Pantomimists
| 1886 | Matches | Pantomimists v. Licensed
Victuallers Teams left Wharncliffe Hotel in drags - stopped at Barkers Pool for photos. At Sheaf House - Bramall Lane ground committee did not want the game. Attendance 5/6000 at kick off. LV's wore aprons, Actors - their costume The ladies from the pantomimists circulated the crowd selling flowwers, cigarettes, toffees, matches etc. Little Bo Peep, Lillee Taylor, Boy Blue, Miss Moffatt The money raised was to go to the LV Almshouses. The price of attendance was doubled form the previous year to exclude the rough element. Players entered by the Cherry Street entrance. Finished 2-2 Pantomim team - Dame Durden, Clown, Johnny Green, Demon Wolf, Mrs Crusoe, Johnny Stout, Peter Wilkins, King Tum Tum, Policeman A1, Friday, Monkey, Old Clal ?, Flipper, Flapper Umpires - JH Saville & W Mosforth referee E Brayshaw |
| 1886 | Matches | Sheffield Clowns v.
Mexborough Tradesmen 1000 at Mexbro' Clowns won 5-1 |
| 1886 | other matches | Derby County played local pantomimists |
| 1885 | pantomime | Pantomimists v. Garrick at Bramall Lane 20,000 after the success of the previous season. In aid of Children's Hospital and Totley Orphanage. Sheffield 1885-1886 Following the success of the 84-85 pantomime match - it was decided that the Garrick Club should again take the field again local theatrical players. The players from the pantomime at the Royal & Alexandra Theatre played against the Garrick Club at Bramall Lane in February 1886. Proceeds from the match were to benefit the Children's Hospital and Totley Orphanage. Several thousand programmes were printed and these were sold by boys from the Boys Working Home (to which the proceeds from the programmes would go.) The turn out would prove to be one of the largest seen up to that time. The local press estimated at least 20,000 attended, which was actually far more than the ground could reasonably hold for such an occasion and many could get no view of the game and thus either crowded the pitch, or wandered aimlessly around the outfield (remember Bramall Lane was primarily a cricket ground at the time.) Banners were hung around the ground proclaiming "On Alice" - a reference to the panto I think ? Pictures of the competing players (the actors were in costume) were taken on the bowling green in the corner of the ground while bands played for the amusement of the spectators. The players walked out to the pitch, but as soon as they began match, the crowd invaded the pitch and the referee and umpires were forced to call the players in. Thecrowd was eventually removed from most of the pitch, but the restart was only 2 or 3 minutes old when the crowd invaded yet again. This time it took 15 mintues to clear the pitch. Play got under way again - but no extra time was played to take account of stopped play, and so only a few minutes were played in the first half (which unsurprisingly finished 0-0). In the second half Garrick scored the only goal of the game - but the pitch invasions had caused the pitch to turn to mud and so the match itself was not much of an exhibition of football - though apparantly the spectators were amused. |