Media: hardcover, with dustjacket 128 pages 
Year: 1970

Illustrated throughout. Has donor's inscription in the front.

Australia, one of the great sporting nations, has invented only one new sport — Australian Rules Football. But what a sport!

Probably no game played anywhere arouses the enthusiasm and partisanship that Australian Rules Football does in the States where it is the dominant winter pastime.

Football The Australian Way goes a long way towards explaining this phenomenon. It is the most basic and comprehensive book ever written about the Great Australian Game, and will be read with interest and profit not only by youngsters who hope to improve their football skill and knowledge, but by football fans of all ages.

Each of the twenty-eight sections of the book has been written by an expert in some department of the game, and each writer’s points are illustrated with magnificent action photographs.

The contributors represent both the veteran ‘greats’ of Australian football and the talented young heroes of the new generation. They include:

BRUCE ANDREW, BOB DAVIS, NORM SMITH, KEN FRASER, BILL BARROT, TED WHITTEN, POLLY FARMER, ROYCE HART, VERDUN HOWELL, RON BARASSI, BOB SKILTON, THOROLD MERRETT, DARYL GERLACH, GRAHAM ARTHUR, DARYL GRIFFITHS, ALEX JESAULENKO, KEVIN MURRAY, JOHN NICHOLLS, BOB MURRAY, ROY WRIGHT, DOUG WADE, JACK DYER, NEIL ROBERTS, ALAN NASH, HAYDN BUNTON JNR., DARREL BALDOCK.