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When was the English soccer team Aston Villa created?
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#557. Asked by dippy_13.
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dave_fl
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1874.
With no written record and human memory being too cloudy for reliance, the precise date on which Aston Villa football club were founded can never be firmly established. But it can be linked to an impromptu meeting between four members of a local Wesleyan Chapel cricket team in the misty cold of a winter's evening under a gaslight in Heathfield Road, Birchfield, sometime early in 1874.
The meeting was between Jack Hughes, Frederick Matthews, Walter Price and William Scattergood, all keen cricketers who wanted to keep their Villa Cross team together during the winter months. After witnessing an unorganised game of football played on a meadow off Heathfield Road they came up with the idea of taking up the new game Association Football and forming a club of their own. Charles Midgeley was elected secretary, Price was appointed captain and within two weeks Aston Villa football club had 15 playing members.
http://www.avfc.co.uk/home/view/home_page/
Mon Apr 03 11:08:42 CDT 2000
(Reposted to fix link - McG)
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