Victor F.C. is a name used by at least two, and possibly three, U.S.

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teams in the early twentieth century.

Confusing names

Victor Talking Machine of

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sponsored a team, known as Victor T.M. Another team, also known as Victor F.C., was based in South Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. There is a reference to another Victor F.C. playing in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. This team could be either the team in Camden or the one in Bethlehem as Camden and Philadelphia sit adjacent to each other in the

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and Bethlehem teams frequently played in the Philadelphia leagues. However, this is unlikely as both Victor F.C. of Philadelphia and Victor T.M. of Camden played in the 1914-1915 Allied League.

Competitive history

Victor Talking Machines F.C.

Victor T.M. was a member of the American League of Philadelphia during the 1914-1915 and 1915-1916 seasons.

Victor F.C. of Bethlehem

In 1916, the Victor F.C. of South Bethlehem entered the Blue Mountain League and were runners up for the 1918 Lewis Cup.

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In 1910, Victor F.C. won the Philadelphia and Suburban Association Foot Ball League. Four years later, it went to the quarterfinals of the

1914 American Cup The 1914 American Cup was the annual open cup held by the American Football Association. Forty-one teams entered the tournament. The Bethlehem Steel team debuted in and won the tournament playing ten games through six rounds. American Cup Bracke ...

. A year after that Victor F.C. went to the quarterfinals of the

1915 American Cup The 1915 American Cup was the annual open cup held by the American Football Association. The Scottish-Americans, after two previous final appearances, won their first American Cup by overcoming the Brooklyn Celtics 1-0 in the championship game. ...

and the third round of the

1915 National Challenge Cup Events Below, the events of World War I have the "WWI" prefix. January *January – British physicist Sir Joseph Larmor publishes his observations on "The Influence of Local Atmospheric Cooling on Astronomical Refraction". *January 1 * ...

References

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