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List of Wanderers F.C. FA Cup–winning players

Wanderers F.C. was an English association football club based in London.[1] Comprising mainly former pupils of the leading English public schools, the club was among the most dominant of the early years of organised football[a] and won the FA Cup, the sport's first formal competition, five times between 1872 and 1878.[1][2] A total of 33 players took the field for Wanderers in their cup final appearances, including several of the most prominent players of the sport's early years. The club's fortunes declined rapidly after its final FA Cup win in 1878, partly because many of its leading players opted to play instead for teams set up specifically for the former pupils of individual schools; by the mid-1880s the Wanderers club had ceased to play matches.[1][3]

Football administrator Charles W. Alcock
Charles W. Alcock played in the first FA Cup final. He had first proposed the creation of the tournament in 1871.

The club was among the 15 entrants to the first FA Cup tournament in the 1871–72 season and reached the final.[4] A goal from Morton Betts (playing under the pseudonym "A.H. Chequer") was sufficient to give Wanderers a 1–0 victory over Royal Engineers.[5][6] Also in the team was Charles W. Alcock, who, in his role as secretary of the Football Association (the FA), had first proposed the creation of a knock-out tournament for its member clubs in 1871.[7][8] A year later, Wanderers received a bye straight to the final, in keeping with the original concept of the FA Cup as a "challenge tournament" in which other clubs would compete for the right to face the cup-holders in the final; this rule was abandoned after one season.[4] In the 1873 final, Arthur Kinnaird played in the first of a record-setting nine FA Cup finals.[9] He was on the winning team in five finals, a record which he would hold jointly until 2010.[10] Kinnaird (later the 11th Lord Kinnaird) was regarded as one of the pre-eminent sportsmen of his era, and later went on serve as president of the FA for more than 30 years.[9] William Kenyon-Slaney also played in the 1873 final; days earlier he had become the first player to score a goal for England in an international match now regarded as official.[b][11]

Wanderers next appeared in the final in 1876, when they were held to a draw by Old Etonians, necessitating a replay, which Wanderers won.[12] Francis Heron and his brother Hubert were both in the Wanderers team; the Etonians had two pairs of brothers in their line-up for the first match and as of the 21st century it remains the only FA Cup final to involve multiple pairs of brothers.[13][14] It was the first of three consecutive cup final wins for the team; Hubert Heron, Alfred Stratford, William Lindsay, and Jarvis Kenrick played in all four matches, including the drawn game in 1876. Charles Wollaston, who had been in both of the club's first two cup-winning teams, also played in all four games and was thus the only player to appear in every one of Wanderers' cup final games and the first player to win the FA Cup five times.[15] This feat was later matched by Kinnaird, who would go on to win the competition twice with Old Etonians in addition to his three victories with Wanderers.[9] Kenrick scored the most goals for Wanderers in finals, with one in 1877 and two in 1878.[16] Thomas Hughes scored two goals in the 1876 replay, the first time that any player had scored more than one goal in an FA Cup final match.[17] A number of the Wanderers' cup-winning players, all of whom played at a time when the sport was strictly amateur and played primarily by men from wealthy and privileged backgrounds,[8][18] achieved notability in other walks of life. Kenyon-Slaney became a Member of Parliament,[19] Kinnaird, in addition to his lengthy career in football administration, was a director of Barclays Bank and Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland,[9] and Albert Meysey-Thompson was a barrister and held the post of Queen's Counsel.[20]

Players

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William Kenyon-Slaney played in the 1873 final for Wanderers and was also the first player to score a goal for England.
 
Arthur Kinnaird (later Lord Kinnaird) played in a record nine FA Cup finals, and was on the winning side five times.
 
The second FA Cup trophy, identical to the original trophy won five times by Wanderers
Positions key
GK Goalkeeper
FB Full-back
HB Half-back
FW Forward
List of players
Player Position Apps. Goals Final(s) Refs
Charles W. Alcock FW 1 0 1872 [21][22]
Morton Betts FW 1 1 1872 [22][23]
Alexander Bonsor FW 2 0 1872, 1873 [22][24][25]
Edward Bowen FW/HB 2 0 1872, 1873 [22][24][25]
William Crake FW 1 0 1872 [22][26]
Thomas Hooman FW 1 0 1872 [22][27]
Edgar Lubbock FB 1 0 1872 [22][28]
Albert Thompson HB 1 0 1872 [20][22]
Walpole Vidal FW 1 0 1872 [22][29]
Reginald Courtenay Welch GK 2 0 1872, 1873 [22][25][30]
Charles Wollaston FW 6 2 1872, 1873, 1876 (both matches), 1877, 1878 [22][25][31][32][33][34][35]
Leonard Howell FB 1 0 1873 [25][36]
William Kenyon-Slaney FW 1 0 1873 [19][25]
Robert Kingsford FW 1 0 1873 [25][37]
Arthur Kinnaird FW/GK/HB 3 2[c] 1873, 1877, 1878 [25][33][34][37]
Charles Thompson FW 1 0 1873 [20][25]
Henry Stewart FW 1 0 1873 [25][38]
Julian Sturgis FW 1 0 1873 [25][39]
Francis Birley HB 3 0 1876 (both matches), 1877 [31][32][33][40]
John Hawley Edwards FW 2 1 1876 (both matches) [31][32][41]
W. D. O. Greig GK 2 0 1876 (both matches) [31][32][42]
Francis Heron FW 2 0 1876 (both matches) [31][32][43]
Hubert Heron FW 4 0 1876 (both matches), 1877, 1878 [31][32][33][34][43]
Thomas Hughes FW 3 2 1876 (both matches), 1877 [31][32][33][36]
Jarvis Kenrick FW 4 3 1876 (both matches), 1877, 1878 [31][32][33][34][44]
William Lindsay FB 4 1 1876 (both matches), 1877, 1878 [31][32][33][34][45]
Frederick Maddison HB 2 0 1876 (both matches) [31][32][46]
Alfred Stratford FB 4 0 1876 (both matches), 1877, 1878 [31][32][33][34][47]
Charles Denton FW 2 0 1877, 1878 [33][34][48]
Frederick Green HB 2 0 1877, 1878 [33][34][49]
Henry Wace FW 2 0 1877, 1878 [33][34][50]
James Kirkpatrick GK 1 0 1878 [9][34]
John Wylie FW 1 0 1878 [34][51]

