Wales- Club Affiliations

The diversity of club affiliations in Wales line ups has always appealed to me- The FAW seemed to draw on the great professional clubs of the English north and midlands and the village teams of north east Wales in equal measure. As time went on the clubs, both English and Welsh, from the lower reaches of the expanded Football League were also represented.
In the period from 1876 to the end of the 1936-37 season Wales played 163 full internationals.  Thus means that including 2 substitute appearances, 1795 caps were awarded.
138 clubs were represented: 87 English clubs, 44 Welsh clubs, 6 Scottish and 1 (Northern) Irish.

Club
Wrexham (Wrexham Olympic)		209 **
Cardiff City		91
Druids		80 (83)*
Chirk		70
Manchester United (Newton Heath)		66
Manchester City (Ardwick)		65
Bolton Wanderers		62**
Swansea Town		57
Liverpool, Wolverhampton Wanderers		47
Stoke (City)		44
Tottenham Hotspur		42
Bangor City		39
Everton, Oswestry		35
West Bromwich Albion		33
Nottingham Forest		32
Aston Villa, Preston North End		25
Newtown, Ruthin
Derby County		24
(Woolwich) Arsenal, Plymouth Argyle		22
Sheffield United		19
Aberystwyth Town		18
Chester City		17
Crewe Alexandra, Middlesbrough, Oswestry United		15
Northampton Town, Oldham Athletic		14
Notts County, Shrewsbury Town		13
Birmingham City (Small Heath),  Blackburn Rovers,  Brentford		12
Newport County
Oxford University
Corinthian FC, Leicester City (Fosse)		11
Coventry City, Sunderland		10
Bootle		9
Brighton and Hove Albion		8
Berwyn Rangers	Clapton Orient
Grimsby Town, Millwall (Athletic)
Rhyl	The Wednesday
Hibernian
Crystal Palace, Rotherham United, West Ham United		7
Aberdare Athletic		6
Chelsea	Corwen
Derby School	Motherwell
Northwich Victoria
Portsmouth, St Thomas’ Hospital (London), Southend United
Charlton Athletic		5
East Stirlingshire	Llanelly Town
Merthyr Town	Oswestry White
Stars, Reading
Cambridge University		4
Cardiff Corinthians
London Welsh	Llangollen
Port Vale, Shrewsbury Engineers, Swifts, Tranmere Rovers
Barmouth	Burton Swifts	3
Builth	Lincoln City
Llandrindod Wells	New Brighton Tower
Oswestry Town, Shropshire
Wanderers	Swansea FC
Welshpool	Walsall
Wrexham Civil Service
Blackpool, Bradford City                     Bradford Park Avenue, Bristol City		2
Brymbo Institute, Colwyn Bay, Llanduno, Newtown Excelsior
Rhos	Queens Park
South Liverpool , Watford
Aberaman	Barnsley	1
Brecon	Bristol Rovers
Burton United	Carnarvon Athletic
Clapton ,  Crusaders,  Fulham, Glossop North End, Hereford Town
Heart of Midlothian
Huddersfield Town, Leeds City
Leyton	Linfield
Llanberis	Llandudno
Swifts, Lovell’s Athletic,  Mold
Newtown White Stars
Nelson, Newcastle United
Parkgrove Glasgow
Presteigne , Rhosllanerchrugog Rhostyllen Victoria, Ruabon
Shrewsbury Town, Southampton, St Helens Recreation, Swindon Town
Treharris
Wellingborough Grammar School
Wynnstay
The Secretary of the Football Association of Wales***

* 3 players are listed as Druids and Shropshire Wanderers.

** Including 1 substitute 

*** Alexander Hunter played against Ireland in 1887 - he was Secretary of the FAW and not affiliated to any club. 

Grenville Morris-Aberystwyth Town,  Swindon Town, Nottingham Forest- 21 caps

Charlie Morris - Derby County-27 caps

Billy Lot Jones- Manchester City- 20 caps 

Ted Vizard- Bolton Wanderers -22  caps

Audacious

Audacious , Bold, Daring... take your pick of the translations of the name of  the team pictured above.  Команда смелых , founded by high school students and the young workers of  the St. George engineering plant in Stavropol , Russia in 1910.
The men and boys pictured belonged to that generation that was decimated by the 1914-18 war and the Civil War in Russia that followed.

A Team of Scotland v Canada

Scottish FA secretary William Dick was in the process of arranging a  tour to Canada when he died in 1880. This was the year in which David Forsyth had been instrumental in founding the The Western Football Association of Ontario, the force behind Canadian representative football in the Victorian era. 


Eight years later The Western Association toured the British Isles and on the evening of 18.09.88 'Canada' met a 'Team of Scotland' at The Glasgow Exhibition Grounds (Kelvingrove Park).

