London 1900-15

Continuing our look at London based clubs...

Football League
season		Div	Pos
1900-01	Woolwich Arsenal	Div.2	7

Southern League
season		Div	Pos
1900-01	Millwall Athletic	Div. 1.	4
	Tottenham Hotspur*	Div. 1.	5
	West Ham United	Div. 1.	6
	Queens Park Rangers	Div. 1.	8
	Brentford	Div.2	1
	Shepherd's Bush	Div.2	4
	Fulham	Div.2	5
	Southall	Div.2	9

* FA Cup winners

Football League
season		Div	Pos
1901-02	Woolwich Arsenal	Div.2	4

Southern League
season		Div	Pos
1901-02	Tottenham Hotspur	Div. 1.	2
	West Ham United	Div. 1.	4
	Millwall Athletic	Div. 1.	6
	Queens Park Rangers	Div. 1.	12
	Brentford	Div. 1.	15
	Fulham	Div.2	1
	West Hampstead*	Div.2	5
	Shepherd's Bush	Div.2	6
	Southall	Div.2	7

*Left league

Football League
season		Div	Pos
1902-03	Woolwich Arsenal	Div.2	3

Southern League
season		Div	Pos
1902-03	Tottenham Hotspur	Div. 1.	4
	Millwall Athletic*	Div. 1.	7
	Queens Park Rangers	Div. 1.	9
	West Ham United	Div. 1.	10
	Brentford	Div. 1.	16
	Fulham	Div.2	1
	Southall	Div.2	6

* Dropped the Athletic

Football League
season		Div	Pos
1903-04	Woolwich Arsenal	Div.2	2

Woolwich Arsenal were promoted to the First Division

Southern League
season		Div	Pos
1903-04	Tottenham Hotspur	Div. 1.	2
	Queens Park Rangers	Div. 1.	5
	Millwall	Div. 1.	7
	Fulham	Div. 1.	11
	West Ham United	Div. 1.	12
	Brentford	Div. 1.	13
	Southall	Div.2.	10

Football League
season		Div	Pos
1904-05	Woolwich Arsenal	Div.1	10

Southern League
season		Div	Pos
1904-05	Tottenham Hotspur	Div. 1.	5
	Fulham	Div. 1.	6
	Queens Park Rangers	Div. 1.	7
	West Ham United	Div. 1.	11
	Brentford	Div. 1.	14
	Millwall	Div. 1.	15
	Clapton Orient*	Div.2.	8
	Southall**	Div.2.	10

* Joined Football League
**Left league

Football League
season		Div	Pos
1905-06	Woolwich Arsenal	Div.1	12
	Chelsea	Div.2	3
	Clapton Orient	Div.2	20

Woolwich Arsenal's position as London's sole Football League club came to an end when Clapton Orient came in from the Southern League and newly formed Chelsea were elected.

Southern League
season		Div	Pos
1905-06	Fulham	Div. 1.	1
	Tottenham Hotspur	Div. 1.	5
	Brentford	Div. 1.	9
	West Ham United	Div. 1.	11
	Millwall	Div. 1.	12
	Queens Park Rangers	Div. 1.	13
	Crystal Palace	Div.2.	1
	Leyton	Div.2.	2
	Southern United*	Div.2.	6

*Left league

The 1905–06 season was the first in the history of the Isthmian League. London based clubs in this amateur league were:  London Caledonians, Clapton , Casuals , Civil Service and Ealing Association.

Football League
season		Div	Pos
1906-07	Woolwich Arsenal	Div.1	7
	Chelsea	Div.2	3
	Clapton Orient	Div.2	17

Southern League
season		Div	Pos
1906-07	Fulham*	Div. 1.	1
	West Ham United	Div. 1.	5
	Tottenham Hotspur	Div. 1.	6
	Millwall	Div. 1.	7
	Brentford	Div. 1.	10
	Leyton	Div. 1.	14
	Queens Park Rangers	Div. 1.	18
	Crystal Palace	Div. 1.	19

