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- Arthur Kinnaird (later Lord Kinnaird, 1847-1923) was football's first superstar. Described as ' without exception, the best player of the day', he took part in nine FA Cup Finals (a record to this day), selected Scotland's first international team, and was President of the Football Association for 33 years.
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Arthur Fitzgerald Kinnaird, 11th Lord Kinnaird, KT (16 February 1847 – 30 January 1923) was a British principal of The Football Association and a leading footballer, considered by some journalists as the first football star. [2] He played in nine FA Cup Finals, a record that stands to this day. [3]
Arthur Kinnaird (later Lord Kinnaird, 1847-1923) was football's first superstar. Described as ' without exception, the best player of the day', he took part in nine FA Cup Finals (a record to this day), selected Scotland's first international team, and was President of the Football Association for 33 years.
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Arthur Fitzgerald Lord Kinnaird, was born in Kensington, London in 1847. His father was a banker, and member of the House of Lords. Arthur’s privileged education, at Cheam, Eton and Trinity College Cambridge, allowed him to excel at athletics, swimming, canoeing and tennis, but football came first. He started in the game with Wanderers, a team of w...
Arthur Kinnaird had success with Wanderers, winning three FA Cups between 1873 and 1878. He was just as famous with Old Etonians, winning the FA Cup twice more in 1879 and 1882. His style of play was physical, using tactics like “hacking” and charging opponents from behind. This was an era when the laws of football were ill-defined and at the centr...
Arthur Kinnaird’s greatest fame was as an administrator. He got a place on the FA Committee in 1868, and stayed there fifty years, 33 of them as President, dominating the development of football, both at home and abroad. Kinnaird was also part of the class divisions of the game in England. His aristocratic dispositions and perspectives were very di...
Arthur, Lord Kinnaird was a footballing legend; as a player in nine FA Cup finals, winning five, and as President of the Football Association for 33 years from 1881 to the First World War. Kinnaird’s aristocratic upbringing gave him power and influence; but also set him apart from the working-class roots of football in the industrial towns of the N...
Find out more about Arthur, Lord Kinnaird by reading more historical background on The Express which goes into the now popular series The English Game. You can find more details and reflection on his life beyond football on First Lord of Football – the life and times of Arthur, Lord Kinnaird. Earlier we also wrote an educational reviewof the netfli...
The 10th Lord was President of the National Bible Society of Scotland, the 11th the Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. But then they also kept their fine London addresses, the father on Pall Mall East, the son on South Audley St.
Described as 'without exception, the best player of the day', Kinnaird played in nine FA Cup finals (still a record), represented Scotland and was President of the Football Association for 33 years. He was involved in the game all his life and was so highly regarded that he was presented with the FA Cup in gratitude.
The first large town to take up the game energetically was Sheffield, and the annual matches were played between London and Sheffield under rather different rules, the first match being in 1866. Then came the keenly contested games between England and Scotland, which became an annual fixture.
Nov 23, 2020 · One of the most visible figures in the early history of association football was Arthur Fitzgerald Kinnaird (1847-1923), the eleventh Lord Kinnaird of Inchture and third Baron Kinnaird of Rossie.
