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The History of Derby County Football Club 1884–1967 covers the major events in the history of the club from its formation in 1884 until the end of the 1966–1967 season. This era saw Derby become one of the original twelve founder member of the Football League, finish League Runners-Up on three occasions, reach four FA Cup Finals, winning one, and record the club record for the longest continued presence in the top tier of the English football league system, spending 27 years (and 20 seasons) there between 1926 and 1953. A sharp decline towards the end of the era saw Derby lose their status as full league members for the only time in their history with relegation to the Third Division North in 1955 before they returned at settled in the Second Tier for much of the next 15 years. In terms of players, it saw the club represented by arguably its greatest ever player, Steve Bloomer, who scored a club record 332 goals in 525 appearances, as well as other Football League greats such as John Goodall, Hughie Gallacher, Raich Carter and Peter Doherty. ==Formation and founder member of the Football League (1884-1892)== Derby County Football Club was formed in 1884, as an offshoot of Derbyshire County Cricket Club. Derbyshire, which had formed in 1871, had just embarked on a disastrous cricket season, losing all ten of its Championship matches, and was looking for methods of generating extra revenue. There was a team called "Derbyshire" which entered 1880-81 FA Cup but did not make it past the first round, which may have been the cricket team. The next years Derby Town entered though this is probably an unrelated club. With the increasing popularity of football in the areas becoming apparent (Derby Midland had formed the previous year, and 1884 Derbyshire Cup Final had attracted 7,000 spectators, the biggest crowd in the area to ever watch football), William Morley, a bank clerk at the Midland Railway, and several other enthusiasts, saw the establishment of an associated football team as an opportunity to both generate extra revenue and give supporters a winter interest. They approached the Derbyshire FA, formed the previous year, proposing the name “Derbyshire County”, to emphasise the connection to the cricket club. This was rejected as being too long, and the name "Derby County" was instead settled upon, with home games to be played at the County Ground. Adopting a kit of amber, chocolate and blue, the club began to aggressively gather players, including Derby Midland’s star winger George Bakewell and Darley Abbey’s Ernest Hickinbottom, and embarked on an extensive programme of friendlies, beginning with a 6-0 away defeat by Great Lever on 13 September 1884. The club’s official competitive debut in the First Round of the 1885 FA Cup, with a 7-0 defeat at home to Walsall Town on 8 November 1884. The club fared better in the following season's competition, where they recorded victories over Birmingham St. George’s and Aston Villa, before losing to Small Heath Alliance in the Third Round. The victory over Aston Villa, who were established was one of the major forces in the English game at the time, was arguably one of the most important in the club’s history as it attracted better opposition in friendlies and made Derby a prominent enough club to be one of the 12 founder members of The Football League when it was formed in 1888. The opening day of the first ever Football League season was on 8 September 1888, and saw Derby come from 3-0 down away to Bolton Wanderers to win 6-3, though the club ultimately finished 10th out of 12 teams. Between September 1888 and 8 December 1888, the club embarked on a run of eight consecutive defeats which, despite being equaled twice, in 1865 in 1987-88, stands as a club record today. Despite this poor start, the club acquired its first superstar in May 1889, with the shock capture of forward John Goodall. Goodall had just finished the season as the league’s top scorer and had been part of Preston North End's famous "The Invincibles", who had just won the League and FA Cup Double and gone the whole league season unbeaten. Despite Goodall’s presence the club could only manage a 7th-place finish in the 1890-91 Football League and recorded the club record defeat when they lost 11-2 away to Everton in the FA Cup First Round. The 1890-91 season opened with an extraordinary 8-5 victory over Blackburn Rovers at the Racecourse Ground, which was Indicative of the quixotic nature of the season ahead. Derby conceded 81 goals in just 22 matches, conceding 4 or more in over half the season fixtures. They also recorded the club record league victory of 9-0, which came against Wolverhampton Wanderers just a week after losing 8-0 away to Sunderland. The goalkeeper for much of the campaign was future Scotland international David Haddow, who joined from Albion Rovers in the summer. Haddow played just 16 matches for Derby, shipping 69 goals, before being sent back to Albion. His successor was Charles Bunyan, who had kept goal for Hyde United when they lost 26-0 to Preston North End in 1887. The club eventually recorded a finish of 11 out of 12 teams, largely thanks to the goals of John Goodall, who hit 13 in just 20 appearances. In the 1891 close season, Derby absorbed Derby Midland, who had just beaten them in the 1-0 in the Derbyshire Senior Cup Final, leaving The Rams as Derby’s sole professional football club. They still struggled in the league, however, finishing a mediocre 10th out 14 teams in the 1891–92 season, though the campaign was notable for the playing of one match, a 1-0 victory over Sunderland, at The Baseball Ground, later to be the club's home, due to a date clash with the County Ground's lessee, the Derby Recreation Company. The season also saw John Goodall become the first player to be picked for England whilst at the club when he played against Wales in March 1891. In 1892 the Football League invited the Football Alliance to merge with them and a new look Football League Division One, consisting of the previous season's Football League clubs (minus the relegated Darwen) and the three strongest Alliance clubs (Nottingham Forest, Newton Heath and Sheffield Wednesday), was formed. One offshoot of this was the holding of the first ever competitive East Midlands derby, which saw Forest run out 3-2 winners at the County Ground. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「History of Derby County F.C. (1884–1967)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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