Multiple football codes and their spectators, fans and supporters in Australia

This is the first attempt to describe and explain the varying patterns of support for football in Australia from the very early games played by First Nations people and the arrivals from overseas down to the present day. It discusses the Indigenous forms of football and the subsequent involvement of...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Roy Hay
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:unknown
Published: 2024
Subjects:
Commercial services
Sports science and exercise
Historical studies
Human society
Sociology
Other human society
Hospitality
Leisure
Sport & Tourism
Social Sciences
Social Sciences - Other Topics
First Nations
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10779/DRO/DU:25894630.v1
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Summary:This is the first attempt to describe and explain the varying patterns of support for football in Australia from the very early games played by First Nations people and the arrivals from overseas down to the present day. It discusses the Indigenous forms of football and the subsequent involvement of Indigenous people in the codified games of the nineteenth century. The majority of the article covers the development of spectatorship since codification and tries to bring out the distinctive features of changing Australian spectatorship where this is appropriate.

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