A FOOTBALL club in Solihull are celebrating their centenary this weekend with players past and present to attend a glitzy black-tie event to commemorate the occasion.
Wake Green Amateur turn 100 years-old in November this year after the club formed back in 1925.
The club will celebrate the landmark with a Centenary Gala Ball at Hogarths Hotel, Solihull on Saturday, November 8.
The club was founded by 17-year old George Auster and his friend Bernard Bacchus, who adopted the name Wake Green – after the road in Moseley which adjoined their homes.
Wake Green played their first match in 1925 and had 12 players to choose from.
Club founder Auster refereed the fixture after losing a coin toss with Bacchus as to who took the 11th place in the team.
Membership grew to over 70 players by 1939 but the club effectively closed at the outbreak of the Second World War.
The tireless efforts of chairman Max Holloway, and his deputy and friend Tom French, brought the club back to life after the war.
The club currently has six senior teams and one junior side who also play at the ground in Drawbridge Road, Majors Green.
And Wake Green named the ground ‘The Holloway’ in recognition of Holloway’s 75 years of service to the club from 1929 until his death in 2004.
The first team also currently play in the Midland Football League Division Two at Step Seven of the non-league pyramid.
