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Description: | c1902-3. A picture of Morley Association Football Club in season 1902-3. This time of the century was very significant in the sports availability in Morley which had been affected by the split between Rugby Union and Rugby League. In 1896 a Rugby League team broke away from the Rugby Union team but by the time the next century was reached both were beginning to break up - the former due to the best players going to other clubs with better wages and the latter not having succeeded to win many matches and the better players having other offers. Thus by 1902-3 Association Football was left as the main sport in the town. This was emphasized even more with Morley Secondary (later Morley Grammar) School deciding to play Association Football. This continued at the Grammar School until Charlie Thetford decided to change the school game back to Rugby Union in about the late 1920s. Morley Old Boys AFC was a well known club in Morley in the mid 1920s and was based on former Secondary School pupils.
This photograph was taken at Durham's The County Studio, Leeds, and quite a few of the players in the team had reasonable wealth. For instance, there was Oswald Rhodes son of Josiah Rhodes, and R. Stanley Rhodes son of Sam Rhodes of Prospect Mills; there were two players called Chaffer, the names of Drighlinton mill owners, together with several other well-known Morley names. Photograph from the David Atkinson Archive. | License: | http://www.leodis.net/article.aspx?id=12 | Rights holder: | Leeds Central Library | Subjects: | Football club | Source: | Leodis - A photographic archive of Leeds | Identifier: | http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?id=20... | Go to resource |
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