Bus Parade

The civic parade for a victorious team is now one of the great traditions in world football, dating back to Blackburn Olympic's FA Cup winning celebrations in 1883.
In the 1915-16 season Bethlehem Steel became the first team to complete a National Challenge Cup and  American Cup double.

Spain 1929

A splendid photograph from an interesting blog.
Gorgeous strip on the Spain team that famously defeated England at Madrid's Estadio Metropolitano on May 15th 1929. The great Ricardo Zamora sports his trademark cricket sweater.

Association Football by J.L Jones (1904)

I cannot find words strong enough to express my disapproval. The habit of smoking, once started, may lead to grave disasters.

Jack Jones (1904)

Jack  Jones was born in Rhuddlan but grew up on Merseyside. Early in his career he played for Bootle, but his first taste of League football came at Grimsby Town.  His talent as a cricketer took him to Sheffield United Cricket Club and he then also signed for the Sheffield United Football Club. After 3 seasons at Bramall Lane Jones moved to Tottenham Hotspur. The fact that Tottenham were then in the Southern League meant that United didn't receive a transfer fee. United were further angered as the club had secured Jones a cricket coaching position at Rugby School.
Jones enjoyed 7 years at Tottenham Hotspur, and was captain of the FA Cup winning side in 1901. An outside left, he represented Wales on 21 occasions. 

Jones' book ran to 112 pages and featured chapters entitled The Disposition Of The Field; The Forwards; Half Backs; Backs; The Goalkeeper; Heading, Dribbling, Passing, and Shooting; Training For Football; The Rules Of Association Football; The Football Association  and The Offside Rule.

Artistic License

This large ceramic tile was produced by the Spode company in the 1870s. There is some lovely detail in evidence, such as the construction of the ball and the costumes of the players. However, a closer look at the jerseys reveals some artistic license. Is it fair to assume that the rose and the thistle motifs are meant to suggest that what we are seeing here is an England v Scotland clash, played out against a backdrop of rolling hills?
England, of course, have never sported the rose as a national football emblem (it has always been the crest of the Rugby Union team). The thistle is usually Scotland's Rugby emblem, but the Association team adopted it in the 1890s before a return to the lion rampant that had featured from the first ever international. The combination of hooped jerseys (navy and white) and the thistle emblem might have appeared in 1881, but those jerseys were collared.
See also: http://gottfriedfuchs.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/egg-chasers.html

The club named after a horse...

Club Atlético Porteño (Buenos Aires) was originally formed in July 1895 as Club Atlético Capital. The founders were Irish immigrants . They gambled the club kitty om a horse called Porteño. The horse won, and the club flourished, so they changed the name of the club to that of the horse. 
They rose to the Primera División in 1907 and remained there until until 1928 . When Argentinian football was professionalised in 1931 the football club dropped out of the league. Porteño is now predominantly a Rugby Union club.
Porteño won the Federación Argentina de Football Primera División in 1912 and 1914 and the Copa de Competencia Jockey Club in 1915 and 1918.
Porteño also featured in 2 annual interleague contests , the Copa Rosario (Culaciatti) and Copa Mariano Reyna, in which they represented the Asocación Argentina de Football against Liga Rosarina (invaribaly Rosario),
The team photo comes from the 1919 Copa Rosario final, which Porteño won 1-0. 
The stripes were Royal blue and white. 

Italy 1910

25 footballers identified as 'probables ' for the future Italian national team by Lettura Sportiva in February 1910.
The first Italian XI in May of that year featured 10 of these players (marked *), and 19 of those featured eventually represented their country.  It seems surprising that Genoa CFC or Torino are not represented.

The players (and their clubs) are as follows:

Andrea Doria

Luigi Marchetti

? Ansaldo

Francesco Cali*

Of the 3 players from the Genoese club only the defender Francesco Cali (who had previously represented Switzerland) attained international honours. 

Juventus

Giovanni Goccione

Alfredo Ferraris

Ernesto Borel

Umberto Pennano

None of these players made the international XI.

Club Internazionale

Virgillio Fossati*

Internazionale had only been founded in 1908, and this was the year of their farcical first scudetto. Centre half Fossati was killed in battle in 1918.

Club Ausonia

Giuseppe Rizzi*

Attilio Trerea*

Franco Bontadini

All 3 were capped. Bontadini was selected for the first international  but couldn’t play due to medical school commitments. When selected for international duty he had moved on to Internazionale.

