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The Australian game was codified first.

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• walthamstow 3y ago
  So are you saying it was independently created or not? It's unclear.
  • TRiG_Ireland 3y ago
    The Australian game is the first form of football to be codified. It probably does owe something to other forms of football around at the time in England, and perhaps also to a local indigenous game named marn-grook, but it was the first to have an actual codified set of laws. It's a winter game, designed to keep cricketers fit out of season, which is why it's played on an oval field (and the final is played on the Melbourne Cricket Ground). This isn't just a feel-good story. Tom Wills, the main inventor of Australian football, was raised as the only white kid in his area, and played with the Indigenous kids. Source: https://www.sbs.com.au/whats-on/article/did-afl-come-from-an-aboriginal-game/dw50ad1tp https://www.sbs.com.au/whats-on/article/did-afl-come-from-an...
    • TRiG_Ireland 3y ago
      I should have checked that after posting. It was supposed to be an asterisk indicating a footnote, and then another indicating the footnote itself. Normal markdown implementations don't span italics over paragraph breaks.