1906
Football Club Colours
Ogden's Cigarettes
51 cards
It's been a little while but I think I might have identified a few more players in this set. The Bristol City player looks like W. Wedlock, though on one card the player has a moustache and on the other he doesn't. Just a few more footballers to identify - players from Portsmouth and Manchester City. There are a few rugby players to find too, if anyone can help with these I would still be interested in finding out who they are.
1. Reading - Herbert Smith
2. Bristol Rovers - W. Beats
3. Notts County - A. Griffiths
4. Southampton - Bertie Lee
5. New Brompton - Steve Smith
6. Brentford - George Parsonage
7. Sunderland - Jimmy Watson
8. Derby County - Steve Bloomer
9. Fulham - Fred Threlfall
10. Swindon Town - Billy Trout
11. Sheffield United - Ernest Needham - thanks to Chris Lee
12. Everton - Jack Taylor
13. Aston Villa - Howard Spencer
14. Queens Park Rangers - William Yenson
15. Northampton (R.F.C. - without cap) - ??????
16. Middlesbrough - Alf Common
17. Luton - R.M. (Bob) Hawkes
18. Woolwich Arsenal - Jimmy Ashcroft
19. Watford - James McCarthy
20. Bristol (R.F.C.) - ??????
21. Gloucester (R.F.C.) - ??????
22. Richmond (R.F.C.) - ??????
23. Wolverhampton Wanderers - T. Baddeley
24. Notts Forest - George Needham
25. Tottenham Hotspur - Sandy Tait - thanks to Chris Lee
26. Newcastle United - J. Lawrence - thanks to magpiemick
27. Blackburn Rovers - R. (Bob) Crompton
28. Swansea (R.F.C.) - R.M. Owen
29. Devonport Albion (R.F.C.) - ??????
30. Blackheath (R.F.C.) - ??????
31. Cardiff (R.F.C.) - E.G. Nicholls
32. Stoke - T. Holford
33. Newport (R.F.C.) - Charles M. Pritchard
34. Bury - George Ross - thanks to shaker
35. Sheffield Wednesday - T.H. (Tom) Crawshaw
36. Portsmouth - ??????
37. Manchester United - Charlie Roberts
38. Bolton Wanderers - D. Stokes
39. Manchester City - ??????
40. Bristol City - W. Wedlock
41. Exeter (R.F.C.) - ??????
42. Millwall - G. Stevenson
43. Preston North End - R. Bond
44. Northampton (with cap) - J. Manning
45. Birmingham City - H. Robinson
46. Brighton & Hove - A. Hulme
47. West Ham United - George Kitchen
48. Plymouth Argyle - Bob Jack - amended - thanks to James Cotton
49. Liverpool - A.G. Raisbeck
50. Penarth (R.F.C.) - ??????
51. South African Captain (Rugby) - P.J. Roos
Hi Alan
ReplyDeleteIf you Google some images of Albert Buick of Portsmouth (Card no.36) and Irvine Thornley of Manchester City (Card no.39), you may see some similarities.
All the best
Paul
Thanks Paul,
DeleteI see that Doing the 92 website has the cards allocated to those two players. I've got to be honest, I'm not convinced with either of them.
On the photos I've found of Albert Buick the ends of his moustache turn upwards but the player on the Portsmouth card brushed downwards.
I've looked at Cohen Weenan and Smiths cards of Irvine Thornley and I can't see any similarities to the Manchester City player shown on the Ogdens Football Club Colours card.
All the best,
Alan
I can say with some confidence that the Woolwich Arsenal player is their former captain, John Dicks. If you google him, you'll see the photographic image that the picture is taken from. It's certainly not Jimmy Ashcroft, who looks nothing like the picture on the card (different hair, a long narrow nose, blue eyes etc.).
ReplyDeleteKind regards,
Stefano
Hi Stefano,
DeleteI've got a lot of posts about these cards. A later one corrects my earlier assumption about Jimmy Ashcroft and confirms your information:
Ogden's Cigarettes - Football Club Colours (15) - Woolwich Arsenal