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The Australian Football League (AFL) is the pre-eminent professional competition of Australian rules football. It was originally named the Victorian Football League (VFL) and was founded in 1896 as a breakaway competition from the Victorian Football Association (VFA), with its inaugural season in 1897.
The United States Australian Football League (USAFL) is the governing body for Australian rules football in the United States. It was conceived in 1996 and organized in 1997. It is based in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin. As of 2011, there were over 1,000 registered USAFL players.
Since 2006, due to growing demand and lobbying by AFANA, Australian rules began playing live matches on television in the United States on the new Setanta Sports USA network. Coverage in 2015 is on Fox Sports 2 and Fox Soccer Plus. Australian rules has a nominal but growing international audience.
The Australian Football Association of North America (AFANA) is a non-profit organization that formed out of a campaign to save television coverage of Australian rules football in the United States and Canada in 1996. [1]
Australian rules football is known by several nicknames, including Aussie rules, football and footy. [9] In some regions, where other codes of football are more popular, the sport is most often called AFL after the Australian Football League , while the league itself also uses this name for local competitions in some areas.
Former Oklahoma State basketball player Mason Cox became an unlikely Aussie rules football star, while Australian players are flocking to the NFL.
The Oxford University Australian Rules Football Club was founded in 1906. [20] As early as 1911 the game was being played regularly at Oxford. The Cambridge University Australian Rules Football Club is believed to have been founded around 1911.
Steven Baker of St Kilda Football Club demonstrates the running bounce. Aliesha Newman of the Melbourne Football Club executes a running bounce. A running bounce, or simply bounce, is a skill in the sport of Australian rules football (necessitated by the Laws of the Game) and some variants where a player bounces (or touches) the ball on the ground in order to run more than the maximum distance ...