page_title: Club Atlético Ferrocarril General San Martín
section_title: The beginning
hierarchical_section_title: Club Atlético Ferrocarril General San Martín / History / The beginning
caption_attribution_description: English: 1909 Pacific Railway AC cricket team: W. Smith, T. M. Barrs, B. A. Turner, J. J. Goncalvez, B. J. Wisdom, H. Lacey, H. M. Gubbins, R. J. Wright, Ivor Williams, A. Harris, A. Pires.
context_page_description: Club San Martín is an Argentine sports club based in the Sáenz Peña neighborhood of Greater Buenos Aires. San Martín is mostly known for its rugby union team, which currently plays in Top 12, the first division of the Unión de Rugby de Buenos Aires. The club also a field hockey squad which participates at tournaments organised by the Buenos Aires Hockey Association.
  Other sports practised at San Martín are bowls and tennis.
context_section_description: The huge expansion of the Buenos Aires and Pacific Railway in Argentina encouraged workers to form a club, after some years playing cricket in different locations, most of them borrowed by other institutions. On 3 April 1908, a first meeting was held at the railway offices, naming Lightly Simpson as first president of the "Pacific Railway Athletic Club", the name chosen. On 6 April, the founding members asked BAP Railway Manager for approval, stating that only railway workers could be members of the recently formed club. The Managers gave their consent the requirement, allowing members to use a land near to Santos Lugares station, in Tres de Febrero Partido.
  Once the club was founded, Pacific club started its activities playing football matches, first of them facing "Asociación Cristiana de Jóvenes", which ended 2–2. The team continuing (convocando) some opponents to play with, receiving the positive feedback from Belgrano Athletic, which played a friendly match against Pacific.
  Pacific was also one of the founding members of the Argentine Field Hockey Association, along with Belgrano Athletic. Soon after, the first tournament was organized, being won by Club Atlético San Isidro. The same year of its foundation, the club started its participation in the cricket championship for the 1908–09 season, being registered in the second division. Pacific finished 3th at the end of the season.
  The first title for the club came in 1909, obtaining the Railway Football League, a tournament played amongsts railroad related teams. The most frequent lineup was: Wilson, Mallet, Machado; Parkinson, E. A. Brown, Sheridan; Curtis, Watson, Morgan (captain), Parsons, Chalk. The success of the football team encouraged club's manager to affiliate to Argentine Football Association, which accepted the request and registered Pacific to play at third division.
  Rugby union started to be practised at the club in 1910. Buenos Aires Football Club (predecessor of Buenos Aires Cricket & Rugby Club) played all its home games in PRAC field. Hockey continued developing in Argentina, increasing the number of teams taking part of the league. By 1911 this was the most popular sport of the club.
caption: 1909 Pacific cricket team.
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