The Sheriff of London Charity Shield

Introduced at the end of the 1897-98 season, this was a challenge match between the leading amateur club in the country and one of the leading professional clubs, for the benefit of charitable institutions, hospitals etc.
The competition was established by Thomas Dewar, the whisky magnate, and is sometimes referred to as The Dewar Shield. 
And the trophy was as big as a man!
The  Dewar Shield  lapsed in 1908 following a rift between the leading amateur clubs and the FA.

Let's look at the ten editions of the Shield.
Corinthians were chosen as the amateur representatives 9 times. This was good business, as Corinth usually featured a number of international players.The professional representatives were not necessarily the league champions or FA Cup holders.
Professional teams triumphed on 6 occasions
Amatuer teams (ie Corinthian FC) won twice.
The Shield was shared twice.

18981	Corinthians	0	0	Sheffield United	Crystal Palace
	Corinthians	1	1	Sheffield United	Crystal Palace
18992	Aston Villa	0	0	Queen's Park	Crystal Palace
1900	Corinthians	2	1	Aston Villa	Crystal Palace
1901	Aston Villa	1	0	Corinthians	Crystal Palace
1902	Tottenham Hotspur	5	2	Corinthians	White Hart Lane
1903	Sunderland	3	0	Corinthians	White Hart Lane
1904	Corinthians	10	3	Bury	Queens Club
1905	The Wednesday	2	1	Corinthians	Crystal Palace
1906	Liverpool	5	1	Corinthians	Craven Cottage
1907	Newcastle United	5	2	Corinthians	Craven Cottage

1 Sheffield United declined to play extra-time as they disagreed with some of the referee's decisions- the trophy was shared.
2 Shared, each club retained the Shield for six months.

Chinezul Timisoara

Chinezul Timisoara, founded in 1910, were named after Pavel Chinezul, a legendary Hungarian general who defeated the Ottomans in 1479. The club was formed by railway workers. Between 1911 and 1918 the team (as Temesvári Kinizsi) competed in the Hungarian league. After the 1914 -18 war the city of Timisoara became a part of Romania.
In 1922 Chinezul Timisoara won the first ever Romanian national championship. This was the first of 6 consecutive national title wins, a period of domination in Romanian football not equaled until the Steaua București era of the 1990s. 
The format of the championship was a knockout competition between 7 regional champions. These were:

Region	Champions
Arad	AMEF Arad
Bucharest	Tricolor Bucureşti
Braşov-Sibiu	Societatea Sportivă Sibiu
Bukovina	Polonia Cernăuţi
Cluj	Victoria Cluj
Oradea	Stăruinţa Oradea
Timişoara	Chinezul Timişoara

 None of these clubs is still in existence, and Cernăuţi is no longer in Romania, but is Czerniowce in Ukraine)

The tournament progressed as follows:

Polonia Cernăuţi	0	1	Tricolor Bucureşti
Chinezul Timişoara	3	0	Societatea Sportivă Sibiu
A default result : SSS forfeited the match
Stăruinţa Oradea	2	2	Victoria Cluj
Victoria Cluj	2	0	Stăruinţa Oradea (replay)
AMEF Arad bye

Chinezul Timişoara	2	1	AMEF Arad
Victoria Cluj	3	0	Tricolor Bucureşti
A default result : Tricolor forfeited the match

In the final Chinezul beat Victoria 5-1, future Romanian international Rudolf  Matek scoring 3 with Mihai Tänzer (who represented both Romania and Hungary) also getting a goal.

Schricker brothers

Karlsruher Kickers 1895- in the front row from the left Ivo Schricker, Erwin Schricker, Walther Bensemann.

 Karlsruher FV 1904-  Ivo Schricker second from the left

The Schricker brothers, from Strasbourg, featured in several important teams during the formative years of German football.  Strassburger FK 1890, Karlsruher Kickers, Karlsruher FV,  FV Straßburg and Akademischer SC 1893 Berlin.
Ivo and Erwin both played in the  Bensemann All Germany Team of the pre-official international era.

12.12.98	White Rovers Club Paris	0	7		‘Germany’	Paris
13.12.98	Paris Select	1	2		‘Germany’	Paris
Ivo and Erwin, both of Akademischer SC 1893 Berlin, played at right half and left half.
23.11.99	‘Germany’	2	13		England Amateur	Berlin
24.11.99	‘Germany’	2	10		England Amateur	Berlin
Ivo and Erwin played at right half and left half.
28.11.99	‘Germany’	0	7		England	Karlsruhe
Erwin right back, Ivo centre half.
21.09.01	England Amateur	12		0	‘Germany’	White Hart Lane
25.09.01	England	10		0	‘Germany’	Hyde Road Manchester
Ivo left half.

 Ivo Schricker played for Karlsruher FV from 1900 to 1906 .His football career effectively ended when in 1906 he went to Egypt, returning to Germany in 1914. 
Erwin Schricker was killed in the war in 1914. 
Dr Ivo Schricker moved into football administration, being president of the South German FA from 1923-25 and then General Secretary of FIFA from 1931-1954.

Cliftonville 1879-1910

John McAlery was responsible for the introduction of Association Football to Ireland. McAlery was a Belfast based clothier who imported tweeds from Scotland. In 1878 he was in Scotland on honeymoon when he saw a game of  football being played.
On his return to Belfast McAlery arranged for 2 Scottish teams, Queen's Park and Caledonian (Inverness), to play an exhibition match at the Ulster Cricket Ground. Queen's Park won 3-2.

The exhibition match took place in October 1878 and the following year McAlery decided to try and set up a football club to play Scottish Association Rules (which differed from those of the Football Association). He placed the above advertisement in the Belfast press and enlisted the support of fellow members of Cliftonville Cricket Club.
Cliftonville became a major force in Irish football (which, in the early days, focused almost exclusively on Belfast).  

	Cliftonville		Honours
1879	Foundation. An inauspicious start, losing 2-1 against a team of Rugby players known as Quidnunces and 9-1 to Caledonian.
1880		John McAlery instigates the foundation of the Irish Football Association. He is secretary up until 1888
1881	Lost in the final of the first edition of the Irish Cup, 1-0 to Mayola Park	Irish Football Association Challenge Cup inaugurated
1882	Lost in the final of the Irish Cup , 1-0 to Queen's Island	4 Cliftonville players in Ireland’s first international XI, McAlery as captain
1883	Beat Ulster 5-0 to win Irish Cup for the first time		Irish Cup
1884			Belfast Charity Cup
1885
1886	Played in FA Cup		Belfast Charity Cup
1887	Lost 3-1 to Ulster  in cup final		Belfast Charity Cup
1888	Beat Distillery 2-1 to win Irish Cup Played in FA Cup		Irish Cup Belfast Charity Cup
1889			Belfast Charity Cup
1890	Moved to Solitude. Lost 3-0 to  Gordon Highlanders in a  cup final replay	The Irish Football League founded. (Belfast & District League)
1891
1892			County Antrim Shield
1893	Lost 5-1 to Linfield in cup final
1894			County Antrim Shield
1895
1896
1897	Beat Sherwood Foresters 3-1 in cup final		Irish Cup Belfast Charity Cup
1898			County Antrim Shield
1899
1900	Beat Bohemians 2-1 in cup final		Irish Cup
1901		Division A Ireland	Irish Cup
1902
1903
1904
1905
1906			Irish League
1907	Beat Shelbourne 1-0 in cup final replay		Irish Cup Belfast Charity Cup
1908			Belfast Charity Cup
1909	Beat Bohemians 2-1 in cup final replay		Irish Cup Belfast Charity Cup
1910			Irish League

1897