AFL Oval - Puff or Shear
May 25th 2009 04:45
Has anyone got exact info about the change from rectangle to oval fields for AFL games?
Was it a matter of shearing off unproductive or nuisance corners?
Alternately, was it a matter of puffing side and backlines to form an oval?
If puffage, was the puffing connected with a realisation for the size of the land we are in - or was it simply a case of matching the size of a cricket field?
Was the shape change seen as an accomodation for the complexity of activity created by having so many bodies on the field?
Another consideration of interest is to establish whether the size change had anything to do with increasing the spectacle of the game - bringing the game closer to spectators?
And before AFL was allowed into the Cricket oval, what was the shape of the field outside the MCG? And, I have read that the ball could hit trees in the middle of play, but was it an up and down terrain?
Was it a matter of shearing off unproductive or nuisance corners?
Alternately, was it a matter of puffing side and backlines to form an oval?
If puffage, was the puffing connected with a realisation for the size of the land we are in - or was it simply a case of matching the size of a cricket field?
Was the shape change seen as an accomodation for the complexity of activity created by having so many bodies on the field?
Another consideration of interest is to establish whether the size change had anything to do with increasing the spectacle of the game - bringing the game closer to spectators?
And before AFL was allowed into the Cricket oval, what was the shape of the field outside the MCG? And, I have read that the ball could hit trees in the middle of play, but was it an up and down terrain?
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