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Topic: Victorian Football League season 1905

	Football (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		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.
		For example, two clubs which claim to be the world's first and/or oldest football club, in the sense of one which is not part of a school or university, are both stongholds of rugby football: the Barnes Club, said to have been founded in 1839, and Guy's Hospital Football Club, reportedly founded in 1843.
		Flag football – non-tackle American football, like touch football, in which a flag that is held by velcro on a belt tied around the waist is pulled by defenders to indicate a tackle.
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	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)

	NORTH MELBOURNE FOOTBALL CLUB
		In 1896 a breakaway group saw the establishment of the Victorian Football League (VFL) from which North Melbourne was excluded mainly through the opposition of the Collingwood Football Club which had not forgiven North for a controversial game in which they had met.
		In the years 1905, 1910, 1914, 1915, 1918, and 1919 North finished at the top of the ladder, winning the premiership in 1910 and 1914 as well as going through the seasons 1915 and 1918 being undeafeated as well as being premiers.
		This was a season celebrated by the League as their centennial year as it was the hundredth season of VFL/AFL football.
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	Football in the USA
		Football also is American culture's greatest spectacle, the primary sporting focus of homecoming and holiday celebrations and one of the country's most prominent façades to the world.
		From the beginning, football's proponents argued that the rugged athleticism, the near-savage violence, and the technically demanding teamwork required by the sport provided both a necessary masculine tonic to a post-Frontier American society and a valuable training ground for the future captains of modern industry.
		Football's popularity helps make the sport a symbolic battle field in American "culture wars." For its proponents, football provides the ideal proving ground for young men to test and develop their manhood, instilling values such as teamwork and self-reliance.
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	1905 in sports - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The college football season is blighted by 15 fatal injuries and U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt calls upon the game's authorities to reform it
		The First and Second divisions are both expanded from eighteen to twenty teams for the 1905-06 season, bringing the total number of League clubs to 40
		The Turkish football club Galatasaray is founded in Istanbul.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1905_in_sports (314 words)

	Fulham Club Page
		The First Division of the Southern League at that time was generally regarded as the premier competition outside the two divisions of the Football League and by joining, albeit only the Second Division, Fulham gave notice of their longer-term ambitions.
		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.
		In addition to the League placing, the Cottagers reached the semi final of the FA Cup, and it was exactly 50 years before they were to do as well in both competitions in the same season again.
	www.likefootball.com /fulham.html (2405 words)

	Top20Football.com - Your Top20 Guide for Football!
		These chaotic 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.
		The first reference to football in Ireland occurs in the Statute of Galway of 1527, which allowed the playing of football and archery but banned "hokie' — the hurling of a little ball with sticks or staves" as well as other sports.
		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.
	www.top20football.com (5996 words)

	Past Time Sports: Football
		But gradually the old leather football helmet was replaced by the plastics and more and more teams began to add logos and symbols to their helmets.
		In the nineteen eighties, further expansion was proposed and by the ninety three-ninety four NFL season, approval was given for a thirty-team league.
		Among the number of competitive leagues that have folded in failure are the All-American Football conference, nineteen forty-six to forty-nine, the American Football League, nineteen sixty to sixty-nine, and the World Football League, nineteen seventy-four to seventy-five.Arena Football, an indoor league played in the spring with eight man teams, debuted in nineteen eighty-seven.
	www.pasttimesports.biz /football.html (1690 words)

	Australian Online Soccer Museum
		A meeting of gentlemen favourable to the formation of a football club under the British Football Association rules was held at Young and Jacksons Hotel on Friday night.
		Jackson left Arsenal in 1905 to become player-manager at Leyton (who had just been promoted to the Southern League), but his spell was short-lived and later that year he signed for West Ham United, before rejoining his old club Rangers in 1906.
		Soon after, a Victorian deputation consisting of Theo Marmaras of South Melbourne Hellas, Fred Hutchison of Wilhelmina and Michael Weinstein and Stuart Beaton of the Association met with officals from WA, SA, QLD and NSW.
	www.ozfootball.net /museum/ozfoottimeline.html (1908 words)

	Informat.io on Australian Football League (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Australian Football League is the Australian national competition in the sport of Australian rules football.
		The AFL began as the Victorian Football League in 1897, when several Melbourne based clubs from the Victorian Football Association (the first Australian Rules league) broke away to form a new league.
		The popularity of AFL is increasing in the traditional Rugby League states of New South Wales and Queensland.
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	Sports in Saint Clair
		From the first recorded game in 1845, through the establishment of professional teams in the 1860s and leagues in the 1870s, the 19th century was baseball's formative period in which the basic rules and structures of the game gradually assumed the form we know today.
		These years also saw the establishment of National and American League hegemony (leading to the birth of the World Series), the production of modern steel-structured downtown stadiums for every major league team, and the devastating "Black Sox" scandal of 1919 that threatened to drop baseball from its exalted standing in American sports.
		One of the major league pitchers allowed to continue using the spitter after the pitch was outlawed in 1920, Quinn was effective as both a starter and reliever.
	www.fortunecity.com /victorian/mill/1215/wmorris.htm (1900 words)

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		After an injury-ridden 1907 season which saw them finish 3rd place in the VFA, the Richmond committee decided to make an official approach for admission to the Victorian Football League.
		The first few seasons in the VFL were less than spectacular.
		During the season the Tigers spent time near the top of the ladder and unveiled a new superstar in the 2004s number 1 draft pick Brett Deledio.
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	Australian Football League
		The AFL evolved from the Victorian domestic competition, and over the past 25 years it has grown into a national competition with teams based in five of the six Australian states although ten of the sixteen clubs are still based in Victoria.
		The end of the 2006 season was a carbon copy of the 2005 Grand Final, with the Swans and Eagles facing off again in the decider.
		Jack Elder was declared the Umpire of the Century was to coincide with the Team of the Century.
	www.danceage.com /biography/sdmc_Australian_Football_League (5709 words)

	Richmond Football Club - Free net encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		For the English rugby union club of the same name see Richmond F.C. Template:Infobox aus sport club The Richmond Football Club, nicknamed The Tigers, is an Australian rules football club playing in the Australian Football League.
		The Richmond Footbal Club was officially formed at the Royal Hotel, Richmond, on the 20th of February 1885.
		One of the most important features of a nineteenth century footballer's uniform was his headgear, and when Richmond wore yellow and fl striped caps the Tiger nickname quickly followed (although the team was also referred to as the Wasps for a time).
	www.netipedia.com /index.php/Richmond_Football_Club (965 words)

	Football (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Thus the public schools of England, where upper, upper-middle and professional class boys were able to enjoy freedom from constant toil, became the breeding grounds where organised football games with formal rules could be developed and evolve into the modern games that we know today.
		The earliest evidence that games resembling football were being played in English public schools comes from the Vulgaria by William Horman in 1519.
		It is known that by the early 19th century the game had come to be adopted by a number of public schools as a way of encouraging competitiveness and keeping youths fit.
	www.info-pedia.net /about/football (5242 words)

	1904 VFL season - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Results and statistics for the VFL/AFL season of 1904.
		See List of Australian Football League premiers for a complete list.
		All teams played 14 games during the home and away season, for a total of 56.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Victorian_Football_League_season_1904 (119 words)

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