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Women, Jews and Bourgeois Hegemony,. It was expected that the war, while an obvious inconvenience, would not significantly harm the status quo of the game and that it would continue unhindered. But, as this chapter shows, once Australia’s participation at Gallipoli became widely known and once losses began to accrue, football clubs b

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The 1860s / , (1863) and , (1868),ering in South Australia and then Victoria. In most cases, these games, with proceeds directed to such patriotic charities as “Comforts for the Anzacs”, attracted sizeable crowds; some were played under the patronage of state governors, civic officials, members of parliament, and senior military off

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George Eliot and Victorian Intoxication, When a compulsory youth training scheme was introduced in Australia in 1911 it created immediate tension as the attraction to football often distracted boys from attending drills. While the merits of playing football became the subject of an intense public debate, the military, as this chapter expl

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https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230596115eir continuance in competitions around the country. Many prominent football leaders campaigned openly against conscription, and examination of the enlistment rates of single men reveals that the much-maligned poor response of footballers and eligible men was largely without foundation. In this chapt

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, Italian Prophecy, Dante and George Eliot, serving overseas. This chapter concludes, not only did the game survive, it grew with the advent of women’s football and its lustre arguably shone brighter through the deeds of soldier footballers. The arguments about playing football in wartime revealed a marked social and moral division in the na