* Joined Football League

Clapton won FA Amateur Cup 

Football League
season		Div	Pos
1907-08	Chelsea	Div.1	13
	Woolwich Arsenal	Div.1	14
	Fulham	Div.2	4
	Clapton Orient	Div.2	14

Southern League
season		Div	Pos
1907-08	Queens Park Rangers	Div. 1.	1
	Millwall	Div. 1.	3
	Crystal Palace	Div. 1.	4
	Tottenham Hotspur*	Div. 1.	7
	West Ham United	Div. 1.	10
	Brentford	Div. 1.	16
	Leyton	Div. 1.	19

* Joined Football League

Football League
season		Div	Pos
1908-09	Woolwich Arsenal	Div.1	6
	Chelsea	Div.1	11
	Tottenham Hotspur	Div.2	2
	Fulham	Div.2	10
	Clapton Orient	Div.2	15

Southern League
season		Div	Pos
1908-09	Millwall	Div. 1.	11
	Leyton	Div. 1.	13
	Queens Park Rangers	Div. 1.	15
	Crystal Palace	Div. 1.	16
	West Ham United	Div. 1.	17
	Brentford	Div. 1.	21

Clapton

Clapton won FA Amateur Cup 

Football League
season		Div	Pos
1909-10	Tottenham Hotspur	Div.1	15
	Woolwich Arsenal	Div.1	18
	Chelsea	Div.1	19
	Fulham	Div.2	7
	Clapton Orient	Div.2	16

Southern League
season		Div	Pos
1909-10	Queens Park Rangers	Div. 1.	3
	Crystal Palace	Div. 1.	7
	West Ham United	Div. 1.	9
	Leyton	Div. 1.	10
	Brentford	Div. 1.	14

Football League
season		Div	Pos
1910-11	Woolwich Arsenal	Div.1	10
	Tottenham Hotspur	Div.1	15
	Chelsea	Div.2	3
	Clapton Orient	Div.2	4
	Fulham	Div.2	10

Southern League
season		Div	Pos
1910-11	Crystal Palace	Div. 1.	4
	West Ham United	Div. 1.	5
	Queens Park Rangers	Div. 1.	6
	Leyton	Div. 1.	7
	Brentford	Div. 1.	12

Football League
season		Div	Pos
1911-12	Woolwich Arsenal	Div.1	10
	Tottenham Hotspur	Div.1	12
	Chelsea	Div.2	2
	Clapton Orient	Div.2	4
	Fulham	Div.2	8

Queens Park Rangers

Southern League
season		Div	Pos
1911-12	Queens Park Rangers	Div. 1.	1
	Crystal Palace	Div. 1.	7
	Millwall	Div. 1.	8
	West Ham United	Div. 1.	13
	Brentford	Div. 1.	14

Football League
season		Div	Pos
1912-13	Tottenham Hotspur	Div.1	17
	Chelsea	Div.1	18
	Woolwich Arsenal	Div.1	20
	Fulham	Div.2	9
	Clapton Orient	Div.2	14

Southern League
season		Div	Pos
1912-13	West Ham United	Div. 1.	3
	Queens Park Rangers	Div. 1.	4
	Crystal Palace	Div. 1.	5
	Millwall	Div. 1.	6
	Brentford	Div. 1.	19

Football League
season		Div	Pos
1913-14	Chelsea	Div.1	8
	Tottenham Hotspur	Div.1	17
	Woolwich Arsenal	Div.2	3
	Clapton Orient	Div.2	6
	Fulham	Div.2	11

Southern League
season		Div	Pos
1913-14	Crystal Palace	Div. 1.	2
	West Ham United	Div. 1.	6
	Queens Park Rangers	Div. 1.	8
	Millwall	Div. 1.	15
	Brentford	Div.2.	3

Football League
season		Div	Pos
1914-15	Chelsea	Div.1	19
	Tottenham Hotspur	Div.1	20
	The Arsenal	Div.2	5
	Clapton Orient	Div.2	9
	Fulham	Div.2	12

Southern League
season		Div	Pos
1914-15	West Ham United*	Div. 1.	4
	Millwall	Div. 1.	8
	Queens Park Rangers	Div. 1.	12
	Crystal Palace	Div. 1.	15
	Brentford	Div.2.	7

