All Saints F.C. was an association football club based in Shrewsbury, England.
| Full name | All Saints Football Club | |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 1874 | |
| Dissolved | 1882 | |
| Ground | Castlefields | |
| President | the Rev. T. M. B. Owen[1] | |
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History
editAlthough the club claimed a foundation date of 1875,[2] a side from "the All Saint's Club" played a match in December 1874, beating a Mr Morris' XI 4–0, thanks to goals from E. and A. Langmore, C. Holt, and E. Jones.[3] It had strong links with All Saints' School, as it held most of its club meetings in a classroom there.[4]
The club never entered the FA Cup, preferring to play more locally, and entered the Welsh Cup in its second and third seasons. However the club lost both of its first round ties - in 1878–79, to general surprise,[5] against Newtown White Star, and the following season 6–0 at home to Newtown Excelsior. The latter defeat may have been due to the club fielding only one back, with W. A. Smith playing as "three-quarter back".[6]
All Saints did not enter the competition again, and the last record of it playing is a 4–3 defeat to the Castle Blues' second XI in March 1882.[7] A number of players, including Landucci and Cope, joined the Meole Brace club from the south-west of Shrewsbury afterwards.[8]
Colours
editThe club's colours were red and black hooped jerseys and stockings, with blue serge knickerbockers.[9]
Ground
editThe club played at Castlefields, five minutes from Shrewsbury railway station,[10] and described as being on the River Side in 1880.[11] The ground was owned by a Mrs Jones of Dorset Barns Estates.[12]
References
edit- ^ "All Saints' Football Club". Eddowes' Shrewsbury Journal: 5. 20 October 1875.
- ^ Alcock, Charles (1877). Football Annual. London: Ward Lock. p. 148.
- ^ "Football". Eddowes' Shrewsbury Journal: 5. 30 December 1874.
- ^ "All Saints' Football Club". Eddowes's Shrewsbury Journal: 12. 25 February 1880.
- ^ "Cup notes and anticipations". Wrexham Advertiser: 8. 14 December 1878.
- ^ "Welsh Association Challenge Cup". Cambrian News: 7. 14 November 1879.
- ^ "Matches". Wellington Journal: 5. 11 March 1882.
- ^ "Pontesbury v Meole Brace". Wellington Journal: 5. 27 October 1883.
- ^ Alcock, Charles (1877). Football Annual. London: Ward Lock. p. 148.
- ^ Alcock, Charles (1877). Football Annual. London: Ward Lock. p. 148.
- ^ Alcock, Charles (1880). Football Annual. London: Cricket Press. p. 136.
- ^ "Football". Eddowes' Shrewsbury Journal: 5. 30 December 1874.