German football championship 1903/04

German football championship 1903/04
master	no master
Teams	8th
Games	6th
Gates	36  (ø 6 per game)
Top scorer	not known
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The second German football championship took place from April 24 to May 22, 1904, but did not produce a new champion. It was not ended, but stopped shortly before the final between the defending champion VfB Leipzig and Britannia 92 Berlin in Kassel and canceled by the German Football Association (DFB).

The reason was the problem of the neutral venue for the finals in cup mode. In the previous season, the DFB had often ignored this principle for financial reasons and had already led to problems at this final round.

The trigger for the cancellation was the Karlsruher FV , who had protested against the scheduling of his game in the preliminary round and therefore only traveled to Berlin under protest. On the day of the final, the DFB Presidium decided to approve the Karlsruhe protest with 127: 41 votes. For the Berlin Britannia (today Berliner SV) the canceled game should remain the only championship final.

Participants in the final round

On May 15, 1904, only 214 clubs were members of the DFB; it continued to unite only some of the existing German football associations under its roof. As in the previous year, one representative (usually the master) of the local and regional associations affiliated to the DFB was entitled to participate. However, only associations were admitted that had at least four associations as members. Although clubs from German football associations were again allowed abroad, none took part this year. Individual member clubs without association membership were not eligible to participate. Eight teams qualified for this final round, two more than last year.

society	Qualified as
Berlin TuFC Britannia 92	Master of the Association of Berlin Ball Game Clubs
VfB Leipzig	Master of the Association of Central German Ball Game Clubs and defending champion
Magdeburg FC Viktoria 96	Master of the Association of Magdeburg Ball Game Clubs
SC Germania 87 Hamburg	Master of the Hamburg-Altona Football Association
ARBV Hanover	Master of the Association of Hanover Ball Game Clubs
Casseler FV 95	Master of the Casseler Ballspielvereine
Duisburg SpV	Master of the Rheinisch-Westfälischer Spielverband
Karlsruhe FV	Master of the Association of South German Football Associations

Quarter finals

date		Result		Stadion
April 24, 1904	SC Germania 87 Hamburg	11: 0 (8: 0)	ARBV Hanover	Hamburg , Mühlenkamper racecourse
April 24, 1904	Berlin TuFC Britannia 92	6: 1 (2: 1)	Karlsruhe FV	Berlin-Friedenau , sports park
April 24, 1904	VfB Leipzig	1: 0 (0: 0)	Magdeburg FC Viktoria 96	Leipzig , Leipzig sports field
May 8, 1904	Duisburg SV	5: 3	Casseler FV 95	Duisburg , DSV-Platz am Grunewald

The ARBV Hannover traveled to their first and last championship game with only nine players this season, including team captain Hipp. At Germania there were eight legionnaires (not yet known at the time) on the team: three British, three Dutch, one Austrian and one Spanish. Hannover lost against the high Hamburg favorites with 0:11. The goal scorers were not recorded, so it is not possible to determine who was the top scorer in this event. Once again, the game did not take place on neutral ground, which also applied to the remaining games before the final.

The Karlsruher FV, for which the later first general secretary of FIFA Ivo Schricker played as captain and center runner, were considered a very strong team, which is why the high defeat against the equally strong Berliners was a surprise. With a penalty for runner Richard Müller, the Berliners led in the sixth minute. After half an hour, however, they had to accept the equalizer through an own goal by Paul Faber in favor of Karlsruhe. Nine minutes later, however, Albert Jakob took the lead again for Britannia, followed by Wilhelm Häfner's own goal by Wilhelm Häfner to make it 3-1 four minutes after the break . In the next 20 minutes there were three hits for the Britannia. Four of the five Berlin strikers had now met.

Defending champion VfB Leipzig had a very easy task with the Viktoria 96. However, Magdeburg was able to keep a 0-0 for a long time until they put themselves behind. Goalkeeper Kurt Stollberg had made an own goal in the 65th minute, which ultimately became the favorite's golden goal.

Two weeks later there was in the second game of championship debutants after the 11-0 in Hamburg a 5: 3 between the Duisburger Spielverein and the Casseler FV 95. In the Duisburg, the future DFB President Gottfried Hinze was in goal. Again, there are no records of the goal scorers.

Semifinals

date		Result		Stadion
May 8, 1904	SC Germania 87 Hamburg	1: 3 (0: 3)	Berlin TuFC Britannia 92	Hamburg , Mühlenkamper racecourse
May 15, 1904	VfB Leipzig	3: 2 n.V. (2: 2, 0: 1)	Duisburg SV	Leipzig , Leipzig sports field

Despite the home advantage for the Hanseatic League, Britannia 92 won the first semi-final, with the goalkeeper duel between the German-British Reginald Westendarp - co-founder of the DFB - and the German-Hungarian Dr. Paul "Gilly" from Goldberger was significant. After nine minutes, Max Schmidt took the lead for the Berlin team. Four minutes later, Erich Müller made it 2-0 and finally Ernst Perry scored the third goal five minutes before half-time. There were again eight legionaries in the Germania team from Hamburg (see quarter-finals). It was only in the 65th minute that Goldberger could also be overcome and the Englishman Thomas Willis was the first known British goalscorer to be documented in a German championship game. Willis was also the club's first chairman at the time. Westendarp switched to attack in the final phase without success. The Berlin defender Paul Faber was president of the VBB at the time.

