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
Tag: WW1
The Scots go on
August 3, 1915 The Scottish Football Association meeting at Glasgow, last night, decided by 20 votes to 7 that competitive football in Scotland shall go
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 north east drops football
July 20, 1915 Long ago and often repeated has been the assertion that we should have football of a sort. The prognostication is now proved
FA and Football League meeting
July 19, 1915 Important decisions, putting a ban on professional football next season, were come to at the meeting of the ruling football authorities yesterday.
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
The League in three regions
July 7, 1915 The Management Committee of the Football League has issued the following circular letter to the clubs of the League: – “We are
Football to be resumed
July 3, 1915 The joint conference of the English League, Scottish League, and the Irish League, and the Southern League was held at Blackpool, to-day,
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
The ban of homing – many pigeons to be destroyed
May 31, 1915 The sport of homing has grown enormously in recent years and in the pastimes of the day only bowls shows a speedier
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
Football and war (London)
March 1, 1915 “I do not like the idea of granting facilities for football matches at the present time,” said the West London magistrate, yesterday,
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
Turton Football Club disbanded
February 20, 1915 The war has played havoc with football clubs in Lancashire, and the latest to go under is the Turton Club, the disbandment
Director John Keating promoted
Wednesday, January 27 – 1915 Visiting Anfield yesterday, I gathered in a few honeycomb holes which will interest readers. First, Mr. John Keating, director at
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
A disappoiting questionnaire
January 5, 1915 The result of the football census for recruiting purposes, now published by Lord Derby, at the Liverpool and Everton football matches on
War recruitment at football grounds
Monday, December 14 – 1914 At a conference between Lord Derby and representatives of the directorates of Liverpool and Everton Football Clubs in Liverpool, on
Frank Buckley joins the Footballers’ Battalion
Friday, December 11 – 1914 F. Buckley, the Bradford City half-back, has offered his services to the Association for the Footballers’ Battalion. Buckley was a
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
You are wanted
Thursday, December 3 – 1914 (Liverpool Echo, 03-12-1914)
The scandal of football
November 28, 1914 Sir William H. Lever and Mr. Gershom Stewart, M.P., were the principal speakers at a patriotic meeting held in St. James’s Parish
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
Football League meeting (September 7, 1914)
September 7, 1914 The question of the continuation of League football was under consideration at a meeting of the League Management Committee at the Pack
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