Category: World Sports

Marn Grook (Australian Aboriginal Football)

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An Australian Aborigine game where the objective is to keep the ball in the air as long as possible. It includes the idea of the ‘mark’ whereby a player who catches the ball in the air can have a ‘free kick’. Tom Wills, who has Irish connections incorporated the idea into English Public School Football Codes, along with Gaelic Football like scoring to codify Australian Football in the 1840s.

adult happy sportsman hitting ball with head
Photo by Yogendra Singh on Pexels.com

References

Internet Archives

Aboriginal Football Wayback Machine (2006) Marn Grook [Internet] Available from: https://web.archive.org/web/20060512152437/http://www.aboriginalfootball.com.au/marngrook.html (article)

Images

Photo by Yogendra Singh on Pexels.com

Acknowledgements

Thanks to Martha

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Researched, compiled and written by Enda Mulcahy for the

Eirball | Irish North American and World Sports Archive

Last Updated: 25 March 2021

(c) Copyright Enda Mulcahy and Eirball 2020

You may quote this document in part provided that proper acknowledgement is given to the authors. All Rights Resereved.

UCD Sepak Takraw Club 2014-Present

UCD Sepak Takraw Club [Reference: 1]

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The Sepak Takraw Club in University College Dublin has been playing a match amongst its own members each week since September 2014. [Reference: 2]

UCD Sepak Takraw Club Team Photo September 2018
UCD Sepak Takraw Club Team Photo September 2018 [Reference: 4]

About Sepak Takraw

Sepak Takraw is a version of Volleyball played with every part of the body except the arms and is Native to Malaysia and Thailand, both of whom claim to have invented it and where the game is a National Sport. It is popular throughout South East and East Asia.

UCD Sepak Takraw Club in Action from October 2018
UCD Sepak Takraw Club in Action from October 2018 [Reference: 3]

References

Logos

[1] UCD Sepak Takraw Club Facebook (2019) Profile Picture [Internet] Available from: https://www.facebook.com/UCDSepakTakrawClub/photos/a.856655207680172/856655271013499/ [Accessed 26 November 2020]

Social Media

[2] UCD Sepak Takraw Club (Facebook) (2019) Page [Internet] Available from: https://www.facebook.com/UCDSepakTakrawClub/ [Accessed 27 June 2019]

Images

[3] UCD Sepak Takraw Club Facebook (2019) Photo, October 6, 2018 [Internet] Available from: https://www.facebook.com/UCDSepakTakrawClub/photos/a.2156936830985330/2156936084318738/ [Accessed 26 November 2020]

[4] UCD Sepak Takraw Club Facebook (2019) Photo, September 26, 2018 [Internet] Available from: https://www.facebook.com/UCDSepakTakrawClub/photos/a.856696377676055/2143736898971990 [Accessed 26 November 2020]

Acknowledgements

Thanks to Paul Hui (Trinity College Dublin) & Eoghan Murphy.

About this document

Researched, compiled and written by Enda Mulcahy for the

Eirball | GAA World Archive

Last Updated: 26 November 2020

(c) Copyright Enda Mulcahy and Eirball 2020

You may quote this document in part provided that proper acknowledgement is given to the authors. All Rights Reserved.