the newly formed Brantford City Football
Club take to the field for their first
game in the Football League Bradford had
just switched codes from northern Union
of which they were one of the founder
members in 1895 to becoming an
association football club in the summer
of 1903 the crowd of 11,000 was nine
thousand more than they'd received for
their last game as a rugby club and
demonstrates the growing popularity of
football as a spectator sport filmed on
the 5th of september of valley parade
bradford in their hoop declarant and
gold jerseys are seen warming up before
an expectant crowd their opponents games
by trinity were founded in 1873 and
joined the second division of the
football league in 1896 before returning
to the Midland Football League in 1912
the Lord and Lady Mayoress of Bradford
take their seats in the Edwardian
version of the directors box a bench on
the side of the pitch
a review of the match highlights that
was shown later that evening in the Sun
George's all states that so vivid and
impressive are these illustrations that
small boys in the audience aroused to
enthusiasm and cry out now City as
though they were again on the scene of
play Valley parade at this time was
completely underdeveloped and was a
completely open ground
highlights in this section include Dicky
guys dribble for city and a disallowed
city goal despite the final result of
3-1 defeat to Gainesville Trinity and a
disallowed goal and a Miss penalty the
commitment of the fans remained on
diminished
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