Australian Football League

  • major reference

    TITLE: Australian rules football: Rise of the Victorian Football League
    SECTION: Rise of the Victorian Football League
    The depression of 1893–95 caused attendance at games to decline, and the VFA proposed a revenue-sharing scheme to assist struggling clubs. Leading clubs, which wanted more control over the game, opposed the scheme. In 1896 those eight leading clubs—Melbourne, Essendon, Geelong, Collingwood, South Melbourne, Fitzroy, Carlton, and St Kilda—came together to form the Victorian...
  • Australian rules football

    TITLE: Australia: Sports and recreation
    SECTION: Sports and recreation