150 Years of Australian Football in Queensland

Stories

Gold Coast and Aspley Founder

Max Mathers, founder of the Gold Coast Australian Football League and the Aspley Australian Football Club, tells his story. We encourage you to submit your own story, photos, archives etc via the w...

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Tom Wills

Tom Wills, Geelong and Queensland football

The code of Australian Rules football has been played in Queensland for 150 years. Yes, 150 years. In 1866, over a decade before South Australia finally adopted what was then called the Victorian R...

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Frank Ivory

Frank Ivory

Australia’s best Indigenous footballer of the nineteenth century was a Queenslander. Frank Ivory hailed from Maryborough, 160 miles north of Brisbane. Fifty years after his playing days newspaper re...

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Cairns and Townsville early 1970s

Australian Rules football commenced in both northern centres in the 1950s. See footage taken by Cairns pioneer King Watson in the early 1970s on this video. Watson was the key person at North Ca...

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