Mexico Cricket Club
The Mexico Cricket Club was founded in San Pedro de los Pinos in 1900 ; a formerly independent suburb and today's district in the southwest of Mexico City . His main sports were cricket and golf , but soccer soon followed suit. In 1902, the club was one of the five founding members of the first national football championship in Mexico , which at the time was played exclusively by British teams.
Soccer
The club's footballers played for a total of six years under changing names in the Primera Fuerza , as the top division of Mexican football was then called: from 1902/03 and 1903/04 as México Cricket Club San Pedro de los Pinos (in this epoch they won also the championship in 1904), 1904/05 as San Pedro Golf Club , in the seasons 1905/06 and 1906/07 as México Country Club and most recently ( 1907/08 ) under the name México Fútbol Club . After that, the soccer team was withdrawn from the league because the club apparently wanted to devote itself entirely to golf. However, their soccer field was later used by CF México .
As early as 1905, a group of prominent British and US American businessmen who were members of the San Pedro Golf Club and the neighboring Mixcoac Golf Club had come together and soon afterwards founded the country's first country club: a golf course with 18 holes, which was inaugurated on June 24, 1907 in the presence of the then Mexican President, General Porfirio Diaz .
Champions team
The championship team for the 1903/04 season consisted of the following players: James Walker, Claude M. Butlin , TR Phillips , Victor R. Turnbull, William Rabling, Frederick W. Russell, Jorge Velasco, Alberto Escandón, Antonio Portillo, Walter Willy, Jack Willy , Bruce Willy, William Rabling, Ernest Griffen, Percival Little.
Cricket
Not only did football disappear from the club - and quite quickly - but at some point the sport of cricket was also discontinued. It wasn't until 1962 that cricket was revived; and not only in the club, but in Mexico in general. After all, the Mexico Cricket Club has always been considered the driving force behind cricket in this country. A pioneer and promoter of this sport is also the Reforma Athletic Club , on whose premises the Mexican cricket association Mexico Cricket Association maintains its office. In reality, however, the Mexico Cricket Association (MCA) is nothing more than the legitimate successor to the MCC, which changed its name in 2003 to join the World Cricket Federation , which it did in 2004.
The four teams that are playing the Mexico cricket championship today on the grounds of the Reforma AC are not only united in the MCA as an association, but are de facto organized in the same club that is the legal successor of the MCCC. One of these four teams competes under the former name of the club and is therefore called Mexico Cricket Club . Another pays homage to the host of all championship tournaments with her name and calls herself Reforma Cricket Club . Another team refers to the official club and association crest, which shows an Aztec with a cricket bat, and is called Aztecs . Only the fourth team appears under an apparently independent name and is called Corinthians .
This is possibly inspired by the legendary London football team, which was founded in 1882 as Corinthian FC and which many football experts considered perhaps the best English team of the time. However, their title remained denied because their statutes forbade them to measure themselves against other teams under competitive conditions. Among other things, it had humiliated the FA Cup winner of the same year, the Blackburn Rovers , 8-1 in 1884, and in 1903 the current FA Cup winner FC Bury , who had not conceded a single goal in the entire competition (!), With 10 : 3 outclassed and in 1904 brought the greatest defeat in the club's history to the great Manchester United 11: 3.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ La Historia de nuestro futbol mexicano (Spanish)