Hibernian Firsts

[SouthMoroccoStu]

Hello fellow .netters

I was wanting to compile a comprehensive list of all the 'Firsts' Achieved by our great club

e.g.

First team from Britain to play in Europe.
First team to have floodlights
First team to have shirt sponsorship
First to wear the green....

Etc etc

Please add as many as you can think of.

Glory glory

[Kato]

First team to have floodlights

Don't think that one is correct.

[Hibbyradge]

First team to have undersoil heating (at least in Scotland).

[HNA6]

First to have an electronic kinda scoreboard ..albeit very short lived ..:rolleyes:

[Cocaine&Caviar]

first to draw 6-6 from being 6-2 up? (with the opposition missing a pen)

[Kato]

http://historicwarriors.comuv.com/index_files/page0052.htm


Scotland's first major floodlit challenge match took place at Ochilview on November 7, 1951 when Stenhousemuir met Hibernian in what proved to be an outstanding success and resulted in a 5-3 victory for the visitors.

[hibees 7062]

First team to despise the yams :jamboak:

[Wheat Hound]

First team to despise the yams :jamboak:

but no the last!!!

[Bobo]

Think we were one of the first teams in Britain to fence in supporters from the perimeter of the pitch. It was about 1976, I think? I can't remember any other Scottish grounds with fences at that time.

Anyone with a better memory than me remember this?

[erin go bragh]

First and last to score seven without reply at the pbs :thumbsup:

ggtth

[Hibbyradge]

First team to reach the European Cup semi-final.

[danhibees1875]

Don't think that one is correct.

Think it was stenhousemuir... in a game against hibs.

[tamig]

First British club to tour Brazil I think.

[Ringothedog]

First team to be called Hibernian :wink:

First team to wear green and white hoops

First(and only I think) to win successive 2nd Division Championships
First(and only I think) to win successive 1st and 2nd Division Championships

[Lee]

Weren't we the first British club to beat Real Madrid too? Also first club to play Roma on British soil

[greenginger]

First player to be capped by England whilst not playing in the English League --- Joe Baker

[ancient hibee]

3 players scoring 100 goals on either side of the border-Johnstone,Martin,Baker.(all before Dalglish-often described as the first player to do it).

[Green Cabbage 7]

First to score a european goal I think courtesy of eddie turnbull

First to have shirt sponsor

First sadly to sell colin stein to ra
ngers for 100,000 biggest fee between scottish clubs at the time

[Kato]

First British club to tour Brazil I think.

Nope.

Exeter City toured in Brazil in 1914.

Hibs never toured Brazil. All the games Hibs played were held at the Maracana and were part of the Torneio Octogonal Rivadavia Corrêa Meyer of 1953, a "World Club Championship" tournament and successor to the Copa Rio tourney. Certainly the first British club to enter that.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copa_Rio_%28international_tournament%29

http://www.rsssf.com/tablesr/rio8rcm53.html

[Green Cabbage 7]

Nope.

Exeter City toured in Brazil in 1914.

Hibs never toured Brazil. All the games Hibs played were held at the Maracana and were part of the Torneio Octogonal Rivadavia Corrêa Meyer of 1953, a "World Club Championship" tournament and successor to the Copa Rio tourney. Certainly the first British club to enter that.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copa_Rio_%28international_tournament%29

http://www.rsssf.com/tablesr/rio8rcm53.html

First to play in brazil though!

[Kato]

First to play in brazil though!

If you re-read my post above you'll see the reference to Exeter City being first, in 1914. In between them and Hibs playing Arsenal and Plymouth (or Posrtmouth??) also played games in Brazil.

Hibs were the 4th British but first, and I reckon only to date, Scottish club to play games in Brazil.

[MacBean]

Shorts Sponsorship

[Green Cabbage 7]

If you re-read my post above you'll see the reference to Exeter City being first, in 1914. In between them and Hibs playing Arsenal and Plymouth (or Posrtmouth??) also played games in Brazil.

Hibs were the 4th British but first, and I reckon only to date, Scottish club to play games in Brazil.

Going to a different continent how about hibs tour in africa think it was nigeria and ghana was that a first interested to know!

[thebakerboy]

Not a first but the old terrace was the largest single terrace in Britain according to Lost Edinburgh today on FB

[Glory Lurker]

This might be guff, but I think Hibs were involved in the first game to have the crowd dubbed on TV. This is a vague recollection I have from John MacKay's "Hibees" book - it was the game at ER against Leeds, the abuse being meted out to Bremner was too much for the TV folk to take. I could either go up to the attic just now to check, or one of youse could just tell me that I'm talking out ma bahoochie!

[Tha Cabbage Kid]

First to play in brazil though!

what. before the brazilians?

[Green Cabbage 7]

Ok! The first and the only scottish(british) football side to be named in the brazillian football encyclopedia! Quote of the legendry famous five and there attacking style!

[lyonhibs]

The first set of fans to care quite so much about a whole bunch of spurious and now irrelevant "firsts"..................



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[Liberal Hibby]

First football world champions. (But I like LyonHibs answer).

[nonshinyfinish]

First football world champions. (But I like LyonHibs answer).

Don't think that's true. Sure I remember reading that Renton played PNE for the 'Championship of the World' in 1886, the year before us. Don't know if that was the first. Also can't remember who won...

I would agree that Lyon has nailed this one though.

[nonshinyfinish]

Don't think that's true. Sure I remember reading that Renton played PNE for the 'Championship of the World' in 1886, the year before us. Don't know if that was the first. Also can't remember who won...

I would agree that Lyon has nailed this one though.

Hmm, the wisdom of the internet suggests that Renton did lose to PNE in 1886, but it was in the FA Cup third round. Renton beat West Brom to become world champions in 1888. So maybe we were first? Haven't found a full record of these games yet.