Our Winter Game

Summer is here. Time to remember, perhaps, that Association Football is primarily a winter game. Queen's Park started off playing in the summer but on the whole, whether in the Northern or Southern hemisphere it's the winter months that see the bulk of the football action. Those lovely sunlit Cup Finals and sweltering international matches are the exception rather than the rule.
Thursday 14th January 1926, an FA Cup 3rd round replay at Craven Cottage. Fulham beat Everton 1-0 thanks to a Bert White goal. Snow fell throughout the game, which was, according to newspaper reports, played in semi darkness. Here the groundsman is uncovering the pitch markings.

We at Before the D are taking our customary May break- be back about June 5th.

Everton v Newton Heath 1889

Dancing and funerals...

As the 1888-89 season drew to a close the press reveals that clubs were engaged in an intense schedule of friendlies. The programme above is from Newton Heath's first ever visit to Anfield.
Everton had finished in 8th place in the Football League , Newton Heath had topped the Combination.
Note that the Everton line up was not as advertised, with the following changes made:
J Angus (Waugh)
W Brown (Chadwick)
R Watson (Parry)
W Briscoe (Wilson)
W Wilson (Weir)


These two well known teams appeared at Anfield last evening it being the first appearance of Newton Heath on the ground. The visitors brought a good team with them and Everton were presented by two or three of their second team. About 3,500 spectators assembled. Williams kicked off, and Everton at once pressed. Farmer and Ross punted into goal-Briscoe sent over to Watson and he parted judiciously to Angus, who scored with a splendid oblique shot, four minutes from the start. Good play by Farmer kept Powell busy, but at length Dobson was beaten by Gotheridge. Ross cleared but Brown put the ball though when he had a good opportunity to pass. The play was kept on the Everton right, which was not to the best advantage. From a foul the ball was taken over the Everton lines for the first time. Parry passing by the whole of the home forwards took the ball down,, and Angus obtained a foul, which Farmer put over the bar. Williams and Jarrett rushed away, but Smalley cleared. Watson was fouled when clear away, but the referee gave a foul. Excellent play by Holt gave Watson and Briscoe possession, they passing to Milward and he shot into Hay's hands, who only partially cleared and Briscoe shot through. Good combined play on the part of the home forwards kept the sphere in the opponents goal, Milward at last give Hays a handful, which he had no difficulty in clearing. A good shot by Owen was diverted by Williams who headed out. Everton then secured a foul near goal, and Watson shot through, but as the ball was wrongly placed it was brought back. Williams started, and Tait and Williams ran down. Williams shot to Smalley's hands, and from some inexplicable cause he allowed the ball to fall and scored for the visitors. Back play by Dobson gave Jarratt a possible chance, but Ross came to the rescue. Hays next had a busy time, as he had to fist out five consecutive shots. Doughty and Gotheridge worked their way down, but found Ross good enough for them, and Angus gave to Brown, who raced away, but nothing came of it. This was directly afterwards followed by a foul in goal and Ross scored the third point for Everton. The home team still maintained the pressure but breaks away by Tait and Gotheridge relieved the monotony. Ross gave a foul in goal, but Holt sent up the field, and Watson forced the pace considerably, and the home forwards again became the aggressive. Score Everton 3 goals; Newton Heath 1 goal, Teams Newton Heath:- Hays (T), goal, Mitchell and Powell, backs Burke, Owen, and Jones, half-backs, Tait, Jarrett, Williams, Doughty, and Gotheridge, forwards. Everton:- Smalley, goal, Dobson, and Ross (captain), Weir, Holt, and Farmer, half-backs, Briscoe, Watson, Milward, Angus, and Brown, forwards.

The Liverpool Mercury  16.04.89

1914

The football authorities came in for a great deal of criticism when play continued following the outbreak of war in 1914. There was no reluctance, however, to exploit the potential of the game as a vehicle to promote voluntary enlistment (conscription was not introduced until 1916).
The above posters appealed to the patriotic inclinations of supporters of Millwall and Tottenham Hotspur.

O ataque dos 100 gols

In the 1927 Campeonato Paulista (the version run by APEA) Santos racked up 100 goals in 16 games, an average of  6.25 goals per game. Remarkably this wasn't enough to secure the title. Palestra Itália were champions, having lost 1 game fewer than Santos (and done the double over them).

