Ezüstlabda

The precursor of the Hungarian Cup was the Ezüstlabda (Silver Ball). The knockout tournament was instituted in 1903. The trophy was to be retained by any club winning it either 3 times in succession or 5 times in total.
1903:

The following clubs entered the first edition of the Ezüstlabda: 
Ferencváros
Műegyetemi FC
MUE (Magyar Úszó Egyesület (Hungarian Swimming Association))
 33 FC
Magyar Athlétikai Club
Postás SE. 
Törekvés.

The opening round was played in April/ May:
Műegyetemi FC	7	0	Törekvés
33FC	3	2	MUE
Magyar Athlétikai Club	2	2	Postás
Magyar Athlétikai Club	1	3	Postás
Ferencváros	bye
The semi-finals were scheduled for May:
33 FC	3	2	Postás
Ferencváros	W-O		Műegyetemi FC
This game never took place- Ferencváros advanced to the final

Ferencváros  therefore reached the final without playing a match.

The final did not take place until December...
And who can resist the story of a cup final which is delayed after the ball is booted into a river? The mighty Danube no less. The match between  Ferencváros and  33FC was played at Margitsziget , an island in the Danube on which stood Hungary's first (and at the time only) turf football pitch.  The first match was drawn 1-1 and in the early stages of the replay the ball found itself in the river. Ferencváros went on to win 3-0.
Ferencváros:
 Oláh  ,Berán, Manglitz , Gorszky, Bródy, Lissauer, Weisz, Kovács , Pokorny, Novotny, Scheibel
scorers: Pokorny, Bródy, Kovács 


The Ezüstlabda was contested over 7 seasons before Ferencváros took possession of the trophy having gained 5 wins. The finals were as follows:

1903	Ferencváros	1	1	33FC
	Ferencváros	3	0	33FC
1904	Ferencváros	3	2	Műegyetemi AFC
1905	Budapesti TC	3	1	Ferencváros
1906	Ferencváros	1	1	Postás
Postás could not fulfil the replay fixture and the trophy was awarded to Ferencváros
1907	Magyar Athlétikai Club	?	?	Budapesti TC
1908	Ferencváros	7	2	Budapesti AK
1909	Ferencváros	4	2	Magyar Athlétikai Club

The trophy rests at Ferencváros

26-0

In 1887 there was no Football League and there was no Lancashire League. 
There was The Lancashire County Football Association Cup and there was the FA Cup.
People in Lancashire were taking to football in their hundreds of thousands.  Clubs in Lancashire were employing professionals and they were having a major impact on the game's development.
The two biggest clubs, the most formidable, were Blackburn Rovers and Preston North End. 
In 1883 Blackburn Olympic won the FA Cup.
In 1884 Preston North End had been thrown out of the FA Cup for professionalism.
In 1884, 1885 and 1886 Blackburn Rovers had won the FA Cup. 
In 1885 The Football Association had accepted professionalism.

In the 1887-88 season 149 clubs entered the FA Cup. 25 of these clubs were from Lancashire. 

On 15 October 1887, Hyde, from Manchester, traveled to Deepdale to play Preston North End. Preston North End won the match 26-0.
This is still a record for a senior football match in England.  

Preston North End		Hyde
Addison	GK	Bunyan
Howarth	RB	Gregory
N.J Ross	LB	J.H Hall
Goodall	RH	Hurst
Russell	CH	Bowers
Graham	LH	Wilson
Gordon	OR	J. Hall
J.D Ross	IR	Presslee
Thomson	CF	Robinson
Dewhurst	IL	Wood
Drummond	OL	Hodgkinson

At half time it was 12-0 and Addison had yet to touch the ball. 
Jimmy Ross scored  8 goals. 
Gordon and Thomson scored  5 each.
Dewhurst scored  3, Drummond 2 and  Nick Ross, Russell and John Goodall each scored  one goal.




In the next round Preston North End played Everton and beat them 6-1. Everton were retrospectively disqualified from the competition and Preston North End then had to play the team who Everton had defeated in the first round, Bolton Wanderers. At Deepdale Preston North End defeated Bolton Wanderers 9-1. Jimmy Ross scored 6 goals. 
 It was quite a season for Preston, as they clocked up 42 consecutive victories.
 Further Cup wins came against Halliwell (4-0), Aston Villa and The Wednesday (both 3-1 away), and Crewe Alexandra (4-0).
The biggest prize evaded them, however, thanks to a 2-1 defeat to West Bromwich Albion  in the FA Cup Final.

New Zealand

New Zealand versus Australia at Carisbrook, Dunedin 1922.

The governing body of Association football in New Zealand , New Zealand Football, was founded in 1891 (a year before the New Zealand Rugby Football Union!).
The first national representative team was fielded in 1904. Two matches were played against tourists from New South Wales:

The New Zealand football team played its first game in Dunedin on July 23, 1904, losing 1-0 to New South Wales. The New Zealand XI played 14 matches against various Australian sides in 1904 and 1905. They played new South Wales 4 times. 

23.07.04	New Zealand	0	1	New South Wales	Dunedin
30.07.04	New Zealand	3	3	New South Wales	Wellington

24.06.05	New South Wales	4	6	New Zealand	Sydney
01.07.05	New South Wales	2	0	New Zealand	Sydney

In 1922 New Zealand played their first official full internationals when Australia visited.

17.06.22	New Zealand	3	1	Australia	Dunedin
24.06.22	New Zealand	1	1	Australia	Wellington
08.07.22	New Zealand	3	1	Australia	Auckland

New Zealand undertook a 16 match tour of Australia in 1923. They played 3 'test matches'.

09.06.23	Australia	1	2	New Zealand	Brisbane
16.06.23	Australia	3	2	New Zealand	Sydney
30.06.23	Australia	4	1	New Zealand	Newcastle

In 1927 Canada visited New Zealand, playing  23 games, 4 of which were full internationals.

25.06.27	New Zealand	2	2	Canada	Dunedin
02.07.27	New Zealand	1	2	Canada	Christchurch
09.07.27	New Zealand	1	0	Canada	Wellington
23.07.27	New Zealand	1	4	Canada	Auckland

 

The Haka- Sydney Cricket Ground

It was 6 years before New Zealand got another international. A 13 match tour of Australia included 3 international fixtures.

05.06.33	Australia	4	2	New Zealand	Brisbane
17.06.33	Australia	6	4	New Zealand	Sydney
24.06.33	Australia	4	2	New Zealand	Sydney

1936- Australia were establishing their dominance in Oceania football...

04.07.36	New Zealand	1	7	Australia	Dunedin
11.07.36	New Zealand	0	10	Australia	Wellington
18.07.36	New Zealand	1	4	Australia	Auckland

1937- Not official internationals but three matches against England Amateurs that expose something of a gulf in class.

05.06.37	New Zealand	0	12	England Amateurs	Dunedin
19.06.37	New Zealand	0	6	England Amateurs	Auckland
26.06.37	New Zealand	1	12	England Amateurs	Wellington

A great site on the New Zealand game here...