Llanelli Ladies FC, 1921
Derwent Mills Ladies Football Team, 1917. The picture was taken shortly after October 27 1917, when Derwent Mills won the Workington Ladies’ Challenge Cup.
Topical Budget (the great British newsreel that ran from 1911-31) here presents a light-hearted item on the Football Association’s proposed ban on women’s football.
Women’s football was extremely popular in the 1920s. Indeed, on Boxing Day 1920, 53,000 fans packed into Goodison Park to watch the Dick, Kerr’s Ladies beat the St Helens Ladies 4-0.
It’s hard to tell whether or not this news item supported the ban, though its cameraman clearly enjoyed observing the players in their knitted kit undergoing a rigorous exercise regime. And keep your eyes peeled for a very dodgy-looking chap in tweeds and a Hitler moustache. (Robin Baker)
As soccer’s blogosphere breathlessly welcomes this week’s TIME Magazine with the peerless Lionel Messi on the cover, some outlets have forsaken basic research and overlooked this July 19, 1999 edition featuring the World Cup winning U.S. squad. Let us never forget.
(Source: meninblazers, via pitchinvasion)
Woolworths, Staines, Ladies Football Club, 1933. If you look closer, you’ll notice that the fourth player from the left is Irene Hawthrone.
A portrait of Winnie McKenna taken in 1918. She played for Vaughan Ladies and captained the England Women’s Team.
Sonia Denoncourt acting as an assistant referee during a match at the 1995 Sky Dome Cup, Canada, 1995
Cindeford Women’s Football Team, 1920
The New Zealand national team (known as the SWANZ at the time) perform a haka before their match against Australia Green, 1989, New Zealand
