Complex sentence: The earliest anecdotal account was in 1841, a decade prior to the Victorian gold rush while the written account of football dates to September 1855 with the first official football club formed on 14 May 1859 with the first Australian rules written three days later.
Split into simpler sentences: The earliest anecdotal account was in 1841, a decade prior to the Victorian gold rush. Meanwhile the first written account of Australian rules football dates to September 1855, with the first official football club formed on 14 May 1859, and the first rules of the game written three days later.