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The New South Wales Football Association was the
Hard Sell: Australian Football in Sydney
' (PDF). . Melbourne, Vic.: Victoria University. p. 25. along with Balmain and Woollahra formed a year later. The body saw it necessary to make rule changes to appeal to rugby followers, in particular, was vocal on the necessity of a
Hard Sell: Australian Football in Sydney
' (PDF). . Melbourne, Vic.: Victoria University. p. 25. Poor management also impacted the long term sustainabililty of the competition. The SRFU instituted a ban on rugby players from playing Australian rules which impacted playing numbers. By 1893 there were no clubs left to continue the competition.
governing body
A governing body is a group of people that has the authority to exercise governance over an organization or political entity. The most formal is a government, a body whose sole responsibility and authority is to make binding decisions in a taken ge ...
for Australian rules football in New South Wales
Australian rules football in New South Wales dates back to 1866 with organised competition being continuous since the 1880s. Today, in several regions, the sport is moderately popular, including Broken Hill near South Australia, and the Riveri ...
between 1880 and 1893. It oversaw an Australian rules competition based in Sydney and governed the Laws of Australian Football
The laws of Australian rules football were first created by the Melbourne Football Club in 1859 and have been refined over the years as the sport evolved into its modern form. The laws significantly predate the advent of a governing body for t ...
in the colony. Matches were mostly played at Moore Park in Sydney.
Background
In late June 1880 a large ground of rugby players, dissatisfied with the British games rules, gathered to form a new competition that would adopt the Victorian rules. The two founding member clubs were Sydney and East Sydney, formed on August 7, 1880. he first season commenced in 1881. Many other clubs were formed, including of West Sydney, South Sydney, City, Our Boys, Granville, Wallsend, Merewether, Hamilton, St Ignatius and St Joseph college Healy, Matthew (2002).Hard Sell: Australian Football in Sydney
' (PDF). . Melbourne, Vic.: Victoria University. p. 25. along with Balmain and Woollahra formed a year later. The body saw it necessary to make rule changes to appeal to rugby followers, in particular, was vocal on the necessity of a
Push in the back
A push in the back (colloquially "in the back") is a free kick awarded in Australian rules football against a player who illegally tackles or interferes with a player from behind when contesting possession.
The rule is applied in two different ...
rule to reduce the game's roughness and make it more appealing to rugby players.
Harry Hedger and George Walker, rugby players of the Waratah Football Club were among the first to agitate for the adoption of Australian rules in New South Wales, citing the enormous popularity of the code in the rival colony of Victoria. Having learned the game playing test matches against the Carlton Football Club
The Carlton Football Club, nicknamed the Blues, is a professional Australian rules football club that competes in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's top professional competition.
Founded in 1864 in Carlton, an inner suburb of Mel ...
of Melbourne in 1877 the players urged others to put aside their intercolonial rivalry and take up the sport.
The NSWFA began a sharp decline in interest from 1890 which Healy (2022) attributes to a combination of the departure of the president and Cricket Phillip Sheridan (trustee of what is now the Sydney Cricket Ground
The Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG) is a sports stadium in Sydney, Australia. It is used for Test cricket, Test, One Day International and Twenty20 cricket, as well as, Australian rules football and occasionally for rugby league, rugby union and as ...
) and an Australian economic depression leaving the association without access to enclosed grounds.Healy, Matthew (2002). Hard Sell: Australian Football in Sydney
' (PDF). . Melbourne, Vic.: Victoria University. p. 25. Poor management also impacted the long term sustainabililty of the competition. The SRFU instituted a ban on rugby players from playing Australian rules which impacted playing numbers. By 1893 there were no clubs left to continue the competition.
Clubs
References
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