Kolkata
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cricket
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team plays in the CAB tournaments.
History
Howrah Union club was formed in 1922, by Panchanon Choungda from Amta, Howrah. Initially they played football at Howrah Maidan and eventually got affiliation from the Indian Football Association and joined Calcutta Football League. They got promoted to the First Division in 1929 and won the Trades Cup in 1932. In the 1936 IFA Shield, they went till the semi-finals by defeating the 1933 winners
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They shifted to their current ground at the Kolkata Maidan in 1962 which they share with Mohammedan Sporting. Russi Mody, the former chairman and managing director of Tata Steel and a prominent member of the
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was a longtime President of the club.
Notable players
Notable players who have played or have started their careers at the club include
Sailen Manna
Sailendra Nath Manna ( bn, শৈলেন মান্না; 1 September 1924 – 27 February 2012), known popularly as Sailen Manna, was an Indian football player who represented the India national team between 1948 and 1956. Predominantly p ...
,Indian Legendary Football Players Profile Arun Ghosh,
Ashok Chatterjee
Ashok Chatterjee (1942 – 22 September 2020) was an Indian association football player.
Mohammad Abdus Sattar
Mohammad Abdus Sattar (1925 – 23 April 2011) was an Indian footballer. He was also known as Madar Abdus Sattar.
Career
Club career
Abdus Sattar started his career with the Bangalore Muslim Club, before joining the Mohammedan Sporting Club ...
cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by st ...
section, which is affiliated with the Cricket Association of Bengal, and competes in the CAB Second Division League.
Men's hockey
Men's hockey team of the club is affiliated to Bengal Hockey Association (known as 'Hocke Bengal'), and competes in the Calcutta Hockey League.
References
Further reading
Bibliography
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*Ghosh, Saurindra Kumar. ''Krira Samrat Nagendraprasad Sarbadhikary 1869–1940'' (Calcutta: N. P. Sarbadhikary Memorial Committee, 1963) (hereafter Krira Samrat).
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* ''From recreation to competition: Early history of Indian football'' {{Webarchive, url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210709181632/https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14660970500106295?journalCode=fsas20 , date=9 July 2021 . pp. 124–141. Published online: 6 Aug 2006. ''Taylor & Francis''. Retrieved 30 June 2021.