Vintage Blues pictures and film

[fitz]

From The Telegraph;

 

Latecomers at Stamford Bridge manage to get a good view of the match between Chelsea and Tottenham Hotspur (1913)

 

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[fitz]

From http://www.ww1playingthegame.org.uk/content/ww1-history/football-battalion

 

The recruitment poster shows a detail of Stamford Bridge.

 

 

 

Chelsea Football Club

Chelsea’s gentleman amateur captain, Vivian Woodward, had joined the 17th Football Battalion of the Middlesex Regiment, whose formation had been the idea of Fulham M.P. and Arsenal director, William Joynson Hicks, as a way of recruiting football fans. Woodward marched around the pitch with members of the battalion appealing to fans to join up. The poor response from Chelsea fans appeared to be in direct contrast to successful recruitment drives amongst rugby players and sportsman from public schools. A thinly disguised class bias seemed to depict followers of the working man’s game as ‘shirkers,’ despite The Chelsea Chronicle’s claims to the contrary. That 2000 out of 5000 professionals had already joined up and over 300,000 amateur players enlisted seemed to escape the notice of the critics.

One young lad who did heed the call was James Ridley. As a 13 year old living opposite Stamford Bridge he had volunteered as a ball-boy, a first in the Football League. He had even sneaked into the first Chelsea team photograph so he could be seen with his idols. Ten years later, in 1915 he was serving alongside them in the trenches as a soldier in the Football Battalion. He became a Prisoner of War when he was captured at Cambrai in 1917 but survived the war.

Professional football finally came to an end following Chelsea’s first appearance in the F.A. Cup Final on 24 April 1915. The ‘Khaki Cup Final’ was played at Old Trafford and Chelsea lost 3-0 to Sheffield United. Vivian Woodward had received special permission from his battalion commander to play and raced up to Manchester only to give his place in the team to his replacement Bob Thompson, as he did not wish to deprive his fellow team mate of a cup final medal. With the ending of professional football, players effectively had no choice but to join up. One such player was Jack Cock, who had grown up in Fulham before becoming a pre-war star with Huddersfield Town. He joined Woodward in the Football Battalion and at the end of the war joined Chelsea, scoring England’s first post war international goal.

[fitz]

Daily Telegraph February 26 1914  showing a Baseball game at Stamford Bridge.

 

[pettsy]

They are right it's my fault I tried to post a whole page link but I clicked on this picture and posted it thinking the whole page would come up. My apologies to all if you go to Flashbak.com then the whole page should be able to be posted. I'm leaving it well alone I feel bad enough posting a Tottenham picture!

 

The title is In 1945 Sparked Chaos at Chelsea and Cheated Arsenal.

I wouldn't worry about it....I can't even manage to post photos on here anymore lol

[pettsy]

From http://www.ww1playingthegame.org.uk/content/ww1-history/football-battalion

 

The recruitment poster shows a detail of Stamford Bridge.

 

 

 

Chelsea Football Club

Chelsea’s gentleman amateur captain, Vivian Woodward, had joined the 17th Football Battalion of the Middlesex Regiment, whose formation had been the idea of Fulham M.P. and Arsenal director, William Joynson Hicks, as a way of recruiting football fans. Woodward marched around the pitch with members of the battalion appealing to fans to join up. The poor response from Chelsea fans appeared to be in direct contrast to successful recruitment drives amongst rugby players and sportsman from public schools. A thinly disguised class bias seemed to depict followers of the working man’s game as ‘shirkers,’ despite The Chelsea Chronicle’s claims to the contrary. That 2000 out of 5000 professionals had already joined up and over 300,000 amateur players enlisted seemed to escape the notice of the critics.

One young lad who did heed the call was James Ridley. As a 13 year old living opposite Stamford Bridge he had volunteered as a ball-boy, a first in the Football League. He had even sneaked into the first Chelsea team photograph so he could be seen with his idols. Ten years later, in 1915 he was serving alongside them in the trenches as a soldier in the Football Battalion. He became a Prisoner of War when he was captured at Cambrai in 1917 but survived the war.

Professional football finally came to an end following Chelsea’s first appearance in the F.A. Cup Final on 24 April 1915. The ‘Khaki Cup Final’ was played at Old Trafford and Chelsea lost 3-0 to Sheffield United. Vivian Woodward had received special permission from his battalion commander to play and raced up to Manchester only to give his place in the team to his replacement Bob Thompson, as he did not wish to deprive his fellow team mate of a cup final medal. With the ending of professional football, players effectively had no choice but to join up. One such player was Jack Cock, who had grown up in Fulham before becoming a pre-war star with Huddersfield Town. He joined Woodward in the Football Battalion and at the end of the war joined Chelsea, scoring England’s first post war international goal.

Brilliant!!

[Carshalton Blue]

From The Telegraph;

 

Latecomers at Stamford Bridge manage to get a good view of the match between Chelsea and Tottenham Hotspur (1913)

 

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Chelsea's peaky blinders firm waiting for the arrival of their foes, Tottenham.

