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stadium if you then paid to exchange the card for a match ticket. The programme, however, suggested that admission to the stadium was $3. However it worked, this is an unusual and rare souvenir.

Speaking of the programme, the programmes for the ISL matches are all relatively similar. Sixteen pages in length, this one features a picture of Senator Kenneth B Keating on the cover. Keating was the guest of honour at the match and had a love of soccer born from his participation in the sport at the University of Rochester. He’s quoted on p.12 of the programme as saying that “Soccer was the one sport in which I displayed a minimum of ability and to this day I consider the kicking around that I got a most excellent preparation for the world of politics. I have a soft spot in my heart for soccer and a few small spots in my legs”. Looks like politicians had a sense of hunour in those days. Page 4 of the programme had a schedule of that year’s ISL matches together with details of where you could purchase tickets and a note about “Ladies Night” each Wednesday where ladies would be admitted for $1.50. Page 5 has introductions to Werder Bremen and Bahia and the following page has ISL history and records. Rudolph Kucera of Dukla Prague had scored 15 goals in 7 matches in 1961 although one of the other records notes that Dukla had scored ten in a single match that season against Shamrock Rovers which probably helped Kucera’s total.

It wouldn’t be an American programme without the “Rules of Soccer” appearing somewhere and they appear along with a map of field positions on the next page. Squads are listed in the centre pages alongside an advert for Pepsi; “for those who think young”. The squads include the age, height and weight of each player. There are then two pages of ISL history, a page on Senator Keating and a page introducing Hearts and Blackburn. Tommy Walker is referred to as “probably the greatest player in his country’s history [who] is often referred to as the ‘Babe Ruth of Scottish Soccer’”. An accolade indeed!

Finally this time, a wonderful Blackburn Rovers pennant commemorating the match. This lovely item was presented to Hearts at the match and is on display in the Hearts museum. In the Rovers colours of blue and white, it features the club badge and the match details. More from the USA next time.

Gary Cowen is a member of Hearts heritage group and is currently writing a book about the Hearts post-season tours

OVER THE COURSE OF THE 21/22 SEASON, CLUB HISTORIAN DAVID SPEED WILL COVER THE ILLUSTRIOUS HISTORY OF OUR HOME.

PART FIVE: THE HOME OF CHAMPIONS

The Tynecastle crowd regularly earned praise for its support of the Hearts, but the fans were subjected to criticism from time-to-time.

For instance, on 18 April 1892, when the team defeated West

Bromwich Albion by 2-0 in a

Friendly, a great crowd of 7,500 repeatedly cheered the fine play of the FA Cup holders. However, they reserved a constant barrage of abuse for one of the English players, Willie Groves, whose only offence was to have once starred for the Hibernian.

The supporters were also criticised for failing to patronise the first International fixture to be allocated to the ground. On 26 March 1892, Scotland beat Wales by 6-1 at Tynecastle, but even with Hearts’ favourites, Isaac Begbie, Jimmy Adams, Johnny Hill and Davie Baird in the team, only 1,200 fans watched the contest. The criticism was somewhat unjust, because a heavy snow storm had crossed the city that day and with no local radio or television to inform the public, thousands had wrongly assumed that the game would be postponed and remained at home.

On 26 December 1891, the Edinburgh Dean of Guild had authorized the building of a covered stand at Tynecastle. During the summer of 1892, the club provided the first covered accommodation for the general public when the South Stand, nearest to Gorgie Road, was given a roof. It was then known as the “Covered Stand” until 1901 when the other open structure was redeveloped. The Press Box was moved onto the new roof at a cost of £45.

The new facility was certainly well used during 1892-93, when the ground’s record attendance was twice broken. The first occasion was on 27 August 1892, when a League fixture against Celtic packed every tramcar to Gorgie, hours before the kick-off. A record sum of just over £170 was taken at the gates and an additional £16 was paid by the fans that subsequently entered the stands. With a 6d (2.5p) charge at the gate, and allowing for juveniles and season ticket holders, the receipts represented a new record attendance of approximately 8,500.

