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Kilmarnock Athletic F.C. (1888)
Kilmarnock Athletic Football Club was an association football club from Ayrshire in Scotland. History The club was founded in 1888, under the name Rosebank, sometimes named in the media as Kilmarnock Rosebank. The club played one Scottish Cup tie under that name, losing to Stewarton Cunninghame F.C. in the first round in 1888, the match marking the club's "first bow to a football crowd of any size"; Rosebank was under the disadvantage of having to switch the tie to Stewarton as Holm Quarry had already been booked for a cricket match. The club's protest that the Stewarton ground had a tree and hedge growing on the touch line was literally laughed out of a Scottish Football Association meeting. Name change and Scottish Cup entries The club changed its name in December 1888 to Kilmarnock Athletic, losing 3–2 to its Cup conquerors Stewarton in the first match under the new name. The name change was possibly in response to a newspaper report that supporters of the original ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Association Football
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 Football player, players who almost exclusively use their feet to propel a Ball (association football), ball around a rectangular field called a Football pitch, pitch. The objective of the game is to Scoring in association football, score more goals than the opposing team by moving the ball beyond the goal line into a rectangular-framed Goal (sport), goal defended by the opposing team. 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 and territories, it is the world's most popular sport. Association football is played in accordance with the Laws of the Game (association football), Laws of the Game, a set of rules that has been in effect since 1863 and maintained by the International Football Association Board, IFAB since 1886. The game is pla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Ayrshire Football League
The Ayrshire Football League is a defunct soccer league in Scotland. Original competition The League was formed in time for the 1891–92 season, by ten clubs which were members of both the Scottish Football Association and the Ayrshire Football Association. The annual fee for playing in the competition was £1, although two clubs would be selected at each season's end to play a friendly match, the crowd proceeds being added to the League's fund. The bottom three in each year had to apply for re-election, and a play-off would decide the title if clubs were level on points at the top of the table; gate money was shared, with visiting clubs guaranteed £2 10s. By 1893 the Ayrshire Football League had increased to 16 clubs. With the players still mostly amateur, the volume of fixtures was proving too much, and 7 clubs left the League to form the Ayrshire Football Combination, one of the sides leaving being the double champion Annbank. As a result, the League lost most of its l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Defunct Football Clubs In Scotland
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Darwen F
Darwen is a market town and civil parish in the Blackburn with Darwen borough in Lancashire, England. The residents of the town are known as "Darreners". The A666 road, A666 road passes through Darwen towards Blackburn to the north, Bolton to the south and Pendlebury where it joins the A6 road (England), A6, about north-west of Manchester. The population of Darwen stood at 28,046 in the 2011 census. The town comprises four wards and has its own town council. The town stands on the River Darwen, which flows from south to north and is seen in parks in the town centre and next to Sainsbury's located in the town centre. Toponym Darwen's name is Celtic Britons, Celtic in origin. In Sub Roman Britain it was within the Celtic Britons, Brythonic kingdom of Rheged, a successor to the Brigantes tribal territory. The Brythonic languages, Brythonic language name for oak is ''derw'' and this is etymologically linked to ''Derewent'' (1208), an ancient spelling for the River Darwen. Despi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Robert Maxwell (footballer)
Ian Robert Maxwell (born Ján Ludvík Hyman Binyamin Hoch; 10 June 1923 – 5 November 1991) was a Czechoslovakia, Czechoslovak-born British media proprietor, politician and fraudster. After escaping the German occupation of Czechoslovakia, Nazi occupation of his native country, Maxwell joined the Czechoslovak Legion (1939), Czechoslovak Army in exile during World War II and was decorated after active service in the British Army. In subsequent years he worked in publishing, building up Pergamon Press to a major academic publisher. After six years as a Labour Party (UK), Labour Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament (MP) during the 1960s, Maxwell again put all his energy into business, successively buying the British Printing Corporation, Mirror Group Newspapers and Macmillan Publishers, among other publishing companies. Robert Maxwell led a flamboyant lifestyle, living in Headington Hill Hall in Oxford, from which he often flew in his helicopter, or saili ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Michael McAvoy
Michael McAvoy (1871–1950) was a Scottish footballer who played as a left half, featuring for Darwen in England's Football League (making the move south along with Robert Maxwell), then for St Mirren and Abercorn in the Scottish Football League. He made over 300 appearances for St Mirren over 13 years with the Paisley club, including the 1908 Scottish Cup Final, a defeat at the hands of Celtic Celtic, Celtics or Keltic may refer to: Language and ethnicity *pertaining to Celts, a collection of Indo-European peoples in Europe and Anatolia **Celts (modern) *Celtic languages **Proto-Celtic language *Celtic music *Celtic nations Sports Foot ... The Glasgow Herald, 20 April 1908 – after four losses at the semi-final stage of the competition in pre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
John Brodie (footballer, Died 1901)
John Riley Brodie (born August 14, 1935) is an American former professional American football, football player who was a quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers of the National Football League (NFL) for 17 seasons. He had a second career as a Senior PGA Tour professional golfer and was a television broadcaster for both sports. In particular seasons, Brodie led the NFL in passing yardage, passing touchdowns, fewest sacks, and lowest percentage of passes intercepted. He retired as the third most prolific career passer in NFL history. He was the league MVP in and a two-time Pro Bowler. Early life Born in Menlo Park, California, Brodie grew up in the Montclair, Oakland, California, Montclair district of Oakland, California, Oakland and attended Montclair Grammar (later Elementary) School. He was a standout athlete at Oakland Technical High School and graduated in 1953. College career Brodie played college football across the San Francisco Bay at Stanford Cardinal football, Sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
