Alumni, 1905

Between 1901 and 1911 Alumni were champions of Argentina on 9 occasions**. Here is the victorious team of 1905.
The line up:

GK	José Buruca Laforia
FB	Carlos Carr Brown
	Jorge Gibson Brown
HB	Andrés Arturo Mack
	Patricio Barron Browne
	Ernesto Alejandro Brown
FW	Gottlob Eduardo Weiss
	Juan J. Moore
	Alfredo Carrow Brown
	Eliseo Brown
	Eugenio Moore

And here is the story of their season. I'm intrigued that their one defeat should have been so comprehensive!

14.05.05	Lomas Athletic	1	7	Alumni
21.05.05	Alumni	14	0	Reformer
25.05.05	Quilmes	0	1	Alumni
01.06.05	Atlético Estudiantes	0	3	Alumni
11.06.05	Belgrano Athletic	0	2	Alumni
30.07.05	Reformer	0	3	Alumni
06.08.05	Alumni	1	5	Belgrano Athletic
	Alumni	wo		Barracas Athletic
	Alumni	wo		Barracas Athletic
08.09.05	Alumni	11	1	Lomas Athletic
17.09.05	Alumni	1	1	Atlético Estudiantes
24.09.05	Alumni	wo		Quilmes

P	W	D	L	F	A
12*	10*	1	1	43	8

* 3 walk overs

**Alumni were previously English High School AC, Champions in 1900.

Paris 1900

 'Belgium'

The 1900 Olympics were a rather protracted affair lasting from May 14th  to  October 28th. It ran concurrently with L'Exposition de Paris 1900.
Association football, making its first appearance, was effectively an exhibition sport. 2 matches were played  at The Vélodrome de Vincennes on 20th and 23rd of September. The 'tournament' provides us with an illustration of how misleading the IOC's practise of retrospectively designating medal status to these early tournaments is. At best it creates a false impression of the nature of international competition at the time. At worst it detracts from the achievements of later winners.
The original plan had been to hold a series of matches in which 'France' would play against leading club teams from England, Switzerland, Belgium and Germany.
Switzerland and Germany did not take up the offer.
Great Britain were eventually represented by the rather modest Upton Park. Union des Sociétés Françaises des Sports Athlétiques selected Havre Athletic Club to represent France, but they declined and  the reigning Parisian champions Club Français stood in.
Similarly Racing Club de Bruxelles declined to represent Belgium. Frank König, a Racing player, was asked by the KBVB to put together a representative side, but he was unable to come up with the goods. The "Fédération Universitaire"were then asked to assemble a team of students. Again this was not a success and newspaper advertisements were placed. eventually a party of 10, including an Englishman (Thornton) and a Dutchman (van Heuckelum) travelled to Paris. Eugène Neefs was in Paris at the time, saving the Belgians the embarrassment of turning out one short.
The Belgian XI was:
Marcel Leboutte (Spa FC) - René Kelecom (FC Liégois), Ernest Moreau de Melen (FC Liégeois) - Alphonse Renier (Racing Club de Bruxelles), Gustave Pilgrims (Léopold Club de Bruxelles), Eugène Neefs (Sporting Club de Louvain) - Eric Thornton* (Léopold Club de Bruxelles), Hendrik van Heuckelum (Léopold Club de Bruxelles), Hilaire Spanoghe (Skill FC), Marius Delbecque (Skill FC), Lucien Londot (FC Liégeois)
As you can see, the players turned out in their club kit.
The Belgians were a goal down inside a minute, but came back to lead 2-1 at the interval. 
The second half was one-way traffic, however, with the France XI eventually winning 6-2.

And on the back of this defeat the record of the IOC lists this scratch team of  Belgian students as being  Olympic bronze medalists. Hoe belachelijk!

 *Thornton would later represent Belgium in 2 internationals (as a goalkeeper).

Wales' Record Score

Only 2000 people were at The Racecourse on 03.03.88 to witness Wales registering an 11-0 win over Ireland. Wales had lost their opening match against England 5-1 and the following week would go down by the same score against Scotland. Things didn't get much better for Ireland- they lost 10-2 against Scotland, making their 5-1 defeat at the hands of England relatively creditable.
The scorers for Wales were Jack Doughty (4) Roger Doughty (2) Edmund Howell (2) Job Wilding (2) and William Pryce-Jones

The Wales team, pictured above: standing l-r: Reuben Humphreys (Ruabon Druids); Joe Davies (Newton Heath); Dr. Alfred O. Davies (Swifts); Dr. Bob Mills-Roberts (Preston North End); Jack  Powell (Newton Heath); Di Jones (Chirk AAA); seated l-r: William Pryce-Jones (Cambridge University); Job Wilding (Bootle); Jack Doughty (Newton Heath); Roger Doughty (Newton Heath); Edmund Gwynne Howell (Builth).

 Alfred O. Davies, William Pryce-Jones and E. Gwynne Howell left the field early in order to catch a train with Wales 10-0 up.

Ireland's unfortunate goalkeeper was Cliftonville debutant Jack Clugston. He was omitted for the rest of the season but came back the following year. In total he played 14 internationals, shipping 69 goals.

Scottish League 1890

Yesterday FIFA marked the anniversary of the inception of the Scottish Football League on Twitter:

#OnThisDay in 1890, the first matches were played in the Scottish League. pic.twitter.com/qNir6DFEgB

— FIFA.com (@FIFAcom) August 16, 2016

 Well Played The Hibs!
 Hibernian, however, were not founder members. Here is a list of the results of that first day of League football in Scotland:

Celtic	1	4	Renton
Cambuslang	8	2	Vale of Leven
Rangers	5	2	Heart of Midlothian
Dumbarton	1	1	Cowlairs

Teams not in action were Abercorn, St Mirren and Third Lanarkshire Rifle Volunteers.
Dumbarton and Rangers shared the title after a drawn play off match.