* Joined the Football League in 1919-20

Substitutes

The use of substitutes in football is often assumed to have begun in the 1950s. This is not the case however. Recently, carrying out some investigations into the career of Italy's  Renzo De Vecchi,  I was surprised to note that his international debut was made as a substitute in 1910. This prompted me to look for other instances of substitutes being used in international matches in the period before the 1914-18 war. 
We will make an important distinction here; a substitute could be one who deputises for an absent player. In this case though, we will look at players who replaced teammates during the course of a match.
In 1908 at the Olympics one of the 2 France teams made a number of line up changes just before kick off (the 9-0 defeat to Denmark 19.10.08) - and this is not included here.
The records from this era still show plenty of examples of subs not being used, players staying on the field as virtual passengers, teams playing on a man short etc.

The timings are taken from IFFHS. 

1. Wales v Scotland (Wrexham,15.04.89)
Alf Pugh replaced by Sam Gillam (30 mins)
The first instance of  a substitute being used occurred in this British Home Championship match. The initial problem was that Wales' selected goalkeeper, Jim Trainer of Preston North End, did not turn up. Some sources state that Preston would not release him for the game. I do not know what their reason for this would be as the league season had ended and the FA Cup final had already taken place. Trainer's absence was only apparent immediately prior to kick off. There was a delay as Wales sought a replacement. Sam Gillam was the man they sent for. Gillam was then on the books of Wrexham, having previously played for Bolton Wanderers. He wasn't at the Racecourse Ground that day though. However, the man he had replaced as Wrexham Olympic's goalkeeper a few seasons earlier was. Allen 'Alf' Pugh was a 20 year old amateur who had returned to play for his local club , Rhostyllen Victoria (Rhostyllen was a village of a few hundred people).
The Scots consented to Wales starting the game with Pugh in goal until Gillam arrived. 
Pugh enjoyed twenty odd minutes of international football before Gillam replaced him. They shared a clean sheet in the first goalless international match for 17 years. 

2. Netherlands v Belgium ( Rotterdam, 26.04.08)
Charles Cambier replaced by Georges Mathot (half time) or according to some sources
Georges Mathot replaced by Camille Vanhoorden (half time).
The Netherlands captain,  Karel Heijting, approved the replacement. Having looked at various statistics on Belgian international appearances, I believe that it was a case of Georges Mathot coming on for Cambier.

3. Netherlands v  France (Rotterdam, 10. 05.08)
Julien Denis replaced by Victor Denis (55 mins)
A debut for Victor Denis as he came on on place of his brother Julien.  There was, it appears, an element of subterfuge here. Juliien having agreed to feign injury in order to give his brother his debut. Neither brother played another international. Julien was killed in action in 1915, and Calais' stadium is named in his honour. 

Gustav Bark

4. England (Amateurs) v  Switzerland (Royal Park, London, 09.04.10 )
Emile Glaser replaced by Gustav Bark (8 mins)
Emile Glaser was captaining Switzerland for the first time in his 3rd international appearance. In the 8th minute he sustained an injury. He never played international football again. Heinrich Müller took over the captaincy and Gustav Bark came on to make his international debut.  The England Amateur XI were already 1-0 when Glaser left the field, and conceded a further 3 in the next 5 minutes. Centre half  Bark, later a great success in Germany with 1 FC Nuremberg, was reportedly chaired from the field at the end of the game by the England players for his gutsy display. 

Peco Bauwens

5. Germany v Belgium (Duisburg, 16.05.10, )
 Peco Bauwens replaced by Andreas Breynk (55 mins)
Germany (uncharacteristically?) were somewhat disorganized going into this fixture. The National Championship final between Karlsruher FV and FV Holstein Kiel  had been played the previous day. That left only 7 of the German first XI available. Local players were hastily recruited. Andreas Breynk was there as a specatator, but when Peco Bauwens was forced to retire through injury Breynk found himself representing Germany. 
Herr Bauwens, of course, went on to become a leading referee.

