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Hughes’ view was that Aston Villa Football Club was really formed later by the players who attended a kick-about <ref>Report by the Sports Argus on a talk by co-founder Jack Hughes, 1899</ref> on waste ground on Westminster Road now the [[RCCG]] Salvation Theatre.<ref name=SM1/> They hired a football for 1s 6d (roughly 1⁄3 the daily wage) from Clapshaw & Cleave. The sixteen then each contributed a shilling and elected the first captain, [[W.H. Price]], and secretary Charlie H. Midgley.<ref name=SM1/> |
Hughes’ view was that Aston Villa Football Club was really formed later by the players who attended a kick-about <ref>Report by the Sports Argus on a talk by co-founder Jack Hughes, 1899</ref> on waste ground on Westminster Road now the [[RCCG]] Salvation Theatre.<ref name=SM1/> They hired a football for 1s 6d (roughly 1⁄3 the daily wage) from Clapshaw & Cleave. The sixteen then each contributed a shilling and elected the first captain, [[W.H. Price]], and secretary Charlie H. Midgley.<ref name=SM1/> |
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Aston Villa Football Club’s first match was arranged against their friends at [[Aston, St Mary’s]].<ref name=SM2>”Aston Villa’s first milestone”, John Hughes, [[Sunday Mercury & Sunday News]] 30 March 1924</ref> They |
Aston Villa Football Club’s first match was arranged against their friends at [[Aston, St Mary’s]].<ref name=SM2>”Aston Villa’s first milestone”, John Hughes, [[Sunday Mercury & Sunday News]] 30 March 1924</ref> They played in [[royal blue]] caps and stockings, [[Scarlet (color)|scarlet]] and [[royal blue]] striped shirts and white [[shorts]].<ref name=SM2/> The club rules stated “No member can take place in a match unless in the above uniform”.<ref name=SM1>”A Football Jubilee”, John Hughes, [[Sunday Mercury & Sunday News]] 9 March 1924</ref> |
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John Hughes aka Jack was one of the ‘Four Founding Fathers’ of Aston Villa Football Club
In 1874 Hughes was a member of the Aston Villa Wesleyan Chapel. According to him their Bible meetings consisted around 200 young men some of whom had set up a cricket team.[1][2] The cricketers were keen to find an outlet for their energy in the off-season, they were initially undecided between rugby and association football but one member, W.B. Mason, was playing with the Adderley Park Grasshoppers rugby team and four members, Hughes, Walter Scattergood, W.H. Price and George Matthews, were tasked with watching him play.[1] Grasshoppers were to play the Handsworth rugby club at Heathfield Park so the four attended the match.[1][3] Having watched the game, the four men returned along Heathfield Road. They adjourned beneath a dim gas light near Villa Cross and between themselves agreed rugby was a little too rough and that they would play association football.[1] The gas lamp meeting is traditionally held as the birth of Aston Villa Football Club.[4]
Hughes’ view was that Aston Villa Football Club was really formed later by the players who attended a kick-about [5] on waste ground on Westminster Road now the RCCG Salvation Theatre.[1] They hired a football for 1s 6d (roughly 1⁄3 the daily wage) from Clapshaw & Cleave. The sixteen then each contributed a shilling and elected the first captain, W.H. Price, and secretary Charlie H. Midgley.[1]
Aston Villa Football Club’s first match was arranged against their friends at Aston, St Mary’s.[6] They played in royal blue caps and stockings, scarlet and royal blue striped shirts and white shorts.[6] The club rules stated “No member can take place in a match unless in the above uniform”.[1]
J. Hughes was Aston Villa’s umpire in the 1879-80 season the last season before a referee would be appointed before the match. Originally team captains would consult each other in order to resolve any dispute on the pitch. Eventually this role was delegated to an umpire. Each team would bring their own partisan umpire allowing the team captains to concentrate on the game. In 1881, the referee, a third “neutral” official was added; this referee would be “referred to” if the umpires could not resolve a dispute. The referee did not take his place on the pitch until 1891, when the umpires became linesmen (now assistant referees).
https://trevorfisherhistorian.com/villas-murky-early-years/?print=print
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https://www.avfc.co.uk/news/2011/12/29/from-the-archives-christmas-transport-chaos-from-1897
https://www.avfchistory.co.uk/player/charlie-johnstone
https://epdf.pub/the-football-manager-a-history-sport-in-the-global-society.html
