International Football in the 1870s

13 Internationals were played in the 1870s, with England, Scotland and Wales taking part. There was no international competition as such, all the matches being designated friendlies.

The matches:

30.11.72	Scotland	0	0	England	Hamilton Crescent, Partick
08.03.73	England	4	2	Scotland	Kennington Oval
07.03.74	Scotland	2	1	England	Hamilton Crescent , Partick
06.03.75	England	2	2	Scotland	Kennington Oval
04.03.76	Scotland	3	0	England	Hamilton Crescent , Partick
25.03.76	Scotland	4	0	Wales	Hamilton Crescent , Partick
03.03.77	England	1	3	Scotland	Kennington Oval
05.03.77	Wales	0	2	Scotland	The Racecourse, Wrexham
02.03.78	Scotland	7	2	England	Hampden Park #1
23.03.78	Scotland	9	0	Wales	Hampden Park #1
18.01.79	England	2	1	Wales	Kennington Oval
05.04.79	England	5	4	Scotland	Kennington Oval
07.04.79	Wales	0	3	Scotland	The Racecourse, Wrexham

	P	W	D	L	F	A	%
Scotland	12	8	2	2	41	15	66
England	9	3	2	4	17	24	33
Wales	5	0	0	5	1	21	0

153 players were capped: 69 by England , 48 by Scotland and 37 by Wales  - if you notice the figures don't add up? That's because John Hawley Edwards was capped by both Wales and England.
At the end of the decade Billy MacKinnon (Queen's Park & Scotland) was the most capped international (9 appearances). He also shared the honour of being the top goalscorer in international football (5 goals) with his countrymen Harry McNeil and John Ferguson.
Here, then is a list of the men who played international football in the 1870s:

Scotland
1	Robert Gardner	Granville/Queens Park/ Clydesdale
2	Joseph Taylor	Queens Park
3	William Ker	Granville/Queens Park
4	James Thomson	Granville/Queens Park
5	James Smith	Queens Park/ South Norwood
6	Billy MacKinnon	Queens Park
7	Jerry Weir	Queens Park
8	Robert Leckie	Queens Park
9	David Wotherspoon	Queens Park
10	Robert Smith	Queens Park/ South Norwood
11	Alexander Rhind	Queens Park
12	Henry Renny-Tailyour	Royal Engineers
13	Lord Arthur Kinnaird	Wanderers
14	John Blackburn	Royal Engineers
15	William Gibb	Clydesdale
16	John Hunter	Third Lanarkshire RV
17	Charles Campbell	Queen’s Park
18	John Ferguson	Vale of Leven
19	Harry McNeil	Queen’s Park
20	Angus MacKinnon	Queen’s Park
21	Frederick Anderson	Clydesdale
22	Alexander McLintock	Vale of Leven
23	Alexander Kennedy	Glasgow Eastern
24	Thomas C.Highet	Queen’s Park
25	Peter Andrews	Glasgow Eastern
26	John McPherson	Clydesdale
27	Alexander McGeoch	Dumbreck
28	William Miller	Third Lanark RV
29	John Baird	Vale of Leven
30	Robert Neill	Queen’s Park
31	Jimmy Lang	Clydesdale / Third Lanark RV
32	Moses McNiel	Glasgow Rangers
33	Thomas Vallance	Glasgow Rangers
34	James Phillips	Queen’s Park
35	James Richmond	Queen’s Park
36	John McGregor	Vale of Leven
37	John McDougall	Vale of Leven
38	John Smith	Mauchline
39	Andrew McIntyre	Vale of Leven
40	Robert Parlane	Vale of Leven
41	James Duncan	Alexandra Athletic
42	David Davidson	Queen’s Park
43	James Watson	Glasgow Rangers
44	Peter Campbell	Glasgow Rangers
45	William Somers	Queen’s Park
46	John McPherson	Vale of Leven
47	William Beveridge	Glasgow University
48	Robert Paton	Vale of Leven

