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| Picture No | 10951963 |
| Date | 1918 |
| Description | Unbeaten team of lady footballers, WWI |
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The undefeated team of Humber girls, made up of munitions girls from the Humber factory. The Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic News comments that they play, 'serious football, and is probably the best ladies' team in the Midlands' and had, at the time of publication, played twelve matches, scoring 53 goals to 3, largely due to 'one very skilful player who has shot 29 of the goals.' They played such teams as Daimler, Rudge-Whitworth and Poppe, the Coventry Chain Co. etc, and were trying to arrange a return contest with the Vickers' representatives who drew with them. recently. The team is pictured on the left in their striped shirts while their goalkeeper, Miss Turner, is shown making a save on the right.
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| Source | Unattributed photograph in The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News, 16 February 1918 |
| Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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