First World War: What Sports Did They Play?
Rashawn Wilkinson
2025-05-14 16:36:31
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During the First World War women’s football was a hugely popular sport and pastime. In December 1914, the 17th Battalion (which became known as the ‘Footballers Battalion’) of the London-Middlesex Regiment was created purely to provide a home for amateur and professional footballers who wished to fight for their country. Players from teams such as Liverpool, Tottenham Hotspur and Brighton and Hove Albion soon joined the ranks of this unit. The FA Cup Final of 1915 was dubbed the ‘Khaki Cup Final‘ but also marked the last point when organised male football was played, as the sport and competition was effectively suspended shortly afterwards for the duration of the war.
Nikita Zulauf
2025-05-14 13:24:43
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Fighters scattered on the western line are said to have played “friendly matches” with those on the opposite barricade. Friendly matches played in no-man’s-land, which is like saying on neutral ground. Between the trenches of some and the trenches of others. There are reports that on December 25, 1914 (precisely 106 years ago), several football matches were played between enemy lines, in what was the first major pause in one of the most bloody and brutal confrontations that man had on a global scale. Many of them were football players at the time.
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