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From 1974 until 1986, the Seven Network and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) were given exclusive rights to VFL/AFL games. The only year Seven did not telecast games was 1987 when the rights were bought by Broadcom, which on-sold the rights to the ABC in Victoria. Seven regained the rights in 1988 and also exclusive rights.
The Victorian Football League was established in 1896 when six of the strongest clubs in Victoria— Collingwood, Essendon, Fitzroy, Geelong, Melbourne, and Sydney Swans —broke away from the established Victorian Football Association to establish the new league. [ 1] The six clubs invited two more VFA clubs—Carlton and St Kilda—to join ...
1 day ago · 1859, July 30. Melbourne play St Kilda on the Richmond Paddock, the MCG not being available to preserve the turf for cricket, due to the wet weather. Geelong was reported to have formed a club and played their first match on the same day, but under their own Geelong Rules. 1859, August 6. Melbourne plays a combined Emerald Hill and Prahran team.
May 24, 2019 · In 1911, the Coranderrk team won the local league against white teams for the first time, but could not field a team the following year after several of their players were recruited by other clubs.
- Roy Hay
PERCY Cummings played five games for Hawthorn in 1964-65, but was notable for being pioneer Joe Johnson’s grandson. Joe was the first of the 168 known Aborigines to play the VFL/AFL game to the end of 2007. In 2007 alone, there were 72, which underlines that it took a long time for our footprint to make a mark on the game at the elite level.
Concern was raised over the validity of the VFL’s zoning, transfer and player payment rules, which culminated in the Foschini case in 1983. The watershed was 1985, the first season to be played under a team salary cap. The AFL Commission was appointed in 1984 and the salary cap was introduced for the 1985 season.
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The laws of Australian rules football were first defined by the Melbourne Football Club in 1859 and have been amended over the years as Australian rules football evolved into its modern form. The Australian Football Council (AFC), was formed in 1905 and became responsible for the laws, although individual leagues retained a wide discretion to ...
