1882 FA Cup final

1882 FA Cup final
	Official match programme
Event	1881–82 FA Cup
Date	25 March 1882
Venue	Kennington Oval, London
Referee	Charles Clegg
Attendance	6,500
	← 1881 1883 →

The 1882 FA Cup final was contested by Old Etonians and Blackburn Rovers at the Kennington Oval. Old Etonians won 1–0, the only goal scored, according to most reports, 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

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

In the final, played at Kennington Oval on 25 March 1882, the Old Etonians met Blackburn Rovers, who were the first team from outside London and the Home counties to appear in an FA Cup final. Blackburn included England internationals, Fred Hargreaves and his brother, John, and 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

25 March 1882

Old Etonians	1–0	Blackburn Rovers
Anderson^[1]^[5]	Report

Kennington Oval, London

Attendance: 6,500

Referee: Charles Clegg

Old Etonians

Blackburn Rovers



GK		John Rawlinson
DF		Thomas French
DF		Percy de Paravicini
MF		Hon. Arthur Kinnaird
MF		Charles Foley
MF		Philip Novelli
FW		Arthur Dunn
FW		Reginald Macaulay
FW		Harry Goodhart
FW		John Barrington Chevallier
FW		William Anderson



GK		Roger Howarth
DF		Hugh McIntyre
DF		Fergus Suter
MF		Fred Hargreaves
MF		Harry Sharples
MF		John Hargreaves
FW		Geoffrey Avery
FW		James Brown
FW		Thomas Strachan
FW		Jimmy Douglas
FW		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

^ ^a ^b 1882 match report at FA-Cup finals (archived, 21 May 2008)
^ "Memorable association matches". Cricket and Football Field: 2. 13 May 1893.
^ "Association Cup Final". Athletic News: 3. 29 March 1882.
^ Gibbons, Philip (2001). Association Football in Victorian England – A History of the Game from 1863 to 1900. Upfront Publishing. pp. 64–65. ISBN 1-84426-035-6.
^ ^a ^b Warsop, Keith (2004). The Early FA Cup Finals and the Southern Amateurs, A Who's Who and Match Facts 1872 to 1883. Tony Brown SoccerData. p. 38. ISBN 1-899468-78-1.Warsop, writing later than Gibbons, names Anderson as the definite scorer in the match summary on page 52.
^ Warsop, Keith. The Early FA Cup Finals. pp. 38, 52.Warsop considers eight minutes the official time in match summary on page 52.
^ "Antique Blackburn Rovers programme sells for £35,000". Lancashire Telegraph. 14 May 2013. Retrieved 15 May 2013.

[report-1] 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] Gibbons, Philip (2001). Association Football in Victorian England – A History of the Game from 1863 to 1900. Upfront Publishing. pp. 64–65. ISBN 1-84426-035-6.

[Warsop-5] Warsop, Keith (2004). The Early FA Cup Finals and the Southern Amateurs, A Who's Who and Match Facts 1872 to 1883. Tony Brown SoccerData. p. 38. ISBN 1-899468-78-1.Warsop, writing later than Gibbons, names Anderson as the definite scorer in the match summary on page 52.

[Warsop2-6] 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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