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2. Australian Rules football was first played in the
1850's, the first club formed was the Melbourne
Football Club founded in 1859 and during that year
the game received its first coded rules.

4. The year 1897saw the formation of a league, The
Victorian Football League, with a membership of eight
teams. To reflect the expansion of the game to other
states the league was renamed The Australian Football
League in 1990 and now (2012) has 18 teams Australia
wide.

6. The game is played with teams of 18 players on the
field (generally an oval) and the objective is to kick the
ball through the opposing team’s goal posts. The ball
used in this game is slightly smaller than a rugby ball
and the ends are more rounded.

8. Any part of the body may be used to propel the ball but
generally it is kicked, handballed or it may be run with
provided it is intermittently bounced making it a
spectacularly quick game. Physical match ups between
players and the high scoring nature of the game adds to
its excitement.