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Alumni Athletic Club
Alumni Athletic Club, or simply Alumni, was an Argentina, Argentine association football, football team active during the first years of the sport in that country. Although officially founded in 1898, the team had been formed in 1893 when a group of students from the Buenos Aires English High School joined Alexander Watson Hutton (considered the "father" of Argentine football)"Lomas marcó el rumbo" ''Clarín (Argentine newspaper), Clarín'', 2001-07-15 to form a team in order to participate in the championship organized by the Argentine Association Football League (then Argentine Football Association, which had been created that year). The squad was active until 1911 and was disbanded in 1913 due to internal problems. During the years Alumni was active, the team won a total of 22 titles, including 15 domestic titles (1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buenos Aires English High School
The Buenos Aires English High School, also known for its abbreviation BAEHS, is a bilingual school established in Belgrano, Buenos Aires in 1884 by Alexander Watson Hutton, considered "the father" of Argentine football. Watson Hutton was born in Scotland and emigrated to Argentina in 1882. The first educational institution where he worked was St. Andrew's Scots School for two years. As a keen sportsman, Watson Hutton believed that sports were of fundamental importance in education. Nevertheless, he resigned a short while later due to St. Andrew's (which would later win the first Argentine Primera División championship in 1891) not having funds to acquire sports facilities, which were considered by Hutton as an essential component of his teaching methods. History The beginning After leaving St. Andrew's, Watson Hutton decided to create the Buenos Aires English High School to put in practise his ideas about education, with a special predilection for football. The BAEHS opened on Fe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1893 Argentine Primera División
The 1893 Primera División was the 2nd season in top-flight football in Argentina and the first organized by current Argentine Football Association, established that same year by Alexander Watson Hutton, considered "the father" of Argentine football. Only Buenos Aires and Rosario Railway survived from the 1891 championship. The championship took the format of a league of 5 teams, with each team playing each of the others twice. Lomas Athletic Club Lomas Athletic Club is an Argentina, Argentine sports club from the Lomas de Zamora district of Greater Buenos Aires. One of Argentina's oldest clubs still in existence, Lomas is one of the four institutions that founded the "River Plate Rugby Cha ... won its first league title. Final Table Standings Results References {{DEFAULTSORT:1893 Argentine Primera Division Argentine Primera División seasons 1893 in Argentine football 1893 in South American football ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juan McKechnie
Juan McKechnie (c.1870-?) was an Argentine association football goalkeeper that spent most of his career playing for legendary team Alumni, where he won six titles. Career McKechnie was born in Buenos Aires, member of a family of Scottish origin. He began his career in 1891 in Alumni. The next team in which he played was Lomas Academy, winning the Argentine Primera División championship of 1896. In 1897, McKechnie played in Lobos Athletic Club, team where he came runner-up in 1898 and 1899, where the team lost the final match to Belgrano Athletic Club. In 1900, he moved to Buenos Aires English High School (then renamed "Alumni") that would win a large number of titles until its dissolution in 1911. Titles ;Lomas Academy *Argentine Primera División (1): 1896 ;Alumni *Argentine Primera División (4): 1900, 1901, 1902, 1903 *Tie Cup The Tie Cup Competition (also known as Copa de Competencia Chevallier Boutell) was an international Association football, football tournament p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Club Atlético Banfield
Club Atlético Banfield is an Argentine sports club based in the Banfield, Buenos Aires, Banfield city of Greater Buenos Aires. It was founded on 21 January 1896, by the British–origin inhabitants of that city (mostly English people, English, some Scottish people, Scots and Irish people, Irish). The club is mostly known for its association football, football teams, that currently competes in Argentine Primera División, Primera División, the top division of the Argentine football league system. In 2009 Banfield obtained their first Primera División title after winning the 2009–10 Argentine Primera División season, 2009 Apertura. Banfield had previously achieved a list of Argentine football national cups, national cup title in 1920, when the club won the Copa de Honor Municipalidad de Buenos Aires after beating Boca Juniors 2–1. The club also won 10 titles in Second Division. The so-called "Southern Classic" ("Clásico del Sur"), considered a modern classic in Argentine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires, controlled by the government of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Argentina. It is located on the southwest of the Río de la Plata. Buenos Aires is classified as an Alpha− global city, according to the Globalization and World Cities Research Network, GaWC 2024 ranking. The city proper has a population of 3.1 million and its urban area 16.7 million, making it the List of metropolitan areas, twentieth largest metropolitan area in the world. It is known for its preserved eclecticism, eclectic European #Architecture, architecture and rich culture, cultural life. It is a multiculturalism, multicultural city that is home to multiple ethnic and religious groups, contributing to its culture as well as to the dialect spoken in the city and in some other parts of the country. This is because since the 19th century, the city, and the country in general, has been a major recipient of millions of Immigration to Argentina, im ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coghlan, Buenos Aires
