Southern Football League, a semi-professional football league in England currently known as the Evo-stik League South
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Southern Association, a United States minor league baseball league, was known as the "Southern League" from 1901–1919
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League of the South, a United States Southern nationalist organization, formerly known as the Southern League
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The 2005–06 season was the 103rd in the history of the Southern League, which is an English football competition featuring semi-professional and amateur clubs from the South West, South Central and Midlands of England and South Wales.
William "Bill" Furby (b. 1871 – fl. 1969) was an English amateur footballer who played for Southampton St. Mary's in the club's first season in the Southern League.
Givens spent the entire 1994 season with the White Sox's Birmingham Barons team in the Southern League, playing alongside basketball great Michael Jordan.
Soon after the war, Grossmark became a season-ticket holder at Priestfield Stadium, home of Gillingham F.C., then playing in the Southern League.
CSS also broadcasts the WNBA's Atlanta Dream, Major League Lacrosse, Southern League and South Atlantic League Minor League baseball, and previously broadcast the Arena Football League's Georgia Force, Orlando Predators and Tampa Bay Storm, and some CFL contests.
They first competed in the Southern League in 1929 and were based at Crystal Palace Exhibition Grounds, Sydenham, South London.
Cwm Albion spent a single season in the Southern League in 1911–12, but withdrew due to financial problems.
He also played for Scottish Football League clubs Ayr and St. Mirren, and for Southern League clubs Brighton United, Gravesend United, Brighton & Hove Albion and Watford.
He has also been a scout (1981–87), and the pitching coach for several of Kansas City's farm teams, including the Eugene Emeralds of the Northwest League (1987–98), the Memphis Chicks of the Southern League (1989–90), and the Omaha Royals, then of the American Association (1991).
Engaged as trainer, under secretary Ernest Arnfield who acted as “manager”, McIntyre faced the difficult task of restoring the Saints to their former success in the Southern League.
In West Ham United's first game at the grounds in front of 2,000 spectators, in the Southern League on 1 September 1900, they won 7-0 against, Gravesend United, with Billy Grassam scoring four.
By the time his Grantham career ended some four-and-a-half years and 143 games later, he had won two Midland League titles, a Southern League Division One North title and contributed to the club's Southern League runners-up spot in 1974, though in 1973–74 season he spent time on loan at Oadby Town and took no part in Grantham's run to the Third Round of the FA Cup.
After a long break from league competition, they entered two seasons of the Southern League in the 1970s, then joined the Inter-City League and finally played in the first season of the British Hockey League.
During their 16 years in Montgomery, the Rebels won 5 Southern League championships as the Tigers developed the nucleus of a club that would win the 1984 World Series, and future MLB notables such as Jack Morris, Lou Whittaker, and Alan Trammell played under Paterson Field's lights before becoming big leaguers.
Hughes began 2009 with Montgomery, where he was a Southern League All-Star, joining fellow Biscuits Jeremy Hellickson, Desmond Jennings and Eddie Morlan.
A tempting offer from Brighton United then persuaded him to move to the south coast in May 1898 to join them in the Southern League.
As manager of the AA franchise Birmingham Barons from 1993–1995, he posted a 223-203 record and won two distinctions: Southern League Manager of the Year in 1993, Baseball America's Minor League Manager of the Year in 1993, and top managerial candidate by Baseball America in 1994, the same year Michael Jordan played for Birmingham.
In the spring of 1895, Charles Robson, the newly appointed secretary/manager of Southampton St. Mary's, and Alfred McMinn, one of the club committee, visited the Midlands in search of new players to strengthen the team ready for their second season in the Southern League.
In addition to the Southern League and FA Cup matches, the club played nearly 30 friendly matches, including a 9–0 victory over the Dublin Fusiliers and a 13–0 victory over the City Ramblers, in both of which Jack Farrell scored five goals.
Crystal Palace were formed this year but failed to gain election to the Football League by one vote and instead started their existence in the Southern League.
With Alfred Barker still manager of the club there were high hopes that the 1912–13 season would see Stoke come good in the top division of the Southern League.
From the 1920s to the 1940s, the Atlanta Black Crackers, a baseball team in the Negro Southern League, and later on, in the Negro American League, entertained sports fans at Ponce de Leon Park; some of the members of the Black Crackers would become players in Major League Baseball following the integration of the Negro Leagues into the larger leagues.
McCafferty went on to play for Southern League clubs Portsmouth and Brentford between further spells at Bathgate.
The highest score during this period was in a Southern League match against New Brompton on 7 November 1896, which "the Saints" won 8–3 with a hat-trick from Willie Naughton.
As Cardiff City was long considered a potential entrant for the Second Division due to their FA Cup exploits and Southern League dominance, they were sent directly into the Second Division and Grimsby Town, last place in the Second Division for 1919–20, was relegated.
Merger moves were made immediately at the end of the 1996–97 season when Athletic narrowly missed out on promotion to the Southern League for the third consecutive campaign following finishes of 2nd, 3rd and 2nd again.
A year later he moved to Ipswich Town, then also in the Southern League, and helped them to the 1936–37 championship.
The history of professional baseball in Birmingham began with the establishment of the Barons as one of the charter members of the original Southern League in 1885.