They switched from black to red jerseys in 1971, and the club began to wear silver pants in 1978.

After the AA's Allegheny club jumped to the NL Cleveland followed suit in 1889, as the AA began to crumble.

However, as attendance began to dwindle — the Rockies fell to just sixth in the National League in attendance in 2002, and ninth in 2003 and 2004 — the club could no longer afford to build through big-name free agents.

The club began to groundshare with Crystal Palace at Selhurst Park and this arrangement looked to be for the long-term, as Charlton did not have enough funds to revamp the Valley to meet safety requirements.

Work began on the East Stand in 1972 but the project was beset with problems and was never completed ; the cost brought the club close to bankruptcy, culminating in the freehold being sold to property developers.

Leary began working as a comedian in the Boston comedy scene of the 1980s at the underground club Play It Again Sam's.

Lineker began his career at his home town club Leicester City after leaving school.

When summer came, he decided to visit an outdoor nudist club, that of Fouracres near the town of Bricket Wood in Hertfordshire, which he soon began to frequent.

Geelong is the most successful club since the AFL began in 1990, with three premierships and seven grand final appearances.

Later in 1984, while filming Breakin ', Marrow met Darlene Ortiz, who had been at the club in which the film was being shot, and the two began a relationship ; Ortiz was featured on the covers of Rhyme Pays and Power.

The residency began in 1996 with a lukewarm reception but grew into one of the most popular club nights in New York City by the end of its run in 2001.

Dalglish began his career with Celtic in 1971, going on to win four Scottish First Divisions, four Scottish Cups and one Scottish League Cup with the club.

Malmö FF is the club where Zlatan Ibrahimović began his professional football career.

After a year of managing a club called " The Gift " in New Cross, Morris began releasing material as Irresistible Force in 1987, initially in collaboration with singer-songwriter Des de Moor.

The National Geographic Society began as a club for an elite group of academics and wealthy patrons interested in travel.

In 1974, an updated garage rock scene began to coalesce around the newly opened Rathskeller club in Kenmore Square.

In early 1974, a new scene began to develop around the CBGB club, also in lower Manhattan.

The Chicago scene began not with a band but with a group of DJs transforming a gay bar, La Mere Vipere, into what became known as America's first punk dance club.

Cook befriended and supported Australian comedian and actor Barry Humphries, who began his British solo career at the club.

The club began play in 1960 as a charter member of the American Football League, and spent its first season in Los Angeles, California before moving to San Diego in 1961.

The Giants began as the second baseball club founded by millionaire tobacconist John B.

While the Metropolitans were initially the more successful club, Day and Mutrie began moving star players to the Gothams and the team won its first National League pennant in 1888, as well as a victory over the St. Louis Browns in an early incarnation of the World Series.

Although he had begun DJing some years before, it was at this time that he began to develop his skills on the thriving Brighton club scene, known as DJ Quentox, laying the base for Brighton's hip hop scene.

In the early 1950s the International Jugglers ' Association began as a club for performing jugglers, but soon non-performers joined and started attending the annual conventions.

The international theme will be continued with the Balkan strings playing for a dinner the Byron Harveys will give in the Racquet club after the tea.

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 ANFC ran the Championship of Australia, the first national club competition, which commenced in 1888 and saw clubs from different states compete on an even playing field.

* Abitibi Eskimos, a junior A hockey club based in Iroquois Falls, Ontario, playing in the Northern Ontario Junior Hockey League

He developed an interest in rugby union, playing at Oxford and later for the Little Rock Rugby club in Arkansas.

The club members, led by Alexander Cartwright, formulated the " Knickerbocker Rules ", which in large part dealt with organizational matters but which also laid out rules for playing the game.

Ramsey had already cleared out some of the older players who had been reliant on the loyalty of the committee for their continued selection – it was well known that decorum on the pitch at club level had been just as big a factor in playing for England as ability and form.

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.

:* Central Coast Mariners FC, an association football club playing in the A-League

:* Central Coast Rays, a rugby union club playing in the Australian Rugby Championship

:* Central Coast Rhinos, an ice hockey club playing in the Australian Ice Hockey League

It exploded in the club in which they were playing.

40 years later the club returned to the Essendon district, playing its home matches at the Essendon Recreation Reserve.

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.

The term football club is the most commonly used for a sports club which is an organised or incorporated body with a president, committee and a set of rules responsible for ensuring the continued playing existence of one or more teams which are selected for regular competition play ( and which may participate in several different divisions or leagues ).

The word team and club are sometimes used interchangeably by supporters, although typically refers to the team within the club playing in the highest division or competition.

Fulham started playing at their current ground Craven Cottage in 1896, their first game against now defunct rivals Minerva F. C .. Fulham are the oldest established club in southern England currently playing professional football, though there are many non-league sides like Cray Wanderers which are several decades older.

The club's first recorded all-white club kit came in 1903, and ever since then the club has been playing in all-white shirts and black shorts, with socks going through various evolutions of black and / or white, but are now normally white-only.

Another Ghent football club is KRC Gent-Zeehaven, playing in the Belgian fourth division.

The Geelong Football Club, nicknamed The Cats, is a professional Australian rules football club, named after and based in the city of Geelong, playing in the Australian Football League ( AFL ).