Wayde Mills to help in local AFL 150-year celebrations

July 26, 2008

Ballina High will be the most easterly point on the mainland having a kick to celebrate 150 years of AFL when Kick Around Australia Day is held on Thursday, August 7, with former Lennox Head lad Wayde Mills, now a Brisbane Lion, joining in the celebrations.

Thursday, August 7, will mark 150 years since the first recorded game of Australian Football was played.

In 1858, Scotch College and Melbourne Grammar played the first recorded match of Australian Football on Richmond Paddock, today known as Yarra Park next to the MCG.

To celebrate this milestone, Kick Around Australia Day has been scheduled by the AFL to give all Australians the opportunity to join in the celebrations.

As part of Kick Around Australia day, primary and secondary schools around the country will be celebrating footy’s 150th birthday in a number of ways.

Ballina High has a good reason to celebrate AFL at their school after just receiving a brand new set of goal posts donated by AFL Queensland.

Wayde Mills will be visting Ballina High from 2-3pm. He and Ros Mayberry (principal) will run through a banner that will be tied between the new posts.

There will be activities going on at the school during their lunch break (1-1:50pm) but Wayde will not be there until 2pm.

This year the AFL will celebrate the foundation of the game by hosting Tom Wills (creator of AFL) round in Round 19.

The round’s Friday night match between the league’s oldest clubs, Melbourne and Geelong, will be held 150 years and one day after the match between Melbourne Grammar and Scotch.

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