1864–65 Barnes F.C. season

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Barnes
1864-65 season
Captain Ebenezer Morley
Secretary Robert Willis
Rules Laws of the Game (1863)
Season opened5 October 1864 [1]
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This was the third season of Barnes Football Club. Significant developments included the club's first known "athletic sports" event, a day on which club members and members of the public were invited to take part in athletic competitions.

22 October 1864 Officers of the Club 0-2 Nineteen of the Club
Note: Officers of the club had eleven players. [1]
29 October 1864 Captain's Eleven 2-0 All-Comers
Note: 3 of the "captain's eleven" did not play, leaving that team with only eight players. All-comers "mustered nineteen". [2]
5 November 1864 Captain's Eleven v All-Comers
Note: Match scheduled, but no report of the result was found. [2]
3 December 1864 Barnes 0-0 Crystal Palace Barnes
Note: Match lasted 90 minutes, [3] and "was ended by darkness". Crystal Palace scored a touch-down, but missed the resulting free-kick.
Barnes: M. Roberts, Whittaker, et al.
Crystal Palace: R. Abraham, L. Irons, H. Lloyd, et al. [4]
4 February 1865 Crystal Palace 0-0 Barnes Penge
15:00
Note: 15-a-side. Match ended at 16:45. Ground was "in a dreadful state, being almost under water". [3]
4 March 1865 Barnes 1-2 Crystal Palace Barnes
Grosvenor (60)J. Sharland, Unknown
Note:
Barnes (15 players): E. C. Morley (capt.), Conout, Courtney, Elton, Graham, Greenhill, Grosvenor, Nettleship, O'Leary, Price, Sheppard, Stevens, Sutherland, Tebbs, Willis.
Crystal Palace (15 players): T. Turner (capt.), E. Abraham, D. Allport, F. Allport, W. Allport, F. Collins, E. Cutbill, W. Cutbill, F. Morris, Grose, Irons, H. Lloyd, T. Lloyd, Rohde, Sharland. [5] [6]

Athletic Sports

Notes

  1. 1 2 "Football". Sporting Life: 4. 26 October 1864.
  2. 1 2 "Barnes". Sporting Life: 4. 5 November 1864.
  3. 1 2 "Football: Barnes v Crystal Palace". Sporting Life: 4. 8 February 1865.
  4. ↑ "Football: Barnes v Crystal Palace". Sporting Life: 4. 10 December 1864.
  5. ↑ "Barnes v Crystal Palace". Sporting Life: 4. 15 March 1865.
  6. ↑ "Barnes v. Crystal Palace". Field: 6. 11 March 1865.
  7. ↑ "Barnes Football Club Athletic Sports". Bell's Life in London: 10. 1 April 1865.

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