Dave Taylor (Thames Ironworks F.C. founder)

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Dave Taylor (Thames Ironworks F.C. founder)

Dave Taylor was one of the co-founders of Thames Ironworks F.C.

Thames Ironworks F.C.

Thames Ironworks Football Club, the club that would later become West Ham United F.C., was founded by Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Co. Ltd owner Arnold Hills and foreman Dave Taylor in 1895....
, the team that became West Ham United F.C.

West Ham United F.C.

West Ham United Football Club is an England association football club based in Upton Park, London Borough of Newham, East London, England. They have played their home matches at the Boleyn Ground stadium since 1904....
, in 1895.

He was a foreman at the Thames Iron Works as well as being a local football referee.

He approached the Ironworks owner Arnold Hills

Arnold Hills

Arnold Hills was an English people businessman, sportsman, philanthropist, and promoter of vegetarianism.Hills was the first President of the London Vegetarian Society and the Vegetarian Cycling and Athletic Club, and also served as President of a London Vegetarian Rambling Club....
with the idea of starting a works football team, and with his financial aid was able to announce on 29 June 1895 the following in the company's weekly journal:

"Mr. Taylor, who is working in the shipbuilding department, has undertaken to get up a football club for next winter and I learn that quoits
Quoits

Quoits is a traditional lawn game involving the throwing of a metal or rubber ring over a set distance to land over a pin in the centre of a patch of clay....
and bowls
Bowls

Bowls is a sport in which the goal is to roll slightly asymmetric balls, called bowls, closest to a smaller—normally white—bowl called the "jack" or "kitty"....
will also be added to the attractions." - Thames Iron Works Gazette.

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Dave Taylor was one of the co-founders of Thames Ironworks F.C.

Thames Ironworks F.C.

West Ham United F.C.

Arnold Hills

He organized the half-a-crown year's membership for fifty would-be players and spent that summer arranging the fixtures for the Thames Ironworks team and their reserves.

Before Thames Ironworks played their first game Dave Taylor returned to refereeing and the organisational duties of the club were handed over to another Thames Iron Works employee called Ted Harsent, who became the first official club secretary,

Dave Taylor (Thames Ironworks F.C. founder)

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