The History Of Blackpool Football Club
Written by Andy McDonald on July 26, 2010 – 4:36 am -Blackpool has established itself as the 44th club to play in the Premier League and the holiday town in Lancashire is getting ready to accommodate those who decide to stay the weekend in one of the B&B’s in Blackpool. The history of the Blackpool Football Club starts some hundred and thirty years ago, when Reverend James Wayman established the Victoria Football Club in 1877. Its initial location was on Manchester’s Field in Blackpool. In the first decade, the Victoria club broke up and its old members joined together to found the Blackpool St. Johns team. Then in 1887, a dispute among those same players led to the Blackpool St. Johns team becoming the Blackpool Football Club.
In 1888, the F.C. helped to found the Lancashire League. It competed in eight winning seasons and even scored a championship title in the 1893-94 season. In spring of 1896, the Blackpool Football Club developed into a Limited Company worth 2,000 pounds. Then, only two months later, it joined the Football League. Its first Football League match took place in Lincoln City on September 5th, 1896. The game drew 2,000 fans, and the club’s first League goal was scored by Charles Mount.
In that first League season, the Blackpool F.C. finished in eighth place in the Second Division. They scored 31 goals in a total of 30 games. For the next thirty years or so, Blackpool remained in Division Two with only occasional success. Following the Great War, the club attempted to rank into Division Two. Around this time, the famous George Mee joined up and made an incredible 195 consecutive appearances, becoming a club favorite in the 1920s. Other well-known players from the 1920s include Billy Benton, “Matty” Barrass, Jackie Meredith, Harry Bedford, and Jimmy Hampson.
In the course of the 1922-1923 season, Blackpool head honchos took on Major Frank Buckley as the team manager. With ground-breaking training ideas and a first class scouting system, he was a great asset to the club during his four year tenure. In the next couple of years, the F.C. fell on hard times financially, and it was only through the efforts of The Supporters’ Club that enough funds were raised to keep the team on its feet.
As the years passed, the Blackpool F.C. jumped into the First Division at last, and though it had difficulty holding its position at first, by the 1960s it had become a first class organization. In 1953, it even walked away with the F.A. Cup. Later, the club continued to sway in and out of Division One and financial woes deprived it of key players. A real comeback wasn’t realized until recently, when the Blackpool Football Club has run across some newfound success.
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