Adam Davis is a former

Australian rules football Australian football, also called Australian rules football or Aussie rules, or more simply football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of 18 players on an Australian rules football playing field, oval field, often a modified ...

field umpire in the

Australian Football League The Australian Football League (AFL) is the pre-eminent professional sports, professional competition of Australian rules football. It was originally named the Victorian Football League (VFL) and was founded in 1896 as a breakaway competition ...

. He has umpired 39 career games in the AFL at the completion of Week 1 of the finals for the 2006 AFL season. Davis won the 2003 ''Umpire of the Year'' award for the AFL Queensland Umpires Association. Players were officially warned about bumping into umpires after

Brisbane Lions The Brisbane Lions are a professional Australian rules football in Australia, Australian rules football club based in Brisbane, Queensland, that compete in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's elite competition. Brisbane are the ...

captain

Michael Voss Michael Voss (born 7 July 1975) is a former professional Australian rules football player with the Brisbane Bears and Brisbane Lions, and current senior coach of the Carlton Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). Voss was a tr ...

shoved Carlton captain

Anthony Koutoufides Anthony Koutoufides (; born 18 January 1973), also known by his nickname of Kouta, is a retired Australian rules footballer who played for the Carlton Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). Considered by many as one of the most ...

into Davis during the

2005 AFL season The 2005 AFL season was the 109th season of the Australian Football League (AFL), the highest level senior Australian rules football competition in Australia, which was known as the Victorian Football League until 1989. The season featured sixt ...

. This resparking an extended debate about the protection of umpires in the AFL.Players warned about ump bumps
, theage.com.au - 14 June 2005. Retrieved on 18 September 2006.

Footnotes

Australian Football League umpires Year of birth missing (living people) Living people {{Sports-official-bio-stub