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The now-defunct Brisbane Football Club, formed in May 1866, is the first known football club of any code in Brisbane, Queensland. The club commenced playing according to what was then known as the 'Victorian rules' (previously known as 'Melbourne rules', which would later become known as Australian rules football).〔(Other Comps )〕 However, in 1876 the club adopted rugby rules, to fit in with two newly formed football clubs, before reverting to Australian rules football (with occasional rugby matches) in 1879. The club was to last around only 20 years, disappearing from the public record in the late 1880s, when rugby football was in the ascendancy in Brisbane and Australian rules football was in decline. ==Mid-1800s: first football games in Brisbane== Football has been played in Brisbane from very early times, as evidenced by this notice in ''The Moreton Bay Courier'' in 1849 (a mere 25 years after the arrival of the first white settlers in the Brisbane region, at which time the population was around 2000 people,〔(Queensland Places website )〕 many of whom were former convicts and poor Irish immigrants): :''ANNIVERSARY. :''TO the SPORTING BLADES of BRISBANE.'' :''BEING determined that the Anniversary ''(called Australia Day )'' shall not pass over without a little fun, in addition to the usual English Sports, the Lads of Kangaroo Point '' :''CHALLENGE'' :''all comers to a Game of Foot Ball – preliminaries to be settled at the Commercial Inn, Kangaroo Point, on the evening of the 24th.''〔(Moreton Bay Courier – 20 January 1849 )〕 Given the inchoate nature of the various types of football at that time, they may have been playing simple mob football. Alternatively, they could have been playing in accordance with the recently published Rugby school rules (1845) or the Cambridge Rules (1848), the latter being the forerunner of association football rules. The game that was to become Australian rules football was not to be codified for another 10 years. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Brisbane Australian Football Club」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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