The Australian Football World Tour

The Australian Football World Tour was a series of international rules football matches, organised by football sports broadcaster and former VFL umpire Harry Beitzel and Irish born Melbournian, James Harkin in 1967 and 1968.

The first team was christened "The Galahs" by the Melbourne press after a comment made by the eccentric athletics coach Percy Cerutty, having seen their garish blazers, their slouch hats, and their hats' ostentatious plumes (deliberately chosen by Beitzel to evoke comparisons with the heroes of the Australian Light Horse Regiments in the Boer War and World War I[3]) and to the effect that they were "a pack of galahs". The name stuck.

The games were played under the rules of Gaelic football with the single exception that the Australian players were not compelled to "toe" the ball from foot to hand every few yards, and they were allowed to bounce the ball.

Their matches, opponents, and scores were as follows:

Original selections
Harry Beitzel (Ex-umpire), promoter
Ron Barassi (Carlton, playing coach
Bob Skilton (South Melbourne)
Herb Matthews, Jr.(South Melbourne)
Stuart Magee (South Melbourne)
Norm Brown (Fitzroy)
Hassa Mann (Melbourne)
Don Williams (Melbourne)
Barry Davis (Essendon)
Ken Fraser (Essendon)
John Dugdale (North Melbourne)
Laurie Dwyer (North Melbourne)

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