03.05.27	Santos	12	1	Ypiranga
	Araken [7], Feitiço [2], Hugo, Camarão,Evangelista
13.05.27	Santos	10	2	República
	Marino (og), Araken [5] , Feitiço [4]
22.05.27	Santos	4	2	Primeiro de Maio
	Feitiço [2], Araken , Omar
05.06.27	Santos	11	2	Barra Funda
	Feitiço [4], Araken [2], Evangelista [2], Camarão [2] , Omar
26.06.27	Santos	5	2	Portuguesa
	Evangelista, Hugo, Omar, Feitiço [2]
03.07.27	Santos	11	3	Americano
	Feitiço [3], Araken [6], Camarão [2]
31.07.27	Santos	9	3	São Paulo Alpargatas
	Araken [4], Feitiço [3],Omar [2]
14.08.27	Comercial	3	4	Santos
	Feitiço [4]
21.08.27	Santos	10	1	Guarani
	Araken [4], Feitiço [3], Camarão [2]. Omar
29.08.27	Santos	4	1	Corinthians
	Araken [2], Caio (og), Camarão
04.09.27	Corinthians	3	8	Santos
	Camarão [3], Araken [3], Feitiço ,Omar
27.11.27	Santos	4	1	Sílex
	Siriri [2], Evangelista, Araken
22.01.28	Palestra Itália	4	1	Santos
	Araken
At the end of the regular season Santos were in 4th place in the league and progressed into a quadrangular play off.
Second Tournament (Play offs)
05.02.28	Guarani	2	4	Santos
	Siriri [2], Camarão, Evangelista
26.02.28	Santos	1	0	Corinthians
	Evangelista
04.03.28	Santos	2	3	Palestra Itália
	Siriri , Camarão

P	W	D	L	F	A
16	14	0	2	100	33

The front line, known as  O ataque dos 100 gols (the attack of 100 goals) is generally listed as Omar, Camarão, Feitiço, Araken and  Evangelista. Siriri also deserves to be included. The principal scorers shared the goals as follows: Araken Patusca – 36, Feitiço - 28,  Camarão - 15, Evangelista - 7, Siriri - 6, Omar - 6.   

Araken

Araken Patusca (Abraham Patusca da Silveira)
Santos was in the genes of Abraham Patusca da Silveira. His father was founder and president of the club. Araken made his debut as a 15 year old, scoring 4 goals in his first match. In all he scored 177 goals in 193 matches for Santos. In 1925 he had toured with Paulistano , and wrote a book about  the tour called Os reis do futebol. Unsurprisingly he was top scorer in the Campeonato Paulista of 1927. My calculation of his tally for that season is 36. Araken played 1 game for Brazil, at the 1930 World Cup. 

Feitiço

Feitiço (Luís Macedo Matoso)

The name Feitiço translates to something like 'magic spell'. Wikipedia states that he represented Uruguay but this is incorrect (he did spend some time at Peñarol). He played 1 official international for Brazil. Feitiço got off to a ridiculously good start in the 1927 season, scoring 27 goals in 9 consecutive matches. In the Paulista v Carioca match of  November 13th a remarkable incident occured. Rio were awarded a penalty and the resulting dispute held the game up for 30 minutes. The President of Brazil was in attendance, and even he was unable to persuade the Paulista players to continue. They left the field. Feitiço was then suspended by Santos for his role in this incident. 
Feitiço was a consistently prolific scorer. In 151 games for Santos he scored 214 goals. He was top scorer in the Campeonato Paulista in 6 seasons.

Camarão (Aníbal de Andrade Torres)
Camarão, whose nickname means Shrimp, was a versatile player, a capable half back, outside right or centre forward. He played 270 games for Santos, scoring 150 goals. He later managed the club. 

Evangelista (João Evangelista Rocha dos Santos), Siriri (Jose Torres) and Omar played their part, sharing 19 goals, but at present I have been unable to unearth much information about them. 

Die Pfarrwiese

Simply adore this panoramic postcard of Rapid Vienna's Pfarrwiese ground. Football in La Belle Époque. 

There is an air of gentility about the scene. People in their Sunday best attending the game.

An assortment of headwear and plenty of walking-canes...

... and this lady has really made an effort!

Note the high fences to prevent the ball being booted out of the ground- this was before Jimmy Hogan taught the Austrians to play it on the carpet.

Rapid moved to this ground  in the Hütteldorf area of Vienna in 1911. The initial capacity was 4,000,

This site has some pictures of the ground as it is today. 

Invincibles - John Goodall & Jimmy Ross

In the first ever season of the Football League John Goodall was the leading scorer, with 20 goals in 21 games for Preston North End.
He scored 2 hat tricks

Jimmy Ross was Preston's next highest scorer, with 19 goals in 21 games.

De Bal van Cyril Bernard Morrogh

College Melle

Royal Antwerp were formed in about 1880 by British expatriates and the Koninklijke Belgische Voetbalbond was established in 1895. Football had first arrived in Belgium in 1863. One football, a leather ball, a luxury item, was taken to The College of the Josephite Fathers at Melle by Cyril Bernard Morrogh . Morrogh was a young student from Ireland. Apparently it was his English classmates who showed most enthusiasm for the game. How closely their activities adhered to the Association Laws of the Game we will never know. Very little, I suspect. 
The information, illustration and post title are taken from Kroniek van het Belgisch Voetball (Fraiponts & Willcox, 2003)

Not the actual ball. This one dates from the 1880s

Металлист Хабаровск

Khabarovsk is 7,000 kilometers east of Moscow, just 30 km from the border with the People's Republic of China.  This is the Metallist Khabarovsk team of 1927. Notice they wear striped shorts- very unusual in any era.

Colo-Colo Tour, 1927

Club Social y Deportivo Colo-Colo only came into being in 1925 when David Arellano and others defected from the Magallanes club. In only their second year of existence Colo-Colo undertook a tour of Central America, Iberia and South America. 

