1913–14 FC Basel season

FC Basel 1913–14 First team coach Percy Humphreys Karl Ibach until 25 September 1913Carl Albert Hintermann from 25 September 1913 Ground Landhof, Basel Serie A Group Stage: 2nd Christian Albicker (12) 1912–13 1914–15 The FC Basel 1913–14 season was their twenty-first season since the club's foundation on 15 November 1893. The club's chairman was Karl Ibach, but he stood down at the AGM on 25 September 1913. From that date Carl Albert Hintermann took over as club president. FC Basel played their home games in the Landhof in the district Basel-Wettstein in Kleinbasel, Basel. Overview The Englishman Percy Humphreys was the first professional trainer that the club FC Basel had ever employed. Under club chairman Karl Ibach, Humphreys signed his contract and began his duties on 1 April 1913. He had previously been head-coach for Hartlepool United in the English North Eastern League. Prior to Humphreys, it had always been the team captain who had taken over the function of the trainer. Basel played 32 matches in their 1913–14 season. 14 of these matches were in the domestic league and 18 were friendly games. Six of these were home games, played in the Landhof, one other home game was played on the Margarethenwiese in Basel, five others were away games in Switzerland and five games were played abroad. Basel played seven matches against German teams, one against the English team Bradford City and the other ten opponents were Swiss. Of these friendlies 10 were won and 8 ended with a defeat. In these 18 games Basel scored a total of 57 goals and conceded 47. Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv” https://www.fcb-archiv.ch/saison/spiele?saison=1913%2F14&liga=8 Test games 1913–14 Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv” 2020-11-16 The Swiss Serie A 1913–14 was divided into three regional groups, East, Central and West. Basel were allocated to the Central group together with local rivals Old Boys and Nordstern Basel. The other teams playing in the Central group were Young Boys, FC La Chaux-de-Fonds, Étoile-Sporting FC La Chaux-de-Fonds, FC Bern and Biel-Bienne. Basel started well into the championship winning seven of the first eight games, the first four games straight off. After the new year break things turned against them and they were defeated three times. Basel lost contact to the Young Boys at the top of the table and ended the season in joint second position with FC Bern, they were three points behind the group winners. In their 14 games Basel scored 63 goals and conceded 33. The two highest scoring games were both played against FC La Chaux-de-Fonds. Basel won the home game 11–4 and the away game 10–1. https://www.fcb-archiv.ch/saison/spiele?saison=1913/14 Central Switzerland 1913–14 Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv” 2020-11-16 The Young Boys continued to the finals against Cantonal Neuchatel and Aarau, who eventually won the championship in the Finals. Last place in the group bottom was Old Boys, who therefore entered the play-off round against relegation, in which they were successful. Erik Garin