First Friday in February - AFLW audio collection

"On Friday February 3rd, 2017, Aussie Rules Football changed forever. There were twenty-four and half thousand people packed into the stands at Princes Park in Melbourne that night. And when the siren sounded, and the ball was thrown into the air for the first time, they erupted, their roar an expression of their passion, of their joy, of long-held dreams realised. Women have been playing football for more than 100 years. The first recorded game was played in Perth in 1915. More games followed, albeit sporadically, until state based leagues began launching from the early 1980s. The first, the Victorian Women’s Football League in 1981. In 2010, the league commissioned a report into women’s football, a series of exhibition matches starting in 2013 grew from that report. It was the success of those exhibition matches that encouraged the AFL to bring forward their plans for a national women’s football league and so the AFLW was born. There are thousands of stories from that inaugural season. Feats of strength and skill and endurance, both on field and off. Tales of resilience and determination, of dreams dashed and rebuilt. But their genesis was that warm Friday night in February when thirty-two women clad in the navy blue of Carlton and the black and white stripes of Collingwood took to the field. The First Friday in February will take you back to that night, reliving that first AFLW game and all that it meant through the memories of women who were there. They each have a story, their story, of that First Friday in February." This collection comprises of the full audio documentary, 35 audio interviews, and related transcripts.2017年2月3日周五，澳式橄榄球（Aussie Rules Football）的历史从此被永远改写。 当晚，墨尔本王子公园球场的看台座无虚席，共有24500名观众到场。当终场哨声吹响，比赛用球首次被抛向空中的刹那，全场沸腾——那声嘶吼是观众们对这项运动的热忱、喜悦，以及长久以来夙愿得偿的尽情抒发。 女子参与澳式橄榄球运动已有百余年历史。有记录的首场赛事于1915年在珀斯举办。此后赛事虽偶有举办，但直至20世纪80年代初各州联赛才陆续成立，首座联赛便是1981年创立的维多利亚女子橄榄球联赛（Victorian Women’s Football League）。 2010年，该联赛委托开展了一项针对女子橄榄球运动的专项调研，由此催生了2013年启动的一系列表演赛。 正是这些表演赛的成功，促使澳大利亚足球联盟（Australian Football League, AFL）提前推进了全国女子橄榄球联赛的筹备计划，澳大利亚女子橄榄球联赛（AFL Women's, AFLW）就此诞生。 首届赛季诞生了无数动人篇章：赛场内外尽显力量、技巧与毅力的卓越表现，处处皆是关于韧性与决心、梦想破碎与重燃的故事。而这一切的发轫，正是2017年2月那个温暖的周五夜晚——身着卡尔顿队藏蓝色队服与科林伍德队黑白条纹队服的32名女球员踏上赛场的时刻。 《二月首个周五》将带领观众回溯那个夜晚，通过亲历赛事的女性球员的回忆，重温这场澳大利亚女子橄榄球联赛揭幕战及其承载的全部意义。 她们每个人都拥有属于自己的故事，一段关于“二月首个周五”的专属记忆。 本数据集包含完整的音频纪录片、35段音频访谈及相关转录文本。