Women's Football
Dixie played a key role is establishing the game of women's association football, organizing exhibition matches for charity, and in 1895 she became President of the British Ladies' Football Club, stipulating that "the girls should enter into the spirit of the game with heart and soul." She arranged for a women's football team from London to tour Scotland.
Read more about this topic: Lady Florence Dixie
Famous quotes containing the words women and/or football:
“The trouble with Ian is that he gets off with women because he can’t get on with them.”
—Rosamond Lehmann (1903–1990)
“In this dream that dogs me I am part
Of a silent crowd walking under a wall,
Leaving a football match, perhaps, or a pit,
All moving the same way.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)