Greg de Moore
Autor von Tom Wills : his spectacular rise and tragic fall
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Australia's game : the history of Australian… von Matthew Nicholson
A very,very thorough history of Australian Rules Football from the 1850s to the Covid-19 years. This book is an absolute must for interested in footy history.
An analysis of the theory that game pioneer Tom Wills made observations of the Marngrook form of football and then incorporated features of this game into the early versions of Australian Rules football. Scholarly article which makes extensive use of primary source material, and presents a clear position in this contentious debate.
De Moore explores and gives his answers to two questions in this important afterword to his acclaimed biography of Tom Wills. Firstly, did Tom Wills include features of Aboriginal forms of football in the football rules he helped to write in the 1850s? And secondly, how important was Wills’s contribution to the origins of Australian Rules football? The ‘Afterword’ can also be found in the first edition of this book published in 2008.
Tom Wills was one of the founders of the Australian game of football, and some would say he was its most important early figure. This is the most substantial and scholarly biographical work on Wills. The author is a Psychiatrist and this background equips him well to explore the psychological and emotional dimensions to Wills's heroic but tragic story. The book stems from a Ph.D thesis (In From the Cold - Tom Wills a Nineteenth Century Sporting Hero), in which many original letters and other documents relating to Tom Wills and other Wills family members and friends were discovered. These new sources and the existing Wills family archive, along with many newspaper reports and medical records are used by the author to tell the story of Tom Wills in a scholarly, erudite and sensitive way.
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