England
1	Robert Barker	Herts Rangers
2	Ernest Harwood Greenhalgh	Notts County
3	Reginald Courtenay Welch	Harrow Chequers/ Wanderers
4	Frederick Chappell	Oxford University
5	William Maynard	1st Surrey Rifles
6	John Brockbank	Cambridge University
7	Charlie Clegg	The Wednesday
8	Arnold Kirke Smith	Oxford University
9	Cuthbert Ottaway	Oxford University
10	Charles Chenery	Crystal Palace
11	Charles Morice	Barnes
12	Alexander Morten	Crystal Palace
13	Leonard Howell	Wanderers
14	Alfred Goodwyn	Royal Engineers
15	Robert Vidal	Oxford University
16	Pelham George von Donop	Royal Engineers
17	William Clegg	The Wednesday
18	Alexander Bonsor	Wanderers
19	William Kenyon-Slaney	Wanderers
20	Hubert Heron	Wanderers
21	Robert Ogilvie	Clapham Rovers
22	Alfred Stratford	Wanderers
23	Francis Birley	Oxford University/ Wanderers
24	Charles Wollaston	Wanderers
25	John Hawley Edwards	Shropshire Wanderers
26	Robert Kingsford	Wanderers
27	John Owen	Sheffield FC
28	William Carr	Owlerton
29	Edward Haygarth	Swifts
30	Herbert Rawson	Royal Engineers
31	Charles Alcock	Wanderers
32	William Rawson	Oxford University
33	Richard Geaves	Clapham Rovers
34	Arthur Savage	Crystal Palace
35	Fred Green	Wanderers
36	Edgar Field	Clapham Rovers
37	Ernest Bambridge	Swifts
38	Beaumont Jarrett	Cambridge University
39	Arthur Cursham	Notts County
40	Frank Heron	Wanderers
41	Charles Eastlake Smith	Crystal Palace
42	Walter Buchanan	Clapham Rovers
43	Monty Betts	Old Harrovians
44	William Lindsay	Wanderers
45	Lindsay Bury	Cambridge University/Old Etonians
46	Alfred Lyttelton	Cambridge University
47	Cecil Wingfield-Stratford	Royal Engineers
48	John Bain	Oxford University
49	Billy Mosforth	The Wednesday/ Sheffield Albion
50	Conrad Warner	Upton Park
51	Edward Lyttelton	Cambridge University
52	Jack Hunter	Sheffield Heeley
53	Norman Bailey	Clapham Rovers
54	Percy Fairclough	Old Foresters
55	Henry Wace	Wanderers
56	John Wylie	Wanderers
57	Rupert Anderson	Old Etonians
58	Claude William Wilson	Oxford University
59	Edward Parry	Old Carthusians
60	Thomas Heathcote Sorby	Thursday Wanderers
61	Herbert Whitfield	Old Etonians
62	Reg Birkett	Clapham Rovers
63	Harold Morse	Notts County
64	Edward Christian	Old Etonians
65	James Prinsep	Clapham Rovers
66	Arnold Hills	Old Harrovians
67	Arthur Goodyer	Nottingham Forest
68	Francis Sparks	Herts  Rangers
69	Charlie Bambridge	Swifts

Wales
1	David Thompson	Druids/Shropshire Wanderers
2	William Addams Williams Evans	Oxford University
3	Llewelyn Kenrick	Druids/Shropshire Wanderers Oswestry
4	Edwin A Cross	Wrexham
5	William Williams	Druids
6	Dr Daniel Grey	Druids
7	William H Davies	Oswestry
8	George F Thomson	Druids
9	John Hawley Edwards	Shrewsbury
10	Jack Jones	Druids
11	Alfred Davies	Wrexham
12	Thomas B Burnett	Ruabon
13	John R Morgan	Cambridge University /Swansea
14	John Price	Wrexham
15	Alexander F Jones	Oxford University
16	John Hughes	Cambridge University /Aberystwyth Town
17	Edward Phennah	Wrexham
18	George G Higham	Oswestry
19	Jack Powell	Druids
20	Harry Edwards	Wrexham
21	George Savin	Oswestry
22	James Davies	Wrexham
23	Thomas J Britten	Parkgrove Glasgow
24	Charles Edwards	Wrexham
25	George Glascodine	Wrexham
26	Thomas Owen	Oswestry
27	W William Shone	Oswestry
28	Denis Heywood	Oswestry
29	William Digby Owen	Oswestry
30	William Roberts	Llangollen
31	John Davies	Wrexham
32	Knyvett Crosse	Druids
33	William Williams	Oswestry
34	James W Lloyd	Wrexham
35	George Woosnam	Newtown White Stars
36	John Roberts	Corwen
37	Jack Vaughan	Oswestry

Mr. John Madden

Wilhelmina...

