Football féminin

Copa Centenario Revolución de Mayo 1910

This was the first tournament in South America to involve more than two countries. All previous international competitions had involved just Uruguay and Argentina.
It is therefore considered a proto- South American Championship.
The influence of English, Scots and German immigrants was still very much in evidence in the South American cone.

Chile

The tournament marked Chile's debut in international football. The Chilean Football Federation was founded June 19th, 1895, making it the second oldest South American federation,

In the opening match Uruguay defeated Chile 3-0. Jose Piendibene and Robert Sidney Buck scored for Uruguay. In 1912 Buck represented Argentina against Uruguay!

Hosts Argentina then beat Chile 5-1 to set up the decider.

Argentina beat Uruguay 4-1.
Argentina's scorers in this win were José N. Viale (Newell´s Old Boys), Juan Enrique Harry Hayes (Rosario Central), who was the tournaments top scorer, Arnold Pencliffe Watson Hutton (Alumni AC), son of  Alexander Watson Hutton, the Scotsman known as the father of Argentine football, and  Maximiliano Susán (Estudiantes), a student veterinary surgeon and Argentina's leading goalscorer at the time. 

Harry Hayes (Argentina) top scorer with three goals. His parents were English.

'USA' vs 'Canada' 1885

Charlie Buchan - £100 a goal

 In 1925 Arsenal wanted to sign the veteran Charlie Buchan from Sunderland in 1925.
Based on the belief that Buchan was good for 20 goals in a season, Sunderland valued him at £4000.
Arsenal proposed that if Sunderland were that confident in Buchan's goalscoring potential (he was 34 years old) that they would pay £2000 for him, but add £100 for every goal that he scored.
Having rejoined the Highbury club, Buchan scored 21 goals that season, so Arsenal ended up paying £100 more than Sunderland had originally asked!

Barcelona's 25th Anniversary

A celebration of Barcelona's 25th anniversary, featuring a game against Real Union.  At the time  Real Union was managed by Steve Bloomer, and in May 1924 they had won the Copa del Ray, beating Real Madrid 1-0 in the final.

The FA Cups

The first  FA Cup was in use from 1872 until 1895. Smaller than the modern version, it was less than 45cm tall, the trophy was made by Martin, Hall & Co and cost  the Football Association £20. 

The original concept of the FA Cup was that it should be a challenge cup competition in the true sense of the word- the teams playing in the second edition were competing for the right to challenge the Wanderers, the first winners, who received a bye to the final. In keeping with this set up the rules also stated that any team winning the trophy for three successive years would keep it. When the Wanderers achieved this distinction in 1877/1878 they returned the trophy to the FA on the understanding that no other team would retain it in the case that they won it three times in a row (in the FA Cups long history only Wanderers and Blackburn Rovers have achieved this).
On 11th  September 1895 the original trophy was stolen from a shop in Birmingham where it had been put on display by the holders, Aston Villa. A £10 reward was offered  but the cup was never recovered. The FA  fined Aston  Villa £25 to pay for a new trophy.
From 1896-1911 a replica of the original trophy was used. The design had been much copied, and the FA decided to introduce a completely new cup. The replica was presented to Lord Kinnaird in recognition of his 21 years as FA president. 
The new trophy was designed by Fattorini and Sons of Bradford. 
 This trophy  is now too fragile to be used and a replica was brought in for the 1993 season.

Walter Tull

Born in Kent of a Barbadian father and an English mother, Walter Tull played 20 first team matches for Tottenham Hotspur  between 1909 and 1911.He also toured South America with them. In 1911 Herbert Chapman signed him for Northampton Town. He played 111 games for Northampton up until the outbreak of the war in 1914.
During the First World War Tull served with the Footballers' Battalions of the Middlesex Regiment. When he was promoted from the ranks in 1917 Tull became the first black/ mixed race officer in the British army. He was killed in action in 1918.

Through his actions, Tull ridiculed the barriers of ignorance that tried to deny negroes/mulattos equality with their contemporaries. His life stands testament to a determination to confront those people and those obstacles that sought to diminish him and the world in which he lived. It reveals a man, though rendered breathless in his prime, whose strong heart still beats loudly.
Tull's epitaph: Phil Vasili 

USA 1930

Back Row: Left to Right: Bob Millar (Coach), Jimmy Gallagher, Alexander Wood, Jimmy Douglas, George Moorhouse, Ralph Tracy, Andy Auld, Jack Coll (Physician). Front Row: Left to Right: Jim Brown, Billy Gonsalves, Bert Patenaude, Tom Florie, Bart McGhee.

