GAELIC FOOTBALL
Materials/equipment: One ball, similar of football, but heavier.Space: The grass pitch is rectangular, stretching 130145 metres long and 8090m wide.
Number of participants: Two teams of 15 players.Duration: 60 minutes, divided into two halves of 30 minutes.
Task description: The objective of the sport is to score by passing the ball through the other team'sgoals(3 points) or a set of two upright posts separated by a crossbar 2.5 metres above the ground (1 point).
Norms/rules: Ball may be kicked orhand passed. A hand pass is not a punch but rather a strike of the ball with the side of the closed fist, using the knuckle of the thumb.
The following are considered technical fouls: Bouncing the ball twice in a row (It may be soloed continuously). Changing hands: Throwing the ball from your right hand to left or vice versa. Going four steps without releasing, bouncing or soloing the ball (soloing involves kicking the ball into one's own hands). Hand passing a goal. To hand pass a ball with an open palm there must be a clear striking action (the ball may be punched over the bar from up in the air, but not into the goal). Picking the ball directly off the ground (it must be scooped up into the hands by the foot). Square ball is an often controversial rule:If, at the moment the ball enters the small square, there is already an attacking player inside the small rectangle, then a free out is awarded. Throwing the ball (it may be "hand-passed" by striking with the fist).
Shoulder to shoulder contact and slapping the ball out of an opponent's hand are permitted, but the following are all fouls: Blocking a shot with the foot. Pulling an opponent's jersey. Pushing an opponent. Sliding tackles. Striking an opponent. Touching the goalkeeper when he/she is inside the small rectangle. Tripping. Using both hands to tackle. Wrestling the ball from an opponent's hands.
Alternatives: Don`t use any kind of tackling.
Graphic explanation:
Introduction: Gaelic football was first codified in 1887, although it has links to oldervarieties of footballplayed in Ireland and known collectively ascaid. Consequently, the namecaidis used by some people to refer to present day Gaelic football.The first legal reference of football in Ireland was in 1308, when John McCrocan, a spectator at a football game atNovum Castrum de Leuan(the New Castle of the Lyons or Newcastle) was charged with accidentally stabbing a player named William Bernard. A field near Newscastle, Co. Dublin is still known as the football field. The Statute ofGalwayof 1527 allowed the playing of "foot balle" andarcherybut banned "'hokie' thehurlingof a little ball with sticks or staves" as well as other sports.Limerick was the stronghold of the native game around this time, and the Commercials Club, founded by employees of Cannock's Drapery Store, was one of the first to impose a set of rules, which was adapted by other clubs in the city. Of all the Irish pastimes the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) set out to preserve and promote, it is fair to say that Gaelic football was in the worst shape at the time of the association's foundation.Irish forms of football were not formally arranged into an organised playing code by theGaelic Athletic Association(GAA) until 1887. The GAA sought to promote traditional Irish sports, such ashurlingand to reject "foreign" (particularly English) imports. The first Gaelic football rules, showing the influence of hurling and a desire to differentiate from association football for example in their lack of anoffside rule were drawn up byMaurice Davinand published in theUnited Irelandmagazine on 7 February 1887. The rules of the aforementioned Commercials Club became the basis for these official (Gaelic Football) rules who, unsurprisingly, won the inaugural All-Ireland Senior Football Final (representing County Limerick).
