After holding competitive games during the first year of the Great War, the Football Associations of England and Scotland decided to discontinue professional football at
Tag: Red Cross
Fashion for the trainer
November 4, 1953 The Tottenham crowd appreciated the difference in sartorial styles when the trainer of the F.C. Austria ran on to the pitch to
Matt Busby and Willie Fagan in Red Cross match
March 29, 1945 Four Soccer Internationalists – Johnny Mapson and Maurice Edelston (England) and Matt Busby and Willie Fagan (Scotland) – are included in the
Football League XI v All British Red Cross XI 4-4 (Charity match: March 2, 1940)
March 2, 1940 Match, International, representative friendly, at Park Avenue (Bradford). Football League XI – All British Red Cross XI 4-4 (2-1). Attendance: 14,575; gate
British Army XI at Anfield
Wednesday, February 7 – 1940 Liverpool F.C. yesterday accepted the invitation to stage the Red Cross Fund match between the Football League and the British
All-British XI with Riley and Busby
Monday, January 22 – 1940 The following players were chosen, yesterday, to take part in the Football League v. All-British Red Cross match at Bradford
Aston Villa F.C.: The annual meeting of 1918
June 28, 1918 The annual meeting of the Aston Villa Football Club was held last evening. Mr. Joseph Ansell, who presided, said it would be
Jack Sheldon’s letter from Aberdeen
April 26, 1916 Jack Sheldon, the well-known Lancashire footballer was drawn into letter-writing as a consequence of the playing of the Everton v Liverpool match.
The Liverpool F.C. ambulance fund
February 1, 1916 Liverpool F.C. wisely set out quickly on their mission to do something to perpetuate the name of the club in connection with
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
