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Steve Heighway – Kicking off with a degree

December 7, 1970 kjehan

Monday, December 7 – 1970 Steve Heighway, summer  graduate BA in politics and economics, is wintering well among the masters of English First Division football.

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Coventry City ask FA for Cup postponement

January 1, 1970 kjehan

January 1, 1970 Flu-hit Coventry to-day made a plea to the FA to call off their third-round tie with Liverpool at Highfield Road on Saturday.

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Liverpool’s Billy Liddell returns home on holiday

February 25, 1939 kjehan

February 25, 1939 Home from Liverpool for a short holiday is 17-year-old Dunfermline footballer-account, Billy Liddell. Billy joined Liverpool F.C. as an amateur last year,

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James Humphrey Barron (James Barron) @ PlayUpLiverpool.com

January 3, 1939 kjehan

All articles about James Barron on PlayUpLiverpool.com. About James Barron: Born: September 30, 1874: Belfast, Northern Ireland. Passed away: January 3, 1939: Belfast, Northern Ireland.

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Portsmouth v Liverpool preview 1938 (get to know the Liverpool team)

November 4, 1938 kjehan

November 4, 1938 Anderson, who has registered three hat tricks in amassing a total of 15 goals for the Reserve team this season, will lead

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John McKenna dies 82 years old

March 22, 1936 kjehan

March 22, 1936 One of the foremost leaders and legislators of the Association football game of all time, Mr. John McKenna, president of the Football

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Character studies of the Liverpool Players

February 14, 1928 kjehan

February 14, 1928 Character studies of the Liverpool Players. Elisha Scott. – Goal. This famous Irishman has no peer between the sticks to-day, despite the

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Bolton Wanderers with rugby player vs. Liverpool

October 17, 1918 kjehan

Thursday, October 17 – 1918 That’s a bright record for an N.U. player, who has only just turned his attention to Soccer football. Liverpool will

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Rugby football at Anfield

May 20, 1916 kjehan

May 20, 1916 Although there was a goodly crowd at Anfield on Saturday to witness the game between a Welsh international team and a fifteen

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Top international rugby at Anfield

May 19, 1916 kjehan

May 19, 1916 It seems strange that the curtain on important matches of both codes (the soccer and rugger games) should, as it were, be

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Footballers promoted

August 19, 1915 kjehan

August 19, 1915 Among the promotions gazettes in the 1st Footballers Battalion are many well-known players. 2nd Lieutenant V.J. Woodward, the international, becomes a lieutenant,

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Athletes in khaki

February 25, 1915 kjehan

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

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Famous football grounds – Park Avenue, Bradford

October 6, 1906 kjehan

Saturday, October 6 – 1906 Park Avenue – Bradford F.C. football ground The accompanying collection of pictures forms the first of a series of illustrated

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Edgar Chadwick on German and continental football

June 16, 1900 kjehan

Saturday, June 16 – 1900 Football has long been the most popular of our English winter pastimes, but it would appear from the opinion of

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Liverpool v Newton Heath 3-0 (Benefit: March 1, 1894)

March 1, 1894 kjehan

March 1, 1894 Match: Benefit for Stanley Hospital, at Anfield. Liverpool – Newton Heath 3-0 (2-0). Attendance: 2,000. Liverpool (2-3-5): William McOwen, John McCartney, Duncan

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Charity awaits Liverpool and Anfield

February 26, 1894 kjehan

February 26, 1894 The annual benefit to the Stanley Hospital at the Anfield ground, instead of burlesque, will be characteristic of genuine football – a

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Advertisement: Frank Sugg: Football King

December 30, 1893 kjehan

December 30, 1893 (Cricket and Football Field: December 30, 1893) Frank Sugg, football King, 32 Lord Street, 27 Whitechapel, Liverpool, rugby, football, match balls, flannelette

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Finally affiliated to the FA

April 25, 1892 kjehan

April 25, 1892 Tonight Mr. Edwin Berry (Chairman of the Liverpool Association Football Club) and the Hon. Sec. will apply to the English Football Council

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The Everton heroes

November 16, 1889 kjehan

November 16, 1889 During the past few years, the Association football has made giant strides, in Liverpool and district, as witness the existence and prosperity

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The fourth meeting of the Football Association

December 1, 1863 kjehan

December 1, 1863 The fourth meeting of the members of this recently-formed association was held on Tuesday evening, December 1, at seven o’clock, at the

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The Football Association

November 10, 1863 kjehan

November 10, 1863 When this association was formed a short time since, it was agreed that the honorary secretary, Mr. Ebenezer Cobb Morley, should communicate

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The Miserable Shinners

October 17, 1863 kjehan

October 17, 1863 The question of rule rules to be observed at football has been laid at the feet of several Public School Professors of

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Let’s frame rules for one universal game

October 6, 1863 kjehan

October 6, 1863 “Etonensis” complains that the game of football as played at Eton differs essentially in most respects from that played at Westminster, Rugby,

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