https://www.rsssf.org/tablesz/zwithist-reg.html Switzerland 1913-1914 rsssf.org 2018-11-16 The Anglo-Cup was not played in this year and so, Basel could not defend the title that they had obtained the year before. But memories of this cup win soon faded anyway, because in fact the competition was discontinued completely due to World War I. Christoph Kieslich Mike Gosteli 17 May 2013 https://tageswoche.ch/sport/der-vergessene-cup-sieg/ Der vergessene Cup-Sieg The forgotten cup victory TagesWoche 2020-11-16 Players Squad members SUI GK Fridolin Wenger SUI DF Paul Bettex SUI DF Hermann Moll SUI DF Peter Riesterer SUI MF Fritz Albicker (II) SUI MF Wilhelm 'Willy' Geisser GER MF Josef Goldschmidt SUI MF Ernst Gossweiler SUI MF Emil Hasler SUI MF Ernst Kaltenbach SUI MF Otto Kuhn SUI MF Emil Schreyer SUI FW Fritz Aeppli SUI FW Christian Albicker (I) FW Rudolf Bredschneider ENG FW Percy Humphreys FW Carl Schloz SUI FW Karl Wunderle Roger Breithaupt Walter Flück Max Glenck GK Emil Fehr GK Camillo Persenico GK Schaltenbrand ? Gossweiler ? Hack ? Rittel Results Legend #CCFFCC Win 1px solid #AAAAAA #FFFFCC Draw 1px solid #AAAAAA #FFCCCC Loss 1px solid #AAAAAA Friendly matches Pre- and mid-season Pre-season 24 August 1913 Freiburger FC 2–4 Summary Basel Feldberg W Pre-season 30 August 1913 Basel 2–0 Summary Stuttgarter Kickers Schreyer Albicker Landhof, Basel SUI Louis Riesterer W Pre-season 14 September 1913 St. Gallen 3–2 Summary Basel Leissing 1:1Neumeyer 2:1Ehrbar pen. 3:1 0:1 3:2 Humphreys St. Gallen L Pre-season 28 September 1913 14:30 Servette 0–4 Summary Basel Parc des Sports, Geneva W Mid-season 16 November 1913 15:00 Basel 3–0 Summary Freiburger FC Landhof, Basel W Winter break to end of season Winter break 14 December 1913 Equipe Romande Basel 1–6 Summary Basel Basel W Winter break 26 December 1913 Karlsruher FV 4–7 Summary Basel 1:22:2pen. 3:3Fuchs 4:4 3 0:10:22:33:4 Aeppli4:5 Aeppli 4:6 4:7 Karlsruhe W Mid-season 11 January 1914 Freiburger FC 3–6 Summary Basel Diemer Walch Nägele Freiburg im Breisgau GER EhretGER H. Banzhaf W Mid-season 1 February 1914 Baden 4–5 Summary Basel Baden 300 W Mid-season 8 March 1914 10:30 Basel 2–3 Summary Concordia Basel Moll 30 pen. 1:0Moll 75 pen. 2:1 1:1 Schürchpen. 2:2 Ferralli II90 Ferralli II Landhof, Basel L Mid-season 5 April 1914 Basel 0–5 Summary Cantonal 10 0:10:230 0:385 0:490 0:5 Landhof, Basel L Mid-season 11 April 1914 MTV München 1879 6–1 Summary Basel Munich L Mid-season 12 April 1914 Bayern Munich 4–1 Summary Basel Munich L Mid-season 26 April 1914 Young Fellows Zürich 3–0 Summary Basel Schaltenbrand Wintsch Schaltenbrand Hardturm, Zürich 1,500 L End of season 10 May 1911 15:10 Basel 2–4 Summary Bradford City Bredschneider 76 1:4Albicker 78 2:4 10 0:1 Slaer20 0:2 Bond63 0:3 Currie70 o.g. 0:4 Goldschmidt Landhof, Basel 3,500 SUI Louis Riesterer L End of season 17 May 1914 Basel 7–0 Summary Baden Schreyer 1:0 2:0Aeppli 3:0 4:0Aeppli 5:0Hasler 6:0 80 7:0 Landhof, Basel W End of season 24 May 1914 Cantonal 2–5 Summary Basel Colombier, Neuchâtel W End of season 7 June 1914 17:00 Basel 0–3 SUI Summary Young Fellows Zürich 0:1 Schaltenbrand0:2 Schaltenbrand0:3 