Dixie Dean collects the FA Cup from the future Queen Mother at Wembley in 1933. Everton wore numbers on white shirts that day for the first time ever -
Everton's FA Cup winning team: (back row, l-r) Cliff Britton, Warney Cresswell, Ted Sagar, Billy Cook, Tom White, Jock Thomson; (front row, l-r) Albert Geldard, Jimmy Dunn, Bill 'Dixie' Dean, Tom Johnson, Jimmy Stein, Ted Critchley -
The tower has been used as the heraldic crest of Everton Football Club since the 1937/38 season, when it first appeared on the club tie at the instigation of Theo Kelly, the then secretary of the club. The crest was later incorporated into the Everton shirts.
Everton was Liverpool’s first, official, Football Club, it was originally attached to the local St Domingo Methodist Church, which once stood on Breckfield Road North. The Minister, Rev Ben Swift Chambers (1845-1901), became concerned that the young men of his parish had little to occupy their free time productively. So, in 1878, he established a football team, called St Domingo FC, to ‘keep his lads off the streets’ -