Renzo De Vecchi

6. Hungary v Italy (Millenáris Budapest, 26.05.10, )
Aldo Cevenini replaced by Renzo De Vecchi (half time)
Hungary were 2-0 up when the 16 year old defender Renzo De Vecchi came on in place of centre forward Cevenini. Milan's  De Vecchi remains Italy's youngest ever internationalist.


7. England (Amateurs) v Denmark (Park Royal, London,21.10.11)
Sofus Hansen replaced by Ivar-Lykke Seidelin-Nielsen (half time)
Goalkeeper Hansen broke his ankle.  Ivar-Lykke Seidelin-Nielsen came on for the second half and Castella went in goal. 

Henri Leroy

8. Netherlands v Belgium  (Dordrecht, 28.04.12 )
Henri Leroy replaced by Camille Vanhoorden (28 mins)
Another goalkeeper injury. Belgium had already been reduced to 10 men by an injury to Jan Van Cant
Sylvain Brébart went in goal. It must have been quite some game- Belgium fought back from 3-0 down (2 goals in the first 2 minutes!) and had a penalty saved before Netherlands secured a 4-3 win.

9. Finland v Italy (Traneberg Stockholm, 29.06.12 )
Carlo De Marchi replaced by Vittorio Morelli di Popolo (half time)
In the 1912 Olympic tournament substitutes were allowed by mutual agreement. This was the only occasion in which the substitute was called on. In 35 degrees of heat Finland required extra time to beat Italy. These  75 minutes as  a substitute were Morelli di Popolo's only international experience, which is more than the man he replaced, as De Marchi was not called upon again. 

Joseph Musch

10.England (Amateurs)  v Belgium  (County Ground, Swindon, 09.11.12)
Hector Goetinck replaced by Joseph Musch (30 mins)

11. France v  Italy (Stade de Paris, 12.01.13)
Attilio Treré replaced by Carlo Galletti (half time)
Treré damaged his knee in a 'collision'. 

12. England (Amateurs) v Netherlands (Anlaby Road, Hull, 15.11.13)
Jan Vos replaced by Willy van Holthe (half time)
England captain Viv Woodward was a gentleman and a good sport. Not the sort of chap you'd want to collide with , though. When Jan Vos did just that Woodward was so concerned by the ensuing injury that he invited the Dutch to bring on a sub.

Attilio Treré

13. Italy v  Austria (Milan, 11. 01.14)
Guido Ara replaced by Attilio Treré (6 mins)
A year after being substituted Treré was now the substitute, winning his 5th and final cap. 

Russinho - Concurso Monroe 1930

Russinho

In 1930 the  Veado tobacco company sponsored a poll in Brazil to determine who was the nation's favourite footballer. The contest was known as the Concurso Monroe and the prize was a Chrysler sports car. This is pretty impressive  as theoretically the game in Brazil was an amateur affair. More aristocratic clubs such as Fluminense kept up this pretense with more vigour than their proletarian neighbours such as Botafogo and Vasco. However, professionalism was not openly accepted until 1933. The results of the poll (and the number of votes is quite staggering) was:


1.Russinho (Vasco da Gama) 2,900,649

2. Agostinho Fortes Filho (Fluminense) 2,048,483

3. Filó (Paulistano) 722,563

So, Russinho got the car.

These were halcyon days for Russinho. as he had been top scorer in Vasco's championship winning side of 1929, and just a month after receiving the car he was off to Uruguay to play for Brazil in the World Cup.

I'm guessing that Moacyr Siqueira de Queirós, who was born in Rio, got the name Russinho because of his appearance? He was also known as  Demônio Louro (The Blonde Demon). He joined Vasco from Andrahdy in 1924 as a 22 year old. In 10 years with Vasco he won 3 championships (1924, 1929 and 1934) and was artilheiro (top scorer) in 1929 and 1931. In total he scored 225 goals for the club. He later joined Botafogo and won a further championship with them (1935).
Russinho only got 2 international caps. He played in the 4-0 win over Bolivia in the 1930 World Cup, and in a 1930 friendly against Yugoslavia , in which he scored. 

Russinho, in his playing kit, is awarded the car at Estádio São Januário.

