The brothers placed an advertisement in the 12 November 1893 edition of the Basler national newspaper, requesting that a football team be formed and that anyone who wished to join should meet up the following Wednesday at 8:15 in the restaurant Schuhmachern-Zunft.
Eleven men attended the meeting, generally from the academic community, founding Football Club Basel on 15 November 1893.
This was very positively commented on by GC in the local newspaper: "They really deserve credit for daring to travel so far, despite their short existence.
Therefore, we express our highest appreciation for the young club, who have to make significant sacrifices in order to achieve this aim."
After a heated battle 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.
In Basel, as in Zürich two weeks earlier, they treated themselves to a dinner after the game and the opponents were also accompanied back to the train station.