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{{Short description|19th century Football club in Yorkshire, England.}}
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| founded=1888
| dissolved=1891
| ground= The Holmes
| capacity= 4,000
|chrtitle = President
| chairman=
| mgrtitle=Secretary
| manager=Fred Mickelthwait
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'''Rotherham Swifts F.C.''' was an [[association football]] club from [[Kimberworth]], near [[Rotherham]], [[Yorkshire]], [[England]], active in the 19th century.
==History==
[[File:1889–90 FA Cup 1st Qualifying Round, Owlerton 1–9 Rotherham Swifts, Sheffield Daily Telegraph, 7 October 1889.jpg|thumb|1889–90 FA Cup 1st Qualifying Round, Owlerton 1–9 Rotherham Swifts, Sheffield Daily Telegraph, 7 October 1889]]
The first reference to the club is from July 1888, when a representative attended a meeting of 22 clubs to arrange fixtures before the 1888–89 season.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Conference of football clubs' secretaries |journal=Sheffield Daily Telegraph |date=4 July 1888 |page=8}}</ref> The club had enough members to field two XIs on its first match weekend in September 1888 (helped by recruiting several players from [[Ecclesfield F.C.|Ecclesfield]]),<ref>{{cite journal |title=Forty years of football |journal=Penistone, Stocksbridge and Hoyland Express |date=27 February 1932 |page=11}}</ref> the first XI losing at [[Eckington Works F.C.|Eckington Works]], and the second XI beating Junior Cup champions Carbrook Church at home.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Football |journal=Sheffield Daily Telegraph |date=10 September 1888 |page=7}}</ref>
It also entered the [[FA Cup]] that season, although the competition now had qualifying rounds, and the Swifts were eliminated in the [[1888–89 FA Cup qualifying rounds|first qualifying round]] at [[Park Grange F.C.|Park Grange]].<ref>{{cite journal |title=Football and cricket notes |journal=Sheffield Daily Telegraph |date=8 October 1888 |page=7}}</ref> The club finished its first season with a £3 profit on income of £110.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Cricket notes [sic] |journal=Sheffield Independent |date=11 June 1889 |page=6}}</ref>
The Swifts' best run in the national cup came in [[1889–90 FA Cup qualifying rounds|1889–90]]; after hammering an under-strength [[Owlerton F.C.|Owlerton]] 9–1 - away from home - in the first qualifying round<ref>{{cite journal |title=English Cup ties - fifth division |journal=South Yorkshire Times |date=11 October 1889 |page=8}}</ref> and going nap at [[Whitby Town F.C.|Whitby]] in the second,<ref>{{cite journal |title=Whitby, 1; Rotherham Swifts, 5 |journal=Northern Echo |date=28 October 1889 |page=4}}</ref> it was drawn to host the senior club in Rotherham, [[Rotherham Town F.C. (1878)|Rotherham Town]], in the third. The tie ended goalless, an attempt to play 30 minutes of [[extra-time]] being curtailed when darkness fell after 10;<ref>{{cite journal |title=Rotherham Town v Rotherham Swifts |journal=Sheffield Evening Telegraph |date=16 November 1889 |page=3}}</ref> the replay also went to extra-time, Town this time apparently winning 2–1.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Rotherham Town v Rotherham Swifts |journal=Sheffield Evening Telegraph |date=18 November 1889 |page=3}}</ref>
However the match had ended 6 minutes early, and a successful Swifts protest<ref>{{cite journal |title=Football |journal=Whitby Gazette |date=29 November 1889 |page=3}}</ref> saw the final 6 minutes being played off on 2 December, as a curtain-raiser to the [[Sheffield Football Association]] match against the [[Cheshire Football Association]], which fortuitously had already been arranged to take place at Town's Clifton Lane ground; owing to injuries both sides only fielded 10 men, and Town scored a third goal in the extra time.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Rotherham Town v Rotherham Swifts |journal=York Herald |date=3 December 1889 |page=8}}</ref> Several of the players - the Swifts' Pearce, Whittam, Howell, and Watson, and Town's Rodgers, Cross, Longden, and Bridgewater - played in the main event for the Sheffield FA.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Sheffield v Cheshire |journal=Sheffield Daily Telegraph |date=3 December 1889 |page=8}}</ref>
