Boro kit oddities and (one or two) offs

[Liamo]

When was this with the three triangle collar a home kit??

According to the Historical Football Kits website (which I'd always thought was fairly authoritative) we haven't had a home kit with a white shirt since 1899. That was the last year before we adopted red as the home shirt colour.

Boro Historical Kits

 

[Lemmy_kilmister]

As Middlesbrough FCs 150th anniversary is not too far away, do you think we might get a 19th century throwback shirt like Man U did?

 

[Liamo]

As Middlesbrough FCs 150th anniversary is not too far away, do you think we might get a 19th century throwback shirt like Man U did?

Here's all the kits we apparently had before switching to red.

Which one do you reckon it should be?

I think the blue and black hoops or the red and green.

 

[McMordie]

The shirt with the triangular collar and cuffs was the first choice shirt throughout the second half of the 1972/73 season. It was actually used a couple of times earlier that season (Fulham at home and the League Cup tie against Spurs) and then became the regular shirt from the home game with Oxford United on 30 December 1972 onwards. I'd forgotten this until I happened to be reading some match reports in old editions of the Sunday Sun from 1972 and 1973 recently (sad, I know). There are match photos from most of the home games that season and all of them show Boro wearing that shirt from the Oxford game onwards.. I've also seen film footage from the FA Cup tie at Plymouth from mid January 1973 in which they are wearing those shirts.

It's actually exactly the same shirt as the iconic shirt from the 1973/74 promotion season except that Jack Charlton came along in the summer of 1973 and added the white chest band.

Nobby's shorts haven't got a white band - he had an unusual habit of turning over the waist band. Maybe to try to make himself look taller?

 

[McMordie]

I think the photo of the England team at Hutton Road was when they were up here for Harold Shepherdson's testimonial.

 

[MagicMike]

Here's all the kits we apparently had before switching to red.

Which one do you reckon it should be?

I think the blue and black hoops or the red and green.

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If its for the 150th is should be 1876 double denim combo. And yes long pants and belt.

 

[Kevo4]

Here's all the kits we apparently had before switching to red.

Which one do you reckon it should be?

I think the blue and black hoops or the red and green.

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The green and red jockey silks would get my vote

 

[ConcourseColin]

1877/78 looks like the sort of attire found at a midwest horse fair (minus the stetson and cowboy boots)

 

[smogintheforest]

Frank Spraggon sporting all white
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Craggs, Brine and Hickton in the sky blue shorts that appeared with the Inter away kit (looks like this was worn at Upton Park)
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White and black with red trim combo
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Same again but now with a collar and the badge has moved View attachment 5247

When was this with the three triangle collar a home kit??
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Ladbrokes customer of the year 79-82 Dave Shearer in the QPR orange shirtView attachment 5249

Hodgy in the Man Utd shirt
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I was at the match with Hodgy in the Man Utd shirt-Man City at Maine Road in January 1981. From memory, the Boro showed up with the Datsun Cleveland-sponsored shirts as the match wasn't down for TV (highlights only those days, no live League games!). Sponsored shirts weren't allowed on TV. But due to varying postponements elsewhere in non-underpitch heating times, Man City v Boro was picked for TV highlights at the last minute so the Boro had to find new shirts at no notice. Help arrived from another team in Manchester. Did us no good, we lost 3-2!

 

[McMordie]

I was at the match with Hodgy in the Man Utd shirt-Man City at Maine Road in January 1981. From memory, the Boro showed up with the Datsun Cleveland-sponsored shirts as the match wasn't down for TV (highlights only those days, no live League games!). Sponsored shirts weren't allowed on TV. But due to varying postponements elsewhere in non-underpitch heating times, Man City v Boro was picked for TV highlights at the last minute so the Boro had to find new shirts at no notice. Help arrived from another team in Manchester. Did us no good, we lost 3-2!

It was typical Boro - 1-0 up early on....Hodgson sent off.....lost 3-2 to a late goal.

 

[Redwurzel]

The 1878 blue/black is based on the the colours of the de Brus family who owned a lot of Teesside after the Norman Conquest (the period not the pub).

The 1885 mauve/green is based on the family colours of the Pease family. The Peases were quaker businessmen from Darlington who extended the Stockton to Darlington railway to what is now Middlesbrough. They bought the Middlesbrough Estate and became rich from selling and renting land in Middlesbrough as the town grew. They also developed Saltburn.

From around 1899 the Boro started to play in red, because it was an uncommon colour and so they had to change shirts less if they played in red.