The above picture shows the United States national team that lined up to face Argentina in the World Cup semi final in 1930. There were six British born players in the team: 

Goalkeeper: Jimmy Douglas (New York Giants)


Full backs: Alec Wood * (Detroit Holley Carburetor)
                 George Moorhouse+ (New York Giants)

Half backs: Jimmy Gallagher* (New York Giants)
                  Raphael Tracey (Ben Millers)
                  Andy Auld*  (Providence Gold Bugs)

Forwards: Billy Gonsalves (Fall River Marksmen)
                Tom Florie (c) (New Bedford Whalers)
                Bert Patenaude (Fall River Marksmen)
                Jim Brown* (New York Giants)
                Bart McGhee* (New York Giants)

Coach: Bob Millar*



Alec Wood later played for Leicester City, Nottingham Forest and Colchester United. In 1921 he won a  Scotland youth cap.
George Moorhouse played for Tranmere Rovers (1921-1923).
Jim Brown later played for Manchester United, Brentford and Tottenham Hotspur.
Coach Bob Millar was a 41 yr old Scot who had played for St Mirren in 1909-11 before moving to the United States in 1912. Millar played in two internationals for the USA in 1925 and became coach in 1928.


 * Scotland 
+England

Mohammed Salim, Celtic 1936.

 Salim- barefoot in Celtic

In the 1930's Mohammedan Sporting enjoyed a good run of success in Indian domestic football. After the Calcutta League title win of 1936, winger Mohammed Salim was invited to play two friendlies against the Chinese Olympic side. His cousin  Hasheem, who lived in England, was visiting Calcutta and saw the first match.  Hasheem persuaded Salim to try his luck in Europe.
Playing barefooted, Salim had trials at Celtic, and played a couple of matches:

Indian Juggler - New Style

Ten twinkling toes of Salim, Celtic FC's player from India, hypnotised the crowd at Parkhead last night. He balances the ball on his big toe, lets it run down the scale to his little toe, twirls it, hops on one foot around the defender.      Scottish Daily Express, 29.8.36.

Homesick, Salim rejected a professional contract with the club. Celtic tried to persuade him to stay by offering to organize a charity match in his honour, giving him five per cent of the gate receipts. Salim promised to donate his share to a group of  orphans who attended the match. The five per cent came to £1,800 (about £100,000 today) and Salim kept  his word.

Chilena / bicicleta

Leônidas 

Many of the greater achievements of Leônidas da Silva came after the period covered by this blog. However, by 1937 he was already an internationally renowned star. Known as the Black Diamond or Rubber Man, he enjoyed  the limelight in Europe. 
Leônidas  is often cited as being the creator of the Bicycle Kick. The first record of  Leônidas performing the manoeuvre was in a match between Bonsucesso and Carioca on 24th April 1932.  Leônidas attributed the invention of this move to Petronilho de Brito, the San Lorenzo forward who played 5 times for the Seleção between 1928–1935. 
But Brazil is not the home of the bicicleta.

In other South American countries the feat is known as chilena, indicating that it originates in Chile.

I'm not one to contradict Uruguayan sage Eduardo Galeano. He states categorically that Ramón Unzaga invented the move. ( A Basque emigre playing for the splendidly named Club Atlético y de Fútbol Estrella de Mar of Talcahuano in 1914). One possibility is that the name came about from the Argentine press when Unzaga attempted a bicycle kick in Chile's match with Uruguay in Buenos Aires on July 2nd 1916. 
Galeano goes on to say that the name chilena originates from the Colo Colo tour of Europe in 1927, when founder and captain David Arellano performed the feat to the amazement of Spanish crowds. Incidentally , Arellano tragically died on the tour as a result of an injury sustained in the match against Real Valladolid.
However, there is evidence that the bicycle kick actually originates in Spain.
El Noticiero Sevilliano and El Heraldo de Madrid both record that in the final of the Duke of Santo  Mauro Cup (the unofficial Championship of Andalusia)  played between Sevilla FC and Cadiz on March 22nd 1915, Sevilla's Spencer ( a pseudonym of Enrique Gómez Muñoz) scored an acrobatic volley with his back to goal.

Spencer

Petronilho

Ramón Unzaga Asla

David Arellano

A Grand Day Out

The Great Central Railway Company lay on a good service for this local derby in the  First Round Proper of the 1901 FA Cup. First Division Notts Forest saw off their neighbours Leicester Fosse 5-1 at the City Ground, so there must have been plenty of long faces at Arkwright Street station waiting for the 6.4pm.
One thing though, if supporters took up this offer, arranged by Fosse's directors with the railway company as advertised, they would have been in Nottingham a fortnight early, as records show the game as being played on February 9th!