1955 FRANKFURT SELECT X1 v IRELAND Friendly |
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blueshearer
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Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2015 8:32 pm
Post subject: 1955 FRANKFURT SELECT X1 v IRELAND Friendly |
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Hi Everyone
This item is listed at this weeks Sportingold auction. Could anyone let me know the Ireland line-up that played in the game
Many thanks
Bernie |
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Fishy
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Posted: Tue Apr 28, 2015 10:03 am
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Bernie,
If you drop Chris Williams a line at Sportingold he will tell you. may be easier if you had a particular player in mind......
Ian |
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garyspain
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Posted: Tue Apr 28, 2015 12:03 pm
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It is actually an Inter League team.
So players from the League of Ireland clubs. We list it as Hessen League v League of Ireland.
There should be no Blackburn interest but happy to confirm the lineup. |
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garyspain
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Posted: Tue Apr 28, 2015 8:54 pm
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Frankfurt XI or Hessen League won 7-2. Jack Fitzgerald and Gannon scoring for the League of Ireland.
Team O'Callaghan (Shamrock Rovers), Noonan (Drumcondra) , Casey (Waterford) Gannon (Shelbourne) Keogh (Shamrock Rovers) Nolan (Shamrock Rovers) D. Fitzgerald & J. Fitzgerland (both Waterford), Gibbons( St Pats), McIlvenny (Waterford) Horgan (Cork Athletic).
They played in Kassel 5 days later and it was 5-0 to the Hessen League.
Although we class both games as Hessen League v League of Ireland they were separate teams. |
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seand
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Posted: Wed Apr 29, 2015 10:14 am
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Cheers Gary, same Irish line-up in both games? |
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garyspain
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Posted: Wed Apr 29, 2015 10:21 am
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Crawford (St Pats) for Noonan and Glynn (Drumcondra) for Gibbons in the 2nd game.
A 4 page issue was done for the 2nd game. |
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blueshearer
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Posted: Wed Apr 29, 2015 6:41 pm
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Thanks for all the responses, very helpful as always |
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Sir Moses Hill
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Posted: Sat May 02, 2015 2:34 am
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Chelmer Programmes has the following item in their current catalogue: IRISH LEAGUE v Hesse F A 1956(r/s) £8. |
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garyspain
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Posted: Sat May 02, 2015 8:42 am
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Sir Moses Hill wrote: |
Chelmer Programmes has the following item in their current catalogue: IRISH LEAGUE v Hesse F A 1956(r/s) £8. |
That is obviously the League of Ireland and most likely for the game in Dublin which is priced about right if not a little expensive. |
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Sir Moses Hill
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Posted: Sat May 02, 2015 9:25 pm
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Yes, clearly the LOI.
So two games were played in Germany in 1955 and a return game in Dublin in 1956. What was the link with Hesse/Frankfurt?
The Irish League representative side has played some weird and wonderful opponents down through the years. Aside from the obvious games against the Football League, Scottish League, Welsh League and League of Ireland, there have also been games against Canada, Everton, Football Conference, Fort Lauderdale Strikers, Hibernian, Italian Semi-Pro League, Kilmarnock, Liverpool, Manchester United, OFK Belgrade, Penn-Jersey Spirit, Ruch Chorzow, United States of America, and Western Command (British Army). |
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garyspain
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Posted: Mon May 04, 2015 8:49 am
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2 games in Dublin at least v Hessen League.
53/4 2/5/54 won 1-0
55/6 12/2/56 won 4-1.
I don't know the connection. |
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HibeeJibee
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Posted: Sat Jun 13, 2015 4:41 pm
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League of Ireland hosted the Hessen League on St Patricks Day 1951 but it was billed as 'the German League'. Maybe that made things a bit better when the visitors thrashed them 7-0! All the visiting players came from 2 clubs, FSV Frankfurt and OFC Offenbach.
Normally the LofI hosted the Irish League on St Patrick's Day - the return in Belfast following on Easter Monday - but not that season. Perhaps they got the Hessens over after the Northern Irish declined to play or perhaps they cancelled the Ulstermen to play the Hessens.
They returned to Dublin on the May Day weekend in 1954, in a match for the 'An Tostal' festival. This time a third club HSV Hessen Kassel also had some representation and the Irishmen won 1-0.
LofI made a return visit of 2 games in May 1955 as noted above.
Back to Dublin in February 1956, LofI won 4-1. Although maybe just part of what was becoming an annual fixture - it seems to have coincided with the unveiling of a statue from the German people to the Irish people that features on the programme cover, marking a post-war orphans scheme:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Shamrock
However the only subsequent fixture was again in Dublin - on St Patrick's Day 1960, LofI winning 5-2.
Frankfurt XI also played in the inaugural Fairs Cup. |
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