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Topic: Victorian Football League season 1901

	Victorian London - Entertainment and Recreation - Sport - Football
		Football is by far the most popular out-door game of the winter months, and there are few open spaces in or near London where matches may not be seen in progress on any open Saturday afternoon, between the be ginning of October and the end of March.
		Football has become so popular with all classes of the community that the Crystal Palace authorities were well advised in laying out a part of the fine gardens at Sydenham as a football ground.
		Of Rugby football there is also a wealth of talent to chose from for those who like to see football where the hand has far more to do than the foot in its transit from one part of the field to another.
	www.victorianlondon.org /entertainment/football.htm (5190 words)

	Brujula.Net - Your Latin Stating Point (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Rugby league is one of the two forms of rugby, the other being rugby union.
		This was despite the fact that the Rugby Football Union was allowing other players to be paid, such as the 1888 England team that toured Australia, or the account of Harry Hamill of his payments to represent New South Wales against England in 1904.
		The separate Lancashire and Yorkshire competitions of the NRFU merged in 1901, forming the Northern Rugby League, the first time the name Rugby League was used officially.
	www.brujula.net /english/wiki/Rugby_League.html (3303 words)

	THE HISTORY AND GAME OF FOOTBALL \| FIRLE CRICKET CLUB \| GLYNDEBOURNE OPERA HOUSE \| FIRLE BEACON \| RAM INN EAST SUSSEX ...
		In Scotland, football was banned by James I in 1424 and by James II in 1457.
		Sheffield Football Club also has a claim to be the world's oldest surviving "football club", in the sense of a club not attached to a school or university.
		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.
	www.budweiser-beer.net /football.htm (5750 words)

	The First 60 Years of Australian Rules football in Tasmania
		In 1897 the Southern Tasmanian Football League was formed and adopted the rules of the newly formed Victorian Football League.
		However in 1900 the body was brought under the control of the Northern Cricket Association and in 1901 the STFL was placed under the control of the Tasmanian Cricket Association.
		In 1906 a decision was made to change the name of the existing football body to the Tasmanian Football League to bring it into line with similar bodies elsewhere in Australia.
	www.footballlegends.org /first_sixty_years.htm (1113 words)

	Football (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The first Gaelic football rules, showing the influence of hurling — 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.
		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.
		The sport of rugby league is referred to by those who follow it as "league" or "football", the use of "rugby" to refer to rugby union is not very popular among followers of league.
	spellster.com /s/football (6235 words)

	trophys
		The Calcutta football club which had been started by former students of rugby school 4 years earlier had been wound up and the remaining rupees in the club's funds were melted down to be re-worked into the trophy.
		In 1901, the Earl of Ranfurly, Governor of New Zealand, announced his intention of presenting a cup to the New Zealand Rugby Football Union, of which he was patron.
		The RWC is a Victorian copy of a cup made in 1740 by the gold and silversmith Paul de Lamerie (1688-1751), whose parents, Huguenots, had fled to London and set up a shop in Soho.
	www.rugbyfootballhistory.com /trophys.htm (1674 words)

	1901 in sports - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The AL leaves the National Agreement and competes with the National League as a second major league --we say in retrospect, knowing its success.
		The National League violates its National Agreement in the summer and there will be no major-minor agreement until 1903.
		In December numerous minor leagues establish their own National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues, commonly called Minor League Baseball (1902 to date).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1901_in_sports (431 words)

	Discover the Wisdom of Mankind on Football (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		These archaic forms of football would be played between neighbouring towns and villages, involving an unlimited number of players on opposing teams, who would clash in a heaving mass of people struggling to drag an inflated pig's bladder by any means possible to markers at each end of a town.
		Sheffield Football Club also has a claim to be the world's oldest football club, in the sense of a club not attached to a school or university.
		Australian Rules is sometimes said to be the first form of football to be codified but andmdash; as was the case in all kinds of football at the time, there was no official body supporting the rules andmdash; and play varied from one club to another.
	www.blinkbits.com /blinks/football (6736 words)

	History-EnglishFootball.com-For all the latest News,Scores,Profiles,Features,Reports,Goal of the week..
		In the library at Lancaster Gate, a minute book of the Football Association confirms that on 12th December 1898, the modern Fulham Football Club was born.
		Despite losing the Test Match in 1903, the Southern League authorities recognised Fulham's potential and told them that if they could raise a first class team by the end of May 1903, they would be admitted to the First Division, effectively the Third Division of the Football League.
		With two Southern League titles under their belt, Fulham applied with confidence to the Football League in 1907, and it was no surprise when they replaced Burton United.
	www.englishfootball.com /index3.php?p=526 (530 words)

	SOCCER FOOTBALL \| DAVID BECKHAM, PELE, ERIC CANTONA, GEORGE BEST, GARY LINNEKA
		The 1923 FA Cup Final between Bolton Wanderers and West Ham United was the first football match at the new stadium and it drew an estimated crowd of 200,000, vastly exceeding the official capacity.
		It is now over 130 years old and yet, season by season, it generates tremendous interest not only in the country of its birth but all over the world.
		There are few football fans who do not admire, however grudgingly, the way David Beckham plays football, but it is his life off the pitch and the media circus that surrounds it that forms the basis of The Real David Beckham.
	www.solarnavigator.net /sport/football.htm (7040 words)

	Australian Football League (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The modern day Australian Football League (AFL) has many teams dating back to the beginnings of the sport of Australian rules football, including the very first club, Melbourne Football Club (1858), whose founders codified the game in 1859.
		It was a sign of things to come as Essendon only lost one game for the entire season and had a percentage of 159.1%, one of the highest in history and drew equal with the fewest losses in an entire season, tieing with the Collingwood machine team of 1929.
		If two Victorian teams merge, then it makes room for a 16th team to come from an interstate city - potential candidates for this are the Southport Sharks (on the Gold Coast) or a Tasmanian team (based in Hobart or Launceston).
	www.infoforyou.org /input.php?title=Australian_Football_League (5892 words)

	West Australian Football League - Avoo - Ask Us A Question - It was formed in 1885 as the Western Australian Football ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Consisting of a nine team, single division competition, the season is based around a 22 week "home-and-away" (regular) season starting in March through to August.
		Meanwhile in the league Swan Districts won another hat-trick of premierships from 1982-84.
		The West Coast Eagles were formed and competed in the VFL for the first time in 1987 (the VFL was renamed the AFL in 1990).
	yigo.guamus.com /profile/West_Australian_Football_League (3099 words)

	ArmchairGM - 1901 - Sports Wiki, Sports Blog, Sports Resource, Sports Community, Sports 2.0 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		ArmchairGM - 1901 - Sports Wiki, Sports Blog, Sports Resource, Sports Community, Sports 2.0
		The American League declares itself a major league, in direct competition with the 24-year-old National League.
		Eight teams take the field, three of them in direct competion with teams in the other circuit.
	www.armchairgm.com /mwiki/index.php?title=1901 (285 words)

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