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	Football - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In Scotland, football was banned by James I in 1424 and by James II in 1457.
		In 1867 the Sheffield Football Association was formed by a number of clubs in the local area and the Sheffield clubs continued to play by their own rules until they decided to fall in line with the FA in 1878.
		Whilst it often refers to Gaelic football, the word "football" is also used when referring to Association football, particularly at the international level (as in the Football Association of Ireland the official national body) and also with a large number of Association football clubs using the initials "FC" (Football Club) in their name.
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /football.htm (6160 words)

	Victorian Football League - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Victorian Football Association (VFA) was the first Australian Rules Football league, made up up clubs in the State of Victoria, Australia.
		It was founded in 1877; in 1897 several clubs broke away to form the Victorian Football League (VFL).
		The rules of the VFA sometimes differed slightly to those of the VFL (and later Australian Football League, AFL).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Victorian_Football_Association (800 words)

	Probert Encyclopaedia: Sport (U-Z) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Victorian Football Association is the oldest Australian Rules Football body in existence.
		It is a variation of Association Football but played in a swimming pool with teams of seven players.
		Wolverhampton Wanderers FC are an Association Football club founded in 1877 by young men associated with St Luke's Church School in Blakenhall.
	www.probertencyclopaedia.com /OU.HTM (1521 words)

	Australian Football
		Their presence in Victorian football may be accounted for in terms of a formative influence being exerted by men familiar with and no doubt playing the Irish game.
		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.
		For example, the Fitzroy Football Club is represented in the Victorian Amateur Football Association by the Fitzroy Reds, who wear Fitzroy guernseys and play their home games at the old Brunswick Street Oval.
	www.finnserver.com /online-sports/australian-football.php (2462 words)

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		Preston at the time were playing in the Victorian Junior Football Association after being forced from the V.F.A. prior to the 1912 season.
		The Victorian Amateur Football Association in May 1940 narrowly voted to suspend the Association's activities after its first round of matches on June 22 for the duration of the war.
		Others claimed that football was a diversion from the daily war news and that it encouraged the young men to stay fit should they be required for active service.
	www.users.bigpond.com /northernbullants/TextsBullants/WarYears.html (1393 words)

	History Item
		Association introduced a rule providing for a substitute to take the place of an injured player.
		VFA’s Under 12 defeated Ballarat, Under 15 defeated ACTFL and the Under 19’s won the VicHealth State Championship for the first time.
		VFA representative side defeated the VCFL by 102 points at the MCG prior to the Vic-WA State of Origin game.
	vfl.footballvic.com.au /default.aspx?s=historydisplay&aid=89804 (2897 words)

	English Football Association
		Association Football in Victorian England - A History of...
		Wide of the goal - The history of sport in general, and football in particular, is surprisingly little studied in the UK.
		The 30th anniversary and millennium edition of Rothmans Football* Yearbook* is yet another great edition of what is now widely regarded as the footballing bible.
	www.growinglifestyle.co.uk /uk/j364041 (385 words)

	INTERNATIONAL AUSTRALIAN FOOTBALL COUNCIL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Western Australian Football Association, formed in 1885, became the Western Australian Football League in 1908 and the Western Australian National Football League in 1932.
		Football Tasmania has no administrative duties within either league, as the NTFL never joined Football Tasmania, and the SFL literally told FT to take a jump when they tried to force the SFL to accept the ex-SWL teams as they were.
		Football Tasmania's roles are now to administer the Tasmania VFL side, the Tassie Mariners VSFL side and statewide junior development.
	www.iafc.com.au /g_leagues.html (1196 words)

	VAFA - News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Football Victoria (FV) have asked each affiliate to consider generic codes of conduct for coaches, players and officials which will be circulated to the clubs for each club to consider.
		The VAFA to write to Football Victoria seeking information regarding proposed revision of the blood rule and also seeking evidence regarding the necessity for blood on uniforms to have to be replaced.
		Associated with this a rucking interpretation by Brendan Carland was raised (Brendan Carland).
	www.vafa.asn.au /news/print.php?newsid=13 (5606 words)

	History & Stats (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Victorian Football League Sub District Football Association - 1
		Victorian Football League Sub District Football Association - 2
		1920 - Kew commenced in the Victorian Junior FA.
	home.vicnet.net.au /~kewfc/history.htm (1004 words)

	NAVIGATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		After their Reserves had earlier accounted for South Croydon to win back-to-back premierships, the Doncaster East supporters had every right to expect lightning to strike again for them in the senior game, especially seeing as they were clearly the dominant side of the Division Three home and away season.
		The countdown to the finals is well and truly on in the Eastern Football League, and the last round of action did not help in making the final four in division’s one two and three any clearer, whilst the door to the four in division four may not be well and truly closed....
		The success of community football clubs is very much in the hands of club volunteers whose task is all the time becoming more complex in the face of swelling community expectations and time pressures........
	www.footyzone.com.au /tfm.htm (3306 words)

	Events in the Past: The Saints Come to Moorabbin
		The expectation was that the Moorabbin Football Club, the occupier of the Linton Street oval and the winner of a Victorian Football Association premiership flag the previous year, would amalgamate with the Saints.
		The reaction to the announcement by the Victorian Football Association was to suspend the Moorabbin Club on charges of disloyalty and as a result the Moorabbin Club gave restricted clearances to its players to join a variety of other clubs, including VFA teams, for 1965.
		Mr Griffin, a resident of Moorabbin, was not convinced by the councillors’ analysis of the financial situation, nor was he impressed by the lack of complaints, as according to him the whole matter had been shrouded in mystery, with details of the lease being kept secret.
	localhistory.kingston.vic.gov.au /htm/article/238.htm (1808 words)

	DEMONLAND - History
		The Melbourne Football Club had lost a number of its playing members in the Great War and in 1919, when the team the field again after a break of three seasons, it lacked the experienced players to be competitive losing all of its matches.
		Football was one pastime that was still within the reach of many but the Melbourne fans were clamouring for changes.
		Football” in the 1950’s and 60’s and was selected captain of the Demon’s team of the 20th Century.
	www.demonland.com /History.htm (11731 words)

	Football (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The O.C.G.A. Football Club is affiliated with the Victorian Amateur Football Association and fields teams in the competition administered by that Association.
		The football club organises a busy social calendar for its members and functions are held throughout the football season.
		In the 1999 football season, the Under 19's were premiers in their division.
	www.cgs.vic.edu.au /supportgroups/football.html (96 words)

	victorian football league Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In itâÂÂs 25th anniversary year, the Victorian WomenâÂÂs Football League (VWFL) is the host of the 2005 AFL WomenâÂÂs National...
		We have worked hard to make sure that victorian football league information can be found here.
		We hope you have enjoyed the victorian football league resources online directory, as much as we have enjoyed researching and compiling it for you.
	toplinksand.info /football/victorian-football-league.html (426 words)

	List of Australian rules football leagues in ... - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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	Carlton Football Club -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Carlton Football Club, nicknamed The Blues for their dark blue playing colours, is one of the oldest, richest, and most successful (Click link for more info and facts about Australian rules football) Australian rules football clubs.
		It is often said that Barassi invented modern football in his half-time instructions to the Carlton players, telling them to concentrate on retaining possession through short kicks and handpassing.
		This is a considerable exaggeration, as Barassi had been working on the new playing style throughout the 1970 season.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/ca/carlton_football_club.htm (500 words)

	All.info: Arts and Humanities / History / Victorian / (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Interested in Victorian and Edwardian times This site is all about the lives of people between 1830 and 1914.
		Victorian Museum in Wales :: The Judges Lodging Museum...
		Victorian Station-Victorian decorating ideas and information about the...
	allinfo.com /directory/Arts_and_Humanities/History/Victorian (671 words)

	FAQ- Where else is footy played?
		The original Victorian Football Association (VFA), which was left behind when the former VFL was formed in 1896, took the name Victorian Football League (VFL) in 1997 and now stands as the premier league in Victoria.
		The present VFL is the former Victorian Football Association.
		The origins of Australian football in Scandinavia are the stuff of legend.
	www.afana.com /af_faq_sec4.shtml (857 words)

	Australian Football League (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Australian Football League has come a long way from it's formation in 1896.
		Initially known as the Victorian Football League, the name was changed in 1990 to the Australian Football League after the addition of interstate teams during the previous decade.
		The league, which began as a Victorian icon, has know grown to the premier league in Australia, a league in which every young footballer aspires to play in.
	users.nex.net.au /users/kingstar/afl/history.html (293 words)

	1894 A Season To Forget
		Eventually the Victorian Football Association bailed out its junior counterpart and the season went on as planned.
		The fifth round on June 9 saw Fitzroy Juniors, the Seconds side of the powerful V.F.A. club, kick a new competition record of 24 goals to Preston's nil (this was in fact the third time in two seasons a club had established a record score against Preston).
		Most of the players were out of work and couldn't pay their weekly subscriptions to help cover the costs of footballs and umpires.
	www.users.bigpond.com /northernbullants/TextsBullants/1894ASeasonToForget.html (1156 words)

