History
The football club was founded in 1908 as part of the wider sports society of Sarajevo gymnasium students informally known as Đački sportski klub (ĐSK) or Srednjoškolski sportski klub (SSK). Since cultural and social activities in the city in those days mostly revolved around Hotel Evropa and gymnasium, the idea about a sporting club was initiated on those premises. Some of the students visited Zagreb earlier that year where they got introduced to the game of football and brought back the first ball to Sarajevo. Notable individuals who organized club activities in this early period were students Zdravko Jeftanović (son of Hotel Evropa's owner dr. Dušan Jeftanović), Feodor Lukač, Emil Najšul, Sveto Gerovac, Stevo Jokanović, etc. Their early activities were very sporadic and basically clandestine as Austro-Hungarian occupational authorities that just annexed Bosnia instituted a ban on any kind of organized gathering.
In early 1909 the football section got its first pairs of boots and started holding regular practices and training sessions at Sarajevo Polje grounds, more precisely military workout open facility known as Egzercir in Čengić Vila area. Since the open field didn't have any goalposts, the students had to haul them in on foot from the city for every practice and match. ĐSK/SSK also informally took red and white as club colours after Slavia Prague, club that served as inspiration for Slavs throughout Austria-Hungary. Harmer, a former striker, came from Vienna to become teams first manager.
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