Most of our working days were spent on the telephone calling `` bookies '', illegal gambling dens, a certain `` residential club for young actresses '', more than a hundred different bars or the steam room of the athletic club.

The Unitarian clergy were an exclusive club of cultivated gentlemen -- as the term was then understood in the Back Bay -- and Parker was definitely not a gentleman, either in theology or in manners.

This was the last try to develop itself as a sports club rather than just a football team, such as Lomas, Belgrano and Quilmes had successfully done in the past, but the efforts were not enough.

This was all done under complete secrecy during the playing season because players were all free agents in those days and they did not want their current club and especially the fans to know they were leaving to play elsewhere the next year.

The sixty-odd club members were the leading business tycoons of Western Pennsylvania and included among their number Frick's best friend, Andrew Mellon, his attorneys Philander Knox and James Hay Reed, as well as Frick's business partner, Carnegie.

The Cardinals were founded in 1898, and are the oldest continuously run professional American football club in the United States.

Ajax is historically one of the most successful clubs in the world ; according to the IFFHS, Ajax were the seventh most successful European club of the 20th century.

However, when, under manager Jack Kirwan, the club got promoted to the top flight of Dutch football for the first time in 1911 ( then the Eerste Klasse or ' First Class ', later named the Eredivisie ), Ajax were forced to change their colours because Sparta Rotterdam already had exactly the same outfit.

Fortunately in 1972 the brothers Molenaar bailed it out and invested heavily in the club, to the point that AZ ' 67 were successful in the late seventies and early eighties.

The best place the club were able to achieve during the decade was third in 1974 – 75.

The new rules mean that rather than representing the state of their adopted club, players would return to play for the state they were first recruited in.

Other productions were Deepzone > It's Gonna Be All right ", a straight up club anthem even until today.

An earlier club, Accrington F. C., were one of the twelve founder members of the Football League in 1888.

During the rough and tumble years of the American-National struggle, player contracts were violated at the independents as well: Players that the team had developed would sign deals with the National or American leagues without any form of compensation to the indy club.

Baseballs cost three dollars apiece, a hefty sum at the time, which in 1900 would be equal to $ today ; club owners were therefore reluctant to spend much money on new balls if not necessary.

A committee of baseball writers were to convene after the season to determine the " most important and useful player to the club and to the league ".

When the club folded after the 1870 season, Wright was hired by Boston businessman, Ivers Whitney Adams to organize a new team in Boston, and he did, bringing three teammates and the " Red Stockings " nickname along ( Most nicknames were then only nicknames, neither club names nor registered trademarks, so the migration was informal ).

Other names were sometimes used before Boston officially adopted the nickname " Braves " in ; the club eventually left Boston for Milwaukee and is now playing in Atlanta, Georgia.

The main Early Carboniferous plants were the Equisetales ( horse-tails ), Sphenophyllales ( vine-like plants ), Lycopodiales ( club mosses ), Lepidodendrales ( scale trees ), Filicales ( ferns ), Medullosales ( informally included in the " seed ferns ", an artificial assemblage of a number of early gymnosperm groups ) and the Cordaitales.

In 2009 plans were revealed to move the club from its present home at Bowdens Park on Draycott Road to a new larger site.

Some of Boötes ' stars were traditionally described as representing the club ( Greek, Κολλοροβος ) of Boötes.

In 1934, the club completed a 13 – 0 record but were defeated by the New York Giants, and in 1942 the club completed an 11 – 0 record but were defeated by the Redskins.

When a new Cincinnati club was formed as a charter member of the National League in 1876, the " Red Stockings " nickname was commonly reserved for them once again, and the Boston team was referred to as the " Red Caps ".

The club was formed in 1996 from the merger of the Brisbane Bears and the Fitzroy Lions.

A football club was formed at the university soon afterward, although its rules of play at this stage are unclear.

The game gradually gained a following, and the Montreal Football Club was formed in 1868, the first recorded non-university football club in Canada.

One new club formed and joined the International League in 1889, and promptly won the league championship.

This move away from Essendon, at a time when fans would walk to their local ground, did not go over well with many Essendon people ; and, as a consequence, a new team and club was formed in 1900, unconnected with the first ( although it played in the same colours ), that was based at the Essendon Cricket Ground, and playing in the Victorian Football Association.

When the club was formed in 1873 uniforms were not available, and most players wore Navy Blue work guernseys.

The unicycling club, known as Gonzo Unicycle Madness, was formed, and to this day organizes an annual 9. 6 mile ride known as " The Foster's Run ," to the " Donut Man " donut shop in Glendora ( originally known as " Foster's Donuts " hence the name of the event ) for strawberry donuts.

In Edinburgh Hibernian were founded in 1875 and in 1909 another club with Irish links, Dundee United, was formed.

Likewise the Irish community in London formed the London Irish rugby union club.

After the Glazer family's takeover in 2005, a group of fans formed a splinter club, F. C.

In 1843, the first American college rowing club was formed at Yale University.

The first recreational ski club was formed in 1861 at Kiandra, Australia, where the first documented international downhill carnival was also held.

The oldest still existing club, Club Cosmos in Gothenburg, was formed in 1954, and the first Swedish science fiction convention, LunCon, was held in Lund in 1956.

The club was formed in 1878 and have played at their home ground since 1900.

* March 4 – Football club FC Red Star ( in Serbian: FK Crvena Zvezda ) formed in Belgrade, Yougoslavia.

** The Dundee FC, a Scottish football club, is formed.

** The Genoa Cricket & Athletic Club, the oldest Italian football club, is formed.

*** Ipswich Town Football Club, formed as amateur club Ipswich A. F. C.

The world's first service club, the Rotary Club of Chicago, was formed in 1905 by Paul P. Harris, an attorney who wanted to create in a professional club with the same friendly spirit he had felt in the small towns of his youth.

They formed a dinner cabaret club, which they called the Thirteen Club.

He formed a rockabilly club band, The Waylors.

The first club was formed in 1897, and the first purpose-built track solely for bobsleds was opened in 1902 outside of St Moritz.

The stretch of the canal which passes through the centre of Leicester known as the ' Mile Straight ' is home to Leicester Rowing Club, a rowing and sculling club formed in 1882.