	Blood Borne Diseases and Contact Sports
		He still wants to play amateur football and has gone to great lengths to be able to do so.
		Another court case would signal that the Association is putting its head into the sand and does not trust the Tribunal’s findings on medical evidence, or the AFL’s confidence that properly enforced safeguards are sufficiently protective.
		If the VAFA’s members are truly concerned about health risks, they must insist that the Association’s money is spent on education of players and their families rather than wasting it on more lawyers.
	www.dci-au.org /html/hivsport.html (924 words)

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		Sinn, the oldest V.F.A. Life Member and who was a delegate to the Association when the League clubs broke away, gave his thoughts on how the breach between the two bodies came about
		The Victorian Football Association was formed early in 1877 and the initial constitution gave it the sole right to settle disputes between members clubs.
		Two of the earliest contributors to the development of football in Australa remain almost totally unknown despite all the previous research that has gone into the game.
	www.users.bigpond.com /northernbullants/nbfcGameArchives.html (691 words)

	Old Xavs up against an old Xav - realfooty.com.au
		An old Xavier boy could well be the thorn in the Old Xaverians' side when it takes on St Bernard's in the second semi-final of the Victorian Amateur Football Association today.
		Jordan turned his back on his old school to play football with his brother Ben, who is an important cog in the St Bernard's midfield and the team's vice-captain.
		Today, this unlikely looking goalkicker, who missed a lot of junior football due to injury, could be a painful reminder for Xavs' coaching staff of the one that got away.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2002/09/08/1031115958524.html (446 words)

	About VAFAUA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Umpires Association was first established in 1926 and was known as the Metropolitan Amateur Football Association Umpires Association.
		Season 1933 commenced with a change of name from the M.A.F.A.U.A. to the Victorian Amateur Football Association Umpires Association after the football administrators of that time voted to change the name from Metropolitan to Victorian, as it was clear that all other amateur state bodies would compete in any carnivals under their state names.
		The V.A.F.A. Umpires Association was incorporated under the Associations Incorporations Act 1981 on the 3
	www.vafaua.asn.au /aboutus.htm (151 words)

	Open Directory - Sports: Football: Australian Rules: Officiating (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Dandenong Umpires Association - Umpiring in the Dandenong and District Junior Football League.
		S.F.L. Umpires' Association - News, laws of football, field, boundary and goal umpire appointments, techniques, umpire of the week and a footy rules quiz.
		Victorian Football Umpires Association (VFUA) - Statistics, news, milestones, history, newsletter, photo gallery, and information on becoming an umpire.
	dmoz.org /Sports/Football/Australian_Rules/Officiating (282 words)

	Hampton Rovers AFC :: History
		The Scout Group's main theme was to promote football as a team game and encourage self-confidence, self-control and the desire of a player to improve his ability.
		In 1931 Hampton Rovers was admitted to the Metropolitan Football League and played Richmond United at Burnley in its first game.
		In 1933 the club joined the Victorian Amateur Football Association (a competition in which we still participate) and changed the colours to the current Green and Gold.
	www.hamptonrovers.com.au /club/history.php (366 words)

	AFL Team Trivia, Quizzes, Quiz Questions, Fun Facts, Information
		The amateur Victorian Football Association (VFA) commenced in 1877, and initially comprised of a mixture of metropolitan and country clubs: Albert Park, Ballarat, Barwon, Beechworth, Carlton, Castlemaine, Geelong, Hotham, Inglewood, Melbourne, Rochester and St Kilda.
		This brought to 12 the number of teams in the VFL, all based in Victoria, until South Melbourne's move to Sydney in 1982, and the addition of interstate clubs in 1987 (West Coast Eagles, Brisbane), 1991 (Adelaide) and 1997 (Port Adelaide, whose arrival came at the expense of Fitzroy).
		The VFL became the Australian Football League (AFL) in 1990, and the VFA's name was changed to the (new) VFL in 1996.
	www.funtrivia.com /dir/2981.html (444 words)

	Unlikely pair seek No.1 tag - News - www.realfooty.com.au (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		When pundits speculated about the prospects of the Victorian Amateur Football Association A-section teams in the pre-season, few rated Marcellin and University Blues highly.
		Marcellin was selected in The Amateur Footballer to come ninth, reflecting a glut of retirements and players catching the travel bug.
		Twelve weeks later, they are tied at the top of the table with 10-1 records and meet today in a highly anticipated clash at Melbourne University.
	www.realfooty.theage.com.au /articles/2004/07/16/1089694569211.html (368 words)

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