THE NORTH BRITISH LEAGUE
The Football Association will, it is understood, give its sanction to formation of the League to be called the North British League comprising the Edinburgh Hibernians, Heart of Midlothian, Dundee, Middlesbrough, Newcastle United and Sunderland clubs. The Scottish F.A. has already signified its willingness to accede to the request of the new League, and arrangements are being pushed forward as much as possible.
Dundee Evening Telegraph - Saturday 17 December 1904
THE NORTH BRITISH LEAGUE
Definite information has been received in Edinburgh that the North British League competition, in which the Heart of Midlothian, Hibernians, and Dundee this side the Border, and Newcastle United, Sunderland, and Middlesborough on the other, were to have taken part, cannot now be carried through this season. It is feared that the English Clubs have been lukewarm on the subject, and as an excuse "difficulties among the Scottish Clubs" are spoken of. The three Scottish Clubs not aware of any difficulties in the matter.
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