The Rotherham sides also met in the third round of the [[Sheffield and Hallamshire Senior Cup]] the same season, Town this time winning at the first time of asking, 3–2 at the Swifts' Holmes ground.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Rotherham Town v Rotherham Swifts |journal=Athletic News |date=20 January 1890 |page=5}}</ref>
The club was a founder member of the [[Midland Alliance (1890)|Midland Alliance]], a competition at a level below the [[Midland Football League (1889)|Midland League]] (in which Rotherham Town played), in 1890.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Midland Football Alliance |journal=Nottingham Journal |date=16 June 1890 |page=7}}</ref> However, after three games, the Swifts withdrew,<ref>{{cite journal |title=Notes on Midland Alliance matches |journal=Newark Herald |date=27 December 1890 |page=5}}</ref> finding the costs of travel to be too great, and, before its resignation was accepted, applied to join the [[Sheffield & District League]].<ref>{{cite journal |title=Sports and pastimes |journal=Grantham Journal |date=10 January 1891 |page=7}}</ref> Its Alliance record of one win, one draw, and one defeat was expunged.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Football, athletic, and other notes on sport |journal=Newark Herald |date=18 April 1891 |page=5}}</ref>
The obvious problem for the club was that Town had already secured the support of Rotherham, and, when the clubs played home matches on the same day, the crowds headed for Town rather than Swifts.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Kilnhurst v Rotherham Swifts |journal=South Yorkshire Times |date=27 March 1891 |page=7}}</ref> The club duly dissolved before the 1891–92 season. There was a sad aftermath in May 1892, when former goalkeeper Thomas Pearce drowned himself in the canal near the Swifts' ground; a verdict of suicide by temporary insanity (blamed on being "troubled about his love affairs") was returned.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Supposed suicide of a Rotherham goalkeeper |journal=Sheffield Independent |date=31 May 1892 |page=6}}</ref>
==Colours==
The club wore blue and amber stripes.<ref>{{cite web |title=Play Up Rotherham Swifts |url=https://www.nationalfootballmuseum.com/collections_detail/play-up-rotherham-swifts-baines-card/ |website=National Football Museum |access-date=25 April 2024}}</ref>
==Ground==
The club's first home match was played at the Richmond Park Ground in Kimberworth.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Rotherham Swifts v Doncaster Rovers |journal=Sheffield Independent |date=1 October 1888 |page=7}}</ref> From November 1888 it played at the Holmes,<ref>{{cite journal |title=Rotherham Swifts v Heeley |journal=Sheffield Independent |date=5 November 1888 |page=7}}</ref> which hosted the replay of the Sheffield Cup in 1890, won by Rotherham Town.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Sheffield Cup |journal=Lancaster Gazette |date=29 March 1890 |page=7}}</ref> The Swifts used the Pigeon Cote Inn on Steel Street for facilities.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Forty years of football |journal=Penistone, Stocksbridge and Hoyland Express |date=27 February 1932 |page=11}}</ref>
The highest recorded attendance at the ground was 4,000, for the FA Cup qualifying tie with Rotherham Town on 16 November 1889.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Rotherham Town v Rotherham Swifts |journal=Sheffield Independent |date=18 November 1889 |page=7}}</ref>
==Notable players==
* Walter Broadhead, who played in the club's first match, and who later joined Rotherham Town, playing for Town in the Football League.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Former well-known footballer |journal=Eckington, Woodhouse and Staveley Express |date=18 January 1936 |page=16}}</ref>
* [[Rab Howell]], [[Arthur Watson (footballer, died 1931)|Arthur Watson]], and [[Michael Whitham]] - all recruited from Ecclesfield as the first Swifts players.
