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Sherrin Football
If it's not a Sherrin, it's just not football - and it all started in a saddlery.
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Sherrin Football
If it's not a Sherrin, it's just not football - and it all started in a saddlery. Thomas William Sherrin, born in Melbourne in 1857, repaired and manufactured saddles and other equestrian equipment. A local VFL club would regularly send English made leather rugby balls to Thomas to patch and repair. One day he had one of sport's great ideas: to improve on the imported product by creating an oval shaped ball with rounder points. The local teams loved it and it was swiftly adopted as the ball their ball of choice.