Hakoah All-Stars in South America, 1930

Hakoah All Stars with the flag of Uruguay

Bela Guttmann at the Estadio Centenario

There was a Jewish Sports club based in New York as early as 1921 (Maccabean Athletic Club).

In July 1926 The Hakoah Athletic Club formed, joining the  International Soccer League of New York, the Empire State League and the German-American League.
The club was modeled on Hakoah Wien. 
Hakoah Wien had enjoyed a successful visit to the USA in May 1926, and a number of the players were attracted to life there. 
These players, many of whom had represented Austria, Hungary and Czechoslovakia, were central to the development of  2 clubs, New York Hakoah  and Brooklyn Hakoah. Both clubs enjoyed success and merged in 1930 to form Hakoah All-Stars.

Touring was a lucrative business, and in 1930 Hakoah had 3 offers to consider- Australia, Europe and South America.
They settled for South America. 
I have found some records of the matches in Brazil which suggest that the squad was composed as follows: 

Hakoah  regulars:	International caps
Lajos Fischer	Hungary (9)
Laszlo Sternberg	Hungary (19)
Pepi Schneider	Austria (11)
Rudolph Nickolsburger (aka Nikolsburger Rezső , aka Rudy Nichols)	Hungary (2)
Leopold Drucker	Austria (1)
Pavel Mahrer	Czechoslovakia (6)
Bela Guttmann	Hungary (4)
Leo Grünfeld
German born, formerly of Stuttgart Kickers
Moritz Häusler	Austria(7)
Erno Schwarz	Hungary (2)
Sándor Nemes (aka Alexander Neufeld)	Hungary (3) Austria (2)
Siegfried Wortmann	Austria (1)
Max Grünwald	Austria (1)
Guests:
Murren Carlsson  (New York Giants)	Sweden (20)
Walter Dick  (Providence Gold Bugs)	USA (1)
Red McMillan (New Bedford Whalers)
A Scot who had played for Dunfermline Athletic before emigrating.
Vickers
I suspect this to be an Englishman, James Vickers, who played for Fall River Marksmen.

19.06.30	Seleção Paulista	3	1	Hakoah All Stars	Brazil
	São Paulo select including Friedenreich.
22.06.30	Seleção Da AMEA	2	0	Hakoah All Stars	Brazil
	Associação Metropolitana de Esportes Athleticos was the Rio League. This was a selection of players who had not made the World Cup squad.
28.06.30	Vasco Da Gama	0	1	Hakoah All Stars	Brazil
29.06.30	Seleção Carioca Da Zona Norte	0	0	Hakoah All Stars	Brazil
	Northern Rio select.
05.07.30	Combined Palestra Itália/São Paulo	2	3	Hakoah All Stars	Brazil
06.07.30	Corinthians	5	1	Hakoah All Stars	Brazil
12.07.30 (?)	Santos	2	2	Hakoah All Stars	Brazil
	One Brazilian source I read has this match taking place after the games in Argentina and Uruguay, as a stop-off on the return voyage to New York, which would make this date incorrect. The Brazilian source dates the game as 17.08.30, in which case the Peñarol date below is wrong.
13.07.30	Argentina Select	3	1	Hakoah All Stars	Argentina
	Argentine historian Héctor Darío Pelayes dates this game at 30.07.30
14.07.30	Rosario Central	1	1	Hakoah All Stars	Argentina
20.07.30	Newell’s Old Boys	1	1	Hakoah All Stars	Argentina
21.07.30	Rosario Combined	1	1	Hakoah All Stars	Argentina
27.07.30	Belgrano	1	1	Hakoah All Stars	Argentina
28.07.30	La Plata	3	1	Hakoah All Stars	Argentina
	Not to be confused with River Plate
10.08.30	Independiente	0	0	Hakoah All Stars	Argentina
20.08.30	Peñarol	0	0	Hakoah All Stars	Uruguay

Not a great success then, an abundance of draws.

P	W	D	L	F	A
15	2	8	5	14	24

Guttmann would return to Uruguay , Brazil and Argentina after the War as a manager, most notably with Peñarol.

