Sandow Athletic Club

**Sandow AC**
Full name	Sandow Athletic Club
Short name	SAC
Founded	1906
Chairman	Jeffrey Christiaens

The Sandow Athletic Club was a sports club in the Philippines.

Established in 1906, the football team participated in the first official match in the Philippines on October 15, 1906 in celebration of the opening of the Philippine Assembly. Sandow was awarded a trophy, a silver cup by then Governor William Howard Taft for winning the contest. The football team then became the Sandow Athletic Club in 1909 and began to accommodate other sports.[1]

References

Ramirez, Bert (2016). "Looking Back (chapter author)". Philippine Football: Its Past, Its Future. By Villegas, Bernardo. University of Asia and the Pacific. p. 32. ISBN 978-621-8002-29-6.

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[1] Ramirez, Bert (2016). "Looking Back (chapter author)". Philippine Football: Its Past, Its Future. By Villegas, Bernardo. University of Asia and the Pacific. p. 32. ISBN 978-621-8002-29-6.