Coghlan is a ''barrio'' (neighbourhood) in the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina. This middle class neighbourhood is located between Belgrano, Buenos Aires, Belgrano, Saavedra, Buenos Aires, Saavedra, Núñez, Buenos Aires, Núñez and Villa Urquiza, originally inhabited by Irish people, Irish and English people, English immigrants. The 1887 sale of 30 hectares (75 acres) of land to the Linea Mitre (Buenos Aires), Mitre Railway led to the railway's extension under the direction of Irish Argentine engineer John Coghlan (engineer), John Coghlan, in whose honor the train station was named. The sale of residential lots after 1891 led to the rapid growth of what was then a suburb of Buenos Aires. In 1896, Dr. Ignacio Pirovano opened an emergency hospital, and it is among the city's public medical facilities today. Coghlan was formally designated as a ''barrio'' (borough) in 1968 and is today still a quiet bedroom community known for its big, English style residences. References Ex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sports Club
A sports club or sporting club, sometimes an athletics club or sports society or sports association, is a group of people formed for the purpose of playing sports. Sports clubs range from organisations whose members play together, unpaid, and may play other similar clubs on occasion, watched mostly by family and friends, to large commercial organisations with professional players which have teams that regularly compete against those of other clubs and sometimes attract very large crowds of paying spectators. Clubs may be dedicated to a single sport or to several (multi-sport clubs). The term "athletics club" is sometimes used for a general sports club, rather than one dedicated to athletics proper. Friedrich Ludwig Jahn's Turner movement, first realised at Volkspark Hasenheide in Berlin in 1811, was the origin of the modern sports clubs. Organization Larger sports clubs are characterized by having professional and amateur departments in various sports such as bike pol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1900 Argentine Primera División
The 1900 Primera División was the 9th season of top-flight football in Argentina. The season began on May 20 and ended on September 8.Argentina 1900 by Osvaldo Gorgazzi at RSSSF.com The title was won by the English High School A.C., after their members joined again to the team to request their affiliation to the Association. Quilmes Rovers also returned under its new name " Quilmes Atlético Club". Both teams replaced Lobos
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1895 Argentine Primera División
The 1895 Primera División was the 4th season of top-flight football in Argentina. The season began on May 10 and ended on August 30.Argentina 1895 by Osvaldo Gorgazzi at RSSSF.com Lomas won the tournament achieving its 3rd consecutive title. The runner-up was , a second team from the same institution. /ref> This was the last tournament played by Buenos Aires and Rosario Railway before merging with |
Lobos Athletic Club
Lobos Athletic Club is an Argentina, Argentine sports club based in the city of Lobos, Buenos Aires. Although other sports were practised at the club, Lobos Athletic is mostly known for its association football, football team, who took part in the Argentine Primera División, Primera División championships until its disaffection, being runner-up in 1898 Argentine Primera División, 1898 and 1899 Argentine Primera División, 1899. Nowadays Lobos AC plays in "Liga Lobense de Fútbol", a regional league of Buenos Aires Province. Apart from football, other sports sections of the club are field hockey, basketball and volleyball. History At the end of 19th century the city of Lobos had an intense commercial and industrial activity, although the most part of the incomes were produced by agriculture. Lobos was populated mostly by English immigrants who owned wide portions of lands. Those Irish people were not interested in the "criollo people, criollo" culture, so they were looking for a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1894 Argentine Primera División
The 1894 Primera División was the 3rd season of top-flight football in Argentina. The season began on April 15 and ended on September 9.Argentina 1894 by Osvaldo Gorgazzi at RSSSF.com The championship was won by , that become the first team to retain the league title. The runner-up was Rosario A.C., which made its debut at the tournament along with Retiro A.C. Most of the results of the games and the goals scored information have been lost. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
