Linz Sports Club
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| Full name | Linz sports club | ||
| place | Linz | ||
| Founded | July 25, 1908 | ||
| Dissolved | 02/28/1919 | ||
| Club colors | Black-and-white | ||
| Stadion | Place at the Isabellen Children's Hospital | ||
| Top league | "Championship of Upper Austria" | ||
| successes | 2 × unofficial champion from Upper Austria | ||
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The Linzer Sport-Club (LSK, LSC), also Linzer Sportklub, was the first football club in Linz . It was founded in 1908 with the help of prominent soccer players from Vienna and existed until it was dissolved in the First World War. Most of the players then joined the new football department of the Siegfried Athletic Sports Club (now LASK) in February 1919 .
history
The establishment of the Linzer Sport-Club is thanks to Ernst Wengraf, a Viennese football lover who also campaigned for the establishment of the German-Alpine Football Association . The Linz Sport Club was founded around the well-known footballers Albert Siems and Otto Zwicker, as well as a handful of football enthusiasts. Siems had already played with the Viennese " cricketers ", Zwicker with the Viennese sports club . On July 25, 1908, this was approved by the Imperial and Royal Lieutenancy and on September 12, 1908, the constituent founding assembly took place. It was reserved for the Linzer Sport Club to play the first soccer game on Upper Austrian soil. In Bad Ischl on August 31, 1908, a "Wiener Sommersportklub Bad Ischl" was defeated 11: 1. The 0: 1 deficit was more than made up for by ten goals from Otto Zwicker and one goal from Albert Siems. The second game finally took place in Steyr at a sports festival against the Viennese Ramblers, it ended 0:13. The third game in October 1908 was also the very first in Linz, against the reserve team of Germania it was 2: 4, Zwicker scored both Linz goals. An agreement was reached with the Linzer Stahlradklub about their place, so that the young club could take its first steps on this place. In 1909 Percy Lowe, an English master dyer, joined the club. It was thanks to his knowledge and experience that the still rather wild and senseless game was given its first polish at the Linz Sport Club.
The Linz Sports Club soon benefited from the fact that several Austrian national soccer players from Vienna served their military service with the Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 2 in Linz and worked with the Linz soccer club in their free time. These included Ferdinand Swatosch , Johann Studnicka and Richard Kuthan . In addition, a football pitch was found early on. The meadow opposite the General Hospital was made available for this by Heinrich Franck. The club was able to pursue a regular game operation and existed before the First World War in its regular line-up with Karl Liedl in the gate, Unterstab and Horber in defense, Stopperl, Gemp and Cisel in the Halves row and as strikers Pabst, Schenkenfelder, Sturm, Patzelt and Kutin .
In the autumn of 1912 and in the spring of 1913 the Linz Sport Club was also able to win the first, as yet unofficial, championship titles from Upper Austria.
During the First World War , however, the game operation was increasingly difficult to maintain. Many players were called up as soldiers, but the clubhouse, for example, was also used as a horse stable. In order to maintain football in Linz, the Linz Sports Club formed a war sports association with Germania Linz in 1915. It was possible to play regularly until 1916, as the younger Germania players were not called up until a year later. However, reactivation after the end of the war was not possible either together or as two separate clubs, so that on February 23, 1919, the dissolution of the club was noted by the DAFV for the ÖFV. Already at the end of 1917, Heinrich Franck gave notice to the club again. It was converted into an allotment garden for the workers in his company.
Otto Wilhelm Zemann, who came from Germania Linz, tried to keep the sport of football in Linz going. However, they wanted to avoid the settlement of an old debt of the Linz sports club and so placed a large number of their former players in the new soccer section of the Siegfried athletic sports club , which was soon able to start its work without any problems. The Linz sports club was dissolved on February 28, 1919. It was soon renamed the Linzer Athletik Sportklub and the founding year of LASK , which soon afterwards primarily played football, is still cited as 1908, based on the roots of the football section in the Linz Sport Club.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Schidrowitz 1951, p. 209 and Langisch 1966, p. 24
- ↑ Linzer Tages-Post . Volume 44, No. 201 . Linz September 2, 1908.
- ↑ Österreichisches Sportblatt Vol. 4, No. 27 and 43
- ^ Linzer Athletik-Sportklub (ed.): The book from LASK . Publishing house Jos. Faber, Krems an der Donau 1954, p. 9 ff .
- ↑ Schidrowitz 1951, p. 210 and Langisch 1966, p. 26
- ^ Illustrated Austrian sports paper . 8th year, no. 42 , p. 13 .
- ↑ Linzer Tages-Post . 49th year, no. 149 , p. 10 .
- ↑ Schidrowitz 1951, p. 210f and Langisch 1966, p. 26f
- ^ DAFV activity report, 1919
- ↑ Linz Athletics Sports Club (ed.): Forty Years LASK 1908-1948 . Linz May 1948, p. 21 .
- ↑ Illustrated Österreichisches Sportblatt vol. 15, No. 12 and 19