Everton & Tottenham Hotspur in South America 1909

The pioneers of football in foreign lands.
That was how Everton director EA Bainbridge boldly described his club with reference to their tour of 1909. Everton and Tottenham Hotspur had visited Austria -Hungary together in 1905, and now Sir Frederick Wall, chairman of the Football Association, invited the same two clubs to undertake a tour of South America.
 The tour was to last 9 weeks including 3 weeks of travelling and 20 days in South America, leaving Southampton for the 14,000 mile voyage on 14th May and returning from Buenos Aires, Argentina, on 25th June. 
There were one or two hitches- Tottenham actually missed the ship and needed to charter a tugboat to catch it up in the Solent. Also, as a cost cutting measure, the players had been downgraded to second class (but not the officials of course).

Everton during the tour

Tottenham Hotspur 

Alumni -Primera División winners 1909

  6.6.09   Everton 2 - Tottenham Hotspur 2 - this exhibition match, watched by 10,000 including the president of Argentina, was played just hours after the teams arrived in Buenos Aires.

10.6.09  Alumni 0 Everton 4  (Buenos Aires)
             Liga Uruguaya 0  Tottenham Hotspur 8 (Montevideo)

13.6.09  Liga Uruguaya 1 Everton 2 (Montevideo)

             Argentinos 0 Tottenham Hotspur 1 (Buenos Aires)

16.6.09  Liga Argentina 1 Tottenham Hotspur 4 (Buenos Aires)

19.6.09  Everton 4  Tottenham Hotspur 0 (Buenos Aires)

20.6.09   Liga Argentina 1 Everton 4 (Buenos Aires)

              Liga Rosarina 0 Tottenham Hotspur 9 (Rosario)


24.6.09   Alumni 0 Tottenham Hotspur 5 (Buenos Aires)

The tour provided a profit of “£300 for the benefit of football in the Argentine”, and some inspiration for advertising:

Wunderteam

1931-32

Austria had an unbeaten  run of 14 games between April 1931 and December 1932. 
In May 1931 they demolished a depleted Scotland team by outplaying them at their own game, based on short passing.

  12.4.31  Czechoslovakia 2-1 (Vienna, Coupe Internationale européenne) 
    3.5.31  Hungary 0-0  (Vienna, Coupe Internationale européenne)
  16.5.31  Scotland 5-0 (Vienna) 
    4.5.31  Germany 6-0 (Berlin)
  16.6.31  Switzerland 2-0 (Vienna)
  13.9.31  Germany 5-0 (Vienna)
  4.10.31  Hungary 2-2 (Budapest, Coupe Internationale européenne) 
29.11.31  Switzerland 8-1 (Basel, Coupe Internationale européenne) 
  20.3.32  Italy 2-1  (Vienna, Coupe Internationale européenne) 
  24.4.32  Hungary 8-2 (Vienna)
  22.5.32  Czechoslovakia 1-1 (Prague, Coupe Internationale européenne) 
  17.7.32  Sweden 4-3 (Stockholm)
  2.10.32  Hungary 3-2 (Budapest)
23.10.32  Switzerland 3-1  (Vienna, Coupe Internationale européenne)*
  7.12.32  England 3-4 (London)

*Austria winners of 2nd  Coupe Internationale européenne

The unbeaten run came to an end at Stamford Bridge - critics in England felt that they had had a narrow escape, and that had Austria played their natural game from the start that they would have embarrassed England:

English team lucky to win. There could not be the slightest doubt that as a team (Austria) were the superiors.
 Manchester Guardian

 It was victory and no more, and it was by no means easily earned.
The Times. 

The unbeaten run featured  the following personnel:

Goalkeeper: Rudolf Hiden
Right  Backs: Roman Schramseis, Karl Rainer
Left  Backs: Josef Blum, Karl Sesta
Right Halves: Georg Braun, Johann Mock
Center Halves: Josef Smistik, Leopold Hofmann
Left Halves: Karl Gall,  Walter Nausch
Outside Right: Karl Zischek
Inside Right: Friedrich Gschweidl
Center Forward: Matthias Sindelar
Inside Left: Anton Schall
Outside Left: Adolf Vogl

Manager: Hugo Meisl 
Trainer: Jimmy Hogan

Austria's place amongst the top teams in the world endured right up until the country was absorbed by Germany in 1938.
The retrospective Elo World Rankings have them briefly in top position (following a 3-2 win over France) in May 1934. They were favourites to win the 1934 World Cup, but in Italy only Italy could win. In the semi final  Enrique Guaita scored the only goal after Meazza had clattered into the Austrian keeper, Platzer, forcing him to spill the ball.

