Greg de Moore, “Tom Wills: First Wild Man of Australian Sport” (Allen and Unwin, 2011) - a podcast by Marshall Poe

A number of modern sports are credited to a particular 19th-century founder. The inventive work of some of these figures, like basketball’s James Naismith, American football’s Walter Camp, and judo’s Jigoro Kano, is firmly planted in history. But there are others, such as Abner Doubleday and William Webb Ellis, who...
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