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Editor's Table
A football match in Palermo interrupted by municipal woodcutting. Hundreds in attendance.
Football Match
A football match on the cricket fields of Palermo sees Hogg and Heald-led teams meet, with a score of 3-2 for Heald's team. This game coincided with Argentina's indpeendence day. The article makes note that women were in attendance, but that without…
Rosario Cricket Club
A general interest meeting announcement by the provisional committee where the rules will be approved for the Rosario Cricket Club, with a match to played on the same date between "Town" and "Railway."
Editor's Table
A brief description of a football match where the authors bemoan the unoriginal names of the teams.
Editor's Table
Part-advertisement/part-commentary, this brief editorial calls on "aficionados" of the "thoroughly British game" of football to attend an upcoming game. "We'd go any distance to see scientific 'forcing,' and a few good 'scrimmages,' and mean to be at…
Football
A football match took place on May 14, 1874. However, the match by the Buenos Ayres Football Club adopted new rules, the Rugby Union rules. This is a sudden shift for the club, which had been playing a version under the Football Association, or…
Editor's Table
An announcement for Argentina's first football match, to take place on May 25, 1867, in Palermo.
Football Match
Argentina's first recorded football match took place on June 20, 1867, in Palermo, at the grounds of the Buenos AIres Cricket Club. The side led by the Hogg brothers won 4-0 over its opponents, but all 16 participants belonged to the "Club": the new…
Editor's Table
A football match is scheduled to take place on May 25, 1868, with balls recently arrived from Rugby, England. It is likely that the balls were less round, and more oval, as Rugby was a hotbed for football played by rules that would eventually become…
Buenos Ayres Athletic Society; Buenos Ayres Football Club
The first announcements inform readers that an interest meeting for the Buenos Ayres Athletic Society in Palermo will be postponed until further notice. The second announcement by the Buenos Ayres Football Club is for a scheduled match in Flores,…
Fútbol para caballeros
A letter to the newspaper editor addresses football—which is uncommon in regular newspaper letters to the editor. Eligio González worries about the “noble y viril deporte” affected by bad players that behave like boxers. Unlike boxing, the football…
La actividad de Roma y el conjunto B; Lesionados
Article reports on injuries and recuperation after Argentina's physical match against Bulgaria in the first match of the 1962 World Cup. There's a brief note about the players all receiving a haircut (coach's policy?) and a brief interview with…
More Like an England Football Team: Argentina Outplayed Fore and Aft
Post-match report of the group-stage match of the 1962 World Cup between Argentina and England, which the latter won by a score of 3-1.
Celtic Find Way Through Suffocating Defence
The Scottish press' coverage of Celtic's 1-0 win in the first game of a two-leg series is full of dismissive comments about Racing and stereotypes of the "Latin races." The author writes that everything will be against Celtic in Buenos Aires on…
FIFA Must Guide World Club Cup: Rous Call for Inquiry; Victory Without Honour for the Argentines
The first article offers an interview between journalist Geoffrey Greene and Stanley Rous, then FIFA President. It discusses the state of the Intercontinental Cup and solutions moving forward to ensure greater sportsmanship and wider participation by…
Football Discipline Facing Big Test in Argentina
Coverage begins of Manchester United's highly-publicized encounter against Estudiantes de La Plata in the first leg of the 1968 Intercontinental Cup. This opinion piece includes negative remarks about the "Latin" temperament, and the violence…