1882 FA Cup final

March 2015 March 2015 1882 FA Cup final 1882 fa cup final programme.jpg Official match programme 1881–82 FA Cup Old Etonians 1 Blackburn Rovers 0 25 March 1882 Kennington Oval London Charles Clegg 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,1882 match report at FA-Cup finals (archived, 21 May 2008) 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 thumb|left|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 hoopsMemorable association matches Cricket and Football Field 13 May 1893 2 in dark blue and white, while the Etonians wore their light blue and white colours in a "harlequin" (i.e. quartered) design.Association Cup Final Athletic News 29 March 1882 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". Association Football in Victorian England – A History of the Game from 1863 to 1900 Gibbons Philip 2001 Upfront Publishing 1-84426-035-6 64–65 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.Warsop Keith The Early FA Cup Finals and the Southern Amateurs, A Who's Who and Match Facts 1872 to 1883 2004 Tony Brown SoccerData 38 1-899468-78-1 Warsop, writing later than Gibbons, names Anderson as the definite scorer in the match summary on page 52. 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.Warsop Keith The Early FA Cup Finals 38, 52Warsop considers eight minutes the official time in match summary on page 52. 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 25 March 1882 1881–82 FA Cup Old Etonians 1 Blackburn Rovers 0 Report Anderson Kennington Oval London 6,500 Charles Clegg _whitequarters14 CED4C8 CED4C8 ffffff FFFFFF 000000 Old Etonians _thin_navyhoops _thin navybluehoops _thin_navyhoops ffffff ffffff ffffff FFFFFF 000066 Blackburn Rovers GK ENG John Rawlinson RB ENG Thomas FrenchLB ENG Percy de Paravicini RH SCO Hon. Arthur Kinnaird LH ENG Charles Foley OR ENG William AndersonIR ENG John Barrington ChevallierCF ENG Harry GoodhartCF ENG Reginald MacaulayIL ENG Arthur DunnOL ENG Philip Novelli GK ENG Roger HowarthRB SCO Hugh McIntyre LB SCO Fergus Suter RH ENG Harry SharplesLH ENG Fred Hargreaves OR ENG John DuckworthIR SCO Jimmy Douglas CF ENG James BrownCF ENG Thomas StrachanIL ENG Geoffrey AveryOL ENG John Hargreaves 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.Antique Blackburn Rovers programme sells for £35,000 http://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/10419017.Antique_Blackburn_Rovers_programme_sells_for___35_000/?ref=mr 15 May 2013 Lancashire Telegraph 14 May 2013 Bibliography "The Association Challenge Cup-Final Tie", Manchester Guardian, 27 March 1882 References 1882 Final Category:1882 in sport in London Category:Blackburn Rovers F.C. matches Category:March 1882 in the United Kingdom