With a large number of British Army personnel based in the town, many of the Blackpool players during the four seasons of wartime football were soldiers.
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A conference was held in Blackpool's Winter Gardens on 3 July 1915, with representatives from the English, Irish, Scottish and Southern Football Leagues to consider whether football should be played in the 1915–16 season.
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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.
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.
The Ethio-Djibouti Railway was built between 1894 and 1915 during the colonial period, the Ethio-Djibouti Railways connected the city with Addis Ababa.
The Kennecott Copper Corporation, established in 1903 to operate mines in Kennecott, Alaska, purchased a financial interest in Utah Copper in 1915 and fully acquired the company in 1936.
He entered the Roman Curia on 10 July 1915 as assessor of the Congregation of Rites and subpromoter of the Faith, later becoming full Promoter of the Faith in 1925.
He served as Mayor of Eufaula from 1908–12, and was President of the Alabama State Bar in 1915-16.
In 1915 the company changed its name to Deloro Smelting and Refining Company Limited after Dr. Haynes developed the first commercially produced stellite in the world, which was manufactured at the Deloro plant.
Tommy and wife arrived Egbe two days before Christmas 1915 from their honey moon, they didn’t realise how exciting Christmas Day was going to be.
However, with the outbreak of the First World War, Quiggin found himself in war service from 1915 to 1919, first in Boulogne and then in the Admiralty's Intelligence Division.
March 4, 1915 – March 3, 1919 - elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-fourth and Sixty-fifth Congresses; he was not a candidate for renomination in 1918
Jorge Mayer (1915–2010), Roman Catholic Archbishop Emeritus of the Archdiocese of Bahía Blanca, Argentina
Awarded a gold medal in 1915 at the San Francisco Exhibition, where the participants included his children Beppe and Emma, he was struck down by paralysis and died two years later.
In 1915, he was sent on a special mission to France for the purpose of organising a British and American hospital at Neuilly.
Lázaro created the tenor roles of Mascagni's Parisina (1913, Scala) and Il piccolo Marat (1921, Costanzi), and Romani's Fedra (1915, Costanzi).
President Wilson vehemently denounced German violations of American neutrality that involved loss of life, most famously in the torpedo attack on the RMS Lusitania in 1915 that killed 128 American civilians but which may have been carrying war munitions.
She was laid down at the Sir Raylton Dixon & Co. Ltd shipyard in March 1915, launched on 8 September 1915, and completed in November 1915.
Irving J. Selikoff (1915 in New York City – May 20, 1992 in Ridgewood, New Jersey) was a medical researcher who in the 1960s established a link between the inhalation of asbestos particles and lung-related ailments.
James Stewart G.S.A. Ph. (October 1, 1903 – April 30, 1964) was born in Morehead, MS, the son of a wealthy plantation owner; his uncle Professor William Stewart taught in Centreville, MS. He began school in Morehead and moved to Cleveland by 1915 where he studied art and commercial business.
Bryan was elected as a Progressive to the Sixty-third Congress (March 4, 1913-March 3, 1915).
Elston was elected as a Progressive to the Sixty-fourth Congress and reelected as a Republican to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1915 - December 15, 1921).
He trained in FEA 6 (Flieger-Ersatz-Abteilung 6), and by the summer of 1915 was flying artillery direction missions over Verdun as an Observer in FA(A) 209 before training as a pilot.
The school was founded in 1915, as a consequence of the official report into the loss of the Titanic, and today continues to be supported by the Worshipful Company of Shipwrights.
In late September 1915, the brigade (just two regiments strong, Ayrshire Yeomanry and Lanarkshire Yeomanry) left Fife for Devonport.
In the Champions League, Modrić participated and helped the club reach its first involment with the competition.
Athalie Range (Born Mary Athalie Wilkinson on November 7, 1915 in Key West, Florida- November 14, 2006 in Miami, Florida) was a civil rights activist and politician who was the first African-American to serve on the Miami, Florida City Commission, and the first African-American since Reconstruction and the first woman to head a Florida state agency, the Department of Community Affairs.
Marion West Higgins (1915–1991), first female Speaker of the New Jersey General Assembly
When Italy did join the effort in 1915, he was a volunteer in the Italian Navy, and assigned to a torpedo unit, accomplishing over 60 missions over a period of 14 months.
Gottfried E. Noether (1915–1991), son of Fritz Noether, statistician at the University of Connecticut
The Occupancy Permits Act was passed on March 4, 1915 by the 63rd United States Congress.
Philip Morrison (1915–2005), American physicist involved with the Manhattan Project, who later became a faculty member at MIT
Richard Webster, 1st Viscount Alverstone (1842–1915), British barrister, politician and Judge
Robert Jefferson Breckinridge, Jr. (1833 – 1915), Confederate Congressman and colonel in the Confederate Army
Nicole was born to Swiss parents December 10, 1915, in Charlottenburg, Germany.
In 1912, Woodruff defeated incumbent Republican U.S. Representative George A. Loud to be elected as the candidate of the Progressive Party from Michigan's 10th congressional district to the 63rd Congress, serving from March 4, 1913 to March 3, 1915.
He was elected as a Republican from Michigan's 6th congressional district to the 56th United States Congress and to the eight succeeding Congresses, serving from March 4, 1897 to March 3, 1915.
Károly Goldmark, the Hungarian composer (1830–1915) wrote the Sakuntala Overture Op.13 in (1865)
In 1915, the SS Eastland capsized while docked in the Chicago River, with the loss of over 800 lives.
The Whittier Glacier near Whittier was named for the American poet John Greenleaf Whittier in 1915.
Wright v. Warner Books (1991) was a case in which the widow of the author Richard Wright (1908-1960) claimed that his biographer, the poet and writer Margaret Walker (1915-1998), had infringed copyright by using content from some of Wright's unpublished letters and journals.
The Xavier Newswire (established 1915) is an independent newspaper published weekly during the academic year by the students of Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio.
In 1989 the name of Marija Pečkauskaitė was given to school in order to honor famous author and educational Šatrijos Ragana who lived in Židikai from 1915 until her death in 1930.