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Calthorpe F.C.
Calthorpe was an England, English association football, association club based in Birmingham. History The club was informally founded in October 1873, its first formal meeting being held on 23 November that year. The club's name came from its original home ground at Calthorpe Park. The club was founded by legal clerks in Birmingham, led by two Scotsmen who had recently arrived in Birmingham; John Carson and John Campbell Orr, both from Glasgow, and both of whom had experience in football, Carson with Queen's Park F.C., Queen's Park and Campbell Orr (albeit under the rugby union code) at St Andrews University in 1868–70. The club was occasionally referred to as the Birmingham Clerks Association in its first matches. Carson was the club's first chairman and Campbell Orr its first secretary. Campbell Orr claimed that not only was Calthorpe the first club in Birmingham, but for one season the only association club, and its only matches were between club members. In Novem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Campbell Orr
John Campbell Orr was an association football player and administrator, who was the most important figure of the promotion of the game in Birmingham in the 1870s. Early life Campbell Orr was born in Gorbals, Glasgow, the son of John Cunningham Orr (a bookseller and printer) and Wilhelmina, née Campbell. He was brought up in Cupar in Fifeshire and educated at Smeaton's School in St Andrews, recording 100% in the mathematics examinations in 1868. He matriculated at St Andrews University, which was a stronghold of rugby football, that year, and he represented the university at rugby; his final rugby match recorded, against Edinburgh Academical Football Club, Edinburgh Academical in February 1870, featured six future rugby internationals. He did not graduate, in part due to the collapse of his father's business, and instead worked for a year as a clerk to a writer to the signet. Football Foundation of Calthorpe F.C. In 1873, he moved to Birmingham with a business partner, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |