| Full name | Reforma Athletic Club | ||
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| Founded | 1894 | ||
| Ground | Club Reforma, Mexico City | ||
| League | amateur | ||
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The Reforma Athletic Club is a Mexican football team that played in the Liga Mexicana de Football Amateur Association prior to the development of the professional Mexican first division. The club now plays in an amateur league in Mexico City.
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The club was founded in 1894 by a group of English migrants in order to play sport and as a social club. Their members would practice cricket, among other sports, and it became a tradition to drink tea every afternoon at 5 o'clock.
In 1902 the club first participated in a football competition in Mexico City in the Liga Mexicana Amateur de Asociación Foot-Ball along with clubs "Orizaba Athletic Club", "Pachuca Athletic Club", "Reforma Athletic Club", "Mexico Cricket Club" and "British Club"; this being the first organized football tournament in Mexico.
Before the first match in the new league took place the club played numerous friendlies against "Pachuca Athletic Club" in order to unite the English migrants living around Mexico. In 1901 the club was formed by such players as James Walker, A.J. Campbell, T.R. Phillips, A.T. Drysdale, F. Robertson and E.W Jackson played friendly against local Scottish and English clubs representing their country of origin.
The club paid its first game in the league on October 19, 1902 against the eventual champions Orizaba Athletic Club in Orizaba, Veracruz with a score of 2-0.
In 1914 the club suffered a big blow after almost all of its players returned to Europe in order to take part in World War ISp, as most of its players were British and had decided to fight for their homeland.
In 1920 the club was revived, this time with more Mexican players who had been born in Mexico but had English parents, along with players returning from the war .
The club played its last league match on July 6, 1924 losing 1-0 to Club de Fútbol Aurrerá.The club would once again be rivive in 1948 as the founder of the Liga interclubes de fútbol soccer Amateur along with clubs Tecaya, Canarios, Deportivo Chapultepec, Tiburones, Titingo, Osos and Lusitania where the club still participates .
In Mexico, the 1905/06 season saw the first club from the capital - Reforma Athletic Club- win the Mexican championship. This club, though dominated by Brits, did also allow native players. It was remarkable that in 20 league matches there were 16 where at last one or both sides failed to score. Champions Reforma had two excellent full-backs in the brothers Robert and Charles Blackmore, while most of their goals were not scored by a forward but by right half-back Charles Butlin. Mexico Cricket Club, which had changed name to San Pedro Golf Club, were runners-up.
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The Mexican championship was going through a critical period. Only three teams had entered the 1908/09 season, at the end of which Reforma Athletic Club (Mexico City) won for the third time after 1906 and 1907. Only eight players remained of the 1907 side. Except for the three forwards Vicente Etchegaray', Jorge Parada and Julio Lacaud, the other players all came from Europe, especially Great Britain.
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