A winner could only be declared if one of the sides agreed that the other side had played better. However, many individual clubs have taken it upon themselves to appreciate Marngrook and the contribution of Aboriginal players and their ancestors. similarities between marngrook and afl - recoveryishereny.com Australian rules allows full tackling above the knees and below the shoulders, whereas Gaelic football explicitly disallows directly tackling players. Peter's Irish Football Annual of 1880, argued that Gaelic Football did not actually exist prior to the 1880s and curious on the origin of the distinctive features was of the belief that clubs from England in 1868 were most likely introduced elements of their codes including the "mark" (a decade after it had been introduced in Australia) and scoring by kicking between the upright posts. Aside from game-play, a social difference between the codes is that Gaelic football is strictly amateur, whereas Australian football offers professional (Australian Football League), (AFL Womens) and semi-professional (VFL, SANFL, WAFL, etc.) We are born to play it". The current revival of the idea of Indigenous influence on footballs origins diverts attention from another, much more uncomfortable and largely untold story about Indigenous relationships to football in the second half of the 19th century. 63 9.9. Croke visited Melbourne in both 1872 and 1875 at a time when Victorian rules was immensely popular[23] His sister Mother Mary Ignatius Croke moved to Australia in 1866 and he made a planned visit to her Sisters of Mercy in 1875. AFL clubs unveil Sir Doug Nicholls Round guernseys | NIT ", "It is a statement that acknowledges the Aboriginal history of our game. And we visit a bakery in Tel Aviv, discover the joys of making arak, and spend a summer stretching mozzarella in Italy.