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unusual facts about Australian Football



Jeff McGee

Jeff "Torch" McGee is a former professional Australian Football player for the then South Melbourne Football club and member of the Coodabeen Champions.

Roy Cazaly

Roy Cazaly (13 January 1893 – 10 October 1963) was an Australian rules football player famous for his high marks and ruck work, which gave rise to the phrase "Up There Cazaly".


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AFL Europe

The January conference was held in Frankfurt, Germany and the European Australian Football Association was founded.

Asian Australian Football Championships

The Asian Australian Football Championships were first held in 2000, although a precursor tournament named the Four Nations Cup was held in Bangkok, Thailand in 1999.

Australian rules football in New South Wales

Australian Football was introduced to the Riverina region of New South Wales in Wagga Wagga in 1881 with a match between sides from Wagga Wagga and Albury.

Benowa, Queensland

The Surfers Paradise Australian Football Club are based at Sir Bruce Small Park and compete in the South East Queensland Australian Football League Division 1.

Bisby

Louisa Bisby (born 1979) is an Australian football (soccer) player

Bizzell

Clint Bizzell (born 1976), professional Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League

Brisbane Football Club

Brisbane Lions, Australian football club that competes in the Australian Football League

Brisbane Australian Football Club, defunct Australian football club that played Victorian rules

Canterbury Australian Football League

The modern era of Australian Football in Christchurch can be traced back to the efforts of George Lanyon.

Chicken wing tackle

It became a controversy after Kangaroos' skipper Brent Harvey was chicken winged in 2009 during an Australian football match and suffered a dislocated elbow that caused him to miss months of play.

Craig Johnson

Craig Johnston (born 1960), former Australian football (soccer) player

Daniela Scalia

Correspondent at the 2007 World Cup, and often travelling for the edgy and colourful “Si Rugby” she presented and wrote with Luca Tramontin, Gianluca Veneziano and rugby record-man Stefano Bettarello, magazine which often involved also Australian Football, Rugby League and other less known codes, she soon became a familiar face to the oval Italian community.

Donell

Scott O'Donell (born 1967), retired Australian football (soccer) player

Ellenbrook, Western Australia

The Ellenbrook Dockers is an official partner of the Fremantle Football Club, one of Western Australia's two Australian Football League clubs.

Fitzy

Ryan Fitzgerald, former Big Brother Australia contestant and professional Australian football player

Freo

Fremantle Football Club, a team in the Australian Football League commonly referred to as the "Freo Dockers"

Gene Simmons Family Jewels

One of these events was depicted in the finale of Season 3, where the viewer is led to believe that Gene purchased the Australian Football team Carlton Football Club, while in reality there is no record of the team being sold to him.

Goulburn Strikers FC

The Goulburn Strikers Football Club is an Australian football (soccer) club based in Goulburn, New South Wales, Australia.

History of Australian rules football

The Arafura Games, held in Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia is a Multi-sport event for South East Asia and East Asian island nations, northern Australia and the Pacific Islands which has Australian football as a permanent competition sport, rather than a demonstration sport.

I'm an Individual

Fellow Australian football full-forward Warwick Capper is reputed to have recorded the single I Only Take What's Mine as a result of the success of I'm an Individual.

John Moriarty

John Kundereri Moriarty (born 1938), Australian football (soccer) player and artist

John Northey

He was awarded the Australian Sports Medal by Queen Elizabeth II on 24 October 2000 for his contributions to Australian football.

Kane Cornes

They are the sons of South Australian football identity Graham Cornes and stepsons of 2007 Labor candidate Nicole Cornes.

Kenny Sansom

He also makes occasional appearances on Australian football show Fox Sports FC via satellite.

Kerrison

Shane Kerrison (born 1965), former Australian rules footballer who played for Collingwood in the Australian Football League

Leo Carle

Leo Carle (born 6 June 1980 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia) is an Australian football and Futsal player currently playing for AC United in the Southern Districts Football Association Premier League Competition.

Mark Rudan

Rudan's elder sister Mariana is a presenter on Australian football program The World Game.

Morningside Australian Football Club

Morningside Australian Football Club, also known as Morningside AFC or the Panthers, is an Australian Rules football club based at Jack Esplen Oval in the suburb of Hawthorne in Brisbane.

Ottawa Swans

It entered the Ontario Australian Football League as a member team in 2008, playing home games on a pitch built in the infield of the Rideau Carleton Raceway in Ottawa's south end.

Oxtoby

Tanya Oxtoby (born 1982), Australian football (soccer) player and coach

Redcliffe Tigers

Redcliffe Tigers AFC is an Australian Football Club – Aussie Rules Club, that plays its home games out of the Rothwell a suburb of Redcliffe, South East Queensland.

Robert Flower

Ken Piesse The Complete Guide to Australian Football Pan Macmillan Australia (1995) ISBN 0-330-35712-3.

In Ken Piesse's " The Complete Guide to Australian Football" Flower's player summary quotes Brent Crosswell "...beat Flower and you could just about retire from League Football because anything else smacked of anti-climax." Wayne Schimmelbusch in the same publication said: "I paid more attention to Robert Flower than any other opponent."

Ronald Evans

Ron Evans (1939–2007), Australian rules footballer, Chairman of the Australian Football League, and President of the Essendon Football Club

Springwood Australian Football Club

The Springwood Pumas Australian Football Club is an Australian rules football club located in Underwood, a south-eastern suburb of Brisbane, Australia.

Steven May

Aside from Australian Football May is a keen supporter of Manchester City in the English Premier League as well as the Brooklyn Nets in the NBA.

Stuttgart Emus

2011 has seen the formation of two further Australian Football Clubs, the Ludwigsburg Taipans and the Haslach Hawks Both clubs are located in the metropolitan area of Stuttgart, Stuttgart Region.

The Game in Time of War

Ross Fitzgerald wrote the that the book's first essay described the impact of 9/11 on Australian football in compelling terms, but that it was a disjointed "Stream of consciousness" in the other essays.

Vogels

Luke Vogels (born 1983), Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League

Wendouree, Victoria

Landmarks of Wendouree include the Minerdome, the home of the Ballarat Miners and Ballarat Rush; the Ballarat Showgrounds, where the annual Ballarat Show is held; Eureka Stadium, which is the home ground of the North Ballarat VFL (Australian Football) club, and has hosted pre-season Australian Football League matches, the former St Mary's Redemptorist Monastery, Stockland Wendouree shopping centre, and the Wendouree Centre for the Performing Arts.