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summerisle
The rain, it raineth every day
summerisle
The rain, it raineth every day
Football did not begin in 1992 :
Yet another excellent website dedicated to Our Club -
https://royalblueview.wordpress.com/
EVERTON IN SOUTH AMERICA PART I: PIONEERS
“Pioneers of football in foreign lands”. That was how Everton chairman Edward Askew Bainbridge described the club’s trailblazing post-season tour of South America in 1909, a joint venture undertaken with Tottenham Hotspur.
Although British teams had been touring abroad since the 1890s, only two – Southampton and Nottingham Forest – had ever before done so beyond Europe. When Everton and Tottenham played each other in Buenos Aires, Argentina, it was the first ever fixture between two professional sides on Latin American soil. The series of exhibition matches that followed inspired groups of young men across the continent to form their own football clubs; ‘Evertons’ sprung up in Buenos Aires, in Rosario, Uruguay and in Valparaíso, Chile.
Football had taken off in South America, and immigration from Britain meant there was an interest in the English game. Andreas Campomar, author of¡Golazo!: A History of Latin American Football, notes that British railway workers in the Paraguayan capital of Asunción had formed an amateur team called Everton as early as 1886. In Buenos Aires, the founding of the superclásico clubs River Plate (1901) and Boca Juniors (1905) was symbolic of the game’s surging popularity. It was proposed that a visit from Everton, runners-up in the English first division, and Tottenham Hotspur, equally-placed in the second, would build on this preexistent interest.
Early in 1909, however, a telegram from Argentina interrupted an Everton directors’ meeting and briefly cast doubt on the tour. The South American organisers had vastly underestimated the costs of the first class travel and accommodation they had promised their visitors, and the Everton party was asked to consider downgrading to second class in order to save funds. Without consulting the players, the directors agreed – on the condition, of course, that their own accommodation would remain first class.
On May 14th, the Everton party comprising 13 players and two directors embarked on the nine-week tour, boarding the Royal Mail steamer Aruguaya at Southampton. Their Tottenham counterparts, having missed a train from Waterloo, did not reach the south coast in time and had to charter a tugboat to catch up with the ship, which slowed in the Solent to allow them to board.
The on-board entertainment included a celebratory ball on the anniversary of independence of the Argentine republic, at which Robert Balmer (Bo Peep) claimed first prize for fancy dress. Stops included Lisbon, the Cape Verdean island of São Vicente, and Pernambuco, Brazil, where some of the players went shark fishing, although further down the Brazilian coast, in the state of Bahia, passengers were advised not to step ashore due to the prevalence of fever. After the 23-day journey, the ship reached Buenos Aires on June 6th.
Within hours of disembarking, Robert Balmer and Bert Freeman scored for Everton as the visiting teams drew 2-2 in the Palermo barrio of the city. One of Tottenham’s goalscorers was Walter Tull, grandchild of a Barbadian slave, who was both the first black outfield player in the English top division and the first black combat officer in the British army. He was killed on the Somme nine years later. The Argentine press reported that the two English sides were evenly matched in defence and midfield, but that ‘Everton displayed some superiority over their adversaries’ in attack.
Amongst the 10,000 crowd at the opening match was the Argentine president, José Figueroa Alcorta, alongside his foreign and defence ministers. Prior to one of the subsequent fixtures in Argentina, a player from the home side sustained an injury and the only man deemed good enough to fill the position was imprisoned. Upon a presidential request, the man was allowed to play the game and was escorted by soldiers to the ground. His performance was so impressive that the President ordered his immediate release.
1909 Monterrey cigarettes advert depicting Everton and Tottenham players.
Everton’s next opponents were Alumni, the outstanding Argentine team of the day. Founded by a group of students from the English High School in Buenos Aires, they had won ten of the eleven Primera División titles between 1900 and 1911. The side contained six of the Brown brothers, but none of Jorge, Alfredo, Eliseo, Carlos, Juan or Ernesto could prevent a 4-0 defeat, as a hat-trick from Bert Freeman was added to by a goal from Thomas Jones.
