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Chargement... Immortals: Football People and the Evolution of Australian Rules Footballpar Lionel Frost
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Contains 14 biographies of a diverse range of people who have helped shape the evolution of the game. The scope is national including people from Western Australia and South Australia as well as some significant figures from Victoria. Frost is an academic specializing in economics and his biographies incorporate the wider social, cultural and economic situation in which his subjects found themselves. A very welcome book on the history of Australian rules football and some of the key people who helped make Australian rules the game it is today. Focusing on some of the top players of each era (who don't already have a published biography), "Immortals" also covers the personal and individual stories as well as the overarching direction that Australian rules has taken, giving us a good understanding of how the game of Australian rules football has developed from that first game back in 1858. Of particular interest is the role that religion played in the formation and history of VFL clubs until relatively recently. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
Australian Rules Football fanatic and Melbourne academic Lionel Frost has written this fascinating history of the sport through the careers of some of the greats. He shows how AFL (Australian Football League) has developed from an amateur, local sport to the professional, national industry that it is today. It explores the ways in which the lives and careers of players, coaches and administrators were shaped by the times in which they lived, and how their responses to challenges and opportunities in turn shaped the development of the game. In a broader sense, it is a series of stories about Australians, and about life in Australia, that all Australians will be able to relate to. Based on new research, and covering all states in which Australian Rules is the major code, the book features the careers of people such as Norm and Len Smith, John Kennedy, Jack Oatey, through to modern ?gures such as Tim Watson and Jason Akermanis. All of the living subjects, and in many cases the families of those who are deceased, have co-operated fully in the research and provided unpublished source material such as letters and notebooks. Foreword by Ron Barassi. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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