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    Football Club. He was born in 1873, the son of Joseph and Charlotte Mears. In 1896, Mears and his brother Joseph purchased the Stamford Bridge Athletics Ground...
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  • sports commentator Gus Mears (1873–1912), English businessman and founder of Chelsea F.C. Gus Meins (1893-1940), German-American director Gus Mortson (1925–2015)...
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  • Frank Mears (1880–1953), Scottish planning practitioner Frederick Mears (1878–1939), American civil engineer Gus Mears (1873–1912) (Henry Augustus Mears),...
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  • founded by Gus Mears in 1905. After his death in 1912, his descendants continued to own the club until 1982, when Ken Bates bought the club from Mears' great-nephew...
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    stadium was used by the London Athletic Club until 1905, when new owner Gus Mears founded Chelsea Football Club to occupy the ground; Chelsea have played...
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    years. In 1896, Henry Augustus "Gus" Mears, football enthusiast and businessman, along with his brother, Joseph Mears, purchased the Stamford Bridge Athletics...
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  • John "Joe" Mears (20 January 1905 – 30 June 1966) was chairman of Chelsea Football Club and the Football Association. Mears was the son and nephew of Chelsea...
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    offer from businessman Gus Mears to move Fulham to land where the present-day Chelsea stadium Stamford Bridge is situated, Mears decided to create his...
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    lead in terms of total trophies won, with 68 to Chelsea's 34. In 1904, Gus Mears acquired the Stamford Bridge athletics stadium in Fulham with the aim...
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    Monument to Robert Coombes (on the right, now sadly defaced) Grave of Gus Mears, founder of nearby Chelsea F.C. Brompton Cemetery bas-relief Entry to...
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  • it to develop and actually served to weaken it. In 1904, businessman Gus Mears approached the Fulham chairman Henry Norris about moving the club from...
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    for naming the football club; the entrepreneur and founder of the club, Gus Mears, had considered Stamford Bridge FC, Kensington FC, and London FC, but...
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  • in Hammersmith, London, the elder son of Joseph Mears, a builder. In 1896, Mears and his brother Gus purchased the Stamford Bridge Athletics Ground and...
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    Stamford Bridge, which businessman Gus Mears had recently acquired, but Norris baulked at the £1500 per annum rent, so Mears subsequently created his own team...
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  • most was: Gile mear sa seal faoi chumha Gus Éire go léir faoi chlocaí dhubha Suan ná séan ní bhfuaireas féin Ó luadh i gcéin mo ghile mear. ..I didn’t recognise...
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    was built between 1889 and 1893 by Joseph Mears, the father of Chelsea F.C. founders Joseph and Gus Mears.[citation needed] In 1894 the Ecclesiastical...
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  • offer from businessman Gus Mears to move Fulham to land where the present-day Chelsea stadium Stamford Bridge is situated, Mears decided to create his...
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  • shirts were adopted for the team by the club's founder and first chairman, Gus Mears, along with white shorts and dark blue socks. Further problems arose when...
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    Native Son (redirect from Bessie Mears)
    leaves the corpse to burn, and goes home. Bigger's current girlfriend Bessie Mears suspects him of having done something to Mary. Bigger goes back to work...
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  • Chelsea 1906–07 season Owner Gus Mears Chairman Claude Kirby Manager John Tait Robertson (until Nov 1906) William Lewis Stadium Stamford Bridge Second...
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  • Chelsea 1911–12 season Owner Gus Mears Chairman Claude Kirby Manager David Calderhead Stadium Stamford Bridge Second Division 2nd FA Cup Second Round...
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    Ago (and Far Away)", and "My Foolish Heart". Mears was born in Mexico, Missouri. Her mother died when Mears was 4 years old, and she went to live with her...
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  • Chelsea 1908–09 season Owner Gus Mears Chairman Claude Kirby Manager David Calderhead Stadium Stamford Bridge First Division 11th FA Cup Second Round...
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  • Chelsea 1913–14 season Owner Gus Mears Chairman Claude Kirby Manager David Calderhead Stadium Stamford Bridge First Division 8th FA Cup Second Round Top...
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  • Chelsea 1910–11 season Owner Gus Mears Chairman Claude Kirby Manager David Calderhead Stadium Stamford Bridge Second Division 3rd FA Cup Semi-finals Top...
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  • Chelsea 1909–10 season Owner Gus Mears Chairman Claude Kirby Manager David Calderhead Stadium Stamford Bridge First Division 19th FA Cup Second round...
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  • Chelsea 1907–08 season Owner Gus Mears Chairman Claude Kirby Manager David Calderhead Stadium Stamford Bridge First Division 13th FA Cup Second round...
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  • Chelsea 1912–13 season Owner Gus Mears Chairman Claude Kirby Manager David Calderhead Stadium Stamford Bridge Second Division 18th FA Cup Second Round...
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    halftime Game attendance: 62,084 Referee: David Alvarez TV announcers (FOX): Gus Johnson (play-by-play), Joel Klatt (color commentator), and Jenny Taft (sideline...
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    in a wide range of films including the cult classic Grosse Pointe Blank, Gus Van Sant's Good Will Hunting (for which she was nominated for both the Academy...
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