Showing posts with label Bolton Wanderers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bolton Wanderers. Show all posts

18.6.17

1904 FA Cup Final

The first all Lancashire Final.
Billy Meredith scored in the 23rd minute, beating his countryman Dai Davies with a left footed shot. In the illustration Davies (who had played for Swinton in the 1900 Northern Union Rugby Challenge Cup Final)  looks almost like a disinterested bystander.

3.4.17

Alcock on Lancashire

Though the introduction of Association football into Lancashire about the same period as the establishment of the Cup, the first of an innumerable succession of trophies of a similar kind, was a mere coincidence and in no way connected, it is curious, considering the conspicuous part Lancashire clubs have played in the competition of late years, that their origin should have been coeval The paternity of the Association game in Lancashire may be claimed by Mr. J. C. Kay, an old Harrovian, who subsequently made himself a reputation in another branch of sport, as a lawn tennis player of no small ability, as well as manager of perhaps the best organized lawn tennis meeting in the kingdom" that which takes place annually on the ground of the Liverpool Cricket Club. Educated at Harrow, it was only natural that the primitive game in use in Lancashire should have been based very much on the eccentric admixture of different codes to which young Harrow had been used for generation after generation. The introduction of the Association game into Lancashire was, in fact, in a very great measure the work of an old Harrovian, as, some twenty years before, the initiation of the movement which practically led to the revival of football on a proper basis was to a considerable extent the work of a few keen athletes who had graduated at his School. To East Lancashire, in particular, belongs the credit of fostering the game in its infancy, as well as of assisting in the development which has resulted in making Lancashire one of the most powerful influences in Association football Bolton, I believe, was the first place which took at all kindly to the new sport, and, under Mr. Kay's watchful eye, the Harrow game, or perhaps as near a reproduction as could be devised to suit local requirements, for a time supplied all the wants of the lads who were undergoing their novitiate in football. Practice took place in the evenings, and, in fact, the game was of a very primitive kind, followed after the hard work of the day had been completed. It was not long, though, before an attempt was made to evolve something like system out of the rough efforts of these pioneers of Lancashire football. The first result of this organization, I have reason to believe, was the Bolton Wanderers club, which has outlived the many, and some of them excellent, changes through which football has gone during the last quarter of a century, and still remains a power in the land; in fact, one of the most influential combinations of the same kind in the north of England.


C.W Alcock  Football: The Association Game  (1906) 



Bolton Wanderers

C.W Alcock is correct in that it was John Charles Kay, along with his brother, who took the Harrow game to Lancashire, but it was first played at Turton, rather than Bolton.

Mr Alcock  overlooks the 'first wave' of Lancashire clubs (Turton, Darwen) who sowed the seeds that produced illustrious clubs such as Blackburn Rovers (f.1875).
Bolton Wanderers came into being in 1877, evolving from  Christ Church F.C (f.1874).


10.11.16

Wembley 1923




Bolton Wanderers

West Ham United
Dick Pym
GK
Ted Hufton
Bob Haworth
FB
Billy Henderson
Alex Finney
FB
Jack Young
Harry Nuttall
HB
Syd Bishop
Jimmy Seddon
HB
George Kay (c)
Billy Jennings
HB
Jack Tresadern
Billy Butler
F
Dick Richards
David Jack
F
Billy Brown
Jack Smith
F
Vic Watson
Joe Smith (c)
F
Billy Moore
Ted Vizard
F
Jimmy Ruffell
Charles Foweraker
M
Syd King

This was one of those iconic events that has had so much written about it that there's not much to add.
It was a game that shouldn't have been played and a result that shouldn't have been allowed to stand. But there was a game of football, of sorts, played at Wembley Stadium on April 28th 1923.
The crowd, it goes without saying, frequently interfered with the play. Bolton's first goal, scored by David Jack, came when a West Ham defender was trying to extricate himself from the crowd. Jack Smith's second half strike was even more controversial. The ball was played to Vizard by a spectator. Vizard centred and Smith shot. The ball cannoned back into the field of play and the referee awarded a goal, despite the protests of the West Ham players that the shot had hit the post.



12.11.15

Jimmy Brogan






































































                                                                      Lloyd's Weekly London  Newspaper  (15.11.91)

Jimmy Brogan scored 6 goals on his debut in senior football in 1883 (Hibernian beating Edina 10-1 in the Scottish Cup). Brogan joined Heart of Midlothian the following season and then moved to Bolton Wanderers in 1884.  He joined Bolton after appearing  for  Heart of Midlothian in a Boxing Day friendly against  Blackburn Rovers.
I don't have access to statistics from thre pre Football League years, but from 1888-92 Brogan made 82 first team appearances for Bolton , scoring 30 goals. 

1.11.15

Billy Hunter



Scottish outside left Billy Hunter played 150 games for Southern League Millwall Athletic before joining Bolton Wanderers in 1908. Hunter made 55 first team appearances for Bolton over the next 4 seasons.
In 1912 Hunter became manager of Football Club Dordrecht in the Netherlands, and ran the Dutch national side for 4 matches:


15.03.14
Belgium
2
4
Netherlands
Beerschot A.C. Stadion, Antwerp
05.04.14
Netherlands
4
4
Germany
Het Oude Stadion, Amsterdam
26.04.14
Netherlands
4
2
Belgium
Het Oude Stadion, Amsterdam
17.05.14
Denmark
4
3
Netherlands
Copenhagen


P
W
D
L
F
A
4
2
1
1
15
12



He interrupted his career in 1914 to enlist in the British Army.
After the war Hunter coached Lausanne in Switzerland and was involved with  Hakoah Wien in 1923 when they famously beat West Ham United at The Boleyn Ground .
In 1924 Hunter became manager of SK Galatasaray in Istanbul. He managed the Turkish national side in their Olympic debut in 1924. In all he was in charge of the Turkish side for 12 matches:







25.05.24
Czechoslovakia
5
2
Turkey
Stade de Bergeyre, Paris
17.06.24
Finland
2
4
Turkey
Helsinki
19.06.24
Estonia
1
4
Turkey
Tallin
22.06.24
Latvia
1
3
Turkey
Riga
29.06.24
Poland
2
0
Turkey
Łódź
16.11.24
Soviet Union
3
0
Turkey
Moscow
10.04.25
Turkey
2
1
Bulgaria
Istanbul
01.05.25
Romania
1
2
Turkey
Bucharest
15.05.25
Turkey
1
2
Soviet Union
Ankara
02.10.25
Turkey
1
2
Poland
Istanbul
07.05.26
Turkey
1
3
Romania
Istanbul
12.09.26
Poland
6
1
Turkey
Lviv


P
W
D
L
F
A
12
5
0
7
21
29