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On Saturday 23 July 1898, the Melbourne weekly newspaper The Leader published The Footballers' Alphabet. The poem, which had been written by its influential (Australian Rules) football correspondent, "Follower", delivered a brief comment on a number of the most prominent Australian Rules footballers playing in Melbourne in 1898 -- the second year of the VFL competition -- presented in the alphabetical order of their family names.

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  • On Saturday 23 July 1898, the Melbourne weekly newspaper The Leader published The Footballers' Alphabet. The poem, which had been written by its influential (Australian Rules) football correspondent, "Follower", delivered a brief comment on a number of the most prominent Australian Rules footballers playing in Melbourne in 1898 -- the second year of the VFL competition -- presented in the alphabetical order of their family names. Given the poem’s subject and its novelty, it was very popular, and it was republished in a number of different newspapers, including The Age, and The Ovens and Murray Advertiser. A pastiche of the poem, centred on the players of the Sunbury Football Club in the Yorke Peninsula, was published in 1920, and another, centred on the players in the Adelaide (SAFL) competition, was published in 1925. (en)
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  • On Saturday 23 July 1898, the Melbourne weekly newspaper The Leader published The Footballers' Alphabet. The poem, which had been written by its influential (Australian Rules) football correspondent, "Follower", delivered a brief comment on a number of the most prominent Australian Rules footballers playing in Melbourne in 1898 -- the second year of the VFL competition -- presented in the alphabetical order of their family names. (en)
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