Ausonia Football Club was a Milan based team that folded in 1912.

Milan Foot-Ball and Cricket Club

Pietro Lana *

Aldo Cevenini*

Gustavo Carrer

All three represented Italy. 

Unione Sportiva Milanese

Franco Varisco *

Mario De Simoni*

Arturo Boiocchi *

USM originally wound up in 1928 

Pro Vercelli

Giovanni Innocenti

Giuseppe Milano

Felice Milano

Guido Ara

Pietro Leone

Carlo Corna

Angelo Binaschi

Carlo Rampini

Pro Vercelli were the big guns of Italian football, and the inclusion of 8 of their players shows how highly they were regarded. However, in between the publication of this magazine and the selection of the first Italian XI Pro Vercelli were ostracised for their refusal to play Internaziuonale in a championship play-off, instead fielding a team of 11-15 year olds (of which more soon!). As a consequence of this the Pro Vercelli stars had to wait a while for their international debuts. 

Arsenal

A  football signed by the Arsenal team of 1936.  The signatures are:

 Norman Sidey
A centre half (which was now a central defensive position rather than a playmaker), he played 45 games for Arsenal (1932-38).

Bobby Davidson
The man who had to shoulder the onerous billing of being the next Alex James. Davidson played
63 games and scored 15 goals (1935-1937) but had the reputation of being a  'difficult personality' and moved on to Coventry City.

George Male
The fullback played 321 games for Arsenal (1930-48) He captained England 6 times in his 19 international appearances. 

Alex James
Among the greatest footballers of all time, James was the man who developed the role of the inside forward into something more approaching the modern midfielder. 

George Cox
In 2 seasons Cox played 7 games for Arsenal. He then moved on to Fulham, but his career never really took off.

Peter Dougal
A peripatetic Scottish inside forward whose many clubs included  FC Sete in France.

 Jackie Milne
A versatile winger, playing either left or right, Milne was at the club from 1935 to 1937 and played 54 games, scoring 19 goals .

Bob John 
Welsh international (15 caps) half back. John was with Arsenal from 1922 to 1937, making 470 appearances.  

Cliff Bastin
By the age of nineteen Bastin had won a League title, the FA Cup and been capped for England, making him the youngest player ever to achieve all three. 
He played 399 games for Arsenal having joined from Exeter City as a 17 yr old.  An outside left, he won  21 caps. He suffered with deafness.

 Les Compton.
A full back and later a centre half, he represented England twice and was associated with Arsenal for 22 years, playing over 250 matches. 

George Allison (Manager)
Given the unenviable task of succeeding the most innovative manager in the history of football Mr Allison did a more than decent job. An old school secretary manager with little involvement in coaching or tactics he led the Gunners to 2 league titles and 2 FA Cup wins.  In the 1939 film The Arsenal Stadium Mystery, he had the prophetic line: It's one-nil to the Arsenal. That's the way we like it.


 Joe Shaw (Assistant Manager)
Shaw had joined Arsenal as a player in 1907. On retiring in 1922 he joined the coaching staff and became caretaker manager when Herbert Chapman passed away. He oversaw the winning of the 1933-34 League title.

Arsenal players on a training walk.This form of fitness preparation has now fallen out of favour. 

Football publications of the 1860s

The Laws of the Game

Shortly after the Football Association formulated The Laws of the Game in 1863 they were published by John Lillywhite of Seymour Street in a booklet that cost a shilling and sixpence.

Kicking the ball- simply explained with the aid of annotated diagrams(!)

Beeton's Football

In 1866 cricket writer Frederick Wood produced Beeton's Football. The Beeton's series covered a wide range of subjects, and was an offshoot of the legendary Beeton's Book of Household Management.
The book contained hints on diet and preparation (avoid foods and habits which are injurious to the wind and general powers of endurance), and illustrated guidance on how to best kick the ball. 
the 98 page octavo book cost a shilling .

Sporting Life 07.02.66

Routledge's Handbook of Football

The next publisher to respond to the growing popularity of football was G. Routledge and Sons. Their 60 page Handbook of Football appeared in 1867.