In 1908 a football club was formed in a street corner cafe (De Vereeniging) in Rotterdam. It has been claimed that the inspiration was the receipt, as a birthday gift, of a genuine leather football by one Cees Van Baaren.

The lads who formed the club gave it the name Wilhelmina , the name of the local church near which they held their kickabout games. According to some sources the founders were van Baaren (age 17), G.A Muller, Gerard van Leerdam , J. Bladel, and  L. den Hertog . Other sources include Nico  Struijs and give the name Henk Mulder in place of Muller.  Van Baaren,  Muller, van Leerdam and Struijs featured in the club's first ever fixture, a  2-1 win over Be Quick Bospolder. 

 In 1909 the name was changed to HFC (Hillesluise Footbal Club) and joined the Rotterdam Football Association. However, the Association wouldn't accept the name  HFC as Haarlem FC  (now Royal HFC Haarlem) were already members. 

Van Baaren in the plain jersey, hand on GA Muller's shoulder. The hoops were black and yellow. 

The club now chose the name Celeritas (Latin for swift or speedy) and replaced their red white and blue kit with black and yellow hoops.

In 1912 Celeritas were promoted into the third tier of the Dutch Football Association. This necessitated another name change (there was a Celeritas den Haag) . In July 1912 members voted on 3 possible names: Mars, Het Zuiden or Feijenoord.  Feijenoord (later Feyenoord) was chosen, and the new colours of red and white were adopted to mark the change. 
The following month, under the new name, the club won it;s first ever trophy, the Concordiaan-Beker.

Henry Renny-Tailyour

Born in India, raised in Montrose, educated at Cheltenham College and Royal Woolwich Military Academy. Henry Waugh Renny-Tailyour was a great all round sportsman.

In May 1870 in the games between the 2 Royal Military Academies, Woolwich and  Sandhurst , he won the 1/2 mile  race ( in 2 mins 10), and finished  2nd in the mile.  The following month Renny-Tailyour scored a century in the cricket match between the Royal Military Academy  and the Royal Engineers. In July 1870 he graduated from the Academy and became a Lieutenant in the Royal Engineers.

In 1871 Renny-Tailyour represented Scotland in the  4th match in the unofficial 'England v Scotland' series, played at The Oval on 18th November. Renny -Tailyour scored  in a 2-1 defeat. 

Further evidence of the Lieutenant's versatility came when on 5th February 1872 at The Oval when he played (as a forward) in the second ever  international under Rugby Football rules. A dead leg received in this match kept Renny-Tailyour out of action for the next couple of weeks, meaning he was unable to play in the 5th 'Alcock International'.

On 16th March that year however he was back at The Oval, playing in the first FA Cup Final, in which the Royal Engineers went down 1-0 to The Wanderers. 

In 1873 Renny-Tailyour became the only man to represent Scotland at both Rugby and Association when he was one of 4 English based players called into service for the 2nd international. The Oval was again the venue, and in the 10th minute, with England 2-0 ahead, Renny-Tailyour scored Scotland's first ever goal in international football. (England won 4-2).

Renny-Tailyour features prominently in match reports of the Royal Engineers' club matches during the early 1870s, a period during which they were a major force in terms of both results and the evolution of style. In 1871-72 they lost just 1 out of 20 games (the FA Cup Final) scoring 73 to 2. In the 4 seasons 1871-72 to 1874-75 the stats were:

P	W	D	L	F	A
86	74	9	3	244	21

Another of those very rare defeats came in the 1874 FA Cup Final, a 2-0 loss against Oxford University.
  Renny-Tailyour won the FA Cup with Royal Engineers at the third attempt in 1875. In a replayed final The Sappers beat Old Etonians 3-0, (after a 1-1 draw), with Renny-Tailyour scoring in both matches.


