Davenham F.C.
Davenham F.C. was an English association football club, from Davenham, Cheshire. History Foundation The club was founded in 1879 by schoolmaster Matthew Earlam. Earlam had discovered the game at York College in 1873 and been a centre-forward with Northwich Victoria, and founded Davenham FC on his move to the village in 1879, although he continued playing for Victoria, winning the Cheshire Senior Cup with them as a player in 1881. The first recorded fixtures of the club are from September 1881. The club competed first entered the FA Cup in 1883–84, Earlam scoring the team's first-ever Cup goal with a header in the 2–0 win against Macclesfield Town. The club lost 5–1 at home to Northwich Victoria in the second, in front of the club's biggest crowd of 2,000, although the game was marred by a ruptured kidney suffered by Victoria's half-back Shaw. 1885–86 season Davenham's finest season was 1885–86; with Earlam training the side every week, the club won the Cheshire Cup ...
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Association Football
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is to score more goals than the opposition by moving the ball beyond the goal line into a rectangular framed goal defended by the opposing side. Traditionally, the game has been played over two 45 minute halves, for a total match time of 90 minutes. With an estimated 250 million players active in over 200 countries, it is considered the world's most popular sport. The game of association football is played in accordance with the Laws of the Game, a set of rules that has been in effect since 1863 with the International Football Association Board (IFAB) maintaining them since 1886. The game is played with a football that is in circumference. The two teams compete to get the ball into the other team's goal (between the posts and under t ...
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Bollington F
Bollington is a town and civil parish in Cheshire, England, to the east of Prestbury. In the Middle Ages, it was part of the Earl of Chester's manor of Macclesfield and the ancient parish of Prestbury. In 2011, it had a population of 8,310. Bollington is on the River Dean and the Macclesfield Canal, on the south-western edge of the Peak District. Rising above the town on Kerridge Hill is White Nancy, a monument built to commemorate the Battle of Waterloo. History From the late 18th through to the mid-20th centuries, Bollington was a major centre for cotton-spinning. Waterhouse mill, now demolished, off Wellington Road, once spun the finest cotton in the world, and was sought after by lace makers in Nottingham and in Brussels, Belgium. Clarence Mill still stands. The lower floors remain commercial but the upper floors have been converted into apartments. One of the oldest surviving mills in Bollington is the very small Defiance Mill, built in Queen Street about 1800 and now r ...
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Defunct Football Clubs In Cheshire
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Defunct Football Clubs In England
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Hartford St John's F
Hartford is the List of capitals in the United States, capital city of the U.S. state of Connecticut. It was the seat of Hartford County, Connecticut, Hartford County until Connecticut disbanded County (United States), county government in 1960. It is the core city in the Greater Hartford metropolitan area. Census estimates since the 2010 United States Census, 2010 United States census have indicated that Hartford is the List of cities in Connecticut, fourth-largest city in Connecticut with a 2020 population of 121,054, behind the coastal cities of Bridgeport, Connecticut, Bridgeport, New Haven, Connecticut, New Haven, and Stamford, Connecticut, Stamford. Hartford was founded in 1635 and is among the oldest cities in the United States. It is home to the country's oldest public art museum (Wadsworth Atheneum), the oldest publicly funded park (Bushnell Park), the oldest continuously published newspaper (the ''Hartford Courant''), and the second-oldest secondary school (Hartford ...
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