Twenty policemen and twelve commissionaires controlled the mighty throng that saw Patrick Gallacher heading a goal for Celtic in the first minute. Hearts were thrown back into defence, but the hard work of Davie Russell, in particular, dragged the maroons back into the game. Near half-time, Jock Waterston equalized and early in the second period, Hearts’ brilliant winger, Davie Baird, shot the home side into a 2-1 lead amid, as the “Scotsman” remarked, scenes long to be remembered at Tynecastle. Hearts then exerted great pressure and after the Celtic keeper could only parry a shot, Waterston was on the spot to seal a fine 3-1 victory.

On 23 September 1892, at the Quarterly Meeting, a proposal to install turnstiles was deferred until the ground was fully purchased from the City.

On 4 February 1893, the new record attendance was totally eclipsed when the powerful Queens Park visited Gorgie in the Third Round of the Scottish Cup. Receipts of some £285 (with an additional £53 for the stands) indicated that 14,000 fans had packed the ground to overflowing. They watched a 1-1 draw, with James Ellis scoring an equaliser for Hearts after the Queens Park keeper had slipped and dropped the ball. Unfortunately, Hearts lost the Replay at Hampden Park by 5-2.

There had been some damage to the wooden fence that ran around the pitch and the Committee decided to investigate further expansion and improvements. A new entrance was opened from McLeod Street in March 1893 at a cost of £22. This was essential, as football was still in a period of rapid development. In the summer of 1893, there was another hugely significant change, with the Scottish Football Association authorizing the use of professional players. Hearts’ President, Dan Blackley, told the members that the club would have to pay its players in order to remain a top team and in July 1893, the best men were secured at £2 per week, plus bonuses.

With the popularity of football still growing, Tynecastle’s attendance record was again raised on 9 September 1893, when Celtic provided the opposition in a League fixture. A crowd of 14,500 created an

electric atmosphere, although it was reported that the referee was “hooted” for some bias towards the visitors, and many felt that this contributed to the Glasgow club’s 4-2 victory. Shortly after the game, was it significant that Hearts ordered a set of proper goal nets, fixed to the posts, to replace the freestanding pair that had been used for the best part of a year?

At the time of Hearts’ first Scottish League Championship winning season, 1894-95, Gorgie was densely populated, although part of the old ground, called Wardlaw Street Park, was still available for school football. The club had also achieved substantial growth, having 1,000 members.

Technology had reached Tynecastle with the “Edinburgh Evening News” installing the first telephone on the ground in June 1894, an innovation that the club quickly copied. Although most supporters would have been unaware of that development, they would certainly have noticed that Edinburgh Corporation had established bowling greens in McLeod Street, just behind the stands. The public was also delighted that refreshment stalls had been rented to local traders because there would be much to celebrate, even if tea was the strongest liquid dispensed.

Hearts stormed to the League Championship success, effectively ensuring the title on 16 February 1895, with a 4-0 home win over the only real challengers, Celtic. That day, before a crowd of 8,000, Tynecastle was only made playable by a combination of sand, straw and sawdust, but that did not inhibit John Walker, whose two goals were inspirational. Credit was also due to Hearts’ Committee who recruited the players and selected the team. During the course of the campaign, the officials also decided that they would be better able to judge the players by sitting in the Pavilion balcony and this certainly seems to have been a very astute move.

Not surprisingly, the maroons were also favourites to win the Scottish Cup, but faltered in the SemiFinal at Tynecastle on 9 March 1895. A recordequaling attendance of 14,500 saw neighbours, St.Bernards, force a 0-0 draw, and then win the Replay by the only goal at Stockbridge. In the match at Tynecastle, crowd pressure was so great that the perimeter fence collapsed in a number of places and many fans were forced to watch the game from the running track. This made the players very nervous, although it was the same for both sides.

Increasing crowds had brought security issues and soon Messrs. Braby’s corrugated iron fences surrounded the ground. This eliminated free access at the “Railway End” which later became the “School End”. This was important as professional clubs had to cover £40 per week in running costs which, in Hearts’ case, included 100 carts of fine sand to make sure that postponements were limited during the hard winter of 189495.

On 27 April 1895, near the end of that eventful season, Hearts played the new English Champions, Sunderland, at Tynecastle. However, the Englishmen were far too strong and won 5-3 before a crowd of 8,500.

The previous month (March 1895), Edinburgh Corporation agreed to extend the lease of Tynecastle Park for another five years, at a rent of £150 per annum. At the Annual General Meeting on 31 May 1895, President, William Lorimer, advised the members that the Committee now intended to investigate the outright purchase of the ground. In the meantime, the dressing rooms were enhanced and the entire pitch was re-turfed at a cost of 5/- (25p) per yard. The club also spent £4 on a pole, to proudly display the Scottish Football League Championship flag.

