Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { <http://wikidata.dbpedia.org/resource/Q3530930> ?p ?o }
- Q3530930 subject Q13301627.
- Q3530930 subject Q15273966.
- Q3530930 subject Q15330679.
- Q3530930 subject Q6436006.
- Q3530930 subject Q6527167.
- Q3530930 subject Q6645984.
- Q3530930 subject Q6816407.
- Q3530930 subject Q6816451.
- Q3530930 subject Q8276235.
- Q3530930 subject Q8276824.
- Q3530930 subject Q8276827.
- Q3530930 subject Q8276855.
- Q3530930 subject Q8276892.
- Q3530930 subject Q8278098.
- Q3530930 subject Q8278102.
- Q3530930 subject Q8336843.
- Q3530930 subject Q8426093.
- Q3530930 subject Q8427170.
- Q3530930 subject Q8427186.
- Q3530930 subject Q8427191.
- Q3530930 subject Q8481853.
- Q3530930 subject Q8481854.
- Q3530930 subject Q8481857.
- Q3530930 subject Q8517522.
- Q3530930 subject Q8572232.
- Q3530930 subject Q8617903.
- Q3530930 subject Q8617905.
- Q3530930 subject Q8617907.
- Q3530930 subject Q8662412.
- Q3530930 subject Q8729767.
- Q3530930 subject Q8780386.
- Q3530930 subject Q8792335.
- Q3530930 subject Q8824503.
- Q3530930 subject Q8824739.
- Q3530930 subject Q9746243.
- Q3530930 abstract "Thomas Wentworth "Tom" Wills (19 August 1835 – 2 May 1880) was an Australian sportsman who is credited with being the country's first cricketer of significance and a pioneer of Australian rules football.Born in the British colony of New South Wales to a wealthy family descended from convicts, Wills grew up in the bush on properties owned by his father, the pastoralist and politician Horatio Wills, in what is now the Australian state of Victoria. He befriended, and learned the language of, local Aborigines. At the age of 14, Wills was sent to England to attend Rugby School, where he became captain of its cricket team, and played an early version of rugby football. After Rugby, Wills represented the Cambridge University Cricket Club in the annual match against Oxford, and played in first-class matches for Kent and the Marylebone Cricket Club. An athletic all-rounder with devastating bowling analyses, he was regarded as one of the finest young cricketers in England.Returning to Victoria in 1856, Wills achieved Australia-wide stardom as a cricketer, captaining the Victorian team to repeated victories in intercolonial matches. He played for many clubs, most notably the Melbourne Cricket Club, with which he had a tumultuous relationship. In 1858 he called for the formation of a "foot-ball club" with a "code of laws" to keep cricketers fit during the off-season. After founding the Melbourne Football Club the following year, Wills and three other members codified the first laws of Australian rules football. He and his cousin H. C. A. Harrison spearheaded the sport as players and administrators.In 1861, at the height of his fame, Wills joined his father on a trek into the Queensland outback to establish a family property. Two weeks after their arrival, Wills' father and 18 others were murdered in the largest massacre of settlers by Aborigines in Australian history. Wills survived and returned to Victoria in 1864. He continued to play football and cricket, and, in 1866–67, coached and captained an Aboriginal XI—the first Australian cricket team to tour England. In a career marked by controversy, Wills challenged the divide between amateur and professional cricketers, and was frequently accused of bending rules to the point of cheating. Called for throwing in 1872, he mounted a failed comeback four years later on the brink of the birth of Test cricket, by which time his sporting glory belonged to a colonial past that seemed "like a distant land". Psychological trauma from the massacre was worsened by his alcoholism. Now destitute, Wills was admitted to the Melbourne Hospital in 1880, suffering from delirium tremens, but shortly afterwards escaped and returned to his home on the city's margins, where he committed suicide by stabbing a pair of scissors through his heart.Wills fell into obscurity after his death, but since the 1990s he has undergone a resurgence in Australian culture. He was an inaugural inductee into the Australian Football Hall of Fame, and is commemorated with a statue outside the Melbourne Cricket Ground. In modern times he is characterised as an archetype of the tragic sports hero, and as a symbol of reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. The question of whether Aboriginal games influenced his conception of Australian football has been the subject of heated debate. According to biographer Greg de Moore, Wills "stands alone in all his absurdity, his cracked egalitarian heroism and his fatal self-destructiveness—the finest cricketer and footballer of the age."".
