Bournabat Football Club#1906 Olympics squad

Bournabat Football and Rugby Club was founded in Bornova, an upscale suburb of Smyrna, inhabited mainly by Greeks and Levantines, in late 1880s.[http://www.levantineheritage.com/football.htm Levantine Heritage] The club's players also competed in other sports as every year at St George celebrations at the Bornova Stadium, such as a competition called the Panionian Games organized by Panionios F.C.. The club co-existed in Bornova with other sports clubs, the Bournabat Junior Athletical Association (B.J.A.A.), consisiting of young athletes, and Athletic Union of Bornova, at the time.

The first recorded match in the Smyrna area was between Bournabat and Smyrna FC in 1894 at the Bornova meadow. Bournabat FC was the strongest team in Smyrna in the 1890s. This team consisted of English and French players with the Greek language used as means of communication: MJ Whithall, Ed. Charnaud, Percy Joly, Jim. R. Giraud, Pelcoc Whithall, AJ Whithall, Herbert Joly, AE La Fontaine, Edmund Giraud, Jim Gout, Hav. Joly, Th. Tarrazzi, Herbert Whithall, D. Whithall, Eddie Whithall, G. Whithall, J. Whithall.[https://web.archive.org/web/20051221210932/https://tarihvakfi.org.tr/haberayrinti.asp?ID=394 From the 19th to the 20th Century in the Ottoman Empire (In Turkish)]

In 1889 Bournabat played against Constantinople FC and there is a report from that historical match, according to historian Mehmet Yüce from 2012:

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|date= 1889, January 14, Monday

|time=14:00

|team1=Constantinople Football Club

|score=3–0

|report= Match played under rugby union rules

|team2=Bournabat FRC

|goals1=Ernt Thompson (2), John Thompson (1)

|goals2=

|stadium= Yaourt Tchesme, Moda. Constantinople

|attendance=1000

|referee=unknown }}

The squads were:

Bournabat Football Club: Walter E. Lawson, Charles Wilkinson, Edgar Giraud, Harry Giraud, Charles Giraud, J. Wilkinson, Richard Whittall Junior, Horald Lawson, Reginald Lawson, Louis Senn, Francis Barker, F. Le Bailly, James Joly, Godfrey Barker, Robert Wakeford.

Constantinople Football Club: Biliniski (defenders) – Ernest Thomson, Edwin Whittall, Frank Barker (midfielders) – Willie Whitall and Mountain (defensive midfielders) – J. Thomson, Fitzmaurice, Osman, Hampson, John Thomson, Reggie Whitall, H. Barker, B. Bond and Sellar (forwards).

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In 1906 the club won the Olympic tournament of Smyrna against Apollon Smyrnis and Panionios and its players represented the city in the 1906 Olympics in Athens. Bournabat FC had five members of the Whittall family that won the 1906 Olympic football silver medal. Herbert Whittall, his cousins Albert, Edward, Godfrey and Donald Whittall, along with two other cousins, Jacques and Edmund Giraud and Percy la Fontiane made up the majority of the Smyrna team. Hebert Octavius was at one time the ‘manager’ of the Rugby & Football team in its early days.

The club's squad reperesented Smyrna XI in the 1906 Olympics in Athens.{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1906/FTB/ |title=Football at the 1906 Athina Summer Games |website=sports-reference.com |publisher=Sports Reference |access-date=5 November 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140201230540/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1906/FTB/ |archive-date=1 February 2014}}

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{{Nat fs player no caps|no=|pos=DF|name={{flagicon|FRA}} Edmund Giraud|age={{Birth date and age2|df=y|1906|4|23|1880|11|29}}|club=Bournabat FC|clubnat=Ottoman Empire}}

{{Nat fs player no caps|no=|pos=MF|name={{flagicon|FRA}} Jim Giraud|age={{Birth date and age2|df=y|1906|4|23|1882|5|14}}|club=Bournabat FC|clubnat=Ottoman Empire}}

{{Nat fs player no caps|no=|pos=MF|name={{flagicon|FRA}} Henri Joly|age=|club=Bournabat FC|clubnat=Ottoman Empire}}

{{Nat fs player no caps|no=|pos=GK|name={{flagicon|GBR}} Edwin Charnaud|age={{Birth date and age2|df=y|1906|4|23|1886|00|00}}|club=Bournabat FC|clubnat=Ottoman Empire}}

{{Nat fs player no caps|no=|pos=MF|name={{flagicon|GBR}} Percy La Fontaine|age={{Birth date and age2|df=y|1906|4|23|1888|00|00}}|club=Bournabat FC|clubnat=Ottoman Empire}}

{{Nat fs player no caps|no=|pos=FW|name={{flagicon|GBR}} Albert Whittall|age={{Birth date and age2|df=y|1906|4|23|1879|6|14}}|club=Bournabat FC|clubnat=Ottoman Empire}}

{{Nat fs player no caps|no=|pos=FW|name={{flagicon|GBR}} Donald Whittall|age={{Birth date and age2|df=y|1906|4|23|1881|2|25}}|club=Bournabat FC|clubnat=Ottoman Empire}}

{{Nat fs player no caps|no=|pos=FW|name={{flagicon|GBR}} Edward Whittall|age={{Birth date and age2|df=y|1906|4|23|1888|5|5}}|club=Bournabat FC|clubnat=Ottoman Empire}}

{{Nat fs player no caps|no=|pos=FW|name={{flagicon|GBR}} Godfrey Whittall|age={{Birth date and age2|df=y|1906|4|23|1882|12|24}}|club=Bournabat FC|clubnat=Ottoman Empire}}

