Brumunddal Idrettslag is a Norwegian alliance sports club from Brumunddal,

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. It has departments for

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and

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General history

The skiing club ''SK Fram'' was founded on 17 December 1895. Their prime skier, Johannes Grini won the King's Cup in the

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of 1906. He also chaired the club from 1904 to 1906. The club Fram went through a series of mergers before the modern Brumunddal IL was formed. ''Brumunddal FK'' was founded in 1905. The club changed its name to ''Frem IL'' in 1919 as the sport

athletics Athletics may refer to: Sports * Sport of athletics, a collection of sporting events that involve competitive running, jumping, throwing, and walking ** Track and field, a sub-category of the above sport * Athletics (physical culture), competitio ...

was added. In 1921 the club bought a sports field which from 1924 was named Frambanen. This happened after ''SK Fram'' and ''Frem IL'' merged in 1924 to form Fram IL. The sports were thus football, athletics and Nordic skiing.

Tennis Tennis is a List of racket sports, racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent (singles (tennis), singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles (tennis), doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket st ...

was added in 1933,

cycling Cycling, also known as bicycling or biking, is the activity of riding a bicycle or other types of pedal-driven human-powered vehicles such as balance bikes, unicycles, tricycles, and quadricycles. Cycling is practised around the world fo ...

in 1934 and

speed skating Speed skating is a competitive form of ice skating in which the competitors race each other in travelling a certain distance on skates. Types of speed skating are long-track speed skating, short-track speed skating, and marathon speed skat ...

in 1935. ''Brumunddal AIL'' was founded as an AIF club on 18 April 1932. Its first sports were

boxing Boxing is a combat sport and martial art. Taking place in a boxing ring, it involves two people – usually wearing protective equipment, such as boxing glove, protective gloves, hand wraps, and mouthguards – throwing Punch (combat), punch ...

and Nordic skiing. In the summer of 1933 cycling and

race walking Race walking, or racewalking, is a long-distance discipline within the sport of athletics. Although a foot race, it is different from running in that one foot must appear to be in contact with the ground at all times. Race judges carefully asses ...

were added; soon after football, athletics,

sport shooting Shooting sports is a group of competitive sport, competitive and recreational sporting activities involving proficiency tests of accuracy, precision and speed in shooting — the art of using ranged weapons, mainly small arms (firearms and airg ...

chess Chess is a board game for two players. It is an abstract strategy game that involves Perfect information, no hidden information and no elements of game of chance, chance. It is played on a square chessboard, board consisting of 64 squares arran ...

and

team handball Handball (also known as team handball, European handball, Olympic handball or indoor handball) is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outcourt players and a Handball goalkeeper, goalkeeper) pass a ball using their hands ...

. The club bought the sports field Sveum together with ''Brumunddal Arbeiderlag'' in the autumn of 1934. The club took the name Brumunddal IL after the merger of ''Fram IL'' and ''Brumunddal AIL'' on 11 November 1945. The club centred its field activities (such as football, athletics, speed skating) around Sveum, and sold Frambanen to the dairy Brumunddal Meieri. After the merger, the new Brumunddal IL had sections for football, Nordic skiing, speed skating, athletics, cycling, tennis,

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, boxing and shooting. In 1947 the club took up orienteering.

Football

References

External links

Official site
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