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The Arsenal Managers series
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This series of articles reviews the history of Arsenal FC as a league club, through the success or otherwise of its managers.
“The Committee” managed the club from 1893 to 1897.
Here are the details we have on this period of management.
The Index of Managers
You can see a list of all Arsenal managers, and analyses of their success rates, games managed etc etc on the Managers Home Page
The Prelude
Beardsley, Humble, Bates, Danskin
Arsenal elected to the Football League
How Arsenal got into the league
The appointment of the first manager
Articles on The Committee as managers
Woolwich Arsenal under the Committee
The case of Sam Hollis and Bill Parr – sometimes claimed as managers at this time
Woolwich Arsenal in the FA Cup 1894/7
Woolwich Arsenal in the FA Cup : 1893/4
16 March 1896 – Arsenal’s first floodlit game
Arsenal’s first international player
The men who played for The Committee
- 1: CA Williams: went on to manage Denmark and in Brazil.
- 2: J Powell: Our first captain who died of injuries on the pitch
- 3: WW Jeffrey: The right back who was a keeper
- 4: D Devine: Lost to history. (Scottish)
- 5: R Buist: I thought he caused us to go pro, but I was wrong. (Scottish)
- 6: D Howat: The mystery man
- 7: D Gemmell: Even more of a mystery man (Scottish)
- 8: J Henderson: Rifleman, champions medal, Arsenal, and then… (Scottish)
- 9: W Shaw: scored our first ever league goal
- 10: A Elliott: Arsenal’s untraceable record holder
- 11: C Booth: the first man to play for Arsenal and Tottenham?
They played 100+ games for Arsenal
