The best team in the AFL are capable of putting together gloriously slick passages of play via the use of handballs, but for much of the game's history the handball either didn't exist, looked very ...

ON MAY 17, 1859 – 160 years ago – four influential sporting identities gathered in a hotel near the Melbourne Cricket Ground and wrote the first official rules of Australian Football. One of the chief ...

The rules are designed to maximise fun, increase involvement, support skill development and help kids stay connected and love ... our goal of getting footy in every home in Australia. Having a strong ...

"Going to all these punting competitions or training sessions over the last four years or so, one underlying theme is our 17-year-old kids ... professional Australian rules football — to ...

But away from the famous boat race, held annually since 1829, the two also lay claim to the longest-running annual Aussie rules football contest held outside of Australia. Oxford and Cambridge ...

There is an annual International Rules series played between Ireland and Australia. The rules of that particular game being a mix of Gaelic football and Australian Rules football. It is thought that ...