This seems to have marked the end of Renny-Tailyour's football career. He married in the summer of 1875 (his wife was the sister of  Royal Engineers teammate and England internationalist Cecil Wingfield-Stratford).

During the 1875-76 season he was being written about in the  past tense in football reports ruing the decline in the Royal Engineers team (and partly attributing this decline to the 'loss' of Renny-Tailyour).
In March 1876 he was appointed Aide De Camp to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.
One aspect of Renny-Tailyour's sporting life persisted into the 1880s. His first class cricket career extended from 1873 to 1883. He represented MCC and Kent as well as playing in the Gentlemen v Players matches. In 1880 he scored 266 for Royal Engineers against The Civil Service, an uncommonly high score at the time.  

European International Football 1914-1919

Turin, 31.01.15- Italy 3- Switzerland 1.

European International Football 1914-1919

The Central Powers

Austria played 22 matches during the hostilities-19 editions of their long running series with Hungary and 3 against neutral Switzerland

Germany played no internationals between April 1914 and June 1920.

Hungary played 19 matches v Austria.

The Entente Powers

Belgium (site of the Western Front hostilities) played no matches between April 1914 and March 1919.

Finland (then a part of the Russian Empire) played no matches from May 1914 to May 1919.

France played no matches between May 1914 and March 1919.

Italy played Switzerland in 1915 before entering the war.

Russia played its last international in July 1914 and ceased to exist following the October Revolution in 1917.

The United Kingdom.

The 4 United Kingdom teams- England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales, all suspended internationals during the period of the war. In Scotland domestic football continued.
England and Scotland played each other twice for charitable causes...

13 May 1916 - England 4 Scotland 3

8 June 1918 - Scotland 2 England 0

Stockholm, 20.8.16- Sweden 2- U.S.A 3.

Neutrals

Denmark played 15 games v Norway and Sweden.

Luxembourg (under German occupation) played no matches between February 1914 and August 1920.

Netherlands played no matches between May 1914 and June 1919.

Norway featured in 17 matches including 1 vs USA and 16 against Sweden and Denmark.

Sweden played 18 matches during the hostilities-1 vs USA and 17 against Norway and Denmark.

Switzerland played 5 matches, 1 against Italy (before Italy entered the war), 3 v Austria and 1 v Hungary.

Imports

Hiden

In 1930 Herbert Chapman was very keen on signing Rudolf Hiden for Arsenal. 

We have seen how Glasgow Rangers had imported Karl Pekarna (sadly the Scottish public did not witness the full extent of his undoubted talents) and Tottenham Hotspur had flirted with the recruitment of the French goalkeeper Pierre Chayriguès from Red Star in 1913.
Hiden was probably the best goalkeeper in the World. In May 1930 the 21 year old had impressed in a 0-0 draw with England in Vienna.  Chapman, ever the progressive, had strong connections with Hugo Meisl and the sophisticated world of Danubian coffee house football culture. 
The transfer of Hiden to Arsenal from Wiener Athletiksportclub was opposed by both the players' union and the Football League. They lobbied the Ministry of Labour to prevent the deal, based on the argument that for Arsenal to employ Hiden would be a simple case of taking a job from an Englishman and giving it to a foreigner. 
The combined forces of the Football Association, The Football League, the player's union and the Ministry of Labour ensured that the Hiden transfer was never completed. Hiden moved to Racing (Paris) in 1933. His first name became Rodolphe and he earned 1 cap for France in 1940.
On 1 June 1931 the  FA Council approved the following:
A professional player who is not a British-born subject is not eligible to take part in any competition under the jurisdiction of this Association unless he possesses a two-year residential qualification within the jurisdiction of the Association.
This move reflected the attutude expressed by senior FA councillor and Football League Management Committee member  Charles Sutcliffe in August 1930 ; The idea of bringing foreigners to play in league football is repulsive to the clubs, offensive to British players and a terrible confession of weakness in the management of a club. It will be a bad day for club managers when they have to cultivate team spirit in a team of players where some would not understand a word said to them.