==References==
{{reflist}}
[[Category:Association football clubs established in 1888]]
[[Category:Association football clubs disestablished in 1891]]
[[Category:English Football League clubs]]
[[Category
efunct football clubs in England]]
[[Categoryefunct football clubs in South Yorkshire]]
[[Category:Sport in Rotherham]]
[[Category:Midland Alliance (1890)]]
[[Category:1888 establishments in England]]
[[Category:1891 disestablishments in England]]
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{{Short description|19th century Football club in Yorkshire, England.}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2024}}
{{Infobox football club |
| clubname=Rotherham Swifts
| image=
| fullname=Rotherham Swifts Football Club
| nickname=the Swifts
| founded=1888
| dissolved=1891
| ground= The Holmes
| capacity= 4,000
|chrtitle = President
| chairman=
| mgrtitle=Secretary
| manager=Fred Mickelthwait
| league=
| season=
| position=
| website =
|pattern_la1=_blue_stripes|pattern_b1=_bluestripes|pattern_ra1=_blue_stripes|leftarm1=FFBF00|body1=FFBF00|rightarm1=FFBF00|shorts1=|socks1=0000FF
|}}
'''Rotherham Swifts F.C.''' was an [[association football]] club from [[Kimberworth]], near [[Rotherham]], [[Yorkshire]], [[England]], active in the 19th century.
==History==
[[File:1889–90 FA Cup 1st Qualifying Round, Owlerton 1–9 Rotherham Swifts, Sheffield Daily Telegraph, 7 October 1889.jpg|thumb|1889–90 FA Cup 1st Qualifying Round, Owlerton 1–9 Rotherham Swifts, Sheffield Daily Telegraph, 7 October 1889]]
The first reference to the club is from July 1888, when a representative attended a meeting of 22 clubs to arrange fixtures before the 1888–89 season.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Conference of football clubs' secretaries |journal=Sheffield Daily Telegraph |date=4 July 1888 |page=8}}</ref> The club had enough members to field two XIs on its first match weekend in September 1888 (helped by recruiting several players from [[Ecclesfield F.C.|Ecclesfield]]),<ref>{{cite journal |title=Forty years of football |journal=Penistone, Stocksbridge and Hoyland Express |date=27 February 1932 |page=11}}</ref> the first XI losing at [[Eckington Works F.C.|Eckington Works]], and the second XI beating Junior Cup champions Carbrook Church at home.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Football |journal=Sheffield Daily Telegraph |date=10 September 1888 |page=7}}</ref>
It also entered the [[FA Cup]] that season, although the competition now had qualifying rounds, and the Swifts were eliminated in the [[1888–89 FA Cup qualifying rounds|first qualifying round]] at [[Park Grange F.C.|Park Grange]].<ref>{{cite journal |title=Football and cricket notes |journal=Sheffield Daily Telegraph |date=8 October 1888 |page=7}}</ref> The club finished its first season with a £3 profit on income of £110.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Cricket notes [sic] |journal=Sheffield Independent |date=11 June 1889 |page=6}}</ref>
The Swifts' best run in the national cup came in [[1889–90 FA Cup qualifying rounds|1889–90]]; after hammering an under-strength [[Owlerton F.C.|Owlerton]] 9–1 - away from home - in the first qualifying round<ref>{{cite journal |title=English Cup ties - fifth division |journal=South Yorkshire Times |date=11 October 1889 |page=8}}</ref> and going nap at [[Whitby Town F.C.|Whitby]] in the second,<ref>{{cite journal |title=Whitby, 1; Rotherham Swifts, 5 |journal=Northern Echo |date=28 October 1889 |page=4}}</ref> it was drawn to host the senior club in Rotherham, [[Rotherham Town F.C. (1878)|Rotherham Town]], in the third. The tie ended goalless, an attempt to play 30 minutes of [[extra-time]] being curtailed when darkness fell after 10;<ref>{{cite journal |title=Rotherham Town v Rotherham Swifts |journal=Sheffield Evening Telegraph |date=16 November 1889 |page=3}}</ref> the replay also went to extra-time, Town this time apparently winning 2–1.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Rotherham Town v Rotherham Swifts |journal=Sheffield Evening Telegraph |date=18 November 1889 |page=3}}</ref>
However the match had ended 6 minutes early, and a successful Swifts protest<ref>{{cite journal |title=Football |journal=Whitby Gazette |date=29 November 1889 |page=3}}</ref> saw the final 6 minutes being played off on 2 December, as a curtain-raiser to the [[Sheffield Football Association]] match against the [[Cheshire Football Association]], which fortuitously had already been arranged to take place at Town's Clifton Lane ground; owing to injuries both sides only fielded 10 men, and Town scored a third goal in the extra time.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Rotherham Town v Rotherham Swifts |journal=York Herald |date=3 December 1889 |page=8}}</ref> Several of the players - the Swifts' Pearce, Whittam, Howell, and Watson, and Town's Rodgers, Cross, Longden, and Bridgewater - played in the main event for the Sheffield FA.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Sheffield v Cheshire |journal=Sheffield Daily Telegraph |date=3 December 1889 |page=8}}</ref>