Three days later in Montevideo Everton beat a Uruguayan League XI 2-1 with goals scored by Freeman, the star of the tour, and Bill Lacey. Freeman described the opposition as the toughest faced in South America, and EA Bainbridge blamed the narrow margin of victory on a poor refereeing performance (some things never change!) and a hefty pre-match meal. The gate was tremendous and close to £800 was taken.
Significantly fewer turned out to see Bert Freeman register his second hat-trick of the tour in Everton’s second match versus Tottenham, back in Buenos Aires on June 19th. Local supporters were not interested in watching 22 strangers; rather, they wanted to see how their charges matched up to the visiting foreign teams. A day later, Everton concluded their schedule with a 4-1 victory over an Argentine League XI.
As the English teams began their three-week homeward journey, Bainbridge reflected that “we have contributed something to sport in South America” and that the South Americans were “an intelligent class of players, who only require development”. £300 of the profit from the tour was put towards aiding this development, though this financial investment was not the extent of Everton’s legacy in South America. As the players began their arduous homeward journey, groups of young men across the continent started up football clubs of their own.
105 years on, you’ll find Evertons inspired by Everton in Buenos Aires, Rosario and Viña del Mar.
Yet another excellent website dedicated to Our Club -
https://royalblueview.wordpress.com/
EVERTON IN SOUTH AMERICA PART I: PIONEERS
“Pioneers of football in foreign lands”. That was how Everton chairman Edward Askew Bainbridge described the club’s trailblazing post-season tour of South America in 1909, a joint venture undertaken with Tottenham Hotspur.
Although British teams had been touring abroad since the 1890s, only two – Southampton and Nottingham Forest – had ever before done so beyond Europe. When Everton and Tottenham played each other in Buenos Aires, Argentina, it was the first ever fixture between two professional sides on Latin American soil. The series of exhibition matches that followed inspired groups of young men across the continent to form their own football clubs; ‘Evertons’ sprung up in Buenos Aires, in Rosario, Uruguay and in Valparaíso, Chile.
Football had taken off in South America, and immigration from Britain meant there was an interest in the English game. Andreas Campomar, author of¡Golazo!: A History of Latin American Football, notes that British railway workers in the Paraguayan capital of Asunción had formed an amateur team called Everton as early as 1886. In Buenos Aires, the founding of the superclásico clubs River Plate (1901) and Boca Juniors (1905) was symbolic of the game’s surging popularity. It was proposed that a visit from Everton, runners-up in the English first division, and Tottenham Hotspur, equally-placed in the second, would build on this preexistent interest.
Early in 1909, however, a telegram from Argentina interrupted an Everton directors’ meeting and briefly cast doubt on the tour. The South American organisers had vastly underestimated the costs of the first class travel and accommodation they had promised their visitors, and the Everton party was asked to consider downgrading to second class in order to save funds. Without consulting the players, the directors agreed – on the condition, of course, that their own accommodation would remain first class.
On May 14th, the Everton party comprising 13 players and two directors embarked on the nine-week tour, boarding the Royal Mail steamer Aruguaya at Southampton. Their Tottenham counterparts, having missed a train from Waterloo, did not reach the south coast in time and had to charter a tugboat to catch up with the ship, which slowed in the Solent to allow them to board.
The on-board entertainment included a celebratory ball on the anniversary of independence of the Argentine republic, at which Robert Balmer (Bo Peep) claimed first prize for fancy dress. Stops included Lisbon, the Cape Verdean island of São Vicente, and Pernambuco, Brazil, where some of the players went shark fishing, although further down the Brazilian coast, in the state of Bahia, passengers were advised not to step ashore due to the prevalence of fever. After the 23-day journey, the ship reached Buenos Aires on June 6th.
Within hours of disembarking, Robert Balmer and Bert Freeman scored for Everton as the visiting teams drew 2-2 in the Palermo barrio of the city. One of Tottenham’s goalscorers was Walter Tull, grandchild of a Barbadian slave, who was both the first black outfield player in the English top division and the first black combat officer in the British army. He was killed on the Somme nine years later. The Argentine press reported that the two English sides were evenly matched in defence and midfield, but that ‘Everton displayed some superiority over their adversaries’ in attack.
