A History of Football in Australia: a game of two halves

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A History of Football in Australia, written by Roy Hay and Bill Murray, is the fascinating story of the fastest growing sport in Australia and the ties it has to our culture and identity. In coming years football will continue to excite sports fans throughout Australia. The Socceroos will contest the world's leading nations on the international stage. The Asian Football Confederation Cup of Nations will be held in Australia in 2015. The Matildas will defend their Asian championship crown in 2014 and aim to qualify for the World Cup in Canada in 2015. Men and women can also look forward to an.;Cover Page; Title Page; Foreword; Table of Contents; Preface; 1 Sport and leisure in colonial Australia; Football in its many forms; The battle of the football codes; Victoria v. New South Wales; British association football in Victoria; 2 New South Wales sets the ball rolling; Rules, rugby, association and the Old Boys; The Caledonian push; The immigrants' game; The flimsy social roots of the foreign game; 3 The all-Australia game; One nation, one football code-but which one?; New South Wales leads the way; International and interstate tours.