The Rotherham sides also met in the third round of the [[Sheffield and Hallamshire Senior Cup]] the same season, Town this time winning at the first time of asking, 3–2 at the Swifts' Holmes ground.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Rotherham Town v Rotherham Swifts |journal=Athletic News |date=20 January 1890 |page=5}}</ref>
The club was a founder member of the [[Midland Alliance (1890)|Midland Alliance]], a competition at a level below the [[Midland Football League (1889)|Midland League]] (in which Rotherham Town played), in 1890.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Midland Football Alliance |journal=Nottingham Journal |date=16 June 1890 |page=7}}</ref> However, after three games, the Swifts withdrew,<ref>{{cite journal |title=Notes on Midland Alliance matches |journal=Newark Herald |date=27 December 1890 |page=5}}</ref> finding the costs of travel to be too great, and, before its resignation was accepted, applied to join the [[Sheffield & District League]].<ref>{{cite journal |title=Sports and pastimes |journal=Grantham Journal |date=10 January 1891 |page=7}}</ref> Its Alliance record of one win, one draw, and one defeat was expunged.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Football, athletic, and other notes on sport |journal=Newark Herald |date=18 April 1891 |page=5}}</ref>
The obvious problem for the club was that Town had already secured the support of Rotherham, and, when the clubs played home matches on the same day, the crowds headed for Town rather than Swifts.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Kilnhurst v Rotherham Swifts |journal=South Yorkshire Times |date=27 March 1891 |page=7}}</ref> The club duly dissolved before the 1891–92 season. There was a sad aftermath in May 1892, when former goalkeeper Thomas Pearce drowned himself in the canal near the Swifts' ground; a verdict of suicide by temporary insanity (blamed on being "troubled about his love affairs") was returned.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Supposed suicide of a Rotherham goalkeeper |journal=Sheffield Independent |date=31 May 1892 |page=6}}</ref>
==Colours==
The club wore blue and amber stripes.<ref>{{cite web |title=Play Up Rotherham Swifts |url=https://www.nationalfootballmuseum.com/collections_detail/play-up-rotherham-swifts-baines-card/ |website=National Football Museum |access-date=25 April 2024}}</ref>
==Ground==
The club's first home match was played at the Richmond Park Ground in Kimberworth.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Rotherham Swifts v Doncaster Rovers |journal=Sheffield Independent |date=1 October 1888 |page=7}}</ref> From November 1888 it played at the Holmes,<ref>{{cite journal |title=Rotherham Swifts v Heeley |journal=Sheffield Independent |date=5 November 1888 |page=7}}</ref> which hosted the replay of the Sheffield Cup in 1890, won by Rotherham Town.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Sheffield Cup |journal=Lancaster Gazette |date=29 March 1890 |page=7}}</ref> The Swifts used the Pigeon Cote Inn on Steel Street for facilities.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Forty years of football |journal=Penistone, Stocksbridge and Hoyland Express |date=27 February 1932 |page=11}}</ref>
The highest recorded attendance at the ground was 4,000, for the FA Cup qualifying tie with Rotherham Town on 16 November 1889.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Rotherham Town v Rotherham Swifts |journal=Sheffield Independent |date=18 November 1889 |page=7}}</ref>
==Notable players==
* Walter Broadhead, who played in the club's first match, and who later joined Rotherham Town, playing for Town in the Football League.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Former well-known footballer |journal=Eckington, Woodhouse and Staveley Express |date=18 January 1936 |page=16}}</ref>
* [[Rab Howell]], [[Arthur Watson (footballer, died 1931)|Arthur Watson]], and [[Michael Whitham]] - all recruited from Ecclesfield as the first Swifts players.
==References==
{{reflist}}
[[Category:Association football clubs established in 1888]]
[[Category:Association football clubs disestablished in 1891]]
[[Category:English Football League clubs]]
[[Category
efunct football clubs in England]][[Category
efunct football clubs in South Yorkshire]][[Category:Sport in Rotherham]]
[[Category:Midland Alliance (1890)]]
[[Category:1888 establishments in England]]
[[Category:1891 disestablishments in England]]
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