LOGIE GREEN TO LOTHIAN ROAD

This week, we continue our journey on the Hearts Heritage Trail, from Logie Green Road - the site of the only cup final played outside Glasgow – to the Usher Hall. We head along Abercrombie Place, passing the Royal Scots Club. Hearts have a strong association with the Royal Scots - the Edinburgh regiment, and the oldest in the British Army. The Royal Scots have attended many events at Tynecastle most notably when a colour party from the Regiment unveiled the Hearts Centenary Flag in 1974.

At the West End the Trail turns in to Lothian Road passing Huxley’s, previously the Rutland Hotel where many Hearts board meeting and club function took place. The Rutland was owned by Hearts former chairman and major benefactor William CP Brown, who was to have the gymnasium in the old stand at Tynecastle Park named after him. Across from Huxley’s is the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, the lower part was the Caledonian Railway Company’s Princes Street Station. This was the scene of many happy returns from away matches, not least of which was on 7 February 1891, when Hearts won the Scottish Cup for the first time (1-0 against Scottish Champions Dumbarton, thanks to a goal from Willie Mason). Beyond the Usher Hall at 112 Lothian Road now a W.T Dunbar Funeral Home, was the site of the Union Hotel where Hearts players

and officials celebrated winning the Scottish Cup in 1891 and 1896. On both occasions, thousands lined the streets outside the hotel which was named after the Union Canal whose terminus was across the street at Port Hopetoun. The Union Hotel was used by the club during the early years, for events, meetings, and special training, most notably in 1896 when the players were billeted there for almost three weeks. This was a costly exercise with the club having to compensate the players’ employers. However, staying in the hotel not only made sure that the lads behaved themselves, but it also ensured they received good food, a comfortable bed, modern bathing facilities and recreation – things that were not always available to working people at that time.

FIRST TEAM RESULTS

SEASON 2021 -2022

DATE OPPONENT ATT F A LINE UP

Sat July 10 Peterhead (LC) 246 2-0 Gordon M Smith A Cochrane d Souttar Halkett Kingsley Haring Tues July 13 Cove Rangers (LC) 1983 3-0 Gordon M Smith A Cochrane Souttar Halkett Kingsley b Ginnelly c Tues July 20 Stirling Albion (LC) 211 2-0 Gordon M Smith A Cochrane e Souttar Halkett Kingsley Ginnelly b Sun July 25 Inverness CT (LC) 2989 1-0 Gordon M Smith A Cochrane Halkett Halliday a Kingsley Ginnelly Sat July 31 Celtic 5272 2-1 Gordon M Smith A Cochrane Souttar Halkett Kingsley Ginnelly b

Sat Aug 7 St Mirren 1039 2-1 Gordon M Smith Halliday Souttar Halkett A Cochrane Ginnelly a Sat July 31 Celtic (LC) 45000 2-3 Gordon M Smith A Cochrane c Souttar Halkett Kingsley Halliday a Sun Aug 22 Aberdeen 17449 1-1 Gordon M Smith Halliday a Souttar Halkett A Cochrane Ginnelly c Sat Aug 28 Dundee Utd 9324 2-0 Gordon M Smith Halliday c Souttar Halkett A Cochrane Woodburn a Sun Sep 12 Hibs 0-0 18177 Gordon M Smith b A Cochrane Souttar Halkett Kingsley Woodburn c Sat Sep 18 Ross County 2-2 3802 Gordon T Moore Kingsley Souttar Baningime Halkett McKay Sat Sep 25 Livingston

Sat Oct 2 Motherwell Sat Oct 16 Rangers Sat Oct 23 Dundee Wed Oct 27 St Johnstone Sat Oct 30 Aberdeen

Sat Nov 6 Dundee Utd Sat Nov 20 Motherwell Sat Nov 27 St Mirren Wed Dec 1 Celtic

Sat Dec 4 Livingston Sun Dec 12 Rangers Sat Dec 18 Dundee Sun Dec 26 Ross County Wed Dec 29 St Johnstone Sun Jan 2 Hibs Wed Jan 26 Celtic Sat Jan 29 Motherwell