In the 1930-31 season Arsenal did feature a foreign goalkeeper-Gerrit Keizer of the Netherlands. 
Keizer had joined Ajax as a 16 year old. He moved to England to study the language in 1930, playing as an amateur for Margate Town (he was registered with Milwall but never turned out  for the Lions). Keizer's status as an amateur seems to have diffused any protests regarding his playing in England.  Chapman signed Keizer for Arsenal, but the extent of his first team career was 12 matches from August to October 1930. The following season he appeared 17 times for Charlton Athletic in Division 2 . Before moving back to Ajax (he was first choice goalkeeper for 15 years, making over 300 appearances) he was briefly on the books at Queen's Park Rangers. 

Keizer

Sparta Prague in North America 1926

The voyage 

Sparta Prague won the Stredoceska I. Liga (Czech national Championship) in the 1925-26 season. In the autumn of 1926 they undertook a 2 month tour of North America. It was a strong squad; of the 18 players who went on the tour 17 won international honours. Jan Dvořáček, league top scorer with 32 goals (from 18 games!) did not travel. 

Standing:

Josef Fanta
Fanta managed the Czech national team throughout the 1920s and up until 1933.

 František Hochmann

7 Czechoslovakia caps. Goalkeeper.

Antonín Kaliba

Kaliba was loaned from Union Žižkov to cover the injured Hochmann and stayed on for the tour. He had kept goal 7 times for Czechoslovakia back in 1922-23.

Jaroslav Polacek
Represented Czechoslovakia once in 1925. Forward.

Josef Miclik
Spent 4 seasons at Sparta and won 2 league titles. Forward.

Jaroslav Červený

7 caps for Czechoslovakia, he remained in the USA following the tour, Playing for Sparta of Chicago.
Halfback.

Ferdinand Hajný 
A Mitropa Cup winner with Sparta in 1927, Hajný represented Czechoslovakia on 12 occasions. Inside left. 

Rudolf Dolejší
Joined Sparta from Rapid Prague in 1926. Won 1 international cap for Czechoslovakia that summer. Fullback.

Karel Steiner
4 years at Sparta sandwiched between 4 and 7 year spells at Viktoria Žižkov. Steiner was a 1920 Olympian, and won a total of 14 caps. Fullback.

Josef Horejs
Joined from First Vienna in 1925. He represented Austria 4 times. Fullback.

Otto Fleischmann
Represented Czechoslovakia 3 times. Forward.

František Kolenatý
Clocked up a total of 7 league championships with Sparta. Also represented Czechoslovakia 28 times.
Halfback.

Karel Pesek-Kada

Pesek enjoyed success as an Ice Hockey international in addition to his achievements as a footballer. Played football in the 1920 Olympics, became the first man to lift the Mitropa Cup and won 5 league titles with Sparta. Halfback.

 Václav Špinder

Coach who led Sparta to Mitropa Cup success in 1927 and also won 3 national championships.

Seated: 

Josef Maloun
1 international cap, 2 league titles. Forward.


Antonín Perner
In 14 years at Sparta he won 8 league titles. A veteran of the 1920 Olympics, Perner won 28 international caps for Czechoslovakia.Halfback.

Antonín Janda-Očko
34 year old Janda effectively came out of retirement for this tour. He had last played competitively in 1923. In 10 internationals he scored 12 goals and won 5 league titles with Sparta. Inside forward.

Not in picture:
Antonin Carvan
Carvan joined Sparta from Viktoria Žižkov late in the domestic season. He represented Czechoslovakia 14 times and later played in France with Nimes.
Halfback.

Antonín Hojer
Played 35 international games for Czechoslovakia  and won 7 league titles and the Mitropa Cup with Sparta. Fullback.

Josef Silný
Joined Sparta from rivals Slavia at the end of the 1926 season. 50 international caps, scoring 28 goals, Sliný played in the 1934 World Cup final. Later played in France with Nimes. Forward.

