State of Origin

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State of Origin (country of origin) is in Australia used name for sports events and other functions that are played between teams of the Australian states.

When used alone, the term usually refers to a rugby league or Australian rules football match, in which players are selected for the states where they either started their careers or played the longest.

It has its origins in the departure of many talented Australian rules football players to the Victorian Football League (now the Australian Football League) and the effect this had on games between states. A similar situation existed in connection with the New South Wales Rugby League , which bought the best players from the Queensland Rugby League until the 1980s .

Although state of origin games in Australian football no longer take place, the annual clash in rugby league is one of the most popular sporting events in Australia.

history

The first recorded call for a State of Origin in 1900 by an as "The Cynic" (The Holy Bunch) made known journalists. Written for rugby league magazine ("The Referee"), he suggested that Stephen Spragg , who had moved to Queensland , should still be able to play for his native New South Wales . The concept would later be revived for rugby league , but was never used for rugby union .

Australian Rules Football

The first State of Origin match was an Australian rules football game between Western Australia and Victoria at the Subiaco Oval in Perth on October 8, 1977. Leon Larkin , Head of Marketing for Subiaco Football Club in the West Australian Football League (WAFL ), negotiated with the Victorian Football League for two years until preparations for the match were completed.

Games against the other states should follow soon. In 1989, 91,960 spectators - a record for interstate games in Australian Rules Football - watched the game between Victoria and South Australia at the Melbourne Cricket Ground .

However, audience numbers and interest decreased during the 1990s. This was partly due to the transformation of the VFL into the national league, the Australian Football League (AFL). The last official State of Origin match to date with AFL players took place in 1999. Nevertheless, the Veterans' Game is held annually.

The AFL is currently thinking about organizing another State of Origin on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of Australian Rules Football.

Rugby League (Australia)

New South Wales and Queensland played their first State of Origin against each other on August 8, 1980, which Queensland could win 20:10. The interest in it was as high as in the Australian Rules State of Origins.

The State of Origins rugby league continued to be one of Australia's biggest sporting events. A record number of spectators was achieved at a game at Stadium Australia in 1999 , with 88,336 spectators. The record for total attendance for the three-game State of Origin was set in 2004 when a total of 203,309 spectators attended. The 2005 series broke the audience record for a two-game series in Queensland with a total of 187,374 viewers.

The choice of players for the Australian national team is often influenced by their performance in the State of Origin series.

Rugby League (Great Britain)

The success of the Australian State of Origin Games led to an introduction in England in 2001 under the name Origin Games , where teams from Yorkshire and Lancashire compete against each other.

Rugby League (New Zealand)

The New Zealand Rugby League will host a similar competition from 2008, the Kiwi Roots . Players will be split into two teams, one for players born north of Bombay Hills and one for those born south of it. This division is due to the rivalry between New Zealand's largest city, Auckland , and the rest of the country.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ rl1908.com - The Origin of State of Origin ( Memento of the original from October 21, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / rl1908.com
  2. ^ John Devaney, "West Coast - Part One: 1981 to 1985" Downloaded 11/10/06.
  3. ↑ Devaney, ibid
  4. ↑ MCC.org ( Memento of the original from August 19, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mcc.org.au
  5. ↑ Full Points Footy
  6. ↑ Sam Edmund, "Football survey: Return to the Origin species" ( Herald-Sun , September 19, 2006) Access date: May 22, 2007
  7. ↑ Edmund, Ibid .
  8. ↑ Rugby League Tables - State of Origin ( Memento of the original from August 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / stats.rleague.com

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