the history of australian football, i guess
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- The AFL began in 1897 - but Australian Rules Football sure didn't. The sport had already been around for 40 years to that point, and this is the story of how that sport was formed, and how it grew in the 20 years before Victoria had a formal league structure. In addition to Tom Wills, there's a few guys whose influence has been swept under the rug - the GAZ-man makes sure their tales are told.
In this 9-part series, the GAZ-man explores the full history of how the AFL came to be the massive empire it is today. Part 1 details the codification of the sport and its growth from 1857 to 1876.
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This series is already whetting my football history appetite and we’re only one episode in! Seriously, this is a terrific beginning to what will be a most excellent series this year.
Thanks, I'm stoked to hear that! Hope the rest of the series proves enjoyable!
The content by this man just gets better and better every video
Ahhhh thanks!!
Shout out my home of rural Victoria for creating Aussie rules football
The rest of Australia thanks country Vic
9 bloody parts. This man is dedicated
Also, I’ve got 2 questions:
1. How do you not get burnt out?
2. What do you use to make the graphics/stats/whatever-displays-information for the videos?
Good questions!
1. That is a bit of a problem sometimes. In Sydney it wasn't so bad bc I was really isolated over there and making vids helped with that. Editing is when I come closest to burnout, but luckily that's right at the end of the process.
Doing vids on topics I enjoy covering really helps.
2. Just Photoshop - I make a big canvas, populate it with my data (mainly Excel exports) and strategically hide portions of it, then use motion effects on Premiere to zoom around it.
Hope that answers your questions, and thanks for your support!
Looking forward to the series Gaz. Good work
I really want to see a game played with these original rules.
Looking so forward to this series. Looks like a great one
Thanks! There's some really cool stories that I'm looking forward to sharing with you guys over the next couple months, I'm excited for it!
Brilliant Video. So well researched & well-written. You really get into the minds of the founders and the first teams.
Thanks! For me, an important aspect of the story of the first few years was the reasons for why a lot of things happened, and how they shaped the way the game was played.
These are really high quality for the size of your chanel. Love the depth of your research as well. Really well done 👏 👏
Thanks! It was really important for me to go more indepth with this series than the others so far
Looking forward to this🫶
holy this is so good 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Good history you have researched here.
Looking forward to the next parts, kinda know what is gonna happen after reading my own share of AFL History books back in the mid 90s during the 1996 Centenary year.
There's a great book I'd recommend, you've probably read it, it's called "100 Years of Australian Football 1897-1996", Russell Holmesby contributed a lot to that. Some great stories and details in there.
@@thegaz-man You read my mind.
My grandparents had the 100 years of Australian Football book, while I taped the 100 years of Australian Football documentary on VHS and watched it almost once each day until the tape worn out and I got the DVD of the 1996 Documentary later on.
I also got the AFL Clubs book back in 1998 as that had information about Fitzroy and Brisbane merge from 1996 that happened after the previous AFL History book was written.
Both the 100 years of Australian Football 1897 to 1996 book and the AFL Clubs book from 1998 are important reads for those who want to know what the VFL and early AFL were like during those years.
Great watch mate
Ayo this is going to be killer. Good to see you got a patreon up too bruz
So glad this popped up on my feed. Had learnt bits and pieces about this era in the past, great work consolidating the info and presenting it in such am engaging amd thorough way!
Thanks! Glad to hear it came across that way, I was worried it would feel too info-heavy
The orgiinal rules of Australian Rules Football -- which did not, initially, allow tackling, bouncing while running, and probable disallowed running with the ball in hand entirely -- the rules are unclear on this point (the 1860 revision definitely disallows running with the ball in hand, and I would argue this is simply stating something implicit in the 1858 rules) are virtually identical to the Sheffield rules as played in England. This or a game very much like this was clearly the direct inspiration for the Australian code. I've always wanted to start a league playing the original 1860 rules, but I suspect the safety nazis might have a problem with legalized tripping (even though it's almost certainly still safer than tackling).
A playing of the original Melbourne Rules would be cool - I'd imagine playing to the original Challenge Cup rules of 1861/2 would be ever so slightly clearer imo. If a recreation of the old rules happened, I'd certainly be keen to get involved.
From what I've read, the Sheffield rules are closer related to soccer, but I could be mistaken. However, it is certainly possible they were an influence as JB Thompson was from Yorkshire, partciularly for things like the lack of an offside rule, the kickout, and the banning of hacking. However, most of the initial discussions were based on Wills' experience in the Rugby school as well as Smith's readings of School Days (itself based on the Rugby school), with Bryant having experience in and around Surrey, making the game more of a hyrbid rather than a direct inspiration from any one place.
Interesting topic of discussion, though!
@@thegaz-man There were re-creation matches in 1996 (for the AFL centenary) and 1958 (for the game's centenary celebrations).
We should go back to making the rules before each game. Seen fun if Geelong and Hawthorn play with on horses for some reason.
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It would actually kinda promote unique styles of gameplay. Can imagine Collingwood playing on a massive oval to exploit their run game, Adelaide playing with a soccer ball so their accuracy doesn't matter, Geelong playing with a crossbar to promote set shots, and West Coast playing in a hospital ward so their players don't have as far to go once they're injured.