The defending champion from Leipzig also had a tough game against the Duisburg sports club in the semi-finals. After 25 minutes, VfB were 1-0 down at home. Paul Oppermann equalized in the 52nd minute, but in the 78th minute the Duisburg team took the lead again through Willi van der Weppen. Five minutes before the end of the game, VfB Leipzig managed to equalize again, so that an extension was necessary. After a goalless half an hour the game was extended again: In the 132nd minute Johannes Schneider shot his team in the lead for the first time. The Leipzigers reached the final for the second time in a row.

final

date		Result		Stadion
May 22, 1904	VfB Leipzig	-: -	BTuFC Britannia 92	Planned location: Kassel

Background of the game cancellation

The Karlsruher FV protested against the valuation of this championship at the DFB. The DFB had not complied with the schedule of the final round matches in a neutral location. The KFV attributed its 6-1 defeat in the preliminary round to the scheduling of this game in Berlin, as some of its regular players would not have received the vacation from their employers, which would have been necessary for the long journey to and from the club. The KFV team needed 13 hours to get there and didn't arrive in Berlin until the match day. There was also the issue of travel expenses; the people of Karlsruhe had asked for 2nd class rail tickets to be reimbursed instead of 3rd class as planned. The DFB, which held its annual Bundestag on the day of the final at the final location in Kassel , then canceled the final in the morning and canceled the championship finals.

On the same day, the incumbent DFB President Ferdinand Hueppe ( DFC Prague ) resigned from his post after the DFB joined FIFA the day before. The president of the South German Football Association and chairman of the Karlsruhe FV, Friedrich Wilhelm Nohe , was elected as the new chairman .

List of goalscorers

In total, only 17 of 36 goal scorers are known, as no goal scorers were recorded in the 11: 0 between SC Germania 87 Hamburg and ARBV Hannover or in the 5: 3 between Duisburger SpV and Casseler FV 95.

player		society	Games	Gates
1.	Erich Müller	Berlin TuFC Britannia 92	2	2
	Ernst Perry	Berlin TuFC Britannia 92	2	2
3.	Albert Jakob	Berlin TuFC Britannia 92	1	1
	Max Schmidt	Berlin TuFC Britannia 92	1	1
	Johannes Schneider	VfB Leipzig	1	1
	Willi van der Weppen	Duisburg SpV	1	1
	Thomas Willis	SC Germania 87 Hamburg	1	1
8th.	Richard Damaschke	Berlin TuFC Britannia 92	2	1
	Heinrich Fischer	Duisburg SpV	2	1
	Richard Muller	Berlin TuFC Britannia 92	2	1
	Paul Oppermann	VfB Leipzig	2	1
	Bruno Stanischewski	VfB Leipzig	2	1

In addition, there are three own goals caused by Paul Faber, Wilhelm Häfner and Kurt Stollberg.

literature

• History of German football. Volume III of the series of publications of the German Football Association. Carl Koppehel, Verlag Wilhelm Limpert, Frankfurt 1954, 4th expanded edition without a year.
• German Championship (1903-1923) , IFFHS magazine Libero No. 36. International Federation of Football History & Statistics , Wiesbaden, 2nd quarter 2002.
• The Golden Book of German Football. Hardy Grüne , Dietrich Schulze-Marmeling, Die Werkstatt publishing house, Göttingen 2015.

Web links

• Articles and statistics on iffhs.de
• Game details and statistics on weltfussball.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Libero IFFHS Magazine No. 36, Wiesbaden 2002, p. 6.
2. ↑ According to the Neue Hamburger Zeitung (NHZ) in a short report on April 25, 1904 on page 10. The half-time result is given as 8: 0 and it is said that the opponent then wanted to resign, but was persuaded to continue playing. In its edition of the following Thursday, several days later, the Berlin trade journal Sport writes verbatim that the result from Hamburg is "so far unknown". The Prager Tagblatt (sic) announces two more days after that, as the half-time result and that Otto Hiller (Berlin) was the referee on April 30, after all, said here result. On May 3rd, the aforementioned NHZ (page 17) and the Hamburger Nachrichten (page 6) give the result in retrospect with 1: 0 (sic!).
3. ↑ The goal scorers from 11: 0 and 5: 3 in the preliminary round are not recorded, therefore "the first known".
4. ↑ cf. Jankowski / Pistorius / Prüß , With the diamond in the heart , Göttingen 2008, p. 26.
5. ↑ Bräunche: Sport in Karlsruhe. From the beginning to the present , Karlsruhe 2006, p. 178.
6. ↑ cf. VBB (ed.), 75 Years of the Association of Berliner Ballspielvereine (Author: Lutz Rosenzweig), there 1972, p. 28.