06.09.26	International League	0	4	Sparta	Brooklyn
	All Stars New York
11.09.26	Brooklyn Wanderers	3	3	Sparta	Brooklyn
12.09.26	New York Giants	0	6	Sparta	New York City
19.09.26	Fall River Marksmen	3	2	Sparta	North Tiverton Rhode Island
26.09.26	Ohio Stars	2	6	Sparta	Cleveland
	Cleveland All Stars
04.10.26	Chicago Stars	0	1	Sparta	Chicago
10.10.26	Ulster United	4	4	Sparta	Toronto
17.10.26	St. Louis Stars	3	5	Sparta	St. Louis
23.10.26	Sparta F.C	0	9	Sparta	Chicago
24.10.26	Detroit Stars	1	2	Sparta	Detroit
30.10.26	Brooklyn Wanderers	3	1	Sparta	Brooklyn
03.11.26	Galicia	1	1	Sparta	Newark

P	W	D	L	F	A
17	12	3	2	43	20

Fall River played a league match against Springfield on the morning of their meeting with Sparta, and several Springfield players guested for the Marksmen in the second game. 
Sparta Chicago (Sparta Athletic and Benevolent Association Football Club) was founded by Czech migrants in 1917 and dominated Illinois football from 1927 onwards. 
Brooklyn Wanderers featured 3 former Hakoah Vienna players (Neufeld, Drucker and Schoenfeld).

The Crafty Berlin Decision

It was the most scandalous incident in the history of international football.
Peru were the sole South American representatives at the 1936 Olympic Football Tournament.
The 1935 South American Championship served as a qualifier for the Olympics, but neither champions Uruguay nor runners up Argentina were able to travel to Germany due to an economic recession. Peru had finished 3rd, winning just the one game, against Chile. 


At the Olympics Peru beat Finland by 7-3 in the first round, giving them a match with Austria in the next round.
Austria went  two-nil up through goals from Werginz  and Steinmetz . They held onto this lead until the 75th minute. Campolo Alcalde pulled one back and then in the 81st minute Alejandro Villanueva equalized. Peru were then reduced to 10 men by the loss of Alcade.

This Austria side, with the great Jimmy Hogan as manager, were not of the calibre of Meisl's Wunderteam from earlier in the decade.

The game went into extra time, and during the first period referee Mr  Kristiansen of Norway disallowed 3 Peruvian 'goals'.
Villanueva gave Peru the lead in the 117th minute and in the very last minute of extra time Teodoro Fernández made it 4-2 to Peru.
And then the trouble started.
There was a pitch invasion following the 4th Peruvian goal, The Austrians claimed that one of their players was assaulted. The referee abandoned the match (with just seconds remaining). Press reports stated that "about 1,000 Peruvian supporters" stormed  the pitch with "iron bars, knives and even a pistol". 1.000 Peruvian supporters ? In Berlin? It seems unlikely. The Peruvians counter claim was that the pitch invaders was fascists who couldn't stomach a victory by a team featuring black players.

Following a hearing which the Peruvian delegation missed (they were waylaid en route, stuck behind a fascist parade!)  the Olympic Committee and FIFA ordered a replay behind closed doors.
Peru however (supported by Columbia) chose to go home. Anti German feeling in the South American continent ran high after this debacle. 
The Crafty Berlin Decision was how the incident was described by Snr. Oscar Benavides, the President of Peru.

Old Carthusians 1903

The Dunn Cup was introduced in 1903 for clubs for former Public Schoolboys, and  Old Carthusians enjoyed a good run of success (they were winners  in 1903, 1904, 1905, 1906, 1908 and 1910).

This line up features 3 'full ' internationalists (G.O Smith, Maurice Stanborough and Charles Wreford-Brown), as well as a couple of amateur internationals (Rowlandson, Timmis).
Captain William Simpson was a leading referee (he had taken charge of the 1896 FA Cup Final).  
Haig-Brown, O.E Wreford-Brown and Rowlandson were killed in the 1914-18 War.