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History ofLiverpool F.C.

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Liverpool's team during their first season,189293

The history of Liverpool Football Clubfrom 1892 to 1959

covers the period from the club's foundation, through their

first period of success from 1900 to the 1920s, to the

appointment ofBill Shanklyasmanager.

Liverpool Football Club was formed on 15 March 1892

following a disagreement between the directors ofEverton

Football Cluband its president,John Houlding,who

owned the club's ground,Anfield.A dispute over rent

resulted in Everton moving toGoodison Park,which left

Houlding with an empty stadium. Thus, he foundedLiverpool F.C., and they joined theLancashire League.

After winning the league title in theirfirst season,

Liverpool was accepted intothe Football Leaguefor

the189394 season,following the resignations

ofAccringtonandBootle.

The appointment ofTom Watsonas the club's manager in

1896 led to the club's first period of sustained success.Liverpool consolidated their position in the Football

League followingpromotionto theFirst Division, and

won their first League championship in 1901. A further

championship followed in 1906, and in 1914 the club
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reached their firstFA Cupfinal, losing toBurnley.

Watson died suddenly in 1915 of pneumonia after the

outbreak of theFirst World War.The club won two

further championships in 1922 and 1923 when footballresumed after the war.

An expansion to theSpion Kopterracing in the 1920s

increased Anfield's capacity. Liverpool's fortunes

declined during the inter-war years, when the club often

finished in midtable. Liverpool became League

champions again in 1947, in thefirst seasonafter

theSecond World War,but following a slow downturn in

performance the club was relegated to the Second

Divisionin 1954. By the time of Shankly's appointment in

1959, Liverpool had been in the Second Division for five

seasons.

Formation

The original kit that Liverpool wore upon their foundation until

1894.
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Liverpool's origins lie with their neighboursEverton.

Founded in 1878, Everton moved toAnfieldin 1884, a

facility owned by the club's president, John Houlding, a

former Lord Mayor of Liverpool.In 1892 a dispute arosebetween Houlding and the Everton board of directors,

over the club's tenancy of the ground. The annual rent had

risen from 100 in 1884 to 250 in 1892; Houlding

wanted to sell the ground to the club, which in turn

wished to agree a long-term rental.[1]Houlding would only

agree to this on the basis of a rent at a level unacceptable

to the club. Negotiations having failed, the directors

decided to leave Anfield and find another ground, leaving

Houlding with an empty stadium. His response was to

form a new football club to occupy the stadium. He

attempted to retain the team name "Everton" by

registering the name "Everton Football Club and Athletic

Grounds Company, Limited" withCompanies House,butthe Football League decided that the name belonged to

the departed Everton club, which acquired new premises

at Goodison Park.Houlding therefore adopted the name

"Liverpool Football Club" for his new venture.[2]

Having established his new club, Houlding applied for

membership of theFirst Divisionofthe Football League,

rather than the newly formedSecond Division.TheLeague, unimpressed with this premature application,

refused to admit the club, which instead joined

theLancashire League.[3]Liverpool played their first

match on 1 September 1892, a pre-seasonfriendly
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matchagainstRotherham Town,which they won 71.

The team Liverpool fielded against Rotherham was

composed entirely of Scottish playersmanagerJohn

McKennahad recruited the players after ascoutingtrip toScotlandso they became known as the "team of

Macs".[4]Liverpool's first match in the Lancashire League,

which they won 80, was against Higher Walton. 200

spectators attended the match, but as thetwenty-two

match seasonproceeded, and Liverpool continued to win,

attendances increased. Approximately 2,000 people

watched Liverpool defeat South Shore in the penultimate

match of the season at Anfield.[5]

Liverpool's first season was successful, as the club

narrowly won the Lancashire League title ongoal

average,overBlackpool.They also won the Liverpool

District Cup by defeating Everton. The subsequent theft

of the league and cup trophies cost the club 130 toreplace them.[2]Following their success, Liverpool

reapplied to the Football League. This application was

successful, mainly because of the resignations

ofAccringtonandBootlefrom the Second Division.

Liverpool's originalstriphad been blue and white

chequered shirts and white shorts, similar to those of their

neighbours Everton. From 1894 they changed to red shirtsand white shorts.[6]

The club's first match in the Football League was

againstMiddlesbrough Ironopolison 2 September 1893,

which they won 20, with Malcolm McVeanscoring
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Liverpool's first goal in League football.[4]Liverpool's first

season in the Football Leaguesaw them unbeaten in 28

matches, 22 of which they won. They finished at the top

of the Second Division, but as at that time there was noautomaticpromotionto the First Division, they were

entered into the test match system. This involved a

knockout match with the bottom team in the First

Division,Newton Heath(later renamed Manchester

United). Liverpool won, and took their place in the First

Division. Their stay in the division lasted only a season,

as they finished in bottom position, with seven wins from

thirty matches. They were relegated to the Second

Division, after facingBuryin the test match and losing 1

0, despite Bury playing most of the match with ten men

after theirgoalkeeperwassent off.[7]

ConsolidationAs more people began to watch Liverpool, the groundcapacity was expanded. The Main Stand was built, which

helped to bring regular attendances of around 20,000.

