1882 FA Cup final

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1882 FA Cup final
Official match programme
Event1881–82 FA Cup
Old Etonians Blackburn Rovers
1 0
Date25 March 1882
VenueKennington Oval, London
RefereeCharles Clegg
Attendance6,500
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The 1882 FA Cup final was contested by

William Anderson,[1] although another, questionably, gives Reginald Macaulay
. It was the last final to be won by one of the Southern "gentleman amateur" teams who had dominated the first decade of the competition.

Summary

The Kennington Oval (here pictured in 1891) was the match venue

In the final, played at

Jimmy Brown. Owing to the clash of the club's regular colours, Rovers wore "something very much like" the Darwen hoops[2] in dark blue and white, while the Etonians wore their light blue and white colours in a "harlequin" (i.e. quartered) design.[3]

The Old Boys dominated the early stages of the match but Rovers defended well until, according to the match report in Gibbons' "Association Football in Victorian England", "following an expert through ball by Dunn, Macaulay steered the ball between the Blackburn goalposts to secure a well-deserved half-time lead".[4] However, a tribute in The Times (1937) states Macaulay was fond of recalling he outpaced the Blackburn players and helped towards the goal, without claiming to have scored it. Other reports identify the scorer differently: Bell's Life in London, The Field and The Times stated it was Anderson, the first two detailing the ball had been successively passed to him by Macaulay and Dunn, while The Sporting Life stated the ball was centred "to the front of the posts" by Novelli before it was kicked "out of a brief and loose bully" (i.e. a scrimmage) by an unnamed player.[5]

Also varied is the time at which the goal was reportedly scored: eight minutes from the start by Bell's Life, ten minutes by The Sportsman, and "a quarter of an hour's play" by The Sporting Life.[6]

The Old Etonians were able to prevent Blackburn from scoring in the second half, thus claiming the cup for the second time in three years.

Match details

1881–82 FA Cup
Old Etonians1–0Blackburn Rovers
Anderson[1][5]
 Report
Attendance: 6,500
Referee: Charles Clegg
Old Etonians
Blackburn Rovers
GK
John Rawlinson
DF England Thomas French
DF England Percy de Paravicini
MF Scotland Hon. Arthur Kinnaird
MF England Charles Foley
MF England Philip Novelli
FW England Arthur Dunn
FW England Reginald Macaulay
FW England Harry Goodhart
FW England John Barrington Chevallier
FW
William Anderson
GK England Roger Howarth
DF Scotland Hugh McIntyre
DF Scotland Fergus Suter
MF England Fred Hargreaves
MF England Harry Sharples
MF England John Hargreaves
FW England Geoffrey Avery
FW
James Brown
FW England Thomas Strachan
FW Scotland Jimmy Douglas
FW England John Duckworth

Aftermath

In May 2013 a programme from the game sold at auction at Sotheby's for £35,250, a world record for a football programme.[7]

Bibliography

  • "The Association Challenge Cup-Final Tie",
    Manchester Guardian
    , 27 March 1882

References

  1. ^ a b 1882 match report at FA-Cup finals (archived, 21 May 2008)
  2. ^ "Memorable association matches". Cricket and Football Field: 2. 13 May 1893.
  3. ^ "Association Cup Final". Athletic News: 3. 29 March 1882.
  4. ISBN 1-84426-035-6
    .
  5. ^
    ISBN 1-899468-78-1
    .Warsop, writing later than Gibbons, names Anderson as the definite scorer in the match summary on page 52.
  6. ^ Warsop, Keith. The Early FA Cup Finals. pp. 38, 52.Warsop considers eight minutes the official time in match summary on page 52.
  7. ^ "Antique Blackburn Rovers programme sells for £35,000". Lancashire Telegraph. 14 May 2013. Retrieved 15 May 2013.
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