Richard Grilling

Richard Grilling (life dates unknown) was a German football player .

Career

Grilling belonged as a midfielder initially the Dresdner SC to, for which he in the season 1904/05 in the Central German Association ballgame clubs performed Championship disputed point games. He and his team finished the championship, which was held in three districts, as the winner in district II - East Saxony, level on points with Mittweidaer BC , who was defeated 4-2 in the decider for first place on April 16, 1905 in Freiberg . The final on April 21, 1905 in Leipzig against Halleschen FC 1896 , the winner from Gau I - North West Saxony, was won by his team 3-2. As a result, he and his team took part in the final round of the German Championship , in which he made his debut on May 28, 1905 on Germania-Platz , the venue of the BFC Germania 1888 , in the 5-3 quarter-final victory over FC Victoria Hamburg . The semi-final that followed on June 4, 1905 on the Leipzig sports field , home of VfB Leipzig , against the Berlin TuFC Union 92 was lost 2: 5.

He played the 1908/09 season for VfB Leipzig . As the winner of Division A , Gau I - Nordwestsachsen, which was subdivided next to Division B, and the play-off for first place against the tied SpVgg 1899 Leipzig-Lindenau with 4: 1 on March 28, 1908, he initially lost the final for the North West Saxon Championship on April 4, 1909 with 1: 2 at FC Wacker Leipzig . But the repetition of the final, won 4: 1 on April 25, 1909, became necessary because his team was exposed to a disadvantage by releasing the players Heinrich Riso and Leopold Richter for international matches . Due to time constraints, owing to the replay, he and his team were denied participation in the final round of the Central German Championship .

Grilling (3rd from right)
and team member of the Association of Central German Ball Game Clubs,
which won the Crown Prince's Cup in 1909.

As a player of VfB Leipzig and the selection team of the Association of Central German Ball Game Clubs, he took part in the first ever competition for the Crown Prince's Cup, the DFB's first German cup competition, which was held by the regional associations that existed at the time. After his selection team on November 1, 1908 and February 21, 1909 in the quarter and semi-finals against the selection teams of the West German Game Association and the Baltic Turf and Winter Sports Association with 2-0 and 8-0, achieved them the finale. The final held on April 18, 1909 on Viktoria-Platz in Mariendorf near Berlin against the selection team of the Association of Berliner Ballspielvereine was won 3-1.