Amongst the 10,000 crowd at the opening match was the Argentine president, José Figueroa Alcorta, alongside his foreign and defence ministers. Prior to one of the subsequent fixtures in Argentina, a player from the home side sustained an injury and the only man deemed good enough to fill the position was imprisoned. Upon a presidential request, the man was allowed to play the game and was escorted by soldiers to the ground. His performance was so impressive that the President ordered his immediate release.
1909 Monterrey cigarettes advert depicting Everton and Tottenham players.
Everton’s next opponents were Alumni, the outstanding Argentine team of the day. Founded by a group of students from the English High School in Buenos Aires, they had won ten of the eleven Primera División titles between 1900 and 1911. The side contained six of the Brown brothers, but none of Jorge, Alfredo, Eliseo, Carlos, Juan or Ernesto could prevent a 4-0 defeat, as a hat-trick from Bert Freeman was added to by a goal from Thomas Jones.
Three days later in Montevideo Everton beat a Uruguayan League XI 2-1 with goals scored by Freeman, the star of the tour, and Bill Lacey. Freeman described the opposition as the toughest faced in South America, and EA Bainbridge blamed the narrow margin of victory on a poor refereeing performance (some things never change!) and a hefty pre-match meal. The gate was tremendous and close to £800 was taken.
Significantly fewer turned out to see Bert Freeman register his second hat-trick of the tour in Everton’s second match versus Tottenham, back in Buenos Aires on June 19th. Local supporters were not interested in watching 22 strangers; rather, they wanted to see how their charges matched up to the visiting foreign teams. A day later, Everton concluded their schedule with a 4-1 victory over an Argentine League XI.
As the English teams began their three-week homeward journey, Bainbridge reflected that “we have contributed something to sport in South America” and that the South Americans were “an intelligent class of players, who only require development”. £300 of the profit from the tour was put towards aiding this development, though this financial investment was not the extent of Everton’s legacy in South America. As the players began their arduous homeward journey, groups of young men across the continent started up football clubs of their own.
105 years on, you’ll find Evertons inspired by Everton in Buenos Aires, Rosario and Viña del Mar.
summerisle
The rain, it raineth every day
Three articles in conversation with Dixie ; a different world but playing with five strikers gave you more exciting matches :
http://www.sportingintelligence.com...onspired-by-saying-hed-gone-for-a-wee-070301/
http://www.sportingintelligence.com...-no-maths-no-english-nothing-except-football/
http://www.sportingintelligence.com...er-united-then-a-nice-half-time-cuppa-140305/
http://www.sportingintelligence.com...-get-more-than-60-in-a-top-flight-season-now/
http://www.sportingintelligence.com...onspired-by-saying-hed-gone-for-a-wee-070301/
http://www.sportingintelligence.com...-no-maths-no-english-nothing-except-football/
http://www.sportingintelligence.com...er-united-then-a-nice-half-time-cuppa-140305/
http://www.sportingintelligence.com...-get-more-than-60-in-a-top-flight-season-now/
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I love our history, but jeez we could do with some more a bit sharpish
summerisle
The rain, it raineth every day
A contract from 1889 found by a fan ;
http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/spor...s/everton-contract-oldest-ever-signed-9250921
http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/spor...s/everton-contract-oldest-ever-signed-9250921
summerisle
The rain, it raineth every day
The sad tale of Billy Kenny :
http://ahalftimereport.com/2015/05/...ct-to-retired-at-21-the-story-of-billy-kenny/
http://ahalftimereport.com/2015/05/...ct-to-retired-at-21-the-story-of-billy-kenny/
summerisle
The rain, it raineth every day
A piece on fascinating goalkeeper, Leigh Roose. Played in 1905 semi-final. Killed at the Somme.
http://www.fourfourtwo.com/features...sial-war-hero-who-kept-goal-arsenal-and-villa
http://www.fourfourtwo.com/features...sial-war-hero-who-kept-goal-arsenal-and-villa
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