During its 1905–06 season, New Brompton F.C., an English football

club, competed in the Southern League Division One. The team began the

season on 2 September 1905 in poor form; they failed to score in six of

their first eight league games and, by midseason, they were near the

bottom of the league table. In the new year, the team won three of its

first seven Southern League games, but failed to score in eight of the

final nine league games. New Brompton finished the season in 17th place

out of 18 teams in the division. They also competed in the FA Cup,

reaching the second round. The team played a total of 37 league and cup

matches, winning 8, drawing 9 and losing 20. Bill Marriott was the

club's top goalscorer, with four goals in the Southern League and one in

the FA Cup. Joe Walton (pictured) made the most appearances, playing in

36 of the team's 37 games. The highest attendance recorded at

Priestfield Road was 5,500 for a game against Portsmouth on 27 January

1906.

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Today's selected anniversaries:

1885:

White miners in Rock Springs, Wyoming, attacked Chinese-

American immigrants, killing at least 28 Chinese miners and causing

approximately $150,000 in property damage.

1901:

U.S. vice president Theodore Roosevelt first publicly used the

phrase "speak softly and carry a big stick" at the Minnesota State Fair,

describing his philosophy of negotiating peacefully while simultaneously

threatening to use military force.

1945:

On the deck of the U.S. Navy battleship Missouri in Tokyo Bay,

representatives from the Empire of Japan and the Allied powers signed

the Japanese Instrument of Surrender, formally ending World War II.

2011:

Bad weather caused a Chilean Air Force aircraft to crash into

the Pacific Ocean, killing all 21 people on board.

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Wiktionary's word of the day:

hitherto:

1. (formal, also law) Up to this or that time.

2. (chiefly archaic or literary)

3. Up to this place.

4. In speech or writing: up to this point; thus far.

5. (obsolete) Synonym of hereto (“regarding this subject; to achieve

this result; to this end”).

6. (archaic) Existing or occurring before now; former, preceding,

previous.

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Wikiquote quote of the day:

  There are some surely whom you like and whom you dislike, for

whom you entertain esteem and for whom you feel contempt? Have you not

thought that you have some duties toward them, that you can aid them in

leading better lives?  

--Paul Bourget

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