Accident to a football player


November 29, 1892
Dan Kirkwood, the captain of the Caledonian Football Club, lies at the Northern Hospital, one of his legs having been fractured.

On Saturday he was playing at Blackpool in a match against the South Shore Club, and there received the injury.
(Liverpool Mercury: November 29, 1892)

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