A Team of Scotland		Canada
Gillespie (Queens Park)	GK	Garrett (Toronto Varsity)
Gow (Rangers)	B	Killer (Berlin Rangers)
Forbes (Vale of Leven)	B	Brubacher (Berlin Rangers)
Stewarts (Queens Park)	HB	Gordon (Toronto Varsity)
Auld (Third LRV)	HB	Mustard (Toronto Varsity)
Muir (Rangers)	HB	Pirie (Queen’s University, Dundas F.C)
Hamilton (Queens Park)	OR	Bowman (Berlin Rangers)
Berry (Queens Park)	IR	Gibson (Berlin Rangers)
Campbell (Renton)	CF	Gibson (Berlin Rangers)
McCall (Renton)	IL	Thomson (Toronto Varsity)
McPherson (Cowlairs)	OL	Webster (Galt)

McCall and Berry scored 2 goals each as Scotland ran out 4-0 winners. The press singled out Garrett in the Canadian goal for particular praise. 

Wiener Athletiksport Club

Wiener AC (1901): standing, l-r: Friedrich Dettelmaier, Karl Sokol, Philipp Nauss, Emil 
Wachuda, Herr Pammer (secretary), Heinrich Haller, Dr. Steiner, Strauss, Josef Taurer; seated:
Gustav Huber, Cornelius von Hoffmann, Johann Studnicka.

The football section of WAC was founded in 1897.
By 1904 they had captured six major trophies.
Tagblatt-Pokal - a league competition for Vienna clubs-1901,1902,1903.
Challenge-Cup- a knockout tournament open to all clubs in the Austro-Hungarian monarchy  1901,1903, 1904.

The English Disease- 1885

Birmingham Daily Post

Some Famous Forwards

R. Templeton (Woolwich Arsenal)

Bobby Templeton was an outside right. He began and ended his career with Kilmarnock, also playing for Aston Villa, Newcastle United, Woolwich Arsenal, Celtic and Fulham.
He represented Scotland 11 times. In 1908 he entered a lion's cage and twisted the animal's tail for a wager.

T.A. Soar (Fulham)
Albert Soar was a light and nippy 'A skilful ball-player whose every touch spoke eloquently of his ability', Other senior clubs represented were Nottingham Forest, Derby County and Watford. He suffered a career ending injury at Watford aged 27. 

Lipsham (Sheffield United)
Bert Lipsham played for Chester City, Crewe Alexandra , Sheffield United and Fulham. It was whilst with the Blades that he enjoyed his best days, winning the FA Cup and getting his single England cap in 1902. After his playing days were over he managed Millwall.

Hampton (Aston Villa)
In 16 years at Villa Happy Harry scored 242 goals in 376 games. He won the FA Cup in 1905 (scoring both goals in the final) and was capped 4 times by England. 

Vivian Woodward (Tottenham Hotspur)
The amateur Vivian Woodward was a goal machine in international football and a double Olympic gold medalist.

Jack Sharp (Everton)
Sharp was a double international (football and cricket) and an FA Cup winner (1906).

F. Blackburn (West Ham United)
Fred Blackburn joined West Ham from Blackburn Rovers (his hometown club). He represented England 3 times.

J. Long (Reading)
Jimmy Long was a Scotsman- his career began at Clyde and he played League Football for Grimsby Town and Derby County, punctuated by 2 years with Reading in the Southern League. 

Appleyard (Newcastle United)
Bill Appleyard has 109 first class goals to his name, 87 of them with Newcastle United. 

Fussball Ohne Aufnehmen Des Balles (Assoziation-Fussball)

First published in 1909, this 90 page booklet was volume 18 in a series on sports and games. The title rather charmingly translates as Football Without Picking Up The Ball. Author Johannes Scharfe was a pioneer of football in Silesia , secretary of VfB Leipzig and director of the Leipzig Football Association. Herr Scharfe was also a referee. 

The cover photograph appears to show Slavia Prague in action. 

Gandhi

 When Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi became involved in Civil Rights and anti racism in South Africa he recognized the populist force of football. In 1913 he organized football  in Natal for the Indian community. In this photograph Gandhi is circled. 

FC St. Gallen

St Gallen FC, founded in April 1879,  claims to be the oldest club in continental Europe. The club was founded by young businessmen who had been exposed to football when they studied with English students. 

Although the members played almost daily, the early years saw only casual football and an idiosyncratic set of hybrid rules. It was in 1892 that St Gallen's first documented fixture took place- a visit from Grasshopper Club Zürich, who protested that the goals used in St Gallen were far smaller than the regulation size. The return match in Zurich saw Grasshopper win 6-0 (they had won 1-0 with the mini goals at St Gallen). Following this fixture St Gallen adopted the standard sized goals. 

The club first featured in Swiss Championship in 1899-1900 (the 3rd edition) under their temporary guise of United FC St. Gallen, but finished bottom of their group. They were champions in 1904, a feat they did not repeat for 96  years.