The party, led by President of the Chilean Football Federation, Carlos Cariola and  Secretary Alberto Parodi, included the following players:

Manuel ‘Maestro’ Guerrero*	GK
Roberto Cortés*	GK
Ulises Poirier*	D
Ernesto Chaparro*	D
Jorge Linford*	D
José Rosetti*	D
Francisco ‘Mono’ Arellano*	D
Togo Bascuñán	D
Manuel Figueroa*	D
Víctor Morales*	HB
Waldo ‘El Indio’ Sanhueza	HB
Oscar ‘Colo-Colo’ González	HB
Guillermo Saavedra*	CH
Carlos Schneeberger*	F
Guillermo Subiabre*	F
Horacio Muñoz*	F
David Arellano*	F
José Miguel Olguín*	F
Humberto Moreno*	F

* denotes Chilean international.

 

	Ecuador
14.01.27	Norte América	0	7	Colo-Colo	Guayaquil
15.01.27	Córdova / Racing	0	7	Colo-Colo	Guayaquil
Cuba
28.01.27	Iberia - Juventud Asturiana	1	4	Colo-Colo	Havana
30.01.27	Sport Fortuna	3	2	Colo-Colo	Havana
Mexico
12.02.27	Necaxa	0	3	Colo-Colo	Mexico City
13.02.27	Real España	1	0	Colo-Colo	Mexico City
20.02.27	América	1	6	Colo-Colo	Mexico City
22.02.27	Club México	1	3	Colo-Colo	Mexico City
25.02.27	Atlante	0	4	Colo-Colo	Mexico City
27.02.27	Asturias	1	1	Colo-Colo	Mexico City
01.03.27	Selección de Guadalajara	1	4	Colo-Colo	Guadalajara
03.03.27	Selección de Guadalajara	0	4	Colo-Colo	Guadalajara
08.03.27	Club México - Necaxa	1	3	Colo-Colo	Mexico City
11.03.27	Ejército y Armada	2	3	Colo-Colo	Mexico City
12.03.27	Albinegros de Orizaba	0	5	Colo-Colo	Orizaba
13.03.27	Albinegros de Orizaba	0	8	Colo-Colo	Orizaba
Spain
03.04.27	Pontevedra	3	4	Colo-Colo	La Coruña
07.04.27	Deportivo de La Coruña	2	0	Colo-Colo	La Coruña
10.04.27	Deportivo de La Coruña	2	2	Colo-Colo	La Coruña
Portugal
13.04.27	Oporto /Salgueiros	2	1	Colo-Colo	Porto
15.04.27	Sporting /Benfica	2	4	Colo-Colo	Lisbon
17.04.27	Vitória Setúbal	2	1	Colo-Colo	Lisbon
Spain
24.04.27	Atlético	3	1	Colo-Colo	Madrid
01.05.27	Real Unión Deportiva	2	6	Colo-Colo	Valladolid
02.05.27	Real Unión Deportiva	3	3	Colo-Colo	Valladolid
08.05.27	Valencia C.F.	3	4	Colo-Colo	Valencia
09.05.27	Valencia C.F.	3	1	Colo-Colo	Valencia
13.05.27	Valencia Select	2	4	Colo-Colo	Valencia
15.05.27	Club Deportivo Castellón	2	1	Colo-Colo	Castellón
17.05.27	Puerto de Sagunto	0	1	Colo-Colo	Sagunto
22.05.27	Madrid Select	1	3	Colo-Colo	Madrid
27.05.27	Real Murcia	4	1	Colo-Colo	Murcia
29.05.27	Real Murcia	2	4	Colo-Colo	Murcia
31.05.27	Murcia Select	2	4	Colo-Colo	Murcia
05.06.27	Elche	2	2	Colo-Colo	Elche
09.06.27	Catalunya	4	5	Colo-Colo	Barcelona
12.06.27	Real Sociedad Alfonso XIII	2	5	Colo-Colo	Palma
14.06.27	Real Sociedad Alfonso XIII	2	3	Colo-Colo	Palma
Uruguay
04.07.27	Uruguay Select	5	1	Colo-Colo	Montevideo
07.07.27	Uruguay Select	4	0	Colo-Colo	Montevideo
10.07.27	Peñarol	6	1	Colo-Colo	Montevideo
Argentina
17.07.27	Boca Juniors	6	0	Colo-Colo	Buenos Aires
Chile
24.07.27	Unión Española /Audax Italiano	0	4	Colo-Colo	Santiago

P	W	D	L	F	A
43	26	4	13	130	83

Vs. Necaxa  

Front page news as Mexico's Real España beat the tourists 1-0.

Vs Catalunya at Les Corts

The tour was marred by a tragedy. In the match with Real Unión on May 2nd David Arellano was involved in an aerial collision with the Spanish centre half ,Hornia . As they landed Homia's knee hit Arellano in the stomach.  Arellano  was stretchered off and taken to hospital, where peritonitis was diagnosed. The condition was inoperable and David Arellano passed away the following day. He was 24 years old.