Sherrin
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| Founded | 1880 in Wellington, Australia (as "T.W. Sherrin Pty Ltd") |
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| Founder | Thomas W. Sherrin |
| Headquarters | Scoresby, Victoria, Australia |
| Products | Australian rules footballs |
| Website | sherrin.com.au |
Sherrin is a brand of football used in Australian rules football and is the official ball of the Australian Football League, designed to its official specifications. It was the first ball designed specifically for the sport.
Sherrin footballs are manufactured by Spalding, owned by Russell Corporation, in Melbourne, Australia from cow hide lined and machine-stitched, but other sized models are often made in India or China, using synthetic rubber.
The first Australian rules football was invented by Thomas William Sherrin in 1880, when he was given a misshapen rugby ball to fix. He designed the Sherrin with indented rather than pointy ends to give the ball a better bounce. The sport known as football, or "footy", was rapidly increasing in popularity, and Sherrin footballs soon became the icon for being the first ball made for Australian rules football.
Sherrin began production in 1897 in a workshop in Collingwood, which had produced a variety of leather sporting goods since 1880, including footballs, cricket balls, boxing gloves and punching balls. The quality of Sherrin's goods was widely regarded.
FULL SIZE BALL (SIZE 5)
Models of the Sherrin football include:
The term "Kangaroo Brand" ("KB") refers to a type of Sherrin football. When T.W. Sherrin started manufacturing footballs, several models were produced (such as the "MATCH III" Sherrin), but the "Kangaroo Brand" was Sherrins best-selling, highest-quality, and most favoured and traditional football.
Sherrin is the official brand of football used by the Australian Football League, which has been the case since the 1880s.
At the state level, Sherrin is used in the Victorian Football League and North East Australian Football League (based in NSW/ACT and Queensland). The other major brand of football is Burley-Sekem, which used at state level in the South Australian National Football League and West Australian Football League.
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