A History of the Footscray Football Club

A History of the Footscray Football Club PDF Author:
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ISBN: 9780646262147
Category : Australian football teams
Languages : en
Pages : 324

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A History of the Footscray Football Club

A History of the Footscray Football Club PDF Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780646262147
Category : Australian football teams
Languages : en
Pages : 324

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Australian National Bibliography

Australian National Bibliography PDF Author:
Publisher: National Library Australia
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Category : Bibliography, National
Languages : en
Pages : 1734

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The Bulldog Heritage

The Bulldog Heritage PDF Author:
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ISBN: 9780980723816
Category : Australian football
Languages : en
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The Stolen Dream

The Stolen Dream PDF Author: John Devaney
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0244776903
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 630

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The book examines a period when football underwent a seismic and ineradicable change brought about by the determination of the Victorian Football League to wrest control of the game's development and destiny from the various state controlling bodies and the Australian Football Council. Whereas the VFL had initially been the first among equals, it gradually assumed the role of the sole and undisputed guardian of the code. The AFC, once football's ostensible national controlling body, became an irrelevance. Instead of a national sport with a national remit we ended up with an expanded VFL with a majority of Victorian member clubs supplemented by a token sprinkling of teams from interstate. Such teams were in most cases created from scratch and could in no way be said to derive directly from the states? unique and distinctive football traditions and culture. For some, it was a brave new world, but evolution does not inevitably entail improvement.

A Far Off Land

A Far Off Land PDF Author: John Devaney
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0244155143
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 554

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Australian football match reviews and player profiles in the context of world and Australian historical events and developments during the first quarter of the twentieth century.

Sport in Australasian Society

Sport in Australasian Society PDF Author: J A Mangan
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136332316
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 384

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As Sydney prepares to host the 2000 Olympic games, this study assesses the cultural impact of sport on the Australasian countries. Here, as in other parts of the world, sport is taken as an assertion of both individual and group identity, a demonstration of modernity and a source of personal, local and regional esteem. This collection explores the political, social and aesthetic influence of modern sport, attitudes to the body and the evolution of specific Australasian visions of sport.

Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 19

Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 19 PDF Author: Melanie Nolan
Publisher: ANU Press
ISBN: 1760464139
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 970

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Volume 19 of the Australian Dictionary of Biography (ADB) contains concise biographies of individuals who died between 1991 and 1995. The first of two volumes for the 1990s, it presents a colourful montage of late twentieth-century Australian life, containing the biographies of significant and representative Australians. The volume is still in the shadow of World War II with servicemen and women who enlisted young appearing, but these influences are dimming and there are now increasing numbers of non-white, non-male, non-privileged and non-straight subjects. The 680 individuals recorded in volume 19 of the ADB include Wiradjuri midwife and Ngunnawal Elder Violet Bulger; Aboriginal rights activist, poet, playwright and artist Kevin Gilbert; and Torres Strait Islander community leader and land rights campaigner Eddie Mabo. HIV/AIDS child activists Tony Lovegrove and Eve Van Grafhorst have entries, as does conductor Stuart Challender, ‘the first Australian celebrity to go public’ about his HIV/AIDS condition in 1991. The arts are, as always, well-represented, including writers Frank Hardy, Mary Durack and Nene Gare, actors Frank Thring and Leonard Teale and arts patron Ian Potter. We are beginning to see the effects of the steep rise in postwar immigration flow through to the ADB. Artist Joseph Stanislaw Ostoja-Kotkowski was born in Poland. Pilar Moreno de Otaegui, co-founded the Spanish Club of Sydney. Chinese restaurateur and community leader Ming Poon (Dick) Low migrated to Victoria in 1953. Often we have a dearth of information about the domestic lives of our subjects; politician Olive Zakharov, however, bravely disclosed at the Victorian launch of the federal government’s campaign to Stop Violence Against Women in 1993 that she was a survivor of domestic violence in her second marriage. Take a dip into the many fascinating lives of the Australian Dictionary of Biography.

From Sidelines to Centre Field

From Sidelines to Centre Field PDF Author: M. Phillips
Publisher: UNSW Press
ISBN: 9780868404103
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 214

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Phillips (history and sociology of sport, U. of South Australia) explores the changing role and techniques of coaching in Australia from the 1850s to the 1990s. Addresses such issues as ethics, sportsmanship, professionalism, and amateurism and documents the initiation of coaching education in Australia. Distributed by ISBS. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

The Mighty West

The Mighty West PDF Author: Kerrie Soraghan
Publisher: Nero
ISBN: 1863959254
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 179

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Sport, Culture and History

Sport, Culture and History PDF Author: Brian Stoddart
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317997018
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 329

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In addition to being an internationally recognised pioneer of sports history, Brian Stoddart has also been a leading thinker and influence in the field. That influence has crossed several areas of history, sociology, business, politics and media aspects of sports studies, and has drawn deeply upon his own training in Asian studies. His work has been characterised by cross-disciplinary work from the outset, and has encompassed some very different geographical areas as well as crossing from academic outlets to media commentary. As a result, his influential work has appeared in many different locations, and it has been difficult for a wide variety of readers to access it fully and easily. This volume draws together, in the one place for the first time, some of his most important academic and journalistic work. Importantly, the pieces are drawn together by an intellectual/autobiographical commentary that locates each piece in a wider social and cultural framework. This book was previously published as a special issue of Sport in Society