Card of the Day - 2021-11-13

Our first card comes from a very attractive set, and has a certain cachet in showing the players in action poses rather than just as head and shoulders shots. You can see the whole set, back and front, at https://cartophilic-info-exch.blogspot.com/2016/01/gallaher-ltd-association-football-club.html

Our man also appears on F & J Smith “Footballers” (1914) 35/50, with his later club, Oldham Athletic, which he joined in September 1910.

However, this card was not included because of him, but for his team, Crystal Palace, and the reason for that was because it was a simple day trip to the pleasure gardens at the Crystal Palace which resulted in the first fatal accident to involve a pedestrian and a motor car, on the 17th of August 1896, the story of which is recounted at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Bridget_Driscoll