The quality of the advice, which might, to modern ears, sound quite naive, is indicative of the rudimentary state of the game at this point in time: 

For excellent fellows at football the prettiest costume is a coloured velvet cap with tassel, a tight striped jersey and white flannel trousers. It is a good plan, if it can be previously so arranged, to have one side with striped jerseys of one colour, say red, and the other with another, say blue. This prevents confusion and wild attempts to run after and wrest the ball from your neighbour. 
If you have the good fortune to own a copy you could expect to get £500 for it at auction. 


The Football Annual

The Lillywhite family had been publishing cricket books since 1848. 
The first John Lilywhite's Football Annual appeared in 1868. It was edited by  Charles Alcock, and was called The Football Annual from 1869 to 1908 .  The annuals are exceedingly rare and are commonly known as Charles Alcock's Football Annual. 
'Published with the sanction of the Football Association', the annual was a combination of rule book, instruction manual, and club directory. It contained advertisements for sports goods. 
The 85 page 1868 edition covered both Association and Rugby codes. 

National Challenge Cup Winners 1930-32

A look at the winners of the United States' National Challenge Cup in the early 1930s reveals the following interesting sequence:

1930
The Fall River Marksmen of the Atlantic Coast League defeated Bruell Insurance of Cleveland over 2 legs.  At New York Polo Grounds (30.03.30) Marksmen won  7-2. Jimmy McAuley (3),Werner Nilsen (3) and Alex McNab were the scorers. Luna Park, Cleveland hosted the second leg on 06.04.30- , Marksmen winning  2-1, with goals by McNab and Bob McAuley.

1931
Fall River Marksmen don't appear in the league tables for the 1931 season, as the club had relocated to New York and had become the New York Yankees. However, for the National Challenge Cup they played under the name of Fall River Marksmen, having entered the tournament before the move to New York.
In the final the Marksmen/Yankees faced Chicago Bricklayers.
The 1st leg at the Polo Grounds (05.04.31) finished 6-2, Bert Patenaude scoring 5 goals and Bill McPherson 1.  
Bizarrely the rules of the contest meant that a 1-1 draw in the 2nd match (played at Chicago's Mills Stadium 12.04.31) meant that a 3rd match was required.  (Billy Gonsalves scored the Fall River goal). 
The deciding game at Sparta Stadium ,Chicago, was played on 19.04.31. Alex McNab had broken his arm in a midweek friendly and Fall River played the entire match with 10 men , winning 2-0 with goals from Patenaude and Gordon Burness.

1932
The New York Yankees relocated after just one season, becoming The New Bedford Whalers. Under their new guise they again reached the final of the National Challenge Cup, where they defeated Stix, Baer & Fuller of St. Louis.
Both games were played at Sportsman's Park, St. Louis. On 26.03.32  the result was a 3-3 draw (some discrepancies exist over the identities of the scorers). The following week Whalers won 5-2.White, Nilsen, Gonsalves, McPherson and Florie scored the goals.

Marksmen 1930
1st leg	2nd leg
Johnny Reder	Johnny Reder
Bob McAuley	Charlie McGill
McArthur	Bob McAuley
Bill McPherson	Bill McPherson
Priestley	Priestley
Bobby Ballantyne	Bobby Ballantyne
Alex McNab	Alex McNab
Billy Gonsalves	Billy Gonsalves
Werner Nilsen (Gavin)	Werner Nilsen
Jimmy McAuley	Bert Patenaude
James Tec White	James Tec White

Marksmen (New York Yankees) 1931
1st leg	2nd leg	3rd leg
Johnny Reder	unchanged	Johnny Reder
Charlie McGill		Charlie McGill
Augusto John Rebello		Augusto John Rebello
Bill McPherson		Bill McPherson
Johnny Caldwell		Johnny Caldwell
Bobby Ballantyne		Bobby Ballantyne
Alex McNab
Werner Nilsen		James Tec White
Bert Patenaude		Bert Patenaude
Billy Gonsalves		Billy Gonsalves
James Tec White		Gordon Burness

New Bedford Whalers 1932
1st leg	2nd leg
Watson	unchanged
Augusto John Rebello
McMillen
Johnny Caldwell
Montgomerie
Bill McPherson
Tom Florie
Billy Gonsalves
Werner Nilsen
James Tec White
Alex McNab

Some players of note:-

Johnny Reder
 Born in Poland, Reder also played baseball for Boston Red Sox.

Bob McAuley
Born in Glasgow, raised in Montreal. McAuley later played for Glasgow rangers, Chelsea and Cardiff City and won 2 caps for Scotland in 1931.

