Vereinslied

Schalke 04 - 1929

Blue and White I Love You
Hans J. König  (1924)

Blue and white I love you
Blue and white forsake me not
Blue and white is the heavens
Blue and white is our strip

If we had a kingdom 
We'd make it all Schalke

All girls, so young and beautiful 
Should go out in blue and white

Mohammed was a prophet 
Who knew nothing about football
But of all the lovely colours
It was blue and white he chose 

A thousand fires in the night
Have brought us the best of luck
Then  FC Schalke will never go down
A thousand friends stand together
Schalke will never go down

My translation- I have only a basic grasp of German.

Manchester United

1902–03 - the Division 2 side from Bank Street had a new name- Manchester United. The names  Manchester Celtic or Manchester Central were considered as alternatives to Newton Heath...
The  vertical striped jerseys are the away colours, blue and white. Interesting to see the fellow in the front row identified as A.N Other- an anonymous United player!
United finished the season 5th in the second division and were knocked ourt of the FA Cup in the 2nd round proper by Everton, having beaten Accrington Stanley, Oswaldtwistle Rovers, Southport Central, Burton United and Liverpool.
Jack Peddie, who joined from Newcastle United , was top scorer with 15 goals. Unsurprisingly the highest attendance of the season was for the Xmas Day clash with Manchester City (40,000).

The Inter-Allied Games

The Inter-Allied Games were held in Paris, June 22 to July 6, 1919, at the Pershing Stadium.
It was a multi-sport event modeled on the Olympic Games.
The football tournament featured 8 teams.

 Group A:

24.06.19	France	4	0	Romania
25.06.19	Italy	9	0	Greece
26.06.19	Italy	7	1	Romania
26.06.19	France	11	0	Greece
28.06.19	Greece	3	2	Romania
28.06.19	France	2	0	Italy

France	3	3	0	0	17	0	6
Italy	3	2	0	1	16	3	4
Greece	3	1	0	2	3	22	2
Romania	3	0	0	3	3	14	0

Group B:
  

24.06.19	Czechoslovakia	4	1	Belgium
25.06.19	USA	5	4	Canada
26.06.19	Czechoslovakia	8	2	USA
26.06.19	Belgium	5	2	Canada
28.06.19	Czechoslovakia	3	2	Canada
28.06.19	Belgium	7	0	USA

                           

             

Czechoslovakia	3	3	0	0	15	5	6
Belgium	3	2	0	1	13	6	4
USA	3	1	0	2	7	19	2
Canada	3	0	0	3	8	13	0

               

Final 29.06.19   Czechoslovakia 3-2 France

Czechoslovakia was a new state, having previously been a part of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. In this tournament the Czech team was the former City of Prague Representative XI, coached by Slavia Prague's Jake Madden.

France were determined to win the championship in front of their own people and bolstered their team for the final- including internationals such as Pierre Chayrigues, Eugène Langenove, Émilien Devic, Maurice Gastiger and  Paul Deydier. At half time the Czechs reorganized their line up, Janda moving out of defence into his favoured inside forward position from where he orchestrsted a comeback. France were 2-1 up with just 5 minutes left. According to the Games Committee's report: Janda, by his aggressiveness and good sportsmanship, became one of the most popular players of the tournament.

Sparta Prague 1919- 
L-R: Jaroslav Červený, Karel Káďa, František Kolenatý, Antonín Hojer, Antonín Janda, František Peyr, Miroslav Pospíšil, Václav Pilát, Antonín Fivébr, Josef Sedláček, Jan Plaček

Greece were on the end of 2 fierce beatings in which they conceded 20 goals, but they managed a win over Romania.

Antonín Janda-Očko- inspired the Czech comeback in the final.

French goalkeeper Pierre Chayrigues fractured his shoulder and pelvis in the final and was out of the game for 2 years.

The Czechoslovakia  squad:

Peyr (Sparta) , Klapka (Viktoria Žižkov), Pospisil (Sparta), Hojer (Sparta), Cerveny (Sparta) , Pesek (Sparta),  Fivebr (Sparta), Loos (Slavia), Vlk (?), Prosek (?), Vanik (Slavia) , Pilat (Sparta), Janda (Sparta), Sedlacek (Sparta).

Players in bold type appeared in the 1920 Olympic squad.

Vanik  and  Sedlacek had previously represented Austria.

