Sean Gorman’s request – information on Indigenous footballers, clubs, leagues

 

 

 

 

Project outline

 

The role that Australian Rules Football plays in telling Australian stories is immense. The connection that Indigenous Australians have to the Australian game is also immense. This connection has a long historical aspect and spans from the elite AFL competition all the way through into each state and territory and into remote, regional and urban centres.  In this way Australian Rules Football ceases to be just a game that is played during winter but is a sociological, political and cultural phenomenon that highlights and celebrates Australian sporting life but also allows us to grapple with difficult issues that reflect broader Australian society and history.

 

What we would like to know is this: What football teams/clubs, football leagues/associations do you know or have played with/against that have had or continue to have significant populations of Indigenous players in them? Some of these may have disbanded, merged, changed names etc. They can be in remote, regional or urban centers. Other themes we are interested in are:   

 

Significant Indigenous players from comps like the SANFL (eg Flash Graham at Sturt);

 

Indigenous cult football figures;

 

Champions who never made it (Untold stories);

 

Reminiscences from State and Territory competitions of Indigenous clubs/players;

 

 All correspondence will be read and considered. No story too abstract or obscure.

 

please contact Sean at the email address below.

Dr Sean Gorman
Senior Research Fellow
School of Media, Culture & Creative Arts
Faculty of Humanities
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