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Post by Eggybread on Mar 23, 2022 21:38:56 GMT
I was browsing through vintage football kits and I noticed that our very early kits had a couple of strange badges on them, and I was wondering if anyone could shed any light about them? The two from 1871 and then 1874 www.historicalkits.co.uk/Stoke_City/Stoke_City.htm |
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Post by thehartshillbadger on Mar 23, 2022 21:46:31 GMT
I was browsing through vintage football kits and I noticed that our very early kits had a couple of strange badges on them, and I was wondering if anyone could shed any light about them? The two from 1871 and then 1874 www.historicalkits.co.uk/Stoke_City/Stoke_City.htmThat was back in the days when we were Nazi sympathisers. We’re sound now though😉 |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 23, 2022 22:10:33 GMT
Pretty sure that badge has something to do with the masons, the Maltese style cross one. Weren't the Freemasons involved in forming the football league and bailed some teams out early on including us? I think the club went broke and the Freemasons financed Stoke with a loan and I think also Everton.
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Post by Lakeland Potter on Mar 23, 2022 22:18:13 GMT
I was browsing through vintage football kits and I noticed that our very early kits had a couple of strange badges on them, and I was wondering if anyone could shed any light about them? The two from 1871 and then 1874 www.historicalkits.co.uk/Stoke_City/Stoke_City.htmHere is an extract from a later page from the above link "The club rule book from 1871-72 stated that the team jerseys would be white with a black Maltese cross. In CW Alcock's Football Annual for 1873 their colours are gven as crimson and blue. The next entry is from the 1879 annual which gives their colours as blue and black. Players provided their own kit at this stoke city crest 1882time and their tops often did not match, which explains the variations in the width of the hoops. In the 1882-83 season some players applied a stylised letter "S" to their jerseys which I now believe may have been the badge of the Staffordshire FA, sewn onto the club shirts of players chosen to represent their county." |
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Post by maninasuitcase on Mar 23, 2022 22:38:03 GMT
Some monstrosities on there.
Red stripe in the middle is sacrilege.
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Post by skip on Mar 23, 2022 23:38:01 GMT
Pretty sure that badge has something to do with the masons, the Maltese style cross one. Weren't the Freemasons involved in forming the football league and bailed some teams out early on including us? I think the club went broke and the Freemasons financed Stoke with a loan and I think also Everton. The FA has its own Masonic Lodge, above the Mason's Arms pub on Long Acre, just down from Covent Garden. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 23, 2022 23:53:17 GMT
Pretty sure that badge has something to do with the masons, the Maltese style cross one. Weren't the Freemasons involved in forming the football league and bailed some teams out early on including us? I think the club went broke and the Freemasons financed Stoke with a loan and I think also Everton. The FA has its own Masonic Lodge, above the Mason's Arms pub on Long Acre, just down from Covent Garden. Never knew that. That's interesting Another team wore that same badge around that era. It looks like the Masonic cross. Assumed perhaps was connected as they played a big part in football around that time. |
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Post by apb1 on Mar 24, 2022 9:28:55 GMT
That Maltese Cross kit's nice. Should be next season's away kit complete with knickerbockers.
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Post by nottsover60 on Mar 24, 2022 10:02:57 GMT
Anyone know the story behind the 1891 strip in a random gold and black? Looks more like something Vale would wear.
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Post by AlliG on Mar 24, 2022 11:58:35 GMT
Anyone know the story behind the 1891 strip in a random gold and black? Looks more like something Vale would wear. When we were re-elected back into the League, the rules required each club to have a unique strip. Sunderland had replaced us when we failed to gain re-election to the League and as they had red and white stripes, we had to pick a different strip. |
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Post by Tosh on Mar 24, 2022 12:20:55 GMT
The 'S' from 1874 was added to the light blue macron away kit a few years back if i remember correctly.
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Post by Not_Nick_H on Mar 24, 2022 12:22:23 GMT
I was browsing through vintage football kits and I noticed that our very early kits had a couple of strange badges on them, and I was wondering if anyone could shed any light about them? The two from 1871 and then 1874 www.historicalkits.co.uk/Stoke_City/Stoke_City.htmI see that site is definitely going with 1868 as the founding year, no 1863 ambiguity there. |
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