The full text of the Games Committee's report is here:  https://archive.org/details/cu31924014114353

P.M Walters, A.M Walters, H. M. Walters

The brothers 'Morning' and 'Afternoon' Walters played together as right and left fullback for England on 9 occasions. They also played alongside each other for Old Carthusians and Corinthian FC, as well as against each other in the 1885 'Varsity Match (Percy for Oxford and Arthur Cambridge) Their international careers ended in 1890, when in response to the death of their brother and in respect of their mother's wishes, they gave up all football.
Arthur was 25 and Percy 27.
Arthur made a comeback for Corinthians in 1892-93. Percy also returned to the game,appearing in the FA Amateur Cup Final in 1895. 

The cutting records the death of H.W Walters. A forward with Casuals FC, he received a kick in the abdomen in the game against St Bartholomew's Hospital on November 12th 1890. The injury led to acute peritonitis and he died on November  27th.

1936 Soviet Cup Final

 Dinamo Stadium

The first edition of the Soviet Cup was decided on 28.08.36 at Dinamo Stadium, Moscow. The finalists were Lokomotiv Moscow and Dinamo Tbilisi. 
Here is how they reached the final:

Trudovayar Kommuna Kungur	0	7	Lokomotiv
Dynamo Kharkiv	0	1	Lokomotiv
Lokomotiv	3	0	Spartak Leningrad
Lokomotiv	2	1	Silmash Kharkiv
Lokomotiv	5	0	Krasnaya Zaria Leningrad

Dinamo Batumi	0	2	Dinamo Tbilisi
Dinamo Tbilisi	3	2	Stroiteli Baku
Dzerzhinets Stalingrad	1	3	Dinamo Tbilisi
Spartak Moscow	3	6	Dinamo Tbilisi
Dinamo Tbilisi	5	1	Krasnoye Znamya Noginsk

Lokomotiv won the final 2-0 thanks to goals by Aleksei Sokolov (18) and

Viktor Lavrov (24).

Viktor Lavrov

Paraguay

William Paats

English railway workers were reportedly playing football in Paraguay in the 1880s, but the responsibility for introducing organized football lies with the Dutchman William Paats. Paats moved to Asuncion when he was 18 years old. He became a games instructor at a local college and introduced football. In 1902 he was involved in founding the oldest (and most successful) club in Paraguay- Olimpia.

Olimpia 1902

Paats  was also influential in the foundation of Liga Paraguaya de Football Association and was its 3rd president (1909–1910).
The league began in 1906- competing for the newspaper sponsored Copa el Diario. The first ever league match in Paraguay was a 1-1 draw between Football Club Guarani and Olimpia. The return match was also a 1-1 draw- Guarani won all their other games and were champions. 

Final standings:

1.Guaraní
2.Olimpia
3.Libertad
4.General Díaz
5.Nacional
6.14 de Mayo

Football Club Guarani were dominant in the early years- they play in black and yellow as their founders included the bothers Federico and Salvador Melina who had played for CURCC.

 Federico Melina (Guarani)

Juan Deandreis (Guarani)

Olimpia didn't win the title until 1912.

Chinese Universities v New Zealand 1924

In 1924 a Chinese Universities team toured New Zealand. They played 22 games, of which they won 4.
Their 4 meetings with national representative XIs are considered full internationals by New Zealand. 

 16.08.24      New Zealand  2-1 Chinese Universities  (Auckland)
 23.08.24     New Zealand  2-2 Chinese Universities (Wellington)
 06.09.24     New Zealand  5-3 Chinese Universities  (Dunedin)
 13.09.24     New Zealand  4-2 Chinese Universities (Christchurch)

Sheffield Wednesday Cricket Club and Football Club

 The birth of a great Association Football club is recorded in the press of 1867, although their earliest seasons, as we can see from the brief report of their first match above, were played under Sheffield Rules. 

In 1868 the club won the Cromwell Cup.

Association Rules were adopted exclusively in 1878 by which time The Wednesday as they were officially known, had employed the services of the first ever professional footballer, the Scotsman J.J Lang. 

Wednesday won The Sheffield and Hallamshire Senior Cup in its inaugural season (1876–77).

It was in 1887 that Wednesday finally became an openly professional club. 

1878- Piratical blue stripes reminiscent of Dutch sailors.