"The Irons" had not yet played London Welsh and as a result, and probably thanks also to Arnold Hills' presidency of the league and Francis Payne's drafting of the rules, Thames Ironworks F.C. were awarded two wins by default and finished the revised league as runners up.
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It was a seamless transition for the club to make as Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Co. Ltd owner Arnold Hills was also president of the London League, and along with Thames Ironworks F.C. committee chairman Francis Payne, helped to draft the competition's rules.
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Canon Basil Wilberforce remained as Honorary President although Dr. Russell Bencraft, the senior committee member, was responsible for the running of the club.
On 11 September 1897, in their first game of the new season of the London League and also at their new ground, Thames beat Brentford F.C. 1–0.
Staff and recovering patients from the King's Lancashire Medical Convalescent Hospital (KLMCH) and staff from the Royal Army Medical Corps Depot (RAMC), both based at Squires Gate, provided players throughout the season.
After the match, the Athletic News described Burnley as the best team in the country.
Crad Evans, Torquay Town's star striker, was installed as player-manager and the new team adopted a black and white strip which soon earned them the nickname of 'the Magpies'.
In a goalless draw for most of the game, Cardiff were awarded a penalty and leading scorer Len Davies stepped up to take it, but missed and the game resulted in a goalless draw meaning Cardiff wouldn't win the title and would instead finish as runners-up.
Six matches were played during the trip, two each against Real Madrid, Racing de Santander and Real Oviedo.
Peter Houghton was the team's top goalscorer with a total of 13 league goals (14 in all competitions).
Winning the Cup for the third time, West Ham manager John Lyall tactically outsmarted his Arsenal counterpart Terry Neill by paying a 4–5–1 system, stifling Arsenal's creative midfield that included future West Ham signing Liam Brady and the steely Brian Talbot.
The 1989–90 season was Arsenal's 70th consecutive season in the top division of English football.
At the end of the season, the newly formed League Managers Association presented its "Manager of the Year" award for the first time, specifically designed to recognise "the manager who made best use of the resources available to him".
They competed in the 24-team Division Two, then the third tier of English league football, finishing third, their highest league finish since the 1976-77 season.
January began with Luton beating Bradford City 2–1 in the FA Cup, ensuring the club reached the fourth round of the competition for the first time since the 1994–95 season.
Talbert Abrams was born on August 17, 1896 in Tekonsha, Michigan.
Ernst Roth (1 June 1896 – 17 July 1971) was a music publisher for Universal Edition in Vienna and Boosey & Hawkes in London, and became the company's director in 1968.
In 1893 the library moved to the second floor of the new Village Hall in 1893 and the library's collection was reorganized according to the new Dewey Decimal Classification system in 1896.
By 1896 though, he was appearing on stage at the Casino Theatre performing in The Gold Bug, a burlesque musical comedy written by Glen MacDonough with music from Victor Herbert.
Hoya diptera (Seemann, 1896), a waxplant species in the genus Hoya native to the Fiji Islands
J. Harry McGregor (1896–1958), Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Ohio
Possibly the first regular air mail service in the world was Mr. Howie's Pigeon-Post service from the Auckland New Zealand suburb of Newton to Great Barrier Island, starting in 1896.
In Chota Nagpur, East India, awareness of the famine came late in 1896 when it was discovered that the rice crop in the highlands of Manbhum district had failed entirely on account of very little rain the previous summer.
A Methodist mission was opened in the rooms of the West Shore Railroad by Rev. Dean L. M. Vernon (d. 1896) whose work was passed on to Rev. Antonio Peruzzi.
Additional Japanese post offices/agencies were opened from 1896, particular from 1899, first in other treaty ports including Masan and Gunsan, then other inland places, predominantly as a political measure, as few initially made a profit.
Jesús María de Leizaola Sánchez (7 September 1896, San Sebastian - 16 March 1989) was a Basque politician and was named President of the Basque Government in exile after José Antonio Aguirre's death in 1960.
John O. Merrill, American architect and structural engineer, 1896-1975
In 1896, the health of her husband and of her youngest daughter made residence at the seaside imperative, and Dieppe became her home until 1901, when she returned to London, retaining a house at Dieppe for summer residence until 1909.
Joseph Christian Ernest Bourret (9 December 1827 in the hamlet of Labro, near Saint-Étienne-de-Lugdarès, Ardèche - 10 July 1896, Rodez) was a French churchman, bishop and cardinal.
Josiah Dwight Whitney (1819–1896) was an American geologist, professor of geology at Harvard University (from 1865), and chief of the California Geological Survey (1860–1874).
He worked as a professor in Dresden (1886-1889) and Constitución, Chile (1889-1896).
As a result of studies in Rome in 1894 and 1895, he wrote De Avignonske Pavers Forhold til Danmark (1896), concerning the relationship between the Avignon Papacy and Denmark, for which he obtained the doctorate.
Leó Frankel (Léo Fränkel) (February 25, 1844, Újlak – March 29, 1896, Paris) was a Communist revolutionary of Hungarian and Jewish origin.
In the Champions League, Modrić participated and helped the club reach its first involment with the competition.
In 1896, Harry M. Martin began buying land from the Chevy Chase Land Company and others and called his holdings "Martin's Additions to Chevy Chase".
Intercity passenger rail service into Miami began in April 1896 with the arrival of the Florida East Coast Railway (FEC) at the new southern terminus in downtown, just east of the current site of Government Center station.
Warburg visited Oraibi in 1896 and with the help of Henry Voth attended a ritual spring dance.
Alberts Ozoliņš (1896–1985), a Latvian weightlifter and Olympic competitor
On May 1, 1896, Ludwig was given the rank of First lieutenant, and, on March 29, 1900, he was given leadership of the First Tiroler Jäger-Regiment in Innsbruck.
Seven specimens of the owl were obtained from May to July in 1896 by British naturalist Alfred Everett, who also used paid local collectors.
The Society to Encourage Studies at Home was founded in 1873 by Anna Eliot Ticknor (1823–1896), daughter of George Ticknor, historian and Harvard professor.
Stella Kramrisch (1896-1993) was an authority on Indian art and Hindu mythology.
The Teatro Diogo Bernardes is a theatre and opera house in Ponte de Lima, Portugal, is an Italian-style theatre built in 1893 and inaugurated in 1896.
The same year (1896) clerics in Ivrea agreed to donate major relics of Blessed Thaddeus to the dioceses of Cork & Ross and Cloyne.
Having been born in Munich, Germany, and moved to New York City in 1896, Viereck graduated from the College of the City of New York and directly entered the world of publishing.
The piece toured internationally, playing in New York as The Girl from Paris, opening on 8 December 1896, at the Herald Square Theatre and running for 266 or 281 performances (sources differ) and then touring.
Joel Townsley Rogers (1896–1984), American writer who wrote science-fiction, air-adventure, and mystery stories
Kanthiah Vaithianathan (1896–1965), Sri Lankan civil servant and politician
As payment of members was not introduced until 1900, the Political Labour Party, formed in 1896, had found it difficult to attract candidates who could afford to enter Parliament, but three of its candidates ran for election, and Charles Oldham, a former president of the Trades and Labor Council, became the first Labour member of Parliament in Western Australia.
William Quan Judge (April 13, 1851 – March 21, 1896) was a mystic, esotericist, and occultist, and one of the founders of the original Theosophical Society.
He was serving as director general of reservoirs for Egypt when he completed his studies and plans in 1896 to construct the Aswan Low Dam, the first true storage reservoir on the river.
Yue-Laou (sic) appears as a character in Robert W. Chambers' short story "The Maker of Moons" from the collection of the same name in 1896.