A Romance of Football...

http://www.spurshistory.com/index.html

X

Barcelona was the scene of healthy football development at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. The Catalunya championship and its forerunners, the Copa Macaya and the Copa Barcelona were contested by such Barcelona based clubs as F. C. Barcelona (founded 1899), FC Català (1899), Hispania AC (1900), C. Español de Fútbol (1900) and Foot ball Club X (1902).
The histories of these last 2 clubs are inexorably linked:

Ángel Rodríguez Ruiz, founder of Sociedad Española de Football 

Sociedad Española de Football was founded by University students in Barcelona in 1900. It is said  to have been the first Spanish club for Spanish players, independent of the input of foreign settlers.  In 1901 the name was changed to Club Español de Fútbol.
In 1902-03 they won the Copa Macaya . They travelled to Madrid to play in the 1903 Copa del Rey but were beaten by Madrid (1-4) and Athletic Bilbao (0-4) . In 1903-04 they won the  Catalunya championship.
 In 1906 Club Español de Fútbol disbanded when a number of student-players had to leave Barcelona.

Foot ball Club X was founded in Barcelona in 1902. The club entered the  Copa Barcelona  1902-03, but withdrew.   When In 1906 Club Español de Fútbol (Espanyol) disbanded Foot ball Club X benefited , several of Espanyol's former players joining their ranks. In the  1905-1906  season they were Catalunya champions.
The following season Foot ball Club X were champions of Catalunya again, following drama and controversy in the final game of the season.  In the match between X and Barcelona the referee added on a considerable amount of time. During this added time Barcelona scored from a penalty, making the score 3-3. However, after the game the referee reconsidered his actions in adding on the time, and declared that the penalty should never have been. X were awarded a 3-2 win. However, X, in the person of their captain  Miquel Gibert Pujol, offered Barcelona a replay, which X won 3-1. 
In 1907-1908 the club completed a hat trick of championships. They were now known as X Sporting Club.


In December 1908 a number of the former Espanyol players who had left Barcelona in 1906 returned to the city. This effectively led to the revival of Espanyol  at the expense of  X Sporting Club, who ceased to exist.
 Renamed as Club Deportiu Espanyol, the club won the Catalunya championship in 1911-1912.

Penalties in Internationals

The introduction of the penalty kick came in the 1891-92 season. The first penalty kick in international football duly arrived that spring when the British Home Championships came around.
England played Wales and Ireland simultaneously that year, on March 5th. The Ireland match took place at the Solitude Ground, Belfast. Harry Daft had put England 2-0 up with goals either side of half time*.
In the later stages of the match Sam Torrans was fouled by Stoke's Alf Underwood and Scottish referee Mr Robert F. Harrison pointed to the twelve yard mark for a 'free kick'.
Torrans himself took the kick. Bill Rowley (also of Stoke) saved, blocking the shot. The rebound fell to Torrans' Linfield teammate William Dalton, but Rowley was able to save the follow up too.

Rowley

Torrans

Here is a contemporary report of the incident: 
Towards the close a penalty kick was given against Underwood for fouling Torrans in the mouth of the English goal. The free kick proved fruitless, and play was continuing briskly in the Irish lines when the whistle sounded, leaving the score — England 2 goals. Ireland 0 goal. 

Sheffield Independent (07.03.92)

* IFFHS is wrong on this point, claiming that the penalty came when the score was 0-0.

Torrans had an interesting career. On the domestic scene he was hugely successful with Linfield. He was capped 26 times by Ireland (3 wins, 3 draws, 20 defeats). He never scored but did register 3 own goals. 
Torrans was on the park when the first ever penalty was scored in an international. This came four years later  by which time Torrans had moved back into defence. 
On 28th March 1896, again at the Solitude Ground in difficult conditions, Ireland managed a 3-3 draw with Scotland,
Torrans' Linfield teammate Bob Milne gave Ireland a 3-2 lead in the 43rd minute with the first successfully converted penalty kick in the history of International football. Queen's Park's Kenneth Anderson was the goalkeeper.

Milne 

Mr James Cooper (England) was the referee. Contemporary reports are rather vague on the precise reason the penalty was awarded.