{{Nat fs player no caps|no=|pos=FW|name={{flagicon|GBR}} Herbert Whittall|age={{Birth date and age2|df=y|1906|4|23|1884|0|0}}|club=Bournabat FC|clubnat=Ottoman Empire}}

{{Nat fs player no caps|no=|pos=DF|name={{flagicon|GBR}} Zareh Couyoumdjian|age={{Birth date and age2|df=y|1906|4|23|1883|0|0}}|club=Bournabat FC|clubnat=Ottoman Empire}}

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In 1907 and 1908 two more clubs were founded in Bornova, Ermis and Thiseas, both of Greek background, but none was as dominant as Bournabat FC. The club was one of the most powerful in Smyrna during the 1910s competing with Greek and Armenian teams. No team from the area of Smyrna had ever beat the club until 1914, when it lost to Turkish club Altay S.K. by 3–1 in a friendly. Following the next years until 1922, the club changed its name to Barbarian and competed in the Smyrna football league sanctioned by the Hellenic Athletics Federation.

All of the club's players, as most of the Levantine clubs had a Greek NOC for travel purposes.

Smyrna XI consisted of players from the Smyrna area (Apollon Smyrnis, Panionios, Maccabi etc.) playing friendlies in Greece and Constantinople and representing th city in the Olympics. Most of the Smyrna XI players who played friendlies in Constantinople were from Bournabat FC. The emblem of the Smyrna XI was a Cross pattée to show the dominance of Christianity in the city.

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|date= 1897

|time=

|team1=Smyrna XI

|score=2–1

|report=

|team2=Moda FC

|goals1=

|goals2=

|stadium= Constantinople

|attendance=

|referee=unknown }}

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|date= 1898

|time=

|team1=Smyrna XI

|score=3–2

|report=

|team2=Moda FC

|goals1=

|goals2=

|stadium= Smyrna

|attendance=

|referee=unknown }}

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|date= 1899

|time=

|team1=Smyrna XI

|score=1–0

|report=[http://www.tarihvakfi.org.tr/haberayrinti.asp?ID=394 (Report)]

|team2=Moda FC

|goals1=

|goals2=

|stadium= Smyrna

|attendance=

|referee=unknown }}

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|date= 1902

|time=

|team1=Smyrna XI

|score=10–20

|report=[http://www.tarihvakfi.org.tr/haberayrinti.asp?ID=394 (Report)]

|team2=Royal Navy Crew

|goals1=

|goals2=

|stadium= Smyrna

|attendance=

|referee=unknown }}

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|date= 1904

|time=

|team1=Smyrna XI

|score=4–2

|report=[http://www.tarihvakfi.org.tr/haberayrinti.asp?ID=394 (Report)]

|team2=Moda FC

|goals1=

|goals2=

|stadium= Smyrna

|attendance=

|referee=unknown }}

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|date= 11 December 1908

|time=

|team1=Smyrna XI

|score=3–1

|report=[http://www.tarihvakfi.org.tr/haberayrinti.asp?ID=394 (Report)]

|team2=Galatasaray SK

|goals1=

|goals2=

|stadium= Constantinople

|attendance=

|referee=unknown }}

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|date= 2 June 1913

|time=

|team1=Smyrna XI

|score=1–2

|report=[http://www.tarihvakfi.org.tr/haberayrinti.asp?ID=394 (Report)]

|team2=Galatasaray SK

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|goals2=

|stadium= Constantinople

|attendance=

|referee=unknown }}

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|date= 2 June 1913

|time=

|team1=Smyrna XI

|score=1–4

|report=[http://www.tarihvakfi.org.tr/haberayrinti.asp?ID=394 (Report)]

|team2=Fenerbahçe SK

|goals1=

|goals2=

|stadium= Constantinople

|attendance=

|referee=unknown }}

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|date= 2 June 1913

|time=

|team1=Smyrna XI

|score=0–2

|report=[http://www.tarihvakfi.org.tr/haberayrinti.asp?ID=394 (Report)]

|team2=Istanbul Team (6 Fenerbahçe players and 5 Galatasaray players)

|goals1=

|goals2=

|stadium= Constantinople

|attendance=

|referee=unknown }}

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File:Football Club Smyrna (Izmir Football Club) monument.jpg.]]

• {{flagicon |Great Britain}} Percy La Fontaine
• {{flagicon |Great Britain}} Edward Whittall
• {{flagicon |Great Britain}} Albert Whittall
• {{flagicon |Great Britain}} Edwin Charnaud
• {{flagicon |Great Britain}} Donald Whittall
• {{flagicon |Great Britain}} Herbert Whittall [http://www.olympedia.org/athletes/80409 Herbert Whittall]
• {{flagicon |FRA}} Jim Giraud
• {{flagicon |FRA}} Edmund Giraud [https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/80403 Edmund Giraud]
• {{flagicon |Greece|old}} Mamakos (defender)

• {{flagicon |Great Britain}} Herbert Octavius Whittall (b.1858 - died 1929)

Domestic

• Olympic Tournament of Smyrna
• Winners (1): 1906
• Bornova Tournament
• Winners (2): 1894, 1897

International

• Intercalated Games
• Image:Silver medal icon.svg Silver medalists (1): 1906 (representing Smyrna XI)

• List of Turkish Sports Clubs by Foundation Dates

{{reflist}}

• [http://www.olympedia.org/affiliations/6351 Smyrna Football Club, İzmir]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20051221210932/https://tarihvakfi.org.tr/haberayrinti.asp?ID=394 Football in Smyrna, History until 1922]
• [https://www.levantineheritage.com/note54.htm History of Bornova]

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