I do not doubt what you are saying. I am not looking for any links between Hull City, although I do suspect that the club didn't just form without some element of link to other clubs.
Well I've found one other example of a similar badge... please log in to view this image This is from the Esso collection of football club badges dated 1972. So post dates the other by a year. http://thefootballattic.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/the-esso-collection-of-football-club.html?m=1 I'd have agreed with the comments at the bottom that this is a unlicensed version. But it can't be an Esso creation. It's interesting that two separate sources have used the same badge.
I am sure there was once a supporters club badge that looked like that going back to the Carter days. Never been used on a shirt though.
Hull Brunswick used to play on land next to a church on Holderness High Road. Somewhere opposite Crooked Billet pub. I think that there are houses on the land now.
Hull FC was dissolved a few years ago, cannot remember when or be arsed to check, but they became known as Gateshead Thunder trading as Hull FC. The Super League franchise owned by Gateshead Thunder was transferred over to the Hull club. Therefore Hull FC 1865 and the 150 year celebrations are a hollow lie.
Back in 1881, there were only 3 teams: - Kingston Amateurs: well to do types - Blue Star : more or less a works teams for Holmes Tannery (used to play at Fountain Road ground, then the Circle) - N.E.R. Dairycoates Locos: like the above, essentially a works team. Can't have a league of 3, so lots of friendlies against out of town teams.
Was Hull City AFC as we know it a descendent of one of these earlier clubs? Interesting to note one of them played in Black and Amber. If we are a descendent of one of these earlier teams, why is our 'formed' date 1904? Just interested to know, I'm sure other clubs would have claimed an earlier established date, however tenuous the link!!
There were previous incarnations of Hull City that were short-lived and played locally. The one we all know was started in 1904 by two groups, one of them were young larkers determined to get a proper club going and the other older wealthier people who had a background in the game locally ( i.e. they had played for NER Dairycoates etc).
I've not read the full thread, so sorry if this is answered earlier, but didn't City (sort of) form from Hull Albany, who were bought out by KR? I seem to recall something about a cricket pitch on Endsleigh, back of Haworth pub.
Albany were a local team in the mid 1890s, reinvented themselves as Hull Town in 1897, and played on Rovers' ground (in West Hull!) when they were away. They disbanded in the summer of 1898. Jack Haller played for them(City's secretary when they got elected to the league in 1905). The local amateur teams Harlequins and Hull Comet (around 1900) were the ones containing the local larkers who were the prime movers behind the formation of City.
I couldn't find the bit I'd read before, and I could only find a bit on HKR wiki, where it says, "Hull KR amalgamated their resources with Albany Soccer Club (later to become Hull City A.F.C.)." I seem to think there was something about them doing it to get status, and trying to wipe out the football club in the process.
Rovers initially opted not to join the 1895 rugby schism, so their reserve team joined Albany and raised the quality of that side. Albany then re-named themselves Hull Town so became by a change of name, the unofficial team representing the town (not yet a city at that time) by bearing its name, and played lots more games against out of town teams.
I've just read the start of the thread and realised the questions I asked had already been asked... by me.
Well what's you know. This thread has been cited as a source on this article... http://imfromyorkshire.com/great-sports-teams-yorkshire-volume-7-part-1-hull-city-afc/
