans attending AFL (Australian Football League - the national competition in Australian Football) matches last season.
		Football's time management system allows for the action to be increased and for the fan to be more involved in the game.
	www.athletes.com /fun/a_totw11.htm (7033 words)

	Australian Rules Football Frequently Asked Questions 1/4
		Interest in the game is generally at an all time high within Australia, yet despite this, some parts of Australia are still lukewarm in support of their team in the AFL, and the game has yet to take a firm hold overseas.
		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 Sydney Swans have a list of 50 to choose from as a supplement to not being in a Footballer producing state.
	www.footy.com.au /dags/FAQ1v1-5.html (3687 words)

	FAQ- Intro to Aussie Rules
		Australian Rules Football (also "Aussie Rules" or "footy") is one of the many existing forms of football, with roots traceable from early forms of Rugby and Gaelic football, but it is uniquely Australian.
		Englishmen were first settled in Australia by force in 1788, when the First Fleet of "transported" English convicts arrived at what is now known as Sydney Harbour, sentenced to be exiled to the far end of the earth for life.
		However, these rules took most of the century to work out, especially since students at various "public" schools (private boarding schools for gentry-in-training) such as Rugby and Eton developed games of their own to play on campus.
	www.afana.com /af_faq_sec1.shtml (1472 words)

	World Footy News - World's most popular football clubs and leagues
		American Football's Washington Redskins are listed as the most popular team, based on average home ground attendences, pulling in 80,000 fans to each game.
		The first Australian Rules football clubs listed are Collingwood at number 48, Adelaide at 56 and Essendon at 58, all around 40,000 to 50,000 spectators.
		A list of the top Australian Rules football clubs is also given, and interestingly they do list some teams from non-Australian leagues.
	www.worldfootynews.com /article.php?story=20040902213357753 (647 words)

	United States Football Federation/IGFF European/American Football
		The NFL has done a great job of exposing the excitement of American rules football abroad and the benefactor could well be the American Football Association and its affiliated programs who have joined together to form the United States Football Federation (USFF).
		The USFF is a 'non-profit-corporation' dedicated to the international movement to have the sport of American Rules Football become an eventual Gold Medal Olympic Event.
		The Australian's world tour was put together to raise support for the Olympic movement for the sport of gridiron football.
	members.aol.com /amerfoot/afa-intl.htm (453 words)

	World Footy News - Independent News and Views from the International Aussie Rules Community
		The South Australian National Football League has rejected the Northern Territory's bid to place a side in the SANFL in 2009.
		Carlton Football Club President, Richard Pratt has announced that the Pratt Foundation, established in 1978 by Richard and his wife Jeanne "to enrich the lives of our community", will support the team, alongside the Carlton Football Club for the duration of their stay in Melbourne.
		The Australian Football League are hoping to shortly finalise a draw for the 2008 Australian Football International Cup.
	www.worldfootynews.com (1950 words)

	Interstate Football
		By the time of the inception of state of origin football in 1977, however, the trend for the very best footballers, from all parts of Australia, to gravitate towards Victoria, and in particular the VFL, was becoming irresistible.
		For footballers striving to attain elite standard, or even for those simply wishing to maximise their achievements at one of the many levels beneath the AFL, interstate representative football remains, and is likely to remain, a critical benchmark.
		However, the fact that for well over a century interstate football constituted the only truly national stage available to Australia's best footballers means that its importance in an historical sense, in terms of the sport's development and indeed survival, is probably unrivalled.
	www.fullpointsfooty.net /interstate_football.htm (833 words)

	Australian Rules Football: Point Me To It!!!
		Australian Rules Football, or "footy", is played with the same intensity as the American style of play, but among the differences: field size is different, scoring is different, and...these guys don't wear any pads!
		Australian football, which is also known as Australian Rules Football, or less formally as "Aussie Rules" or simply as "Footy" is a code of football which originated in Melbourne, Australia.
		Although it is a winter sport, pre-season competitions usually begin in late February (that is, in the Australian summer); the football season proper is from March to August, with finals being held in September.
	pointme.to /football/footy.htm (424 words)