1914 FA Cup Final

The FA Cup Final, the first to be attended by a reigning monarch in the person of  King George V. It was the first Cup Final appearance of both clubs, and the last to be played at Crystal Palace. 

The souvenir card shows Tommy Boyle the Burnley captain, and Harry Lowe of Liverpool.

Lowe was injured in the League match at Middlesborough the week before the final. Ephraim Longworth led the Reds for the game with Burnley.

Dawson missed the final through injury.

 Referee Herbert Bamlett (a future manager of Manchester United) signals as Bert Freeman (bisected here by the crossbar) scores the only goal of the final in the 57th minute. 

The King presents the Cup to Boyle- Lord Kinnaird extreme right. 

Pierre Chayriguès

Well protected and with a definite air of none shall pass, Pierre Chayriguès of Clichy, Red Star Amical and France. 

 Tottenham Hotspur were keen to sign  Chayriguès after he played against them in 1913. However, he had to do military service and it was unlikely that the British Government would have granted a work-permit to a foreign footballer. 

He represented France 21 times (1911-25) , keeping 4 clean sheets in a record of won-8 drawn-  3 lost -10. 2 of these appearances came in the 1924 Olympic Games at Paris. 

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SC Austria Lustenau

SC Austria Lustenau are celebrating their centenary. Formed initially as a multi sport club along the Germanic 'Turner' model, the 1914 team group below suggests that they were either ultra competitive or that fencing was another of their interests! 

Matt Busby- Manchester City

Matt Busby's name is linked so strongly with Manchester United that it is strange to remember that he played all his club football with 2 of United's fiercest rivals- Manchester City and Liverpool.
Busby, a half back, made 227 appearances for City having signed as an 18 year old.  In March 1936 he was sold to Liverpool for £8,000 and made 125 appearances for the Reds.
He played once for Scotland (1933).

1891 Census- England

Here are the 1891 Census details on the England XI who lined up against Scotland at Ewood Park on 6th April 1891. Only 8 of the players can be positively identified in the Census records.  Interestingly, of those 8, 5 were living with their parents. Whereas only Billy Moon was actually an amateur (and he captained the team on this occasion), only 3 of the other 7 put their occupation down as professional footballer.

		Age	M?	Occupation	Circumstances
GK	(William Robert) Billy Moon (c) (Old Westminsters)	22	S	Solicitor	Moon was living with his widowed mother at  45 Portsdown Road, Paddington. His mother was described as 'living on her means'. Also at home were a 21 yr old brother who was a medical student, 3 teenage sisters, a housemaid and a cook.
RB	Bob Howarth  (Preston North End)	25	M	Solicitor's clerk	Howarth lived at The Cross Keys, Market Place Preston with his wife Elizabeth and their 2 sons aged 4 and 2.
LB	Bob Holmes (Preston North End)	23	S	Professional footballer	Lodging at The Grapes Inn, 42 Church Street Preston.
RH	Albert Smith (Nottingham Forest)	22	S	Clerk	Lived at   45 Hutchinson Street Nottingham with his shoemaker father, his mother (described as a parish visitor) and his 19 yr old sister who was a warehouse girl.
CH	Johnny Holt (Everton)	25	No conclusive evidence found.
LH	Alf Shelton    (Notts County)	23	S	Professional football player	He lived with his widower father and an elderly lodger at Castle Rd in Nottingham.
OR	Billy Bassett (West Bromwich Albion)	22	S	Writing clerk	William Isiah Basset appears in all censuses as William J or William Jas. Bassett. He was living with his parents at 28 Nichols Street West Bromwich. Contrary to what Wikipedia says he had an older brother. Bassett had 4 siblings living at home.
IR	John Goodall  (Derby County)	27	M	Tobacconist	Living with his wife and 3 infants. There was also a servant in the house, 34 Dexter Street in Litchurch, Derby.
CF	Fred Geary  (Everton)	23	absent from the 1891 census
IL	Edgar Chadwick    (Everton)	21	S	Professional footballer	The eldest of 7 children living at home with their baker/grocer parents in Blackburn.
OL	Alf Milward (Everton)	20	absent from the 1891 census