Leicestershire’s First Ladies Football Match
Suffragette Nettie Honeyball and manager Alfred Hewitt Smit founded the British Ladies’ Football Club or the Lady Footballers, who arranged tours usually as North v South or Reds v Blues…
A Bonfire Night Tragedy
On Saturday, 5 November 1892, a tragic accident occurred in Barrow, Leicestershire, resulting in the death of William Charles Palmer (36), a labourer from Woodhouse Eaves. Palmer was driving a…
Coalville FC’s First-Ever Game – February 1876
Leicester Chronicle – Saturday 26 February 1876
Football Crimes, Fines & Misdemeanours 1895-96
Leicestershire Football Association ruled football in the county with a rod of iron. Crimes and misdemeanours by players, officials and clubs were severely dealt with. A small selection of the…
Leicester Fosse 1904-05
This newspaper photograph shows the Leicester Fosse team in 1904-05, standing in front of the Manor House Hotel on Woodhouse Road in Quorn. The hotel was run by keen Quorn…
Back of the Net
The idea of using goal nets came about in the 1890s from John Brodie, an engineer from Liverpool, England. It is said that had the idea after watching a Football…
Belgrave Cricket & Cycle Ground
Former home ground of both Leicester Fosse and Leicester Tigers. In June 1881 it also hosted Leicestershire County Cricket Club against an All England XI. The ground was situated a…
Leicestershire Professional Footballers 1894-95
The Football Association compiled a list professional footballers registered at the start of the 1894-95 season. Leicestershire had 84 professional footballers – playing for eight clubs – Coalville Albion (6),…
Whitwick Football League Fixture
The northwest Leicestershire colliery town of Whitwick staged a Football League Division 2 fixture on Saturday 31 March 1900 – between Loughborough Town and Burslem Port Vale. Three weeks earlier…
Call To Arms …
The following “Call to Arms” poem, written by Edward Oppenheim, encouraging footballers to take the King’s shilling, appeared in many newspapers during November 1914. TO LEAGUE FOOTBALLERS LEICESTER NOVELISTS MESSAGE…