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7 Sep 2016

Play On! AFL All Stars Women’s Game & 100 years of history

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Play On! AFL All Stars Women’s Game & 100 years of history

Fi, Bree and Danae chat about the ground breaking AFL Women’s Game played between Western Bulldogs and Melbourne on 3 September 2016. The All Stars game is the latest in a long and rich history of competition as Brunette Lenkic reveals in Play On! The Hidden History of Women’s Australian Rules Football.

Last weekend saw the Western Bulldogs/Melbourne Women’s AFL All Stars match draw a massive national TV audience of more than a million people. The game … which was fantastic … was played at Whitten Oval in front of a crowd of more than six thousand people … and if you think that is the biggest crowd to ever watch women play Australian Rules football … you haven’t yet read Play On! The Hidden History of Women’s Australian Rules Football.

Our guest, Brunette Lenkic, is one of the authors (with Rob Hess) of Play On! …

Women celebrating after a football game for the Footscray Football Club in the 1950s

Teammates Sandra Glaskin (centre) and Margaret Jones (right) enjoyed the camaraderie of being involved in the womens teams of the Footscray Football Club during the 1950s.

Women celebrate the AFL All Stars game with a song!

Emma Kearney, Katie Brennan and Ellie Blackburn from the Western Bulldogs celebrate victory after the All Stars game. September 2016. Adam Trafford/AFL Media

1950s Bulldogs pic: Sandra Gaskin and Margaret Hollings from Play On! The Hidden History of Women’s Australian Rules Football. Brunette Lenkic & Rob Hess, 2016. Echo Publishing