Leiber II Margarethenwiese, Basel L Serie A 1913–14 Swiss Serie A Central group results Round 1 5 October 1913 15:00 Basel 11–4 Summary La Chaux-de-Fonds 1:32:33:34:35:36:37:38:39:310:311:3 0:10:20:3pen. 11:4 Haudenschild Landhof, Basel SUI Etzensberger Etoile La Chaux-de-Fonds W Round 2 12 October 1913 14:45 Biel-Bienne 2–4 Summary Basel Fallet 25 1:1Grupp 73 2:3 15 0:1 60 1:2 61 1:3 73 2:4 Gurzelen Stadion, Biel/Bienne SUI Dondelinger W Round 3 19 October 1913 14:35 Étoile-Sporting 1–5 Summary Basel Wyss (I) 35 1:3 4 0:1 Albicker (I)9 0:2 Albicker (I)25 0:3 Albicker (I) 1:4 Schreyer1:5 Aeppli La Chaux-de-Fonds SUI Otto Eicher Young Boys W Round 4 9 November 1913 15:00 Nordstern Basel 5–7 Summary Basel Bollinger 11 1:0Wüthrich 2:2Bollinger pen. 3:4Bollinger 4:7Bollinger 5:7 5 1:1 Aeppli1:2 Wunderle2:3 Schreyer2:4 Aeppli3:5 Albicker (I)51 2:6 Schreyer3:7 Aeppli Basel SUI H. Allemann Zürich W Round 5 23 November 1913 14:30 Basel 1–2 Summary Young Boys Schreyer 61 1:2 15 0:1 Funk (II)42 0:2 Bommer Landhof, Basel 2,000 SUI Willy Beuttner Zürich L Round 6 30 November 1913 15:00 Old Boys 2–7 Summary Basel Grunauer 29 1:1Higelin pen. 2:7 12 0:1 Albicker (I)35 pen. 1:2 Moll43 Albicker (I)48 1:4 Aeppli50 pen. 1:5 Albicker (I)64 1:6 Albicker (I)1:7 Bredschneider Basel 2,000 SUI H. Grisch Young Fellows Zürich W Round 7 7 December 1913 15:00 Basel 7–1 Summary FC Bern Albicker (I) 1:0Wunderle 2:0Albicker (I) pen. 3:0 4:1 5:1 6:1 7:1 Bredschneider 3:1 Beuchat Landhof, Basel 1,400 SUI Allemann Zürich W Round 8 4 January 1914 14:30 Basel 4–1 Summary Nordstern Basel Moll pen. 1:0Schreyer 2:0Kaltenbach 3:0Bredschneider 4:1 3:1 Haas Landhof, Basel 1,200 SUI H. Grisch Young Fellows Zürich W Round 9 15 February 1914 Young Boys 5–0 Summary Basel Dasen 2 1:0Funk (II) 5 2:0Reber 15 3:0Dasen 40 4:0Dasen 80 5:0 Bern 3,000 SUI Sandoz Lausanne-Sport L Round 10 22 February 1914 15:00 Basel 2–4 Summary Étoile-Sporting Albicker (I) 1:2Albicker (I) 2:2 10 0:1 Perrenoud30 0:2 Hirschi2:3 Wyss (I)2:4 Wyss (II) Landhof, Basel SUI Hans Koblet Winterthur L Round 11 1 March 1914 15:00 Basel 2–1 Summary Old Boys Wunderle 5 1:0Aeppli 27 2:0 49 2:1 Merkt Landhof, Basel 2,500 SUI Weber St. Gallen W Round 12 15 March 1914 15:00 Basel 2–2 Summary Biel-Bienne Moll pen. 1:0Kaltenbach 2:2 1:1 Lehmann1:2 Keller Landhof, Basel SUI Weber St. Gallen D Round 13 22 March 1914 FC Bern 2–0 Summary Basel 1:0Wasserfallen 2:0 Kirchenfeld, Bern SUI L Round 14 3 May 1914 14:30 La Chaux-de-Fonds 1–10 Summary Basel Robert Vital 1:3 5 0:1 0:2 0:3 1:4 1:5 1:6 1:7 1:8 1:9 1:10 Parc des Sports, La Chaux-de-Fonds SUI W Central group league table main WDL Central 5 Q 2 YB Young Boys BAS Basel BER FC Bern ÉCF Étoile-Sporting BB Biel-Bienne NOR Nordstern Basel CDF La Chaux-de-Fonds OBB Old Boys 10 2 2 46 21 9 1 4 63 33 9 1 4 40 32 7 1 6 34 34 5 2 7 33 34 5 1 8 29 34 3 2 9 26 57 2 2 10 21 47 green1 Advance to finals A red1 To relegation play-off R complete rsssf See also History of FC Basel List of FC Basel players List of FC Basel seasons References Sources Rotblau: Jahrbuch Saison 2014/2015. 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