Soccer’s Nursery

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 985, 30 May 1930, Page 6

Soccer’s Nursery

I HISTORY OF Y.M.C.A. CLUB WILL BE TOLD TOMORROW CLUB’S PIONEER TEAM The history of the Auckland Youn-g Men’s Christian Association’s Association Football Club, the nursery of the Soccer game in Auckland, will be told in the sports edition of THE SUN tomorrow evening. The club goes back to IS9B, when its first team took the field in the code in which it has been outstanding since then right up to the present time. The great, but tragic, record of the club in the 1920 season will also be recorded. In that year Y.M.C.A. was never defeated, scoring 53 goals and having only two registered against it. The tragedy, however, was the fact that the captain of the club, Jim Kennedy, sacrificed his life in the winning of the game which made the championship sure. How that occurred will be told in tomorrow’s article, which is the sixth of a series of special articles appearing weekly on the histories of the best-known clubs in Auckland’s three football codes. In addition, there will be a picture of the pioneer 1898 side, and another of the present season’s team, which has yet to have its colours lowered in the Auckland Football Association’s senior competition. The great work of the Y.M.C.A. in fostering the game among boys will also be detailed at length, and some ; of the impressive records of the junior teams of the club recorded.