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Linfield Football Club is a Northern Irish professional football club, based in south Belfast, which plays in the NIFL Premiership – the highest level of the Northern Ireland Football League. The fourth-oldest club on the island of Ireland , Linfield was founded in 1886 by workers at the Ulster Spinning Company's Linfield Mill. [ 3 ]
The Linfield F.C. was founded in Sandy Row in March 1886 by workers from the Ulster Spinning Company's Linfield Mill. Originally named the Linfield Athletic Club, its playing ground, "the Meadow", was situated behind the mill. [23] Linfield's first captain was Sam "Thaw" Torrans.
The 1984 Linfield Wildcats football team was an American football team that represented Linfield University and won the national championship during the 1984 NAIA Division II football season. In their 17th season under head coach Ad Rutschman , the Wildcats compiled a perfect 12–0 record and won the Northwest Conference (NWC) championship.
Ultimately only Notts County successfully progressed to the competition proper after Bolton Wanderers lost to Linfield Athletic in Belfast in the third qualifying round. The nine non-League clubs progressing from the qualifying rounds were Wrexham , Sheffield Heeley , Chatham , Grimsby Town , South Shore , Old Brightonians , Linfield Athletic ...
In 1997, the museum moved to a nearby facility featuring 7,000 square feet (700 m 2) of space with hands-on exhibits, videos, and memorabilia, such as Terry Baker's Heisman Trophy (the first Heisman given to a West Coast athlete), Mack Robinson's Olympic jersey, one of Dale Murphy's Golden Gloves, and Bill Walton's jersey from the 1977 Portland ...
The 1982 Linfield Wildcats football team was an American football team that represented Linfield University as a member of the Northwest Conference (NWC) during the 1982 NAIA Division II football season. In their 15th season under head coach Ad Rutschman, the Wildcats compiled a perfect 12–0 record and won the NWC championship.
The 1986 Linfield Wildcats football team was an American football team that represented Linfield University and won the national championship during the 1986 NAIA Division II football season. In their 19th season under head coach Ad Rutschman , the Wildcats compiled a perfect 12–0 record and won the Columbia Football League (CFL) championship.
The FA Cup, from this season onwards, began to incorporate a series of qualifying rounds in order to determine qualifiers for the actual Cup competition itself.The qualifying rounds were made up of amateur teams, semi-professional teams, and professional sides not yet associated with the Football League.