August 5, 1915 George Latham, for many years a stalwart half-back with Liverpool F.C., has been visiting the city during the week. He has obtained
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The players signed on for 1915-16
August 5, 1915 A breath of football comes from the Anfield sources to-day. We are approaching football’s season speedily, and the clubs are getting their
Jack Sheldon joins the Footballers’ Battalion
July 22, 1915 Jack Sheldon, the Liverpool F.C. forward, has enlisted, and to-day proceeded to London to join the Footballers Battalion. Before coming to Liverpool
The soldiers wants football to go on
July 14, 1915 The assortment of letters from the front will keep you interested to-day. The most important, to my mind, is the plea of
How will the professionals cope?
July 12, 1915 The English League footballer is in a sorry plight at the moment. I think his position will improve slightly during the next
Crystal Palace F.C.: The annual meeting of 1915
June 30, 1915 The annual meeting of the Crystal Palace Football Club was held last night. The balance-sheet showed that the past season was a
Army promotion for Maurice Parry
June 18, 1915 Sergeant Maurice Pryce Parry, of the Montgomeryshire Yeomanry, who has been gestated second-lieutenant in the 7th Battalion Royal Welch Fusiliers, is the
Three footballers from Bradford in the Army
May 29, 1915 Three of the leading members of the Bradford football team have joined the colours – Tommy Little, Jim Smith, and Jack McCandless.
Tom Gracie now a sergeant
May 10, 1915 Tom Gracie, the former veteran Liverpool footballer, who has had an abundantly successful season in Scottish football, has been made a sergeant
Johnny Houston joins Royal Irish Rifles
May 4, 1915 Football players are free agents now until the winner pastime is resumed, and a small number of them have joined the army,
Athletes in khaki
February 25, 1915 There are fewer participants in sports and games since the war began than ever before. Golf clubs, crickets clubs, football clubs, Rugby
Jack Tosswill promoted to Army Corporal
February 22, 1915 Jack Tosswill who will be recalled as an old Coventry City forward, has recently enlisted in the motor-cycle section of the Royal
Yuletide fighting – Was there a truce on Christmas Day?
Saturday, January 30 – 1915 Telling how he spent Christmas Day in the trenches, Private Joseph Jackson (28), 1st Royal Warwicks, of Ward Street, agreed
Players ready to join the Army if called upon
Friday, January 22 – 1915 Lord Derby’s postcard recruiting census of players and spectators at the Christmas Day and Boxing Day matches at Liverpool and
Neil McBain in the army
Thursday, December 10 – 1914 Neil McBain, the Ayr United forward, is with his regiment in Bedford. The Campbelltown youth is enjoying life as a
Lieut. Arnold Dargie’s pigeons
November 13, 1914 Lieutenant Arnold Dargie, now in a training camp with his regiment, competing at the Northern Welsh Counties Fur and Feather Show at
Meeting of the Football Association (August 31, 1914)
August 31, 1914 The Football Association to confer with military authorities. At their meeting held yesterday at the offices of the Association, 42, Russell Square,
Your King and Country Need You
Thursday, August 5 – 1914 (Liverpool Echo, 05-08-1914) Army, flag, war, enlist
A Liverpool director in the Army
Tuesday, August 4 – 1914 When the call comes to the sportsman he is ready to respond. In the last war with the Boers athletes
Two new forwards at Anfield for Liverpool F.C.
Monday, October 14 – 1912 Liverpool have now lost five consecutive League games, and their position is by no means reassuring. The management, however, are
Season preview 1910/11: Millwall F.C. (Athletic News)
August 29, 1910 The ground opening postponed. Millwall have been engaged in further strengthening their team, and have signed on a centre-forward named Martin, a
Personalia: Harry Fitzpatrick, Liverpool F.C.
November 9, 1907 At one period of Liverpool’s career their eleven might accurately have been dubbed the “team of all the Macs.” Gradually the sons
Liverpudliana: By Richard Samuel (May 11, 1907)
May 11, 1907 Liverpool F.C. gossip. Things in the Liverpool camp are more tranquil than was the case a year ago, when the signal was
The suicide of the Russian Consul at Liverpool
December 29, 1906 An inquest was held at Liverpool on Saturday on Colonel Robert de Geiman, Russian Consul at Liverpool, who committed suicide in a
Local lad Roberts given a trial
December 16, 1905 Liverpool have chosen the usual side. The men will go to Southport on Tuesday for a fortnight. This in view of the
"Play Up, Liverpool" 
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