Cricket

You may not think of cricket as being a dangerous sport, certainly where no-one dies, but for animals it has been a different story. A goose met its end when the batsman

"... hit a six down out of the bottom, over the road and he killed a lady's goose."

Subsequently, a cockerill and a duck have also suffered the same fate.

Football

The date or even the year Longhope Football Chub was founded is not known at present. It was believed to have started in the 1940s when they were members of the North Gloucestershire League. However, a newspaper article from February 8th. 1913 records the monthly meeting of the League and states that Longhope were to play Hatherley on March 29th. of that year. An even earlier article, of 1911, mentions Longhope Football Club when they attended the annual meeting of the North Gloucestershire League. The league itself was founded in 1907 [1] but the club may have had origins before then.

By 1920, they were playing in the Second Division of the North Gloucestershire League [2].

Longhope were champions of division three in the season of 1949/50.

Perhaps even more impressive was the 1959/60 season when, not only did they come top of division two, they also won the George Sandoe Cup by beating Wilton Rovers by five goals to three. Only conceeding 19 goals compared to scoring 157 was perhaps their most impressive season of all time.

References

Private documents [04]
Private documents [03]

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