Alumni Athletic Club (football)
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| Full name | Alumni Athletic Club |
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| Founded | 1898 |
| Dissolved | 24 April 1913 |
| Ground | (none) |
| League | Primera División |
| 1911 | 1st (champion) |
Alumni Athletic Club, or simply Alumni, was an Argentine football team active during the first years of the sport in that country. Although officially founded in 1898, the team had been formed in 1893 when a group of students from the Buenos Aires English High School joined with Alexander Watson Hutton (who is considered the "father" of Argentine football) to form a team in order to participate in the championship organized by the Argentine Association Football League (then Asociación del Fútbol Argentino, which had been created that year).
The squad was active until 1911 and was disbanded in 1913 due to internal problems. During its run in Primera División, Alumni achieved 10 championships and many national and international cups, becoming one of the most important clubs in the history of Argentine football.
On 25 February 1882, Scottish Professor Alexander Watson Hutton arrived to Buenos Aires. Hutt, considered "the father" of Argentine football, had been hired as Director of Saint Andrew's Scots School but resigned short later due to the institution did not have funds to acquire sports facilities, which were considered by Hutton as an essential component of his teaching methods.
Watson Hutton then created the Buenos Aires English High School (BAEHS) to put in practise his ideas about education, with a special predilection for football. The BAEHS opened on 1 February 1884. To start with the practise of football in Argentina, Waton Hutton brought William Watters from Scotland, to work as a trainer. It was Watters who brought the first footballs from Great Britain to Argentina.
By 1890 football in Buenos Aires had yet to be regulated by any federation although there were many institutions where the game was practised, such as Buenos Aires English High School, St. Andrew's Scots School, Flores Collegiate, Flores English College, Old Caledonians Football Club, Saint John's Football Club, Scotch Club and Buenos Aires Football Club.
In 1891 Alec Lamont, from St. Andrew's, created the Argentine Football Association League. The following teams were registered: St. Andrew's Scots School, Old Caledonians, Buenos Aires and Rosario Railway, Belgrano Football Club (a predecessor of current Belgrano Athletic Club and Buenos Aires Football Club). Nevertheless, this new tournament was badly criticized and was boycotted by most of the clubs. The title was won by St. Andrew's, considered today as the first Argentine Primera División champion ever being recognised even by the Argentine Football Association.
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