Brilliant as usual. Can't wait for the future instalments. No doubt this will be covered, but how the hell did St. Kilda get a gig in the VFL?
Spoiler alert - it's largely due to their location in the south.
Other factors include:
- the relative remoteness of Williamstown
- North and Port Melbourne's aggressive fan base
- Concerns over recruitment zone interference
Fantastic content as always mate 👍
Thanks! This one was really fun to research, hope it was as enjoyable to watch!
Wow, good work mate
Thanks!
Australia is an island that is also a continent and it's BEAUTIFUL and HOT!!!!!
65 million years ago, nobody lived here except for Dinosaurs.
64 million years ago, the Dinosaurs were gone especially in Australia.
60 million years ago, Mammals started their Mammal Time so they danced Mammal Style.
5 million to 10 million years ago, I don't know the natives say it was during their Dreaming Time, they found this island that they walked to from the South East Asia and went as far as they could until they couldn't walk any further.
Some even walked further down and got stranded when the Tasman sea rose.
THAT'S AUSTRALIA.
Sometime around the 1770s in the northern part of the world, the King of England lost his power over the American colony after the people over there got their independence, so the King of England found a map that was half finished by the Dutch and asked himself, what about that half drawn island down south?
The Dutch King said to the English King that there wasn't much except for wasteland desert, so the King of England thought maybe if he went on the other side, maybe he would find a different kind of desert.
Scythe, it was all rainforests and fertile land.
Also dark natives who loved throwing spears and kicking dead animals made into a ball.
Sometime later, a Englishman living in Australia was playing cricket in Melbourne but the problem was Melbourne has 4 seasons in 1 day, it gets really cold and wet during the Winter so he decided to come up with a sport that cricket players would be able to play to stay fit during the winter.
He walked outside, saw some dark natives kick one of the dead animals made into a ball and the Englishman thought that could be a start of an idea.
So in 1858, the Englishman got some of his friends from college and a few other friends from another college to kick a dead animal around an oval, they didn't keep score because none of them knew how to count past 6 so they decided whoever kicked the first goal wins.
They were having so much fun they lost track of time and only woke up the next morning trying to figure out who won because none of them ever remembered if there was ever a goal being scored.
The Englishman thought it was time to make some rules for this new game he and his friends had created that previous day, so it was called Australian Rules.
And that was how Australian Rules Football was first invented, to make it different from the 3 different types of English Football because there were too many versions of Rugby already.
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Let's get the Dorktown fans in here. THIS is the content they need to see.
Cheers for your support! Always great to see fellow Secret Base fans around here!
The joy I'd get if Jon or Alex even acknowledged my existence for a fleeting moment would be unparalleled
@@thegaz-man I'll do my part. We of Secret Base MUST stand together. And long form documentaries like this are what I live for.
I previously started but didn't finish your St. Kilda series...and then found out that you have PLAYLISTS!!! YES!! Better believe I'll be watching that and the others while I wait for this one to drop. Good luck, and goodspeed!
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Haha cheers! Hope it works 🤣🤣
Grouse video.
I’ve never seen something so in-depth about the pre VFA era. Looking forward to the rest!
Thanks! It was kind of an accident, went down a rabbit hole on the pre-1877 stuff and basically had to add thisbas an extra part 😅😅
Series gonna be crazy
Sure hope so!
That was excellent! Thank you
Really glad you enjoyed it!!
Would love to see a game based solely on the 10 original rules! No handbll, no bouncing, tripping and shoving allowed (anywhere including the back!), can’t pick the ball up from the ground?? …could be quite a spectacle. Scotch and Melbourne grammar should tee one up.
I'm really surprised they didn't do one for the 150th anniversary
Loved it mate!
Awesome, glad to hear it!
Bro I was thinking of doing this video 😭😭 too late ig (great video tho)
No reason not to do yours! This is only my take on bundling up this part of footy history, would be interested to see someone else's, so go for it!
Love this
would love to know more about how marngrook influenced the game - what indeed was marngrook and what elements were brought into aussie rules??
Might be something I explore further down the line, would be very interesting to explore the history but it seems a lot of the links between Marn Grook and Victorian Rules are a bit blurry
12:52 or R21 2024 Sydney way
🤣🤣 oh there'll be a video about that someway down the line, mark my words!!
It’s always funny to see how sports were made up on the fly back then
It's kinda quaint haha
For me it's the most fascinating thing to see how those on the fly calls changed the sport going forward.
It's John Bromby, not Brondby.
Thanks for the correction, apologies about the error
@@thegaz-man No sweat. Bromby's sons played in that Scotch/MCEGS game & were among the pupils who later helped promulgate the sport. The match really kicked off the interest in the early years. It's important to understand that the first set of rules (1859) were written for MFC only & other clubs must've had their own rules, although these haven't survived. The 1859 MFC rules were also thought to be lost until rediscovered in the 1980s. It was about reconciling different viewpoints, which happened in 1866 under HCA Harrison.
Bill Hunter explained it better sorry
What a legend he was tbf, iconic voice
Very good video, very shit mic
Haha thanks, will keep trying to inprove the audio!
Might not be the mic, more that I'm a bit of a dumbass when it comes to audio mastering 😅😅