Liverpool's stay in the Second Division was brief, as they

secured promotion to the First Division during the1895

96 seasontwelve wins in their final fourteen matches

gave them a first-place finish, followed by success in the

test matches overSmall Heath(later renamed

Birmingham City) andWest Bromwich Albion.The club

reached the semi-final of theFA Cupfor the first time in
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the189697 season;they were drawn againstAston Villa,

and with Everton in the other semi-final, there was the

prospect of a first all-Merseysidecup final. However,

while Everton won their tie, Liverpool were defeated 30.[8]After winning promotion, the club appointedTom

Watson,who was managingSunderland, as their new

manager. Watson's record of three League championships

in four seasons with Sunderland convinced Houlding to

make Watson the highest-paid manager in England, with

a yearly salary of 300.[9]Following Watson's

appointment, McKenna remained at the club as an

administrator.[10]

Alex Raisbeck,who captained Liverpool to their first League

championship

During the next two seasons Liverpool consolidated their

place in the First Division, with fifth and ninth-place

finishes. Performances improved in the189899 season,

when the club went into their final game with a chance of

winning their first League championship. They faced

Aston Villa, with whom they were level on points,

although Villa's goal average advantage of 0.02 meant
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that they only needed to draw the match to win the

League title.[11]In the event, Villa won 50, to leave

Liverpool as the runners-up.[12]Liverpool also reached the

FA Cup semi-final, where they facedSheffield United.The match finished in a 22 draw; the

firstreplayatBurnden Parkalso finished with the sides

equal at 44, and a second replay at the smallFallowfield

Stadiumwas abandoned when overcrowding caused fans

to spill onto the pitch. The tie was finally decided at

theBaseball Ground, which Sheffield United won 10.[13]

Liverpool won their first League championship in 1901.

Integral to their success were theircaptainAlex Raisbeck,

andstrikerSam Raybould.Raisbeck, acentre-half,had

been signed fromHibernianin 1898. He became club

captain a year later, and was often the focal point of the

team, as an important defensive player and the instigator

of many of Liverpool's attacks.[14]

Raybould was signedfrom local clubNew Brighton Tower,and in the1899

1900 seasonscored seven times as the club won nine of

their last eleven matches, to finish in tenth place. He

would go on to score 128 goals in 226 matches for

Liverpool.[15]Success in the190001 seasonlooked

unlikely in February, at which point Liverpool had lost

eight games and conceded 31 goals. However, they wonnine and drew three of their next twelve matches, while

only conceding four goals, to achieve their first League

title.[16]They were less successful in the following two

seasons, finishing in eleventh and fifth places
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respectively.[8]The190304 seasonsaw the club relegated

to the Second Division; like the previous relegation it was

only for one year as they won the division thefollowing

season.On their return in the190506 seasontheybecame the first team to win the Second and First

Division in successive seasons. They also reached the

semi-final of the FA Cup, where they faced Everton and

lost 20.[17]

Houlding died in 1902, and in 1905 the ownership of the

club was restructured. Of the existing 3,000 shares, 2,000

were held by the Houlding family. The club owed a debt

of 10,000 to Houlding, and a further 5,000 bank

overdraft was guaranteed by his family. The family

offered to give up the 2,000 shares and wipe out the debt,

if the club relieved them of the bank loan guarantee. The

board agreed, and a new share issue was released in 1906

with 15,000 shares available for 1 each.[18]

Following theshare issue, McKenna became chairman of the club.[19]

Following the club's successes, a new stand was erected

along the Walton Breck Road end of the ground.[20]The

stand became known as theSpion Kopit was originally

given this name by local journalist Ernest Edwards, the

sports editor of theLiverpool Daily Postand theEcho,

after afamous hillin South Africa, wherea local regimenthad suffered heavy lossesduring theBoer War.More than

300 men had died, many of them fromLiverpool, as the

British army attempted to capture the strategic hilltop.[21]
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In the seasons following their second league title,

