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... The Football Season, TO-DAY the football season opens, E and all the professional cdabs start forthwvith upon their fixture engage- ments in bold defiance of the possibility of an Indian summer. There is no time to waste, as there is in the Rugby code ...

... ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL| Amateur Prospects. [Special to the Bristol Mercury.) No. 3. Local football aspirants will ?? a better oppor- tunilty this season of getting I ito touch with the professional teams, and through them Into the best football contests in ...

... FOOTBALL-ASSOCIATION. THE ENGLISH CUP. ASTON VILLA v. MILLWALL ATHLETIC. Having drawn at Idillwall and Birmingham, the third meeting was held at Reading this afternoon, be weather was fine, and 12,000 people were present. The Villa were without Cowan ...

... FOOTBALL PROSPECTS. - Rugby. The Bristol Club. Practically the Rugby season opens tc-day., True, the Brijtol club bas not. as some other weattrn.organiisatiou have done, arranzged straight away for, a visit from any reighbiuring rivals; but an interesting ...

... Sunmmeri, who have goneasi through troublous times in Bristol football work, Ad .At tl'e meeting referred to Mr J. R. IRiddell (chair V.° ran of the Western Leev-e and the Gloucestershire !Gl Football AsEociation) presided over the following:- l-er Messrs W ...

... ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL. Amateur Prospects. [Special to the Bristol Mercury.] No. IV, Staple Hill. Staple Hill since 1893 has consistently provided a team of footballers calculated to upset the prospects of all other amateur combinations In the Bristol district ...

... ASSCIAT10N- FOOT-BALL.-| Club Prospects. No, ?? City. [Special to the Bristol Mercury.] The prospects of Assooiation football in the West of England for the forthcoming season are far brighter than at one time was anticipated by some followers of the ...

... ad Swan, a large licensed house, and at that house a number of football clubs met and members of ly football clubs attended there. The defendant was ae goalkeeper of the Bristol City football club. It al appeared that on the evening of the 8th inst. some ...

... are this year possessed of the best record in PRhondda Valley engagements, and will undoubtedly play a very strong game. FOOTBALL-ASSOCIATION. THE CITY AND BEDMINSTER. AMALGAMATION AGREED TO. A meeting of the shareholders of the Bristol City Club wias ...

... president of the club, snbmitted the toast of th~e evening, Sucoess to the Glutton Cricket and Football Clhhus, Mr W. Branch responaded on- behalf of the Football Club. Mr Frank Hillier, the secre- tary of the clubs, then presented his report for the past ...

... and H, Porter (Gloucester), forwards. BEDMINSTER CRICKET AND FOOTBALL GROVEl)D COKiPANSZY. Dr E. H. Cook presided at the fifth annual general meeting of the Bedneinster Cricket and Football Ground Company, at the Bedminster hotel, on Monday evening. The ...