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St Helens Recs F.C.
St Helens Recreation F.C. was an association football club from St Helens, Merseyside, active in the late 19th and early 20th century. The club came out of a St Helens Recreation RLFC, rugby club of the same name, and changed to the rugby league code in 1913. History The club was founded as a rugby football, rugby club, as the works side of Pilkington Glass, but in 1897 started an association football side, which reached the final of the Lancashire Junior Cup; a sign of the popularity of the association code was that 8,000 turned up for the home semi-final tie with Darwen Olympic in the competition, despite the club raising admission prices. The club lost to Skerton F.C., Skerton in the final, and made a protest against three of the winner's players as being professionals, but soon withdrew it. The club was also runner-up in the Lancashire Alliance league, finishing level on points with Haydock F.C., Haydock after losing a crucial match at the latter's Waggon Lane ground in A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Association Football
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 Football player, players who almost exclusively use their feet to propel a Ball (association football), ball around a rectangular field called a Football pitch, pitch. The objective of the game is to Scoring in association football, score more goals than the opposing team by moving the ball beyond the goal line into a rectangular-framed Goal (sport), goal defended by the opposing team. Traditionally, the game has been played over two 45-minute halves, for a total match time of 90 minutes. With an estimated 250 million players active in over 200 countries and territories, it is the world's most popular sport. Association football is played in accordance with the Laws of the Game (association football), Laws of the Game, a set of rules that has been in effect since 1863 and maintained by the International Football Association Board, IFAB since 1886. The game is pla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
