Beschreibung:

A highly important cuttings album containing what is believed to be the oldest surviving item of Newton Heath and therefore Manchester United memorabilia and additionally the autographs of The Outcasts FC a group of rebel players who paved the way for the formation of the Players Union, and the current P.F.A., Containing: i) a pasted leaf with the 10 signatures of Newton Heath LYR believed to have been signed on the occasion of the match v. the Canadian touring team 6th October 1888, with the missing signature from the line up being the right winger William Tait. This is believed to be the oldest surviving item of Newton Heath and therefore Manchester United memorabilia. A programme for Everton v. Newton Heath on April 15th 1889 is understood to be in the David France Everton Collection Charitable Trust; ii) a team-group leaf titled Manchester United 1908-09 & 1910-11, 14 signatures iii) the autograph of Billy Meredith, the signature dated Feb 12/07; iv) Ernest Mangnall's signed official Manchester United team-sheet for the 1909 F.A. Cup final v Bristol City at The Crystal Palace, Manchester United's historic first appearance and win in the Cup final; v) a leaf containing team-group signatures of The Outcasts F.C inscribed "Playing for union rights", The Outcasts being a group of rebel players captained by United's Charlie Roberts and team-mate Billy Meredith, also signed by the United goalkeeper Herbert Broomfield, inscribed Players Union Secretary, the autograph set almost certainly relating from the same day that the famous photograph was taken of the Outcasts at Fallowfield in July 1909 (this photo is reproduced in the John Harding book "For the Good of the Game" which contains an introduction by Gordon Taylor of the PFA), the only missing signature from the photograph being that of Turnbull, other signatories include Moger, Duckworth, Wall, Corbett, Picken, Holden, Coleman, Clough, Burgess and G. Boswell (PU asst. Secretary); vi) an envelope addressed to A H Albut, [first] Secretary of Newton Heath Football Club, at the club's first office, 33 Oldham Road; & another envelope addressed to James West, a later Club Secretary at Bank Street vii) the album also containing the signatures of other footballers of the Edwardian era, mostly signed over printed biographical newspaper articles, comprising Robert Hawkes (Luton), Robert Smith Robinson ( Liverpool), Peter Kyle (Spurs), Alec Raisbeck (Newcastle), Harry Thorpe (Fulham), Thomas Riley (Brentford), Arthur Collins (Fulham), H Robinson (Birmingham), J T Robertson (Chelsea), David Ross (Norwich), & J S Fryer (Fulham) viii) the album also containing press cuttings & non- football related family scraps Provenance: Emma Gaskell of the Gaskell family of Knutsford, Cheshire. Emma Gaskell being the god-daughter of James West, the Club Secretary of Newton Heath, becoming Manchester United in 1902. Thence by family descent.