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| - The sport of bandy was first introduced to the Netherlands during the harsh winter season of 1890-91 by William Johan Herman (Pim) Mulier, an avid sportsman who spearheaded the development of multiple sports in the country. Mulier, who had spent time studying in England, was friends with Charles Goodman Tebbutt, the captain of the venerable Bury Fen Bandy Club. The first unofficial Dutch Championship in bandy was held during the winter of 1895. Teams from Amsterdam, Haarlem, Zwolle, and Delft competed in the championship. Haarlem was crowned champions.
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| - The sport of bandy was first introduced to the Netherlands during the harsh winter season of 1890-91 by William Johan Herman (Pim) Mulier, an avid sportsman who spearheaded the development of multiple sports in the country. Mulier, who had spent time studying in England, was friends with Charles Goodman Tebbutt, the captain of the venerable Bury Fen Bandy Club. On January 3, 1891, after prior discussions with Mulier, Tebbutt and his Bury Fen Bandy Club departed from Harwich, en route to the Netherlands via boat. Mulier wished for Bury Fen to play three exhibition bandy matches, in order to acquaint the locals with the sport. The first game was staged in Haarlem on January 5, with Bury Fen taking on the IJsclub Haarlem en Omstreken (Ice Club Haarlem and surroundings). Mulier played for Haarlem. The English side won by a convincing margin of 14-1. Bury Fen's latter two matches were played in Amsterdam; the first pitting them against a local selection Amsterdamsche IJsclub (bolstered by Mulier) and the second featuring a rematch against Haarlem. The Dutch were again defeated by the English in both matches, but despite the losses, the early seeds for the development of the sport had been sewn. On January 28, 1892, the Amsterdamsche Hockey & Bandy Club (AH&BC) was established. Other clubs including the Leeuwarder Bandy Club in Leeuwarden, the Bolswarder Bandy Club in Bolswald, the Thialf IJs-Kolfvereniging in Heerenveen, and the Zwolsche Atletische Club in Zwolle soon sprung up. Tebbutt and Mulier arranged for Bury Fen Bandy Club to embark on a second tour of the Netherlands in the winter of 1892-93. The Dutch were much more successful against the English side this time, with the Haarlem squad defeating the English with an emphatic 8-0 victory. The first unofficial Dutch Championship in bandy was held during the winter of 1895. Teams from Amsterdam, Haarlem, Zwolle, and Delft competed in the championship. Haarlem was crowned champions. The Amsterdamsche Courant of January 19, 1897, reported that a match between Hockey en Bandyclub Haarlem en Omstreken and a team of Amsterdam students had taken part on the previous Sunday. The same paper reported on January 23 that the Amsterdamsche Hockey & Bandy Club had created a junior department for those under 18. A central governing body for the sport was formed with the creation of the Nederlandsche Hockey en Bandy Bond on October 8, 1898. The Haagsche Hockey en Bandy Club won the first official Dutch Championship in 1899. The Boek de sporten published a chapter on the sport in 1900. In 1901, the Dutch played their first international bandy matches in Davos, Switzerland. Between 1901 and 1905, Haarlem competed in the Davos International Bandy Tournament every year. The 1905 tournament also served as the European Championship. Although bandy was played in 1908 and 1909, a string of mild winters in the Netherlands caused the sport to die out in the country.
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