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  Gaelic Football Prehistory @ IntAdopt.com (International Adoption)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Gaelic football (Irish: peil ghaelach) is a form of football played mainly in Ireland.
Gaelic fooball is one of four gaelic sports run by the Gaelic Athletic Association also called the 'GAA'.
The first Gaelic football rules, showing the influence of hurling and a desire to differentiate from association football — for example in their lack of an offside rule — were drawn up by Maurice Davan and published in the United Ireland magazine on February 7, 1887.
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 Wikipedia: Gaelic football
Gaelic football is a competitive sport played mainly in Ireland.
Modern gaelic football is played with a round leather ball, similar to that used in soccer.
In Gaelic football, the goals, located at each end have a scoring system involving posts that are shaped like a letter 'H'.
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 Gaelic football - the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Gaelic football (Irish: peil) is a form of football played mainly in Ireland.
Although there are similarities with Australian Rules Football, this appears to be due to convergent evolution rather than consciousinfluence of one code on the other.
The mostsuccessful county in the history of Gaelic football is Kerry, with over 30 All Ireland wins, followed by Dublin, with over 20wins.
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 Gaelic football - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Father W. Ferris described two forms of caid: the "field game" in which the object was to put the ball through arch-like goals, formed from the boughs of two trees, and; the epic "cross-country game" which lasted the whole of a Sunday (after mass) and was won by taking the ball across a parish boundary.
Gaelic football has become increasingly popular with women since the 1970s.
Over the four Sundays of September, All Ireland Finals in men's football, women's football, hurling and camogie take place in Croke Park, the national stadium of the GAA, with the men's deciders regularly attracting crowds of over 80,000.
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 List of footballers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The term footballer is ambiguous, as there are several games known as football.
List of footballers (football eight or arena football)
This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title.
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 INTERNATIONAL AUSTRALIAN FOOTBALL COUNCIL   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The big differences, however, are that Gaelic football is played with a round ball and that the players are amateurs.
A large proportion of Gaelic footballers are actively involved in hurling, especially at club level.
When you play Gaelic football, you play for your club and your country and there is great pride in that.
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 Australian rules football - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
While it is clear even to casual observers that Australian rules football is similar to Gaelic football, the exact relationship is unclear, as the Irish game was not codified by the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) until 1887.
Australian football is the most highly attended spectator sport in Australia: government figures show that more than 2.5 million people (16.8% of the population) attended games in 1999 [7].
For the centenary of the VFL/AFL in 1996, an Australian Football Hall of Fame was established.
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 List of footballers: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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 Gaelic Football, Hurling are Irish Passions
Gaelic athletics are a heartfelt Irish passion, and a physical celebration of ancient traditions and culture.
Gaelic football and hurling have been arousing Irish passions for a long, long time.
Football became popular as early as the 16th century, when teams might have consisted of all the able-bodied men of a town or parish.
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 list of football (soccer) players - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com
This article is concerned with Association football (soccer).
This is a list of more or less famous players in that game.
List of Soccer Players with a Century of Caps
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 Gaelic football - Gurupedia
Australian Rules Football, and it is widely believed that Irish games were a significant influence on the Australian game.
Modern gaelic football is played with a round leather ball, similar to that used in
Croke Park, which is the location of the main stadium of all gaelic games organised by the GAA.
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 Summerhill Gaelic Football Club   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
He had played Junior football for Meath but the move to Senior ranks was more daunting.
From then on he went from strength to strength to become one of the best footballers ever to don the green and gold jersey, playing a big part in the All-Ireland success of 1967.
His early education in football was, to put it mildly, 'informal'.
www.summerhillgfc.com /Hall_of_Fame/mattie_kerrigan_coach.htm   (619 words)

  
 Rugby Union - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Supposedly invented during a football game by William Webb Ellis at Rugby School, the game of Rugby Union is a team sport contested with an ovoid ball by two teams of 15 players, the object being to outscore the opposing team.
In fact, in these isolated and rugged outposts, the popularity of the sport developed to a much greater extent than on continental Europe; where it was largely viewed as a violent and uncultured game.
However it is often said that "Football is a gentlemen's game played and enjoyed by louts, rugby is a game for louts played and enjoyed by gentlemen".
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 Gaelic Football -- Recommendations and Resources   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Although there are similarities with Australian Rules Football, this appears to be due to convergent evolution rather than conscious influence of one code on the other, although the precise connections between the games are unclear.
Gaelic as an adjective means "pertaining to the Gaels", whether to their language or their culture.
Shelta is sometimes counted as a Gaelic or Goidelic language; however, while it is closely associated with Irish Gaelic it is not be genetically related, being instead a cant language which has borrowed a great volume of Irish vocabulary
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 Gaelic football - ExampleProblems.com
Although there are similarities with Australian Rules Football, this may be due to convergent evolution rather than conscious influence of one code on the other.
