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Author Blair, Dale, author.

Title Australian Rules Football During the First World War / Dale Blair and Rob Hess
Published Cham, Switzerland : Springer Nature, 2017

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations
Series Palgrave studies in sport and politics
Palgrave studies in sport and politics.
Contents Preface -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1 War! -- Abstract -- The British Empire Tradition and Amateurism -- The Sydney Australasian Football Carnival -- Motives for Enlistment -- The Rise of the Professional Game -- Class-Based Attitudes to Sport and the War Effort -- The Initial Effect of the War on Attendances -- Chapter 2 â#x80;#x98;King Footballâ#x80;#x99; -- Abstract -- The 1915 Pre-Season -- Early Voluntary Enlistment by Footballers -- Wartime Football: Support and Opposition -- The Initial Effect of Gallipoli
Regional Variation in Football ActivityThe Gallipoli Effect Gains Momentum -- Disputes Over Fundraising -- Increasing Pressure to Abandon the 1915 Season -- The Gravity of the War Starts to Hit Home -- Chapter 3 Football Under Siege -- Abstract -- The Birth of the South Australian Patriotic Football Association -- Elsewhere in Australia -- Continuing Objections to the Game -- A Variety of Responses and Decisions -- The Impact of News from the Somme -- Chapter 4 Women, War and Football -- Abstract -- The First Womenâ#x80;#x99;s Matches
Patriotism, Public Relations and PoliticsWomenâ#x80;#x99;s Football as a Novelty -- The Role Played by the Red Cross Society -- The Womenâ#x80;#x99;s Game Used to Promote Commerce and Company Loyalty -- Just a Wartime Phenomenon? -- Chapter 5 Football and the Military -- Abstract -- Imperial Origins of Sport in the Military -- Clashing with the Universal Training Scheme -- Matches Featuring Military Teams During the War -- Australian Rules and National Identity -- Playing the Game on Foreign Soil -- The London Exhibition Game -- Playing Within Earshot of Artillery
Chapter 6 ConscriptionAbstract -- The Influence of Women in Enlistment -- The First Referendum -- How Many Were Eligible for Conscription? -- Politics and Football After the First Referendum Defeat -- The Second Referendum -- Club Decisions as a Reflection of Referenda Voting Patterns -- Chapter 7 â#x80;#x9C;Like Old Timesâ#x80;#x9D; -- Abstract -- Anchor 3 -- War-Weariness and a Softening of Attitudes -- A Gradual Return to Normal Service -- Soldier Footballers Return as the Enlistment Drive Continues -- Bigger Crowds as the War Approaches its End
Chapter 8 ConclusionAbstract -- References
Summary The book explores the intersection between the Great War and patriotism through an examination of the effects of both on Australia's most popular football code. The work is chronological, and therefore provides an easy path by which events may be followed. Ultimately it seeks to shine a light on and provide considerable detail to a much-ignored period in Australian Rules football history, including women's football history, that was subject to much upheaval and which reflected considerable social and class divisions in society at the time. One hundred years on, the Australian Football League presents past soldier footballers as unequivocal representatives of a unifying national 'Anzac' spirit. That is far from the reality of football's First World War experience.-- Provided by publisher
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Subject Football -- Australia -- Melbourne (Vic.) -- Rules
Football -- Australia -- Melbourne (Vic.) -- History
GAMES -- Gambling -- Sports.
SPORTS & RECREATION -- Business Aspects.
SPORTS & RECREATION -- Essays.
SPORTS & RECREATION -- History.
SPORTS & RECREATION -- Reference.
TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Sports.
Football
Victoria -- Melbourne
Genre/Form History
Rules
Form Electronic book
Author Hess, Rob, 1957- author.
ISBN 9783319578439
331957843X