- Q3530930 birthDate "1835-08-19".
- Q3530930 birthName "Thomas Wentworth Wills".
- Q3530930 birthPlace Q3224.
- Q3530930 birthPlace Q6896793.
- Q3530930 birthYear "1835".
- Q3530930 deathDate "1880-05-02".
- Q3530930 deathPlace Q1594002.
- Q3530930 deathPlace Q36687.
- Q3530930 deathYear "1880".
- Q3530930 knownFor Q50776.
- Q3530930 knownFor Q5375.
- Q3530930 thumbnail Tom_Wills_1857.jpg?width=300.
- Q3530930 wikiPageExternalLink Australian_Game_Australian_Identity.
- Q3530930 wikiPageExternalLink wills-horatio-spencer-howe-2799.
- Q3530930 wikiPageExternalLink wills-thomas-wentworth-4863.
- Q3530930 wikiPageExternalLink 133.
- Q3530930 wikiPageExternalLink 61110.pdf.
- Q3530930 wikiPageExternalLink s00855804_1980_81_11_2_62.pdf.
- Q3530930 wikiPageExternalLink 244560.
- Q3530930 wikiPageExternalLink off-the-ball.
- Q3530930 wikiPageExternalLink Gregory_Moore.pdf.
- Q3530930 wikiPageExternalLink Yorker-Issue%2039_Autumn2009_low-res.pdf.
- Q3530930 wikiPageExternalLink 16872.html.
- Q3530930 wikiPageExternalLink 3487841.htm.
- Q3530930 wikiPageWikiLink Q1026829.
- Q3530930 wikiPageWikiLink Q1041876.
- Q3530930 wikiPageWikiLink Q105674.
- Q3530930 wikiPageWikiLink Q1065260.
- Q3530930 wikiPageWikiLink Q1088015.
- Q3530930 wikiPageWikiLink Q11242506.
- Q3530930 wikiPageWikiLink Q1131660.
- Q3530930 wikiPageWikiLink Q1132113.
- Q3530930 wikiPageWikiLink Q1135376.
- Q3530930 wikiPageWikiLink Q1136066.
- Q3530930 wikiPageWikiLink Q1139972.
- Q3530930 wikiPageWikiLink Q1140316.
- Q3530930 wikiPageWikiLink Q1143281.
- Q3530930 wikiPageWikiLink Q1166361.
- Q3530930 wikiPageWikiLink Q11708095.
- Q3530930 wikiPageWikiLink Q1191065.
- Q3530930 wikiPageWikiLink Q1196395.
- Q3530930 wikiPageWikiLink Q1196454.
- Q3530930 wikiPageWikiLink Q12062134.
- Q3530930 wikiPageWikiLink Q12062159.
- Q3530930 wikiPageWikiLink Q126553.
- Q3530930 wikiPageWikiLink Q1277699.
- Q3530930 wikiPageWikiLink Q12859136.
- Q3530930 wikiPageWikiLink Q1291901.
- Q3530930 wikiPageWikiLink Q131755.
- Q3530930 wikiPageWikiLink Q1321565.
- Q3530930 wikiPageWikiLink Q13301627.
- Q3530930 wikiPageWikiLink Q133073.
- Q3530930 wikiPageWikiLink Q13424449.
- Q3530930 wikiPageWikiLink Q1369650.
- Q3530930 wikiPageWikiLink Q1415358.
- Q3530930 wikiPageWikiLink Q1418066.
- Q3530930 wikiPageWikiLink Q1422995.
- Q3530930 wikiPageWikiLink Q142555.
- Q3530930 wikiPageWikiLink Q1426457.
- Q3530930 wikiPageWikiLink Q14405936.
- Q3530930 wikiPageWikiLink Q148057.
- Q3530930 wikiPageWikiLink Q14935190.
- Q3530930 wikiPageWikiLink Q14955134.
- Q3530930 wikiPageWikiLink Q1506896.