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Tom Wills, Australian cricketer, co-created Australian rules football (born 1835)
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Tom Wills
Australian sportsman (1835–1880)
Thomas Wentworth Wills was an Australian sportsman who is credited with being Australia's first cricketer of significance and a founder of Australian rules football. Born in the British penal colony of New South Wales to a wealthy family descended from convicts, Wills grew up in…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Australian rules football
Contact sport originating in Australia
Australian football, also called Australian rules football or Aussie rules, or more simply football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of 18 players on an oval field, often a modified cricket ground. Points are scored by kicking the oval ball between the…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)