| Full name | Jarrow Football Club | |
|---|---|---|
| Nickname | the Tynesiders | |
| Founded | 1894 | |
| Dissolved | 1902 | |
| Ground | Monkton | |
Jarrow Football Club was an association football club based in Jarrow, Tyne and Wear, England. [1]
| Full name | Jarrow Football Club | |
|---|---|---|
| Nickname | the Tynesiders | |
| Founded | 1894 | |
| Dissolved | 1902 | |
| Ground | Monkton | |
Jarrow Football Club was an association football club based in Jarrow, Tyne and Wear, England. [1]
The club was formed in 1894 after Jarrow Rangers folded. [2] Having initially been accepted into the Tyneside League, the new club successfully applied to join the Northern Alliance for the 1894–95 season. [3] Its first match on 22 August was a friendly against Bill Quay Albion, with Jarrow winning 3–0. [2]
The club was Northern Alliance runner-up in 1897–98 and won the league the following season, [3] also reaching the first round of the FA Cup; drawn away to First Division club Everton, despite the difference between the sides being considered as great as that "between a blood racer and a grocer's pony", [4] Jarrow only lost 3–1, put down in part to Everton playing at half-speed. [5] In 1899–1900 it reached the first round again, and was drawn at home to Millwall Athletic, which offered (in vain) £150 to switch the venue to London. [6] However the match was anti-climactic, as the Dockers took the lead from a corner after just three minutes, and a second goal before half-time effectively settled the tie for the visitors, the Jarrow consolation being the crowd, given as 8,000. [7]
The 1899–1900 season also saw the club gain its greatest success, winning the Durham Challenge Cup, with a 1–0 win over Sunderland 'A' in the final at South Shields; a first-half goal from Lindsley, whose shot was too hot for Naisby to handle, was enough to secure the Cup for the Tynesiders for the only time. [8]
A slump in shipbuilding persuaded the club to turn fully amateur in 1901, [9] but the resulting exodus of professional players proved disastrous for the club, as it dropped to one off the bottom of the Alliance in 1901–02. Although the club was re-elected to the competition in June 1902, [10] it disbanded the following month, [11] many of its players joining Hebburn Argyle, which had avoided a similar fate by the skin of its teeth. [12] Its final match had been a 3–2 home win over Thornaby, in "boisterous" weather, on 26 April. [13] A new Jarrow A.F.C. was formed a year later.
The club's original colours were white and black. [14] In 1900 they changed to white with blue "pants", although the shirts were so old as to be described as "what were once white". [15]
The club's ground was the Monkton cycling track. [16] The club formed a limited liability company (the Jarrow Cycling, Athletic, and Football Ground Company Limited) to buy its leasehold hold in 1897. [17]