Bill McPherson
Began his career with his hometown club Greenock Morton and joined Beith before emigrating to the USA,

Bobby Ballantyne
Another Glasweigian , he later returned to Scotland and played for Aberdeen and St Johnstone.

Alex McNab
Another nastive of Greenock who played for Greenock Morton. Represented scotland twice in 1921. Went to the states in 1924 

Werner “Scotty” Nilsen
In a team of many Scots it was Norweigian Nilsen who was known as Scotty. He moved to the USA as a 19 year old. Represented the USA at the 1934 World Cup. Was also a male model!

Billy Gonsalves
Adelino Gonçalves was born in Rhode Island, his parents were from Madeira . Played for the USA in the 1930 and 1934 World Cups. His  professional career spanned 25 years.

Jimmy McAuley
An Irishman who had played for Ards before moving to the USA where he first played for Philedelphia Celtic. 

James Tec White
Another Scotsman, White played for Albion Rovers, Maidstone united and motherwell before Sam Mark persuaded him to join Fall River Marksmaen.

Charlie McGill
McGill had previously played for Third Lanark. 

Bert Patenaude
A native of Fall River, he played for the USA at the 1930 World Cup. 

Tom Florie
Played for the USA in the 1930 and 1934 World Cups.

Goodison Park

'The first purpose built football stadium in England'- Goodison Park opened on 24 August 1892. FA dignitaries Lord Kinnaird and Frederick Wall were present, but strangely there was no football match- a 12,000 crowd saw athletics followed music and a fireworks display. Everton's first game at the new stadium was on 1st September 1892 when they beat Bolton Wanderers  4-2. 2,000 less people were present than had been for the fireworks!. The first Everton XI to take to the pitch at the new stadium was:
Jardine, Howarth, Dewar, Boyle, Holt, Robertson, Latta, Maxwell, Chadwick, Millward.
The same line up faced  Nottingham Forest in the opening League fixture on September 3rd (a 2-2 draw).
Out of Doors magazine commented in  October 1892:
No single picture could take in the entire scene the ground presents, it is so magnificently large, for it rivals the greater American baseball pitches. On three sides of the field of play there are tall covered stands, and on the fourth side the ground has been so well banked up with thousands of loads of cinders that a complete view of the game can be had from any portion.it appears to be one of the finest and most complete grounds in the kingdom...

The illustration above shows the friendly between Everton and Heart of Midlothian on November 12th 1892. The match ended in a 2-0 victory for the hosts. The drawing shows the Gwladys Street End and Goodison Road - the old St Luke's Church  is in the background. The corner flags look like they belong on a crazy golf course. 

Liverpool Mercury -  21.11.92

Campeonato Sud Americano de Football

1916

	Winners	Entrants	Top Scorer	Player of Tournament	Hosts
1916	Uruguay	Argentina Brazil Chile Uruguay	Isabelino Gradín (Uru) 3	Isabelino Gradín (Uru)	Argentina
More here

1917

	Winners	Entrants	Top Scorer	Player of Tournament	Hosts
1917	Uruguay	Argentina Brazil Chile Uruguay	Ángel Romano (Uru) 4	Hector Scarone (Uru)	Uruguay
More here

1919

	Winners	Entrants	Top Scorer	Player of Tournament	Hosts
1919	Brazil	Argentina Brazil Chile Uruguay	Arthur Friedenreich & Neco (Br) 4	Arthur Friedenreich (Br)	Brazil
More here here  and here

1920

	Winners	Entrants	Top Scorer	Player of Tournament	Hosts
1920	Uruguay	Argentina Brazil Chile Uruguay	Jose Perez & Ángel Romano (Uru) 3	José Piendibene (Uru)	Chile
Noteworthy for a 6-0 win for Uruguay over Brazil. Uruguay won all 3 of their matches, scoring 9 goals in the process.

1921

	Winners	Entrants	Top Scorer	Player of Tournament	Hosts
1921	Argentina	Argentina Brazil Paraguay Uruguay	Julio Libonatti (Arg)  3	Américo Tesoriere (Arg)	Argentina
Paraguay’s first appearance. Their opening match, against Uruguay, was only their 7th international. They beat the champions 2-1. Withdrew: Chile

1922

	Winners	Entrants	Top Scorer	Player of Tournament	Hosts
1922	Brazil	Argentina Brazil Chile Paraguay Uruguay	Julio Francia (Arg) 4	Agostinho Fortes Filho (Br)	Brazil
Moved from planned venue Chile in order to mark 100 years of Brazilian independence. All the matches were played at Estadio das Laranjeiras. At the conclusion of the tournament Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay were tied on 5 points- Brazil only having 1 win to the other countries’ 2.  Uruguay then withdrew, leaving Brazil and Paraguay to play off for the championship. Brazil won 3-0. Paraguay’s 10 outfield players had walked off the pitch in the 79th minute of their defeat to Argentina, but this went unpunished by the authorities.

