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AFL - Australian Football League: The Premier Professional Football League In Australia, Comprising 16 Teams Coming From Each State Except Tasmania and Currently Neither The Northern Territory or Canberra are represented However This Is Likely To Change Within The Next 10 Years, and I see a Club from Victoria Moving Possibly Part Time To Canberra. AFL Evolution:- A Quick Chronology 1858: August 7:- First recorded match of Australian Football, Scotch College V Melbourne Grammar 1866: Time Limit For Matches Introduced, Behind posts used for the first time 1872: Field umpires introduced (not sure how matches were controlled before this) 1873: Team Uniforms Introduced 1877: Victorian Football Association (VFA) established 1879: First night match using electric light!!!!! 1886: Four Quarters instead of two halves 1887: Umpire required to bounce ball instead of throwing in the air 1891: Introduction of centre bounce at start of quarters and after every goal, Players required to take up set positions 1896: Delegates from Geelong, Essendon, Collingwood, Fitzroy, Melbourne and South Melbourne Meet to form the VFL as a breakaway competition with Carlton & St Kilda invited to join. 1897: New Scoring System : 6 Points For a Goals 1 Point for Behinds - Previously Only Goals Were Counted. Finals System First Implemented As a Round Robin Competition May 8th 1897: First Round VFL Matches Played 1898: Argus Finals System Implemented Lasted until 1901 1902: Carlton Appoints Jack Worrell As First Ever VFL Coach 1904: First Appointments Of Boundary Umpires 1908: Richmond And University Join VFL 1909: Boundary umpire given power to report players 1910: Goal Umpires given power to report players 1911: Official Player payments approved 1912: Players Wear Numbers in all matches; Stewards appointed to report players; Football Record First Published 1913: League Independent Tribunal Instituted 1914: University's final year in the VFL 1916: Despite Finishing Last on the ladder and due to the recess of clubs during WW1 Fitzroy who finished last (4th) on the ladder won the premiership. 1918: Steward System of Reporting Players Abolished 1919: Reserve Grade Competition Formed 1923: All League Venues Required To show quarter by quarter scores ; New Rule BLack Shorts for home teams and White for away sides 1924: Essendon Despite losing the last game of the season to Richmond win the premiership, and lose champions cup to VFA Side Footscray; Brownlow Medal Instituted 1925: Radio Descriptions introduced during finals; Footscray, North Melbourne and Hawthorn Enter Competition 1930: Coulter law adopted restricting player payments 1931: McIntyre Final Four Introduced 1933: Experimental Siren Used 1942: Geelong in recess due to war time restrictions 1944: Geelong resumes Participation 1946: Under 19 Competition Begins 1947: Player advocates first allowed to attend tribunal hearings 1956: First Night Competition 1957: Last Quarter of matches telecast live ; reserved seating for finals introduced 1959: Reserve first played as curtain raiser to seniors 1960: First Anzac Day Game 1962: TV stations permitted to play replays of VFL matches but no live coverage 1970: April 5: First Sunday match played; Fitzroy Vs Richmond @ MCG 1972: McIntyre Final Five System Introduced 1975: Club Permitted to wear Color shorts for TV Coverage, Video Tape become admissable evidence at tribunal hearings 1976: Two Field Umpire System introduced 1977: First live telecast of Grand Final 1979: Norm Smith Medal Introduced for best on ground During Grand Final 1982: South Melbourne Relocates to Sydney 1983 August 5: First Friday Match For Premiership points 1984: League Commission Formed; Salary Cap introduced for 1985 1985: League Commission becomes decision making body 1986: Introduction Of 50Metre arc line on grounds 1987: West Coast Eagles and Brisbane Bears Enter Competition 1988: Emergency Umpire Given power to report players 1990: VFL Renamed AFL 1991: McIntyre Final Six Introduced, Last Season of under 19s; Adelaide Crows Enter Competition 1993: Introduction of Three Umpire System 1994: Blood Rule Introduced 1995: Fremantle Dockers Enter competition 1996: Fitzroy Lions Play Last Match; Brisbane Bears And Fitzroy Lions Merge To form Brisbane Lions 1997: Port Adelaide Enter Competition; Fottcray Renames Itself Western Bulldogs. 1998: North Melbourne Renamed Kangaroos and sign agreement with AFL to Play 6 Matches per Year in Sydney 1999: Reserves Last Year Of Competition 2000: AFL reserves VFA and 2 CVFA Teams Form NEW VFL
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