Raoul Diagne

 Raoul Diagne's father was from Senegal, an eminent politician who became the fist black member of the French Chamber of Deputies
Born in French  Guiana, Diagne played 18 internationals for France from 1931-1940. He was the first African to play for France.  He spent ten seasons (1930–1940) with Racing Club Paris, winning the league and cup double in 1936.
In later life Diagne managed the Senegal national side.

France v Italy 1935

Italy won 2-1.
Note the date- the XIII represents the year of the era fascista, which began when Mussolini came to power.

Tom Watson

Sunderland's most successful manager was born in Newcastle.
Tom Watson took charge the year before Sunderland joined the Football League, and during the six seasons from 1889–96 he led the club to three league championships (1891–92, 1892–93 and 1894–95).

Watson was a believer in fitness and methodical preparation, introducing rules regarding training, diet and lifestyle that modern players would find far from rigorous.
In the summer of 1896 Watson joined Liverpool for a £300 a year salary that was double what he earned at Sunderland.
He led Liverpool for 742 games up until his death in 1915 at the age of 56. Under him Liverpool were First Division champions in 1901 and 1906 and Second Division champions in 1905.

If there was one man who had the supreme gift of creating esprit de corps on a football team of eleven men, then that man, was the same Tom who beat, and hammered, and forged to perfection the steel-tempered football machine that was in his day the "irresistible" Sunderland team...

 Victor Hall, Liverpool Echo 1924.

Campeonato Carioca - 1906

Fluminense 1906

Fluminense was founded in 1902. It was an upmarket club; their home suburb of  Laranjeiras was very exclusive and the club was aimed at well-off young men who had come into contact with football when studying in Europe. Club founder Oscar  Cox was typical. From a wealthy Anglo-Brazilian family he studied in Switzerland, and was responsible for introducing football to Rio. Cox led the Rio selection in their games against Sao Paulo.
By 1905 football had become hugely popular in Rio, and a league, the Liga Metropolitana de Football  was instituted. The first championship was contested by the following 6 teams:

Fluminense 
Paysandu Cricket Club, 
Rio Cricket and Athletic Association,
Bangu, 
Botafogo, 
Football and Athletic Club

America were conspicuous by their absence.





Horácio da Costa Santos- 18 goals in ten games

Fluminense were the first champions. They won 9 and lost 1, scoring 52 goals and conceding 6. Horácio da Costa was top scorer, with 18 goals.

The Football League First Division Table 1919-1930

Huddersfield Town

13 of these 34 clubs are now in the Premier League. Huddersfield Town won the league for 3 years in a row (the first 2 under Herbert Chapman) from 1924-26. That was the first time that this had been achieved. On the resumption of football after the war Arsenal were voted into the First Division and, uniquely, they have remained there ever since.

Rank	Team	Years in Div. 1	Best finish	Average position
1	Huddersfield Town	10	1	6
2	Liverpool	11	1	6
3	Sunderland	11	2	6
4	Aston Villa	11	3	7
5	Leicester City	5	2	7
6	Bolton Wanderers	11	3	7
7	Manchester City	9	2	7
8	Newcastle United	11	1	8
9	Cardiff City	8	2	10
10	Derby County	6	2	10
11	The Wednesday / Sheffield Wednesday	5	1	10
12	Bury	5	4	10
13	West Bromwich Albion	8	1	11
14	Sheffield United	11	5	11
15	Tottenham Hotspur	8	2	12
16	Arsenal	11	2	12
17	Blackburn Rovers	11	6	12
18	Everton	11	1	13
19	West Ham United	7	6	13
20	Manchester United	8	9	13
21	Burnley	11	1	13
22	Birmingham	9	8	13
23	Chelsea	5	3	14
24	Middlesbrough	7	8	15
25	Leeds United	5	5	15
26	Notts County	4	9	15
27	Bradford Park Avenue	2	11	16
28	Bradford City	3	15	17
29	Preston North End	6	16	17
30	Portsmouth	3	13	17
31	Grimsby Town	1	18	18
32	Oldham Athletic	4	17	19
33	Nottingham Forest	3	20	20
34	Stoke	1	21	21

1914- 1918

THE GREATER GAME.

Mr. Punch (to Professional Association Player). "NO DOUBT YOU CAN MAKE MONEY IN THIS FIELD, MY FRIEND, BUT THERE'S ONLY ONE FIELD TO-DAY WHERE YOU CAN GET HONOUR."

[The Council of the Football Association apparently proposes to carry out the full programme of the Cup Competition, just as if the country did not need the services of all its athletes for the serious business of War.]