At first glance Gaelic Football resembles a combination of soccer and basketball.
The League is not as prestigious as the All-Ireland, but in recent years attendances have grown and interest, from the public and from players, has grown.
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 Ireland Information Guide , Irish, Counties, Facts, Statistics, Tourism, Culture, How
The legendary story about the origin of Rugby football, whereby a young man named William Webb Ellis "picked up the ball and ran" while playing football at Rugby School is almost certainly a complete fiction.
Playing football has a long tradition in England and football games had probably taken place at Rugby School for two hundred years before three boys published the first set of written rules in 1845.
Until the formation of the Football Association (FA) in October 1863 each football team would agree on a set of rules with opponents before a match.
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 List of footballers - TheBestLinks.com - Football player, List of footballers (soccer), ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Football player, List of footballers, List of footballers (soccer)...
The term footballers is ambiguous, because there are several games known as football.
This is a disambiguation page, i.e., a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title.
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 Are you looking for Meath Gaelic Football? This page provides new information on Meath Gaelic Football!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Home of Dunsany Ladies Gaelic football club which, is based in Dunsany, Co. Meath, We compete in the Senior Meath Championship and league, the junior league and all under age competitions.
Gaelic football is played by approximately 250,000 men and women, making it the most popular sport in Ireland.
Gaelic football is in the Statutes of Galway(1527) which allowed the playing of football but banned hurling.
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 Gaelic football - QuickSeek Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Teams consist of fifteen players (a goalkeeper, six backs, two midfielders and six forwards) plus up to fifteen substitutes, of which five may be used.
Each player is numbered 1-15, starting with the goalkeeper, who must wear a different coloured jersey.
The Senior final was one of the most keenly contested in the history of the sport, with the game played at a frenetic pace and some sublime points were scored, most notably from the feet of Kerry's Colm "Gooch" Cooper and Dara Ó Cinneide and Tyrone's Brian McGuigan and Peter Canavan.
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 Gaelic football
Modern Gaelic football is played with a round leather ball, similar to - but heavier than - that used in soccer.
The winning senior male football team wins the Sam Maguire cup, while the senior male hurling team wins the Liam McCarthy cup.
Football - American - Association (Soccer) - Australian - Canadian - Gaelic
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 Football Footballers Gaelic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
GAA Football, Ladies Football, Hurling and Camogie from County Laois, Ireland.
A large proportion of Gaelic footballers are actively involved in hurling, especially at...
Gaelic football's rules are most similar to Australian Rules Football, and it is widely believed that Irish games...
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 International rules football   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
List of Australian rules football leagues in Australia
International Rules football is a hybrid sport developed in the 1980s as a mixture of Australian rules football and Gaelic football.
It was created in order to facilitate international matches between the representative teams of the Australian Football League and the Gaelic Athletic Association, which have been played annually since 1998 but date back in various forms to 1967.
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 Open Directory - Sports:Football   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Closely related to American or gridiron football, arena football is played indoors on a 50-yard field with 8 players to a team, limited substitutions and no punting.
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.
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 Gaelic football and Hurling - Official Anna Kournikova Message Boards
I dont want to make the sound if hostility as I am a fan of the AFL as well but despite Irelands defeat last year they had won the previous 2 series in Australia in 1999 and in Ireland in 1998.
Also the Irish Gaelic Footballers are amuetar compared to the pro game in Australia.
But the series I believe are great sporting events which I have attended on the time it has been played in Dublin.
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 Hoganstand.com - GAA Football & Hurling
Galway’s longest serving footballer Val Daly is a realist.
He was encouraged by the team’s championship form last year and they finally escaped from the outbacks of Division Three football in the recent National League campaign.
Salthill’s qualification for last year’s All-lreland club final was, perhaps, another sign to the outside counties that Galway football may at long last be coming out of the doldrums and, Daly is the first to acknowledge that the city club’s displays have raised morale within the county camp.
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 Gaelic football   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
On a national level, the team is organised on the old Irish county system 1, producing 34 teams representing the original 32 counties that used to cover the island of Ireland, plus teams representing the Irish diaspora in London and New York, New YorkNew York.
Guests who attend include the President of Ireland, the Taoiseach (prime minister) and leading dignitaries.
Some of the more famous names in recent years can be seen at the List of footballers (Gaelic football) See also: football The sport is organised by the Gaelic Athletic Association which was founded in 1884.
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This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title.
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 UCC Gaelic Footbal Club
We would like to welcome all the members of the media who are present here tonight and we thank them for their continued support of Third Level Games.
It is our sincere hope that their coverage of the football in Cork over the weekend will bring enjoyment to both themselves and their readers/listeners.
As market leaders and a company who look to the future they are investing in the future of Gaelic Football and they are involved in a tournament which is innovative and forward looking.
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