origins

Early games of football in Western Victoria

Published as 'New Evidence: When did Aborigines first play Aussie rules?', Geelong Advertiser, Wednesday 21 October 2009, p. 21. The footy season is done and dusted and trade week is behind us, so it is time for historians to put away the beanies and the scarves and...

Australian myopia and the origins of football

Published as 'Evidence the key to our game's origins', The Age, Saturday 31 May 2008, Insight, p. 9. Perhaps we might make a little more sense out of the arguments which have been going on about Aboriginal influences on the origins of football in this country if we...