History – Page 24 – Everton FC Heritage Society

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Dec

1930-1939, Articles, Billy Smith, Directors, History, Members Work, Players

Joe McClure – Career Record

A booklet compiled for Reverend and the Maker's lead singer Jon McClure. Full story click here. Joe McClure Everton Career 1929-1933 Researched by Billy Smith, Photographs supplied by Brendon Connelly & Compiled By Richard Gilliam On Behalf of the EFC Heritage Society WikipediaEVERTON SIGN WALLSEND PLAYER Hartlepool Mail Monday 4 November 1929 Joseph Henry McClure, a young half-back now playing for Wallsend. in the North-Eastern League, was signed on by Everton following his club's game with Hartlepool’s Reserves on Saturday. McClure, who plays on either wing, was on the books of Preston North End before joining Wallsend, and is 22 years…

Mick Meagan – The Man Who Spanned the Eras

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Nov

By Rob Sawyer

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1950-1959, 1960-1969, Articles, History, Interview, Players, Rob Sawyer

Mick Meagan – The Man Who Spanned the Eras

In Conversation with Rob Sawyer At the Fulham match in April 2013, five former Everton players were introduced to the Goodison Park crowd at half-time in recognition of their League Championship success fifty years earlier: Tony Kay, Alex Young, Derek Temple, Billy Bingham and Mick Meagan. Mick appeared the sprightliest of the lot, bathing in the applause and saluting the crowd with a clenched fist. Mick joined Everton as an 18-year-old and served the club for 12 years (1952 to 1964). He witnessed, at first hand, the transformation from Division Two doldrums to Division One Championship glory. Although not blessed…

Football historian Peter Lupson sheds light on the 1892 Liverpool and Everton rent row

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Apr

By Peter Lupson

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1890-1899, Articles, Directors, History, Members Work, Peter Lupson

Football historian Peter Lupson sheds light on the 1892 Liverpool and Everton rent row

Peter with his book 'Across the Park' IT’S the most famous rent row in football history. Except football historian Peter Lupson has now shed new light on the 1892 argument which saw Liverpool Football Club emerge from a split with Everton. And living up to Liverpool stereotype, it was a row over a drink – or rather attitudes to the demon drink – which caused the seismic shift. Even fans with barely a passing acquaintance of the history of this city’s two soccer giants know that Everton came first, until a row over rent at their Anfield home led to…

The man who began a proud football heritage: the Reverend Ben Chambers

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Mar

By David Prentice

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1878-1889, 2010-2019, Articles, David Prentice, Directors, History, Members Work, Peter Lupson

The man who began a proud football heritage: the Reverend Ben Chambers

by David Prentice 5 July 2008 / Updated 8 May 2013 HE didn’t know what he had started . . . Ben Swift Chambers during his time at St Domingo But 130 years after the creation of St Domingo’s Football Club, both Everton and Liverpool have paid tribute to Reverend Ben Chambers, the man who founded St Domingo’s FC. The gravestone of the pioneering churchman was re-dedicated on Wednesday at a service of commemoration at Shepley Methodist Church, near Huddersfield. Blues’ Life President Sir Philip Carter and representatives from the Everton Former Players’ Foundation and the Everton Academy, were present…

01

Jan

By Billy Smith

1940-1949, Articles, Billy Smith, Directors, History, Members Work

William Charles Cuff

A variety of press articles relating to William Cuff - Transcribed by Blue Correspondent, Billy Smith Great Football Legislator February 7, 1949. The Liverpool Daily Post Mr. W.C. Cuff Dies Mr. William Charles Cuff, president of the Football league, and one of the original members of Everton F.C, died yesterday, aged 80. A Liverpool solicitor, he was one of football’s greatest legislators and was the man who introduced the system of numbering players. The rejection of a plan, a few years ago, for pool betting subsides to football was one of his successes. He consistently opposed this. Mr. Cuff had…

01

Jan

By Billy Smith

1890-1899, Articles, Billy Smith, Directors, History, Members Work

Everton Suspension of 1887

Transcribed from the local press by Blue Correspondent, Billy Smith The Football Field December 12th 1887 A Chat with Mr Nisbet How the club came to the front As all the world knows by this, the Everton F.C. have been adjudged guilty of infringing the laws relating to professionalism and importation, and suspended for a month, the sentence remaining in force until January 5, and thus depriving the club of the benefit of the New Year fixtures. The following seven players have been declared professionals; - Dick, Watson, Izzatt, Murray, Weir, Cassidy, and Goudie. In obedience to our commission, our…