	Caulfied Cup
		Regarded as one of the toughest and best 2400m handicaps in Australia, the Caulfield Cup was first run in the autumn of 1879 and won by Newminster.
		What is still considered the worst race fall in Australian turf history occurred in the Cup of 1885, when 16 of the 44 runners fell, resulting in the death of jockey Donald Nicholson.
		It is a race which has been won by some of the best horses in Australia and has long been the first "leg" of Australia's most popular betting double, linking with the Melbourne Cup.
	www.iasbet.com /whatsnew/caulfield-cup.aspx (290 words)

	Australian Rules Football Frequently Asked Questions 1/4
		The Australian Football League or AFL is the national league for Australian Rules Football in Australia.
		The League for the purposes of scheduling games for the next season is split into 2 divisions, being the top and bottom eight teams (expansion team Fremantle is considered team number 16).
		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.
	www.footy.com.au /dags/FAQ2v1-5.html (2728 words)

	JSSM- 2006, Vol.5, Issue 4, 509 - 516
		Australian Rules Football, governed by the Australian Football League (AFL) is the most popular winter sport played in Australia.
		Like North American team based leagues such as the NFL, NBA and NHL, the AFL uses a draft system for rookie players to join a team's list.
		The existing method of allocating draft selections in the AFL is simply based on the reverse order of each team's finishing position for that season, with teams winning less than or equal to 5 regular season matches obtaining an additional early round priority draft pick.
	www.jssm.org /vol5/n4/6/v5n4-6abst.php (280 words)

	Australian Rules: Football at Canadian Content
		Additional Information: Australian Rules Football is a fast growing sport which originated in Victoria, Australia and was originally called the Victorian Football League (VFL).
		Australian rules football is one of the most popular national sports, albeit it, one that is only played in
		Australia this morning woke up to find itself in the middle of the North Atlantic.
	www.canadiancontent.net /dir/Top/Sports/Football/Australian_Rules (1043 words)

	Ever wondered why so many Australian footballers(Socceroos, Olyroos, Matildas) play overseas?
		When the biggest match of the Australian soccer league was to be played on Wednesday (March 31, 1999) night not a word of preview could be found in the paper or in the electronic media.
		Australia won easily 3-2 in front of the 88 101 wind swept fans exposed to the elements.
		This type of gutter journalism is to be expected from an organisation that is intent on the flout and abuse of football in Australia.
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	Soccer Fantasy Sports
		AFCB Fantasy League Week 25Vitalfootball, UK - 19 hours ago47 teams entered the league and posted on the Fantasy League banter thread, some are still confident, while some have already given up.
		League rules and top ten team list available.
		Compete in the main league or set up a private league between your friends.
	www.iaswww.com /ODP/Sports/Fantasy/Soccer (1290 words)

	Australian Rules Football Overview
		Australian football started as a variation on the various football games as played in the English Public (private) schools during the 1850s.
		Only 3 of the 10 original rules were taken from Rugby...from the Early History of Australian Football
		The IAFC was formed in 1995 to bring together the people, organisations, clubs and leagues who play or are involved with Australian Football internationally.
	sportsvl.com /ball/australianfootball.htm (215 words)

	Australian Rules Football Home
		Australian Rules Football (AFL) is the national game of Australia.
		Swimming is second, with cricket, rugby league, football, rugby union, motor car racing, golf and netball rounding out the top 10.
		The losers are here too - see the list of Wooden Spoon winners for coming last in the AFL competition.
	www.topendsports.com /sport/afl (214 words)

	USAFL \| United States Australian Rules Football League
		It is Australian Football adapted to the needs and necessities of the clubs playing the game across the US.
		While rules may vary from league to league, the basic rules remain the same for Metro Footy as regular Footy.
		With several games played on the same day, leagues keep the players and spectators involved by assigning umpiring duties to those whom have already played or are waiting to play.
	www.usfooty.com /usfooty/clubs/metrofooty.aspx?section=clubs&id=9 (575 words)

	TARIK'S INTERNATIONAL RULES RESULTS -AFL Format
		If we are to play International Rules, we either treat it seriously and introduce it into our football culture, or we forget about it.
		It has the potential to develop into a very strong part of our football culture, it should be nurtured to its fullest.
		It must be remembered, however, that Australian Rules football today is nothing like the game originally invented 150 years ago.
	www.tarik.com.au /intafl.html (487 words)

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