Sport
Kiveton has a long sporting heritage stretching back to 1879, when Kiveton Park Colliery Cricket Club was formed. The club plays in the Bassetlaw and District Cricket League and has done since its inception in 1904, and are the only club to hold the distinction of playing in the league every single year the league has functioned.
In 1892, Kiveton Park Football Club was formed. The club was one of the founding members of the Northern Counties East League League, and now plays in the Central Midlands Football League, at the 12th level of the English Football Pyramid. The club played in the FA Cup for four consecutive years from 1946 as 'Kiveton Park Colliery', and in 1969 as 'Kiveton Park United'. The club also played in the FA Vase from 1976 to 1989.
The village is also famous as the birthplace of legendary football manager Herbert Chapman and his brother Harry, one of the greatest players to have played for Sheffield Wednesday. At one time Kiveton was reputed to be the birthplace of more professional footballers than any place its size in England, with the likes of the Chapman brothers, Derrick Ashton (Aston Villa), Sidney Cartwright (Arsenal), Jack Hicklin (Sheffield Wednesday), Leslie Hoften (Manchester United), Eric Oakton (Chelsea) and Walter Wigmore (Birmingham City) all hailing from the village.
Kiveton has even produced an international footballer - Bert Morley appearing for England against Ireland in 1910, just five years after making his name with the village side.
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Famous quotes containing the word sport:
“Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words it is war minus the shooting.
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—George Orwell (1903–1950)
“For generations, a wide range of shooting in Northern Ireland has provided all sections of the population with a pastime which ... has occupied a great deal of leisure time. Unlike many other countries, the outstanding characteristic of the sport has been that it was not confined to any one class.”
—Northern Irish Tourist Board. quoted in New Statesman (London, Aug. 29, 1969)