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Some of the large Australian football grounds are approximately twice the size of rugby, soccer or American football grounds . . The character of Australian football reflected this abundance of cheap land in close proximity to cities and suburbs. 38 But, again, such features were not unique to Melbourne. Neither the original rules of the FA nor of the RFU specified the number of players in a team. Until 1876, when it was reduced to 15, the usual number of players in an adult rugby team was 20, although schoolboy sides would often number far in excess of 20.
Hibbins, pp. 31–45 in The Australian Game of Football. A. ), The Cultural Bond, London: Frank Cass, 1993, pp. 108–27, and (with Anne Mancini) in Running with the Ball: Football’s Foster Father, Melbourne: Lynedoch Publications, 1987. For a useful overview of the ‘Football History Wars’ as they were dubbed, see Bob Stewart, ‘Myth-Busting in Australian Rules Football’, Bulletin of Sport and Culture, No. 30 (September 2008), pp. 3–5. 4. Martin Flanagan, ‘A Battle of Wills’, The Age, 10 May 2008. The general outline is also suggested in David Goldblatt’s The Ball Is Round: A Global History of Football, London: Viking, 2006, p.
16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. The Invention of Sporting Tradition Australian Aborigines: The Language and Customs of Several Tribes of Aborigines in the Western District of Victoria, Australia, Melbourne, 1881, p. 85. Geoffrey Blainey, A Game of Our Own, 2nd Edition, Melbourne: Information Australia, 2003, pp. 118–22. Blainey, pp. 64–5 and 227. For scrummaging, see Robin Grow, ‘From Gum Trees to Goal Posts, 1858–76’ in Rob Hess and Bob Stewart (eds), More Than a Game, Melbourne: Information Australia, 1998, pp.