Liverpool enjoyed limited success, generally finishing in

midtable. They finished in second place behind Aston

Villa in the190910 season,the last for their captain,Raisbeck, who returned to his native Scotland to play

for Partick Thistle.Liverpool's form declined after his

departure, with their best performance in the League a

12th-place finish in the191213 season.There was

improvement in 1914 when the club reached their first FA

Cup final, which they lost10toBurnleyatCrystal

Palace.The following season four Liverpool players were

implicated in the1915 British football betting scandal,

which involved a match with Manchester United. A 20

victory for United was required to win the bet, in which

players from both sides were involved. With the score at

20, Liverpool's Fred Pagnamhit the crossbar with a shot,

at which several of his teammates gestured angrilytowards him.[22]Subsequently,Tom Fairfoul,Tom

Miller,Bob PursellandJackie Sheldonwere found guilty

by aFootball Association(FA) enquiry of conspiring with

three Manchester United players (Sandy Turnbull,Arthur

WhalleyandEnoch West) tofixa United win. All the

players involved were banned for life. Following the end

of theFirst World War,in which Turnbull was killed attheBattle of Arrasin 1917, the FA lifted the surviving

players' bans in recognition of their service in the

conflict.[23]
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Inter-war yearsThree weeks after visiting his hometown ofNewcastleto

celebrate his 56th birthday, Liverpool's manager Tom

Watson developed a severe chill, which developed

intopneumonia.He died on 6 May 1915; Raisbeck and

two other former Liverpool stars,Ned DoigandArthur

Goddard,were pallbearers at the funeral.[24]

During the First World War, with normal Football League

activity suspended, Liverpool competed in a regionalleague, the Lancashire Section.[25]The competition was

split into two parts: "Principal Tournament" and the

"Supplementary Competition". Liverpool won the former

in the191617 season,and the latter in the1917

18and191819 seasons.[26]A number of Liverpool players

fought in the war, includingPhilip Bratley,Robert

CrawfordandWilfred Bartrop.Bartrop was the only oneto be killed, dying on 7 November 1918 while fighting in

Belgium.[27]

Elisha Scott,Liverpool's goalkeeper from 1912 to 1934
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When football resumed after the war for the191920

season,Watson's post as manager was taken byDavid

Ashworth.Liverpool finished in fourth place. During the

season George Vbecame the first reigning monarch towatch a League match, when Liverpool

played Manchester City.[28]Liverpool repeated their fourth-

place finish in 192021,before the regaining the League

championship in the192122 season. Liverpool had

looked certain title winners, before the loss of three of

their last four games put their chances in doubt. A 41

victory over West Bromwich Albion in the penultimate

match of the season was enough to secure Liverpool's

third League championship.[29]

Ashworth left Liverpool midway through the following

season, to manageOldham Athletiche wished to be

closer to his wife and daughter, who lived in

nearbyStockport.[30]

His replacement was the formerLiverpool playerMatt McQueen, a club director.

McQueen was intended as a temporary appointment, but

he kept the job as Liverpool retained the League

championship.[31]This success owed much to the form of

their goalkeeperElisha Scott, who conceded only 31

goals during the season, a league record at the

time.[32]Liverpool's total of 60 points in the season equalledthe record set by West Bromwich Albion three seasons

earlier.[33]Following their successive championships,

Liverpool's fortunes declined as their side aged. Some of

the players had begun their careers before the war;
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goalkeeper Scott had been in the side since 1912.[34]The

club began the192324 seasonaiming to win three

league titles in a row, but finished in twelfth place. They

achieved fourth place the following season, which was tobe their best finish until after theSecond World

War.[33]Changes to theoffside rulein the192526

seasonresulted in an increase in the number of goals

scored during matches.[35]Liverpool contributed to this,

with big victories over Manchester United and Newcastle

United, but could only manage a seventh-place finish.[36]

In 1920, the Kop had been redesigned and extended to

hold 30,000 spectators, all standing.[37]At the time, the

Kop was the biggest football stand in the country, able to

hold more spectators than the entire capacity of some

grounds.[38]The increase in spectators did not fully restore

Liverpool's fortunes; they scored 90 goals during

the192829 season,strikerGordon Hodgsonscoringthirty of them, yet finished in fifth place. McQueen was

unable to replicate his early triumphs with the club, and

retired in 1928 after his leg was amputated following a

road accident.[39]He was replaced as manager by club

secretaryGeorge Patterson.[40]The club's fortunes did not

improve under Patterson's leadership; they generally

finished midtable. Their results were inconsistent; inSeptember 1930, they lost 70 at West Ham United, yet

nine days later they beatBolton Wanderers72 at

Anfield.[41]
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During the 1930s Liverpool's form continued to

deteriorate, and they avoided relegation in the193334

seasonby only four points. Scott left the club at the end of

what had been a poor season for the veteran goalkeeper.In ten matches from the start of 1934, Liverpool won only

