More Than a Game: an Unauthorised History of Australian Rules Football: an Unauthorised History of Australian Rules Football

by Rob Hess

A team of football historians and enthusiasts have pooled its resources and intellectual energies to write this oppositional and unauthorised history. Provides a detailed account of the development of Australian Rules football in Victoria from its birth in 1858 to 1980 and its subsequent national growth under the AFL.

304 pages, Paperback

First published June 15, 1998

Reviews

[Adam · Rating 5 out of 5]

If you love Footy or have a Sports Studies interest, you'll love this book. Written by sports historians outside of AFL sanctioning, you definitely get something closer to a real analysis of the success and failures of Australia's only indigenous game.