[Carshalton Blue]

From http://www.ww1playingthegame.org.uk/content/ww1-history/football-battalion

 

The recruitment poster shows a detail of Stamford Bridge.

 

 

 

Chelsea Football Club

Chelsea’s gentleman amateur captain, Vivian Woodward, had joined the 17th Football Battalion of the Middlesex Regiment, whose formation had been the idea of Fulham M.P. and Arsenal director, William Joynson Hicks, as a way of recruiting football fans. Woodward marched around the pitch with members of the battalion appealing to fans to join up. The poor response from Chelsea fans appeared to be in direct contrast to successful recruitment drives amongst rugby players and sportsman from public schools. A thinly disguised class bias seemed to depict followers of the working man’s game as ‘shirkers,’ despite The Chelsea Chronicle’s claims to the contrary. That 2000 out of 5000 professionals had already joined up and over 300,000 amateur players enlisted seemed to escape the notice of the critics.

One young lad who did heed the call was James Ridley. As a 13 year old living opposite Stamford Bridge he had volunteered as a ball-boy, a first in the Football League. He had even sneaked into the first Chelsea team photograph so he could be seen with his idols. Ten years later, in 1915 he was serving alongside them in the trenches as a soldier in the Football Battalion. He became a Prisoner of War when he was captured at Cambrai in 1917 but survived the war.

Professional football finally came to an end following Chelsea’s first appearance in the F.A. Cup Final on 24 April 1915. The ‘Khaki Cup Final’ was played at Old Trafford and Chelsea lost 3-0 to Sheffield United. Vivian Woodward had received special permission from his battalion commander to play and raced up to Manchester only to give his place in the team to his replacement Bob Thompson, as he did not wish to deprive his fellow team mate of a cup final medal. With the ending of professional football, players effectively had no choice but to join up. One such player was Jack Cock, who had grown up in Fulham before becoming a pre-war star with Huddersfield Town. He joined Woodward in the Football Battalion and at the end of the war joined Chelsea, scoring England’s first post war international goal.

Thats class, love it.

[Carshalton Blue]

I reckon this is v Forest? anyone else think the same?

 

[osgood57]

Chelsea v forest ..agree..with a very young ossie..the forest player to ossies left as you look at it is terry henessey...a guess the 67/68  season maybe

[Carshalton Blue]

Chelsea v forest ..agree..with a very young ossie..the forest player to ossies left as you look at it is terry henessey...a guess the 67/68  season maybe

Going by the kit i reckon 64/65.

[Peckham Blue]

Going by the kit i reckon 64/65.

Same here, there's a team pic in this thread posted by Tommy Doc, I kept a picture but didn't note the year.

[erskblue]

A cracking picture v Forest.

[MKBlue]

I reckon this is v Forest? anyone else think the same?

 

Terry Hennessey is right, the other Forest player is Henry Newton, his brother Keith played for England in Mexico 1970

[Carshalton Blue]

Chelsea v Aston Villa Greaves shoots, Sims saves

 

[osgood57]

the big man leading out .........

[Carshalton Blue]

1922

 

[Carshalton Blue]

[Backbiter]

^^ Writing reminiscent of album art of that era.

[osgood57]

Stamford having a pre match kickabout with the shed end filling up

 

[osgood57]

my era brings back so many great memorys of my youth.....I will try to name them back row....Hutchinson..Dempsey Hudson..hughes webb ..hinton..bonetti  birchanal...mcreadie..harris...front row....not sure..mulligan..cooke not sure...hollins..houseman..tambling boyle and the king...should know the other 2 but age has caught up with me ,,feel free to fill in the blanks... I wiil guess Derek smethurst...front row

Edited November 25, 2015 by osgood57

[erskblue]

Great picture of Micky Droy shown earlier when leading the Blues out.

 

Great strip too.

Edited November 26, 2015 by erskblue

[Andy North]

my era brings back so many great memorys of my youth.....I will try to name them back row....Hutchinson..Dempsey Hudson..hughes webb ..hinton..bonetti  birchanal...mcreadie..harris...front row....not sure..mulligan..cooke not sure...hollins..houseman..tambling boyle and the king...should know the other 2 but age has caught up with me ,,feel free to fill in the blanks... I wiil guess Derek smethurst...front row

I could be wrong but I think the front far left is Stewart Houston and the other one is Tommy Baldwin. 

[Peckham Blue]

Without digging out the videos, what was Bobby Tambling's role in the 1970 cup run, had Ossie taken over as the main striker by then?

[Boyne]

Without digging out the videos, what was Bobby Tambling's role in the 1970 cup run, had Ossie taken over as the main striker by then?

 

Peckham Blue, have checked the club book for the season 69-70 and Bobby didn't play in any of the games. Wasn't even a sub for any of the matches.

Edited November 27, 2015 by Boyne

[Peckham Blue]

Peckham Blue, have checked the club book for the season 69-70 and Bobby didn't play in any of the games. Wasn't even a sub for any of the matches.

Thanks.  I was suprised to see him in the team photo.