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Post by Bushman on May 21, 2011 18:54:44 GMT
Programme Reserves match. Millwall v Queen's Park Rangers 19th March 1914 London League. Rangers playing in Green & White hoops.
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Post by Macmoish on May 22, 2011 7:31:19 GMT
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Post by Lonegunmen on May 22, 2011 8:30:31 GMT
That bottle of Claymore would be pretty good after all these years!
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Post by 5hourslateR on May 22, 2011 8:38:25 GMT
Really interesting, thank you Bushman.
I am taken by the fact that it might imply that reserve football was well organized and followed in those days.
Do we have any way of knowing if Ingham in the QPR lineup is related to the immortal Tony?
Also the players numbers are intriguing. Do we know when that apparent practice of all different numbers for the 2 teams was dropped?
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Post by 5hourslateR on May 22, 2011 8:41:51 GMT
You are too right LGM!
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Post by Lonegunmen on May 22, 2011 8:50:45 GMT
Imagine playing a 2-3-5 formation today!!
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Post by Bushman on May 22, 2011 10:53:55 GMT
Really interesting, thank you Bushman. I am taken by the fact that it might imply that reserve football was well organized and followed in those days. Do we have any way of knowing if Ingham in the QPR lineup is related to the immortal Tony? Also the players numbers are intriguing. Do we know when that apparent practice of all different numbers for the 2 teams was dropped? 1. In 1896 the president of the London League was Arnold Hills founder of Thames Ironworks F.C. (now known as West Ham United). One of the men who helped draft the rules of the competition was Francis Payne, club secretary of Thames Ironworks F.C. in 1897. The league started with three divisions, the 3rd Grenadier Guards winning the inaugural championship. The league fluctuated between having a single division and reaching four divisions. Before World War I, most of the senior London Football League clubs fielded a reserve side in the London League. In 1964, the London League ceased to exist, merging with the Aetolian League to form the Greater London League, which then further merged in 1971 with the Metropolitan League. 2. I have know idea if the two were related. Tony Ingham was born in Harrogate, Yorkshire and J . Ingham came from Haslingdon, Lancashire. 3. The introduction of shirt numbers was largely down to the visionary Herbert Chapman of Arsenal. His idea was that it would be easier for players to know where they were on the field in relation to their team-mates. The earliest record of shirt numbers being worn dates back to August 25, 1928. Arsenal played away at Sheffield Wednesday and lost 3-2. The numbering system was different to today’s system. One team would wear numbers 1-11 and the other would wear 12-22. The Football League Management Committee refused to sanction the wearing of numbered shirts for many years, so numbered shirts only rarely appeared and records are sketchy. However, it is confirmed that Arsenal wore numbered shirts at Highbury on December 4, 1933 as an experiment during a friendly match with F.C Vienna, who included the entire Austrian nation side. Arsenal won 4-2. The wearing of numbered shirts was still rejected by the Football League Management Committee during the 1934 general meeting. On July 5, 1939 the committee finally decided that players should wear numbered shirts, but scrapped the old system and introduced the new one, where both teams wear numbers 1-11 with each number decided by position. Arsenal’s first game at Highbury under this system was on August 30, 1939 - a 1-0 win over Blackburn Rovers.
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Post by 5hourslateR on May 22, 2011 12:25:02 GMT
Cheers for all the back ground information Bushman.
Truly interesting and a link to history on many levels.
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Post by Bushman on May 22, 2011 12:28:54 GMT
Cheers for all the back ground information Bushman. Truly interesting and a link to history on many levels. Pleasure 5hourslateR
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