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=== Football ===
[[File:Alf Common the World's first £1000 footballer.jpg|thumb|upright=0.75|Alf Common of England, the world's first £1,000 footballer]]
A precursor of modern football is still seen in the region at some annual [[Shrove Tuesday]] games at [[Alnwick]], [[Chester-le-Street]] and [[Sedgefield]] and many of such games have pre-Norman origins.<ref>{{cite book|first=Hugh|last=Hornby|publisher=English Heritage|title=Uppies and Downies: The Extraordinary Football Games of Britain|isbn=978-1-905624-64-5|year=2008}}</ref> In 1280 at [[Ulgham]] near [[Morpeth, Northumberland|Morpeth]] Northumberland, records show that Henry of Ellington was killed playing football when David Le Keu's knife went into Henry's belly and killed him.<ref>{{cite web|first=Janet|last=Brown|title=Ulgham Genealogy|url=http://ulgham.tripod.com/ulgen/ulgenL.htm|access-date=16 September 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150427021603/http://ulgham.tripod.com/ulgen/ulgenL.htm|archive-date=27 April 2015}}</ref><ref name=Magoun>Francis Peabody Magoun, 1929, "Football in Medieval England and Middle-English literature" (''The American Historical Review'', v. 35, No. 1).</ref> Organised football teams as we know today did not appear until the 1870s. [[Middlesbrough Football Club]] was formed by local cricket players in 1876 and [[Sunderland Association Football Club]] in 1879 and [[Newcastle United Football Club]] was formed in 1892 by uniting Newcastle West End FC with Newcastle East End.<ref name="Hutchinson 1997">{{cite book|first=Roger|last=Hutchinson|publisher=Mainstream Publishing|title=The Toon: A complete History of Newcastle United Football Club|isbn=1-85158-956-2|year=1997}}</ref>
Darlington formed in 1861 (re-formed 1883 and in 2012) and West Hartlepool of 1881 became [[Hartlepool United]] in 1908. In 1888 Sunderland and Middlesbrough were troubled by rival break-away teams called Sunderland Albion and Middlesbrough Ironopolis, both of which were lost before the 20th century began. Sunderland won the league championship three times in the 1890s and Newcastle United were first division champions three times in the early 1900s, reaching the FA Cup Final three times before winning it at the fourth attempt in 1910.<ref>{{cite web|first=David|last=Simpson|title=Sport in the North East 1700 to 1999|url=http://www.englandsnortheast.co.uk/Sport.html|access-date=21 August 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130209010448/http://www.englandsnortheast.co.uk/Sport.html|archive-date=9 February 2013}}</ref>
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