On The Take: The 1910 Scandal That Changed Australian Football Forever

Author: Tony Joel; Mathew Turner

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On The Take shines a light on one of the VFL's earliest stars, Carlton's Alex 'Bongo' Lang, a three-time Premiership player, and his sudden and unexpected fall from grace following his central role in one of the Victorian Football League's most scandalous episodes-when Lang was convicted by the League of taking a bribe to play 'dead' in the semi-final of 1910. '