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Dale Blair,Rob HessOffers the first analysis of the effects of the First World War on Australian Rules football.Examines the relationship between the Great War, patriotism and this national sport.Explores the emergence

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War!,devotees spoke of it as “the Australian game” with high hopes that it would surpass rugby in popularity in the northern states and that it would achieve an international dimension. The professional game was particularly attractive to the working class, for whom it offered recreation and supplementar

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,‘King Football’,. It was expected that the war, while an obvious inconvenience, would not significantly harm the status quo of the game and that it would continue unhindered. But, as this chapter shows, once Australia’s participation at Gallipoli became widely known and once losses began to accrue, football clubs b

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Women, War and Football,ering in South Australia and then Victoria. In most cases, these games, with proceeds directed to such patriotic charities as “Comforts for the Anzacs”, attracted sizeable crowds; some were played under the patronage of state governors, civic officials, members of parliament, and senior military off

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Conscription,eir continuance in competitions around the country. Many prominent football leaders campaigned openly against conscription, and examination of the enlistment rates of single men reveals that the much-maligned poor response of footballers and eligible men was largely without foundation. In this chapt