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THE PIONEER ERA

Tom Wills, the man behind the formation of the Geelong Football Club, is regarded as the founder of Australian rules. On July 10, 1858 Wills wrote to Bell’s Life in Victoria & Sporting Chronicle calling for a “foot-ball club’’ with a “code of laws’’...

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