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ARDWICK 1893-94 Season Ardwick finished the season in thirteenth position in the Second Division with eight wins, two draws and eighteen defeats. The club had struggled throughout the season and after the first few matches, the highest position, which they had reached in the table was tenth. If...

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1. ARDWICK 1893-94 Season Ardwick finished the season in thirteenth position in the Second Division with eight wins, two draws and eighteen defeats. The club had struggled throughout the season and after the first few matches, the highest position, which they had reached in the table was tenth...

The Lancashire Cup Final between City and Everton was held at Ewood Park, Blackburn on Saturday, 27th March 1897 before an attendance of 8,000 with receipts of £160. City, who were in the Second Division, played their first team which was : Williams; Reed, Ray; Moffatt, Holmes, McBride...

The Connell Family and St. Mark’s Football Club In 1880, the Manchester area was a cricket and rugby stronghold. Arthur Connell and his family would not have known anything at all about association football. It would have needed someone from outside the Manchester area to introduce the game. The...

Re: are 1st kit. From 1880 until 1883 the club was known as St. Mark's / West Gorton (St. Mark's) (colours not known). In 1883, West Gorton (St. Mark's) merged with Belle Vue Rangers to form WEST GORTON. Fred Johnson's book on the History of City (published 1930) mentions that the club colours...

St. Mark's Football Club was formed by William Henry Beastow and the junior members of the St. Mark's Cricket Club as a section of the cricket club. Most of the junior cricketers played in the 1879 junior team and their names are recorded. However, Manchester and the surrounding areas was a...

When I did the research for the Birth of the Blues, the earliest reported matches which I could trace showed that St. Mark's Cricket Club was playing matches in 1875. I have been through other early papers which are now available and which contain the results of cricket matches. I have traced...