Arthur Wharton is widely considered to be the first black professional footballer in the world. Though not the first black player outright –the amateurs Robert Walker,of Queen's Park,and Scotland international player,Andrew Watson,predate him –Wharton may have been the first black professional and the first to play in the Football League.
Yorkshire County Cricket Club is one of eighteen first-class county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales. It represents the historic county of Yorkshire. Yorkshire's first team is the most successful in English cricketing history with 33 County Championship titles,including one shared. The team's most recent Championship title was in 2015. The club's limited overs team is called the Yorkshire Vikings and their kit colours are Cambridge blue,Oxford blue,and yellow.
Gentlemen v Players was a long-running series of cricket matches that began in July 1806 and was abolished in January 1963. It was a match between a team consisting of amateurs and one of professionals that reflected the English class structure of the 19th century. Typically,the professionals were working class people who earned their living by playing cricket,while the amateurs were middle- and upper-class products of the public school system,who were supposedly unpaid for playing. The professionals were paid wages by their county clubs and/or fees by match organisers;the amateurs claimed expenses. However,while rules to distinguish amateurs from professionals were established by Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC),the system of allowable expenses was both controversial and complex,enabling some leading amateurs to be paid more than any professional for playing cricket.
Anthony Stewart Woodcock is an English retired international footballer who played professionally in both England and Germany as a striker for Nottingham Forest,FC Köln and Arsenal. Woodcock won the European Cup in 1979 with Nottingham Forest.
Arthur Dick Pougher was an English professional cricketer and umpire who played for Leicestershire County Cricket Club from 1885 to 1901,and in one Test match for England in 1891–92. He was born at Humberstone,Leicestershire and dies at Aylestone Park,Leicester.
Michael Hugh William Papps is a former New Zealand cricketer. In October 2016,he became the first player to score 10,000 runs in the Plunket Shield. In April 2018,he announced his retirement from the game.
Tony Dale Woodcock is a New Zealand former rugby union player. His position was loosehead prop,and he played 111 tests for the New Zealand national team,the All Blacks. Woodcock played for the All Blacks from 2002 to 2015,scoring eight test tries. He was described by The Dominion Post as "widely regarded as the world's premier loosehead",and by The New Zealand Herald as having the "best range of skills of any prop on the planet". He is now the most capped All Black prop of all time,and is the second most capped player in Blues history,behind Keven Mealamu. He was a key member of the 2011 and 2015 Rugby World Cup winning squads,becoming one of only 20 players to have won multiple Rugby World Cups.
1865 was the 79th season of cricket in England since the foundation of Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC). W. G. Grace made his debut as a first-class player and the new Lancashire County Cricket Club played its first match.
This article describes the history of New Zealand cricket to 1890.
Amyas Evelyn Giles Baring,known as Giles Baring,was an English first-class cricketer between the years 1930 and 1946.
Arthur Samuel Peake (1865–1929) was an English biblical scholar,born at Leek,Staffordshire,and educated at St John's College,Oxford. He was the first holder of the Rylands Chair of Biblical Criticism and Exegesis in the University of Manchester,from its establishment as an independent institution in 1904. He was thus the first non-Anglican to become a professor of divinity in an English university.
Arthur Henry Phebey was an English cricketer who played for Kent County Cricket Club between 1946 and 1961. He played in 327 first-class cricket matches during his career as a right-handed opening batsman.
Brigadier Arthur Jervois Turner,was an English cricketer,rugby union player and British Army officer. A right-handed batsman,right-arm underarm medium pace bowler and occasional wicket-keeper,he played first-class cricket for various teams between 1897 and 1914,predominately for Essex. He also played for the Egypt national cricket team. His other sporting interests included Rugby Union,and he played for Blackheath F.C. and Kent at that sport.
Arthur Harry Church FRS was a British botanist and botanical illustrator. He was also a pioneer amateur photographer. From 1908 to his retirement in 1930 he was a lecturer in botany at Oxford University and was best known for his inspiring lectures.
Sir Frederick Thomas Arthur Hervey-Bathurst,4th Baronet was an English cricketer. Hervey-Bathurst bowled fast roundarm and slow underarm. Hervey-Bathurst was also a Conservative politician.
Arthur James Cotterill was a New Zealand cricketer and lawyer.
Kent County Cricket Club's 1909 season was the twentieth season in which the county club competed in the County Championship. Kent played 30 first-class cricket matches during the season,losing only two matches overall,and won their second championship title. They finished clearly ahead of second place Lancashire in the 1909 County Championship with the previous year's winners,Yorkshire,in third place.
Arthur Henry Faber was an English first-class cricketer,headmaster and clergyman.
