Wills, 1857
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Thomas Wentworth Wills
Warringal Cemetery, Victoria, Australia
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Australian sportsman (1835–1880)
Tom Wills
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"I know that if I [study] too hard I will become quite ill. We hardly get any play during school time."
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Daguerreotype of Wills, dating from his school years
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'Great' athletes seem to be anointed every day; far rarer are those entitled to be considered 'original'. Tom Wills is such a figure in every respect.
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With furious bowling Wills assails His rivals, and knocks o'er their bails; His ball comes like a stone, From some huge catapulta hurled, In sieges of that earlier world You read of as a boy, ...
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Hammersley, writing for The Australasian on Wills's umpiring of an intercolonial match
For Mr. Wills to no-ball Mr. Wardill for throwing is like Satan reproving sin.
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"I think the ground should be free to all, so that the captain of each side could dispose of his forces in any position he likes."
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Wills's cousin H. C. A. Harrison joined him in pioneering football in 1859.
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Australia
He could be dismissive, triumphant and brazen all within a single sentence. Whatever his inner world was, he rarely let it be known. Lines of argument or considered opinion were not developed. His stream of thought was in rapid flux and a string of defiant jabs. To give emphasis he underlined his words with a flourish. His punctuation was idiosyncratic. Language was breathless and explosive and he revelled in presenting himself and his motives as mysterious.
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Wills Cooke
Football at Rugby School, 1850s. Wills was singled out in the national press for his prowess on the field.
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Howard
- Wills to his father in a lengthy 1851 letter, the majority of which he devotes to his school cricket scores.
Pennings
- Wills on how football should be played
Football in the Richmond Paddock, 1860s. The field's hard playing surface influenced Wills's codification of the game.
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Melbourne Punch, 1858
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