Therefore, we pay the highest appreciation to the young club, that has to make significant sacrifices in order to achieve this aim.
After the heated fight between the two teams, the guests were entertained and then accompanied by the hosts to an evening drink and finally to the train station.
Over a dozen members gathered at the train station in Basel to accompany the guests through the city and to have a "morning pint" before the match.
As in Zürich two weeks earlier, in Basel too, after the game they treated themselves to a dinner and the opponents were also accompanied back to the train station.
[note Scorers 1][5] In 1893, Isler set himself the task of devoting himself to the rules of football, as these did not yet exist in Switzerland at the time.
Isler ordered the rules in English, translated them and published articles about the "football game" in various newspapers.