ISBN: 9781156611579

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Blackburn Rovers F.c, Blackburn Hawks, Blackburn Olympic F.c, A.f.c. Darwen, East Lancashire Cricket Club, Lancashire Raptors, Turton F.c, Lancashire Wolverines, Blackburn Arena, Blackburn Park Road F.c. Excerpt: A.F.C. Darwen is a football club from Darwen in Lancashire, North West England. Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Blackburn Rovers F.c, Blackburn Hawks, Blackburn Olympic F.c, A.f.c. Darwen, East Lancashire Cricket Club, Lancashire Raptors, Turton F.c, Lancashire Wolverines, Blackburn Arena, Blackburn Park Road F.c. Excerpt: A.F.C. Darwen is a football club from Darwen in Lancashire, North West England. The team, formed in 1870 as Darwen F.C. , currently play in the Premier Division of the West Lancashire Football League. They play their home games at the Anchor Ground. History The club originally played rugby football as well as cricket. It adopted Association rules in 1875.In October 1878, at their Barley Bank ground, Darwen played a representative team from Blackburn under floodlights. This is believed to be one of the first, if not the very first instance of their use in football. The game was a huge success (not only because Darwen won 3-0) but the experiment was not repeated in that era. Darwen was the first club from the North of England to achieve any success in the F.A. Cup, reaching the quarter finals in 1879. They caused controversy in this competition by signing two professional players, Fergie Suter and James Love, both from Partick Thistle, a Scottish club based in Glasgow. This is believed to be the first involvement of professional players in English football. One London club proposed that "no side which does not consist entirely of amateurs, as defined by the rules to be drawn up by the committee, be entitled to compete in the Challenge Cup competition" . (Note the words "rules to be drawn up" , which imply that there was no rule forbidding professionals at the time.) The motion was defeated and Darwen travelled down to the Oval to play the great amateur side Old Etonians in the quarter-final. They needed to make the journey three times, drawing 5-5 and Books, , Sport-In-Blackburn~~Books-Llc, 999999999, Sport In Blackburn, Books Llc, 1156611571, General Books LLC, , , , , General Books LLC<

ISBN: 9781156611579

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters:… More...

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Blackburn Rovers F.c, Blackburn Hawks, Blackburn Olympic F.c, A.f.c. Darwen, East Lancashire Cricket Club, Lancashire Raptors, Turton F.c, Lancashire Wolverines, Blackburn Arena, Blackburn Park Road F.c. Excerpt: A.F.C. Darwen is a football club from Darwen in Lancashire, North West England. Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Blackburn Rovers F.c, Blackburn Hawks, Blackburn Olympic F.c, A.f.c. Darwen, East Lancashire Cricket Club, Lancashire Raptors, Turton F.c, Lancashire Wolverines, Blackburn Arena, Blackburn Park Road F.c. Excerpt: A.F.C. Darwen is a football club from Darwen in Lancashire, North West England. The team, formed in 1870 as Darwen F.C. , currently play in the Premier Division of the West Lancashire Football League. They play their home games at the Anchor Ground. History The club originally played rugby football as well as cricket. It adopted Association rules in 1875.In October 1878, at their Barley Bank ground, Darwen played a representative team from Blackburn under floodlights. This is believed to be one of the first, if not the very first instance of their use in football. The game was a huge success (not only because Darwen won 3-0) but the experiment was not repeated in that era. Darwen was the first club from the North of England to achieve any success in the F.A. Cup, reaching the quarter finals in 1879. They caused controversy in this competition by signing two professional players, Fergie Suter and James Love, both from Partick Thistle, a Scottish club based in Glasgow. This is believed to be the first involvement of professional players in English football. One London club proposed that "no side which does not consist entirely of amateurs, as defined by the rules to be drawn up by the committee, be entitled to compete in the Challenge Cup competition" . (Note the words "rules to be drawn up" , which imply that there was no rule forbidding professionals at the time.) The motion was defeated and Darwen travelled down to the Oval to play the great amateur side Old Etonians in the quarter-final. They needed to make the journey three times, drawing 5-5 and Books, , Sport-In-Blackburn~~Books-Llc, , , , , , , , , , General Books LLC<

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ISBN: 9781156611579

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