once with Scott in goal, and after a 92 defeat against

Newcastle United, he was replaced byArthur Riley.The

change of goalkeepers brought an upturn in form, with a

62 victory over Birmingham City and a 41 win

againstMiddlesbrough.Scott, who joinedBelfast

Celticafter 24 years at Liverpool, remains the club's

longest-serving player.[42]As they became used to finishing

in the lower part of the league table, Liverpool began to

lose their best players. Hodgson, who had scored 233

goals in 358 league games, was sold to Aston Villa in

1936 and the club struggled to replace him. They finished

19th in the season following his departure. Also in 1936,Patterson resigned as manager for health reasons, and

resumed his role as the club's secretary.[40]His

replacement,SouthamptonmanagerGeorge Kay, did not

initially fare much better; Liverpool narrowly avoided

relegation in the193637 season,and finished in 11th

place in each of the following two seasons. By the

outbreak of the Second World War, Liverpool hadbecome accustomed to finishing midtable.[29]

Soon after the outbreak of war in 1939, the193940

seasonwas cancelled and all first-class football in Britain

temporarily suspended. When matches resumed,
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competitions were played on a regional basis as in the

previous war, and teams often did not complete a full

season. Liverpool participated in theFootball League

North, which they won in the194243 season.[43]Manyfootballers served in the armed forces, away from their

clubs for long periods, and would often appear as "guests"

for other clubs. Two Liverpool players were decorated for

their wartime service;Berry Nieuwenhuysreceived the

Czech Medal of Merit, andBill Joneswas awarded

theMilitary Medalafter rescuing wounded comrades

under fire.[25]

Post-war declineLeague football in England resumed in the194647

season,after seven seasons' suspension due to the war.

Before the resumption, Liverpool embarked on an eight-

week tour of the United States and Canada, scoring 70goals in the ten matches played. In escaping from post-

war food rationing while on tour, the Liverpool players

were able to eat more, and by the end of the trip had

gained in weight an average of 7 pounds (3.2 kg) a

man.The New York Timesreporter who followed the team

on the tour noted the "perceptible gain in strength on the

playing field."[44]

The first game played at Anfield after the war was against

Middlesbrough, on 4 September 1946, which Liverpool

lost 10 before a crowd of 34,140.[45]Despite this defeat,
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Liverpool finished the 194647 season as League

champions. Vital to this success were their attacking

players; after a 50 defeat to Manchester United the club

boughtAlbert Stubbinsfrom Newcastle United, toaugment the attack alongsideJack BalmerandBilly

Liddell.Balmer typified this new attacking strength by

scoringhat-tricksin three successive matches.[46]However,

the club were unable to match this success in the two

seasons that followed, and finished in 11th and 12th

places respectively.[47]The 194950 seasonbrought

another disappointing league campaign. The season

started well, as the club was unbeaten in their first 19

matches and was top of the league at the turn of the year.

Their form declined thereafter, and they finished eighth.

This did not hinder their progress in the FA Cup, as they

reached their second final (their first atWembley),

againstArsenal.They were unable to win their first FACup; two goals from Arsenal striker Reg Lewismeant

Liverpool lost20.[48]

After their FA Cup final appearance, Liverpool's fortunes

declined steadily. Kay resigned through ill-health, and

was replaced byDon Welsh.[39]Welsh's first season did not

go smoothly, as Liverpool were knocked out of the FA

Cup in the third round byNorwich Cityof the ThirdDivision South.[49]The following year, 61,905 spectators

watched Liverpool beatWolverhampton Wanderers21

in the fourth round of the FA Cup, the biggest attendance

ever recorded at Anfield.[50][51]Under Welsh's stewardship
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the club gradually slipped further down the table, and

were relegated to the Second Division in the195354

season,after finishing in bottom place. Their relegation

came after 50 uninterrupted years in the top division ofEnglish football.[52]The side's decline it did not

preventJohn Moores,owner of retail

company Littlewoods,from investing in the club with a

51% stake.[53]

Liverpool's first season in the Second Division in1954

55brought them an 11th-place finish.[54]During this season

the club suffered the biggest defeat in its history, a 91

loss to Birmingham City.[55]Although in thefollowing

seasonthey improved to third place, it was not enough for

Welsh to keep his job and he was sacked at the end of the

season. His replacement wasPhil Taylor, a former captain

of the club and a member of the coaching staff.[56]Taylor

signed players such as Ronnie Moran,AlanA'CourtandJimmy Melia,who would become mainstays

of the club for seasons to come, but was unable to guide

Liverpool back to the First Division. The Liverpool board

persisted with him, despite the club's loss tonon-

LeaguesideWorcester Cityin the third round of the FA

Cup in January 1959.[57]His tenure ended during the1959

60 season; after a good start, their form began to tail offmid-season, and after a defeat toHuddersfield Town,

Taylor resigned. The man who replaced him was

Huddersfield's manager,Bill Shankly.[58]
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