QPR The Amateur Days is a fact collection of Queen’s Park Rangers' amateur days between 1882 and 1898. The site has no connection to the club and is ideally run by Lars Norlin. For comments please send an email.
The sources are mostly contemporary newspaper notices from the London area. It's information that comes from the club itself, probably written by the club secretary. These notices therefore have very high credibility for the historical description. I will confront this information with corresponding information from the oldest historians from the Club Handbook 1899, Wood 1905, The Mate 1906, Jones 1920, Bushranger 1934 and Hayter 1948 as well as unique facts from more recent historians. In addition, there is also additional information from early Handbooks, Fixture lists, and Tickets (like season tickets).
The ambition is to be able to expand with more pages. Being able to identify players on the oldest team photos would be great. It's a long-term project where more basic material in the form of personal photos of the 19th centuary players needs to be found.
Actually, this research could have been compiled in a printed edition, but new information is added all the time often that means change conclusions. This makes it best to leave the material open in a editable web publication.
There are also a few extra pages about a bit of each, some with a wink.
The news clips are sourced via the British Newspaper Archive. Date and newspaper is indicated. I have used drawn football jerseys from Historic football Kits I have also supplemented jerseys, by my own drawn in the same style.
For the chapter "QPR Matches 1888-1899", I have mainly used statistics produced by Kenneth Westerlund, Helsinki, Finland.Source at QPR.net. The original source include dates, opponents, result, goalscorees.
I have received good views and responses from Peter Lungström, Nynäshamn, Sweden. This has led to corrections and notices about, e.g. the runners' element in QPR's history and White City's ambitions to get a football team to the arena (article 62,000 at White City Stadium).
I was given Wood's home address by Francis Peacock which allowed me to better locate Woods in the census and other lengths.
When working with large amounts of data, it’s inevitable that there will be errors in individual details. It could be typos or factual errors. I am grateful when you notice inaccuracies, you can send me an email.
Uppsala, 12 January 2023
/ Lars
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