FC Schwalbe Hanover

The FC Schwalbe 1899 eV is a sports club from the Hanover district of Döhren . The most successful is its rugby department, which has been German champion three times. Other departments include badminton , boxing , basketball , gymnastics , children's gymnastics , pétanque , dancing , tennis , table tennis , volleyball and winter sports .

history

FC Schwalbe was founded in 1899. Although it called itself a soccer club , it started out as a pure rugby club and never had a soccer department. Its name is derived from the swallows above the training area on the meadows on Hemminger Holz ( flooded today by the Maschsee ), whose quick-reacting flight behavior should be the model for the team's game.

The most successful period of the club were the 1920s and 1930s, in which the three championship titles of 1923, 1926 and 1936 could be won. It was not possible to build on these successes later.

Between 2003 and 2009 the first team played in a syndicate with the second team of the German Rugby Club Hannover .

successes

German rugby champion

• 1923: Final 6: 3 against SC Neuenheim in Heidelberg
• 1926: Final 8-0 against SC 1880 Frankfurt in Frankfurt / M.
• 1936: Final 11: 0 against SC Neuenheim in Frankfurt / M.

Personalities

• Willi Pagelsdorf senior , father of rugby player Willi Pagelsdorf junior and grandfather of Bundesliga soccer coach Frank Pagelsdorf

Web links

• Internet presence of the association

Individual evidence

1. ↑ A football club (without) football? ( Memento from July 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ top v .: Pagel's mother worried about the son's reputation on the website of the Hamburger Morgenpost dated December 30, 1998, last accessed on January 14, 2017

Coordinates: 52 ° 20 ′ 23.6 "  N , 9 ° 45 ′ 21.4"  E