1923

	Winners	Entrants	Top Scorer	Player of Tournament	Hosts
1923	Uruguay	Argentina Brazil Paraguay Uruguay	Pedro Petrone (Uru) & Vicente Aguirre (Arg) 3	José Nasazzi (Uru)	Uruguay
Used as a qualifying tournament for the 1924 Olympics. All matches were played at Estadio Gran Parque Central. The tournament was decided in the final match played, Uruguay beating Argentina 2-0. Withdrew: Chile

1924

	Winners	Entrants	Top Scorer	Player of Tournament	Hosts
1924	Uruguay	Argentina Chile Paraguay Uruguay	Pedro Petrone (Uru) 4	Pedro Petrone (Uru)	Uruguay
Paraguay declined the offer to host the tournament. It was instead played at Estadio Gran Parque Central in honour of Uruguay’s triumph at the 1924 Olympics. Withdrew: Brazil

1925

	Winners	Entrants	Top Scorer	Player of Tournament	Hosts
1925	Argentina	Argentina Brazil Paraguay	Manuel Seoane (Arg) 6	Manuel Seoane (Arg)	Argentina
Only 3 teams competed. Chile withdrew in response to their poor showing in 1924 when they lost all 3 matches and conceded 10 goals, Uruguay because of splits in the governing bodies.. Note the unusual presence of a black player in the Argentina side- Alejandro De Los Santos of El Porvenir- the first black man to represent Argentina. Withdrew: Chile, Uruguay.

1926

	Winners	Entrants	Top Scorer	Player of Tournament	Hosts
1926	Uruguay	Argentina Bolivia Chile Paraguay Uruguay	David Arellano (Chile) 7	Jose Andrade (Uru)	Chile
Bolivia entered for the first time and shipped 24 goals in 4 matches, although it was Paraguay who suffered the worst loss- 8-0 to Argentina. Withdrew: Brazil

1927

	Winners	Entrants	Top Scorer	Player of Tournament	Hosts
1927	Argentina	Argentina Bolivia Peru Uruguay	5 players scored 3 goals.	Manuel Seoane (Arg)	Peru
The tournament served as a qualifier for the 1928 Olympics. Peru participated for the first time. 37 goals were scored (6.17 per match) with both Argentina and Uruguay scoring 15 goals. Withdrew: Brazil, Chile, Paraguay

1929

	Winners	Entrants	Top Scorer	Player of Tournament	Hosts
1929	Argentina	Argentina Paraguay Peru Uruguay	Aurelio González (Par) 5	Manuel Nolo Ferreira (Arg)	Argentina
No contest was held in 1928 due to the absence of Argentina, Chile and Uruguay at the Olympics. Withdrew: Bolivia, Brazil, Chile

1935

	Winners	Entrants	Top Scorer	Player of Tournament	Hosts
1935	Uruguay	Argentina Chile Peru Uruguay	Herminio Masantonio (Arg) 4	José Nasazzi (Uru)	Peru
Relations between Argentina and Uruguay had effectively been severed following the 1930 World Cup and the 2 sides didn’t meet for 2 years. The resumption of the South American Championship also served as a qualifying competition for the 1936 Olympics (although ultimately neither Argentina nor Uruguay travelled to Berlin for financial reasons). It was an additional tournament- no trophy was awarded. Withdrew: Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay

1937

	Winners	Entrants	Top Scorer	Player of Tournament	Hosts
1937	Argentina	Argentina Brazil Chile Paraguay Peru Uruguay	Raúl Toro (Chile) 7	Vicente de la Mata (Arg)	Argentina
Brazil returned after a 4 tournament / 12 year absence. They were defeated by Argentina in a play-off.  2 extra time goals won it for Argentina, who had previously beaten Brazil earlier in the tournament. 69 goals were scored (4.31 per match). Withdrew: Bolivia, Colombia.