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A new league, the Northern Counties League, was formed in 1960 and all the former North Eastern League clubs moved to the new competition. Peterborough United were elected to the Football League (the last Midland League club to achieve this feat), and the Midland League closed down through lack of numbers.
The following is a list of clubs who played in the original Midland Football League from its formation in 1889 until it closed in 1982. [1] Clubs. Alfreton Town;
Founded in 1884, Lincoln City F.C. won the Midland League in 1889–90, their first full season playing league football. They moved on from the Football Alliance to become founder members of the Football League Second Division in 1892, remaining there until they failed re-election in 1908.
The 1889–90 Midland Football League season was the first in the history of the Midland Football League, a football competition in England. References
The 1897–98 campaign was the most successful in the club's history, winning the Midland League title as well as finishing runners-up in the Yorkshire League and reaching the 5th qualifying round of the FA Cup (the final stage before the competition proper), where the club lost 1–0 at home, in front of a crowd of 3,500, to Gainsborough ...
Parry was born in Denaby Main, West Riding of Yorkshire, in 1914. [a] He was on the books of Midland League club Mexborough Athletic in the 1933–34 season, [5] and in the next, he was a member of the team that lost only once at home from November 1934 to the end of the campaign.
William Brian Linighan was born on 17 May 1936 in Hartlepool, County Durham. [1] He was married to Olwyn, and the couple had six children, five sons and a daughter. Three sons became professional footballers, all defenders: Andy and David each made nearly 600 appearances at Football League level, and Brian junior played briefly for Sheffield Wednesday and Bury before moving into non-League ...
John William Kendall (9 October 1905 – October 1961) was an English professional footballer who made 220 appearances in the Football League playing for Lincoln City (in two spells), Everton, Preston North End and Sheffield United. He played as a goalkeeper. [3] He also played 125 games for Peterborough United in the Midland League. [4]