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International Football History Conference
6-7 June 2019 Manchester City Football Academy, Manchester, England
LFA were pleased to present to the conference on ‘Origins of the FIFA-Langton Collection’.
Abstract
The number of Football Museums & Galleries open to the public has slowly increased in recent decades with several of National and International scope. Of core value to these are artefacts of historic, artistic and cultural significance. At the heart of the National Museum of Football (NFM) in Britain is the FIFA-Langton Collection, established by sports journalist and Sporting Art aficionado Harry Langton over twenty years from the mid-1970s.
Harry Langton was a journalist reporting World Sport in the 1960s, and notably the 1966 FIFA World Cup Finals. He helped to pioneer the use of colour in newspaper sport. He then moved on to play a role in securing a greater interest in the History of World Football and other games as depicted in items of outstanding interest and Fine Art quality. Seeking both a permanent home and touring exhibitions, he promoted small, then larger sponsored Football Art public exhibitions (1981-1995) in London, Tyne & Wear, Munich, Basel, Rome, New York and Paris, with coverage of Association Football and related games from an International perspective.
The original concept from the mid 1970’s was telling stories surrounding the more significant events, people and places in the evolution of Football and related ball games around the world. Rugby Football components of Langton’s larger (to 1994) collection, The Langton Collection became a part of the Rugby Union Museum, opening in 1996 at Twickenham, London. The larger part, funded by FIFA Zurich then formed the FIFA Museum Collection. Together with additional material procured by him initially for FIFA and then NFM 1996-1999, this collection was displayed at National Football Museum within Preston North End’s redeveloped Deepdale Stadium, Lancashire, England (2001-2010). It is now displayed at NFM Urbis in central Manchester (2012-present,) renamed in 2016 as the FIFA-Langton Collection.
THE 2019 RUGBY WORLD CUP IN JAPAN
Japan Pavillion Exhibition for Rugby World Cup
Rugby-like Football games were played on flat ground in Yokohama in south Tokyo by the British and perhaps other Europeans from the 1860’s. Who knows how many locals joined in too, perhaps also American sailors? Here we see an early engraving of a scrummage, during a game that is thought to be between Scottish and English players, watched by the intrigued populous. The flag of the Yokohama Foot Ball Club is flying on a bamboo pole, against the fine backdrop of a snow-tipped Mount Fuji.
FOOT-BALL AT YOKOHAMA, TOKYO in 1874
LFA were pleased to loan this historic Football print for display
A newspaper account in The Japan Times records a meeting held on January 26th 1866, to found the “Yokohama Foot-Ball Club”. Over forty names came forward to support the Club, including two or three Rugby and Winchester [school] men in the Community”, and it was stated that “we may be certain that we shall have really good scientific play.”
‘The Womens Game’ – Paris, June/July 2019
LFA are delighted to loan material for two summer temporary exhibitions on women’s football history to the FIFA World Football Museum in Zurich and in Paris. The free entry exhibitions adjoin the fan zone (Les Halles) during the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup competition. The Paris exhibition has been visited by over 30,000 members of the public and at Enge, Zurich some innovative techniques were used to engage school children and adults in learning experiences over the history of women’s participation in Football and the fight for recognition and participation.
A range of items including playing kit, die cut Victorian images, photographs, ceramics, badges, pictures and a statue were beautifully displayed thanks to the FIFA Museum curation expertise, with the exhibitions organised and designed by Hyundai Motor Company.
