With women’s soccer abuzz in the news, it’s high time we take a look back to the first organized women’s soccer league, also known as “association football.” The British Ladies’ Football Club (BLFC) held their first match at Alexandra Park in Crouch End, London, in 1895. Ten thousand “jammed the pitch” to see the Blues play the Reds. They wanted to see what BLFC organizers Lady Florence Dixie and Nettie Honeyball—yes, that was her name—were up to. The responses, at least as represented in the press of day, will be familiar to those who have watched the rise of organized women’s sports in the last several decades. (資料來源)