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Mate, you have no idea.
Tom Wills (Wentworth) went to England because his family did nufty.
Read the following....
It's tough being this good.
As a boy, Wills played Marn Grook, an Aboriginal game similar to modern football codes with members of a nearby tribe. At the age of fourteen he was sent to England to attend the famous Rugby School.
[edit] Cricket career
Tom Wills with the Aboriginal cricket team which toured England
On his return to Melbourne in 1856 at the age of twenty-one he became one of Victoria's best cricketers, representing the colony in intercolonial cricket matches against New South Wales, Queensland and Tasmania. He became a high-ranking member of the Melbourne Cricket Club, despite his convict heritage.[citation needed]
In 1861 Tom's father Horatio Wills emigrated north to Queensland where they took up a holding at Cullin-La-Ringo in the Nogoa region about two hundred miles from Rockhampton. They had only been on the holding for three weeks when they were attacked by a party of Aborigines who killed nineteen of the group, including Tom's father. Tom was away from the property at the time, having been sent to a neighbouring property, about two days ride away, for supplies.
In 1868, Wills coached the first Australian cricket team to tour England, which was entirely comprised of Indigenous Australians.
[edit] Football
During July 1858, Wills wrote a letter to Bell's Life, a Melbourne-based sporting publication, inviting anyone who might be interested to participate in a football match on the 31st of that month in Richmond, a suburb of Melbourne. The following week, Wills umpired the first ever organised Australian rules match between Scotch College and Melbourne Grammar School on the land which is now home to the Melbourne Cricket Ground. A statue commemorating this event which features Tom Wills umpiring and two players from the match stands at the cricket club members entry of the MCG.
Tom Wills (Wentworth) went to England because his family did nufty.
Read the following....
It's tough being this good.
As a boy, Wills played Marn Grook, an Aboriginal game similar to modern football codes with members of a nearby tribe. At the age of fourteen he was sent to England to attend the famous Rugby School.
[edit] Cricket career
Tom Wills with the Aboriginal cricket team which toured England
On his return to Melbourne in 1856 at the age of twenty-one he became one of Victoria's best cricketers, representing the colony in intercolonial cricket matches against New South Wales, Queensland and Tasmania. He became a high-ranking member of the Melbourne Cricket Club, despite his convict heritage.[citation needed]
In 1861 Tom's father Horatio Wills emigrated north to Queensland where they took up a holding at Cullin-La-Ringo in the Nogoa region about two hundred miles from Rockhampton. They had only been on the holding for three weeks when they were attacked by a party of Aborigines who killed nineteen of the group, including Tom's father. Tom was away from the property at the time, having been sent to a neighbouring property, about two days ride away, for supplies.
In 1868, Wills coached the first Australian cricket team to tour England, which was entirely comprised of Indigenous Australians.
[edit] Football
During July 1858, Wills wrote a letter to Bell's Life, a Melbourne-based sporting publication, inviting anyone who might be interested to participate in a football match on the 31st of that month in Richmond, a suburb of Melbourne. The following week, Wills umpired the first ever organised Australian rules match between Scotch College and Melbourne Grammar School on the land which is now home to the Melbourne Cricket Ground. A statue commemorating this event which features Tom Wills umpiring and two players from the match stands at the cricket club members entry of the MCG.
