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Alex James was a Scottish Association Football player. He was born in 190 and died in 1953. Alex James played for Raith Rovers, Preston North End and Arsenal as well as appearing for Scotland first in 1925 and subsequently on seven other occasions. In 1929 he transferred to Arsenal for £9000 and became the most successful goal-maker in the history of English Association Football, being the key player behind Arsenal's success over the next six seasons in which they won the championship four times and reached the final of the FA Cup three times.
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John Curwen was a British music reformer. He was born in 1816 at Heckmondwike and died in 1860. He entered the congregational ministry and was minister at Plaistow from 1844 until 1864 when he resigned. In 1841 he studied the tonic sol-fa system invented by Miss Glover, and in 1843 published his 'Grammar of Vocal Music'. In 1853 he founded the Tonic Sol fa Association and the college, of which he was the first principal, in 1869, and wrote several books on the teaching of music.
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FA is an abbreviation for Football Association
FA is an abbreviation for Field Artillery
FA is an abbreviation for Fielding Average
FA is an abbreviation for Frequency Agility
FA is an abbreviation for Family Allowance
FA is an abbreviation for Faculty of Actuaries
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Arsenal F.C. is an Association Football Club which was founded in 1886 by a group of workmen in a section of the Royal Arsenal establishment at Woolwich, London, and called Dial Square. The club became professional in 1891 and was elected to the Second Division of the Football League in 1893. It became Woolwich Arsenal in 1896 and adopted its present name in 1913 when it moved from Plumstead in south London to Highbury, north of the river Thames. Arsenal won the FA Cup in 1993 and again in 1998.
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Aston Villa F.C. is an Association Football club which was founded at Villa Cross, Handsworth in Birmingham in 1874 by some youths connected with a Wesleyan church, and was one of the original members of the Football League in 1888. Aston Villa F.C. won the Birmingham Association Cup in 1880 and first won the League Championship in 1893-4 and won it four more times before the Great War. Aston Villa F.C. played at Pery Bar until 1887 when they moved to Aston and won the FA Cup in the same year.
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Chelsea FC is an Association Football club in London. It was founded in 1904 and accepted into the second division of the football league. In 1997 Chelsea FC won the FA Cup in 1970, 1997 and again in 2000. Chelsea FC play at Stamford Bridge, which was opened in 1877 and at first used by the London Athletics Club and after changing ownership was offered to Fulham FC, who declined the offer to use the ground which instead was used by the newly formed Chelsea FC who rented the ground during the football season.
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Coventry City FC is an English Association Football Club. Coventry City FC was formed in 1883 by employees of the Singers bicycle firm, and was known then as 'Singers', changing its name to Coventry City in 1898. Coventry City FC play at Highfield Road, where they have played since 1899. Coventry City were elected to the Football League Division Two in 1919. In 1987 Coventry City FC won the FA Cup.
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Everton FC is an Association Football club in Liverpool, England. It was founded in 1878 by men from a Sunday School, and named St Domingo Church Sunday School Club. The name was quickly changed to Everton the same year, and the club became professional in 1885. In 1995 Everton won the FA Cup.
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The Association Football Cup (FA Cup) competition was inaugurated in 1871, being contested originally by fifteen clubs, all amateur, the first final being played at Kennington Oval in 1872 between the Wanderers and the Royal Engineers - the Wanderers winning 1-0, since 1923 it was played at Wembley Stadium. In 1884 the cup was won by Blackburn Rovers, after which amateur teams started to fall out of the competition, The first final at Wembley was played in 1923 when Bolton Wanderers beat West Ham United FC 2-0.
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Leeds United FC is an Association Football club, founded in 1904 as Leeds City, it played in the Football League Second Division from 1905 until 1919 when the club was ordered to disband over irregularities in its administration. Almost immediately - in 1920 - a new club was formed under the name of Leeds United. The club plays in white shirt and white shorts at Elland Road. In 1972 Leeds United won the FA Cup.
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