Sat Feb 5 Rangers Wed Feb 9 Dundee Sat Feb 19 St Johnstone Sat Feb 26 St Mirren Wed Mar 2 Aberdeen

Sat Mar 5 Dundee Utd Sat Mar 19 Livingston

Sat Apr 2 Ross County

Sat Apr 9 Hibs

SUBSTITUTES

McEneff b Boyce e Ginnelly a M-Steven c Walker Pollock Roberts Halliday Henderson Halliday d Boyce Pollock a M-Steven e McEneff Haring Henderson C Smith Denholm

Halliday Boyce d Haring a M-Steven c Gnanduillet Pollock Walker McEneff C Smith

Pollock b Boyce Gnanduillet c M-Steven Haring Walker Henderson

Baningime Boyce Halliday M-Steven a Haring Gnanduillet -

Baningime Boyce c Haring M-Steven b Gnanduillet McEneff Henderson

Baningime Boyce pen Haring b M-Steven Ginnelly McEneff Walker

Baningime Boyce pen Haring b M-Steven b Walker McEneff Henderson

Baningime Boyce Haring M Steven b Ginnelly Gnanduillet T Moore

Baningime Boyce Haring M Steven a Ginnelly T Moore McKay Woodburn b Boyce Gnanduillet M Steven a Devlin Walker -

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

13, 24, 28, 29 13, 20, 28, 29 13, 22, 28, 29 8, 27, 28, 34, 35,13 8, 22, 27, 38, 13 27, 34, 35, 13 22, 27, 35, 13 27, 35, 13 7, 8, 38, 13 14, 16, 21, 13 5, 8, 16, 17, 13

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APPEARANCES 2021/22

PLAYER LEAGUE LEAGUE CUP SFA CUP TOTALS

STARTS SUBS GOALS STARTS SUBS GOALS STARTS SUBS GOALS STARTS SUBS GOALS

Craig GORDON 6 - 2* 5 - 4* - - - 11 - 6* Ross STEWART - - - - - - - - - - - Michael SMITH 5 - - 5 - - - - - 10 - Cammy LOGAN - - - - - - - - - - - Jamie BRANDON - - - - - - - - - - - Alex COCHRANE (L) 5 - - 5 - - - - - 10 - Stephen KINGSLEY 3 - 1 5 - - - - - 8 - 1 John SOUTTAR 6 - 1 4 - - - - - 10 - 1 Andy HALLIDAY 4 - 1 4 1 1 - - - 8 1 2 Craig HALKETT 6 - - 5 - - - - - 11 - Taylor MOORE (L) 1 2 - - - - - - - 1 2 Peter HARING 4 1 - 3 2 - - - - 7 3 Cammy DEVLIN 0 1 - - - - - - - 0 1 Beni BANINGIME 6 - - 1 - - - - - 7 - Ben WOODBURN (L) 3 - - - - - - - - 3 - Scott McGILL $ - - - - - - - - - - - Aaron McENEFF 0 2 - 1 3 1 - - - 1 5 1 Gary MACKAY-STEVEN 6 - 1 5 - 2 - - - 11 - 3 Barrie McKAY 1 1 - - - - - - - 1 1 Jamie WALKER 0 2 - 0 4 1 - - - 0 6 1 Jordan ROBERTS $ - - - 0 1 - - - - 0 1 Josh GINNELLY 3 2 - 4 1 - - - - 7 3 Liam BOYCE 6 - 4(1 5 - 4(1 - - - 11 - 8(2 Armand GNANDUILLET 1 3 1 1 1 - - - - 2 4 1 Euan HENDERSON $ 0 2 - 0 3 - - - - 0 5 Connor SMITH $ - - - 0 2 - - - - 0 2 Finlay POLLOCK - - - 2 2 1 - - - 2 2 1 Aaron DARGE $ - - - - - - - - - - - -

Aidan DENHOLM - - - 0 1 - - - - 0 1 Leon WATSON - - - - - - - - - - - Chris HAMILTON $ - - - - - - - - - - - Mihal POPESCU $ - - - - - - - - - - - Loic DAMOUR $ - - - - - - - - - - - - Totals 66 16 9 55 21 10 - - - 121 37 19

$ Player on loan * Now left Club *Denotes shut out in goals column # Retired as player, now on Development Staff