Athletics and Cycle Races at Home Park
The front page from the programme for an Athletics and Cycle meeting held at Home Park on Saturday August 31st 1901.
Collection Item: Argyle FC
Motor Cycling and Bicycle Races at Home Park
These three handbills are for the Home Park motor cycling and bicycle races on Friday 27th June and Saturday 28th June 1902, to celebrate the crowning of King Edward VII on the 26th. The Coronation did not go ahead because Edward suffered appendicitis but the Argyle Athletic Club event did go ahead. With thanks to […]
The Origin of the Argyle Name
This post is based on the very impressive researches of Roger Walters, a peerless expert on the life and times of the Argyle Football Club (1886 to 1903). Roger has a decades-long passion for the amateur club, and some of his countless discoveries help to explain a number of myths – stories that have for a long […]
Argyle Rugby Club Minutes 1902
Before the formation of the modern professional Plymouth Argyle Football Club in 1903, The Argyle Athletic Club had many sections including Rugby. The minute book covers the meetings of the Rugby Section in the 1902-03 season and is a fascinating insight to the running of the club. We are very grateful to Paul Truscott for the […]
Argyle F.C. 1898-99 Team Photograph
The images of the team photo for the 1898/99 season have been generously donated by PASOTI and it is the earliest known photograph of Argyle FC. The colourised version was created using a colour swatch from an early 20th Century cigarette card as a guide and shows the team as it could have looked. There […]