Footnotes

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a. ^ Developing out of earlier related ball games with varying, often informal, rules, the sport of association football was officially codified for the first time in 1863.[8][52]
b. ^ Kenyon-Slaney scored in what is now regarded as the second official international football match, the first in 1872 having ended 0–0. Five earlier matches had taken place between terms representing England and Scotland, but these are not now regarded as official international matches as the Scotland team was selected only from players with Scottish connections resident in and around London.[53]
c. ^ Kinnaird's figure of two goals includes one in the 1878 final which is credited to him in modern sources but for which contemporary newspaper reports do not definitively identify the scorer.[54]

References

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  1. ^ a b c Warsop 2004, p. 20.
  2. ^ Soar & Tyler 1983, p. 24.
  3. ^ Buckley, Will (30 October 2009). "The forgotten story of ... the first ever FA Cup winners". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 4 April 2022. Retrieved 22 February 2024.
  4. ^ a b Soar & Tyler 1983, p. 154.
  5. ^ Soar & Tyler 1983, p. 13.
  6. ^ Warsop 2004, p. 30.
  7. ^ Warsop 2004, p. 56.
  8. ^ a b c Manning, Jonathan (10 May 2022). "More than a sporting story: 150 years of the FA Cup". National Geographic. Archived from the original on 22 February 2024. Retrieved 22 February 2024.
  9. ^ a b c d e Warsop 2004, p. 94.
  10. ^ Shaw, Phil (23 October 2011). "100 years on, the man so great he was given the Cup to keep". The Independent. Archived from the original on 28 July 2021. Retrieved 21 February 2024.
  11. ^ Courtney, Barrie (20 December 2012). "England - International Results 1872–1899 - Details". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Archived from the original on 27 February 2015. Retrieved 10 April 2016.
  12. ^ Warsop 2004, pp. 45, 46.
  13. ^ Warsop 2004, p. 45.
  14. ^ Collett 2003, pp. 792–793.
  15. ^ Cox, Russell & Vamplew 2002, p. 211.
  16. ^ Warsop 2004, pp. 35, 36.
  17. ^ Warsop 2004, pp. 40–46.
  18. ^ Warsop 2004, p. 7.
  19. ^ a b Warsop 2004, p. 92.
  20. ^ a b c Warsop 2004, p. 129.
  21. ^ Warsop 2004, p. 57.
  22. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k "Champion cup at football". The Morning Post. 18 March 1872. p. 2. Archived from the original on 24 February 2024. Retrieved 21 February 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
  23. ^ Warsop 2004, p. 62.
  24. ^ a b Warsop 2004, p. 65.
  25. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k "Wanderers v Oxford University: Match for the association challenge cup". The Daily News. 31 March 1873. p. 6. Archived from the original on 24 February 2024. Retrieved 21 February 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
  26. ^ Warsop 2004, p. 70.
  27. ^ Warsop 2004, p. 89.
  28. ^ Warsop 2004, p. 98.
  29. ^ Warsop 2004, p. 130.
  30. ^ Warsop 2004, p. 134.
  31. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k "Football (yesterday)". The Observer. 12 March 1876. p. 6. Archived from the original on 24 February 2024. Retrieved 21 February 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
  32. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k "The association football challenge cup". Daily News. 20 March 1876. p. 3. Archived from the original on 24 February 2024. Retrieved 21 February 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
  33. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k "Wanderers again victorious". The Nottingham Daily Guardian. 26 March 1877. p. 5. Archived from the original on 24 February 2024. Retrieved 21 February 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
  34. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k "Association challenge cup (final tie)". The Observer. 24 March 1877. p. 3. Archived from the original on 24 February 2024. Retrieved 21 February 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
  35. ^ Warsop 2004, p. 137.
  36. ^ a b Warsop 2004, p. 90.
  37. ^ a b Warsop 2004, p. 93.
  38. ^ Warsop 2004, p. 126.
  39. ^ Warsop 2004, p. 128.
  40. ^ Warsop 2004, p. 63.
  41. ^ Warsop 2004, p. 76.
  42. ^ Warsop 2004, p. 82.
  43. ^ a b Warsop 2004, p. 85.
  44. ^ Warsop 2004, p. 91.
  45. ^ Warsop 2004, p. 96.
  46. ^ Warsop 2004, p. 103.
  47. ^ Warsop 2004, p. 127.
  48. ^ Warsop 2004, p. 71.
  49. ^ Warsop 2004, p. 81.
  50. ^ Warsop 2004, p. 133.
  51. ^ Warsop 2004, p. 138.
  52. ^ Soar & Tyler 1983, p. 11.
  53. ^ Soar & Tyler 1983, p. 82.
  54. ^ Warsop 2004, p. 36.

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