Editing Gaelic football (section)

===Game spreads===
[[File:Emmets vs Sarsfields at Golden Gate Park July 1892.png|thumb|Emmets vs Sarsfields one of the earliest matches in the United States at [[Golden Gate Park]] [[San Francisco]] in July 1892]]

Gaelic football spread throughout the world in the late 19th century. Despite a huge Irish American population there was limited awareness of the game in America, though there was limited knowledge of its rules, apart from that the ball cannot be lifted from the ground by hand, and throttling is banned.<ref>The Sun. [volume], September 24, 1888, Page 3</ref>  It was first played in [[North America]] in the 1890s with games being played in both [[Canada]] and the [[United States]] in 1892.<ref>San Francisco Call, Volume 72, Number 26, 26 June 1892</ref> More than a dozen clubs had been established in the US by 1893.<ref name="Chadwick1893">{{Cite book |last=Henry Chadwick |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EK4rAQAAMAAJ |title=The Reliable Book of Outdoor Games: Containing Official Rules for Playing Base Ball, Foot Ball, Cricket, Lacrosse, Tennis, Croquet, Etc |date=1893 |publisher=F. M. Lupton |oclc=1052537131 |access-date=25 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240730162756/https://books.google.com/books?id=EK4rAQAAMAAJ |archive-date=30 July 2024 |url-status=live}}</ref> The first clubs appeared in England in 1896.

Around 1900 the game began to resemble more closely to the running game of today, players were able to lift the ball off the ground and run and carry it if they bounced it every 4 yards.

The first match played in [[Australia]] was in 1902 finding a niche in [[Queensland]] during a period when Australian football there was in recess.<ref>{{Cite news |date=19 July 1902 |title=Advertising |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article214395074 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240730161739/https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/214395074 |archive-date=30 July 2024 |access-date=11 January 2022 |work=[[The Evening Telegraph (Charters Towers)|The Evening Telegraph]] |location=Queensland, Australia |page=3 |via=National Library of Australia |volume=2 |issue=419}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=21 July 1902 |title=GAELIC FOOTBALL. |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article214392120 |access-date=11 January 2022 |work=[[The Evening Telegraph (Charters Towers)|The Evening Telegraph]] |location=Queensland, Australia |page=3 |via=National Library of Australia |volume=2 |issue=420}}</ref>