1865–66 Barnes F.C. season

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Barnes
1865-65 season
Captain Ebenezer Morley
Secretary Robert Willis
Rules Laws of the Game (1863)
Laws of the Game (1866) (after 22 February 1866).
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This was the fourth season of Barnes Football Club.

4 November 1865 Barnes W-L Civil Service Barnes
Note: [1]
11 November 1865 Barnes W-L C.C.C. Barnes
Note: [1]
2 December 1865 Crystal Palace 0-0 Barnes Penge
15:15
Note: Match was "nominally fifteen-a-side", but Barnes had 9 men (absentees included the captain Ebenezer Morley): Crystal Palace had 14. Game lasted one hour.
Barnes (9 players): Barnes, Graham, Roberts, Le B. Smith, et al. [1]
20 January 1866 Barnes 0-2 Civil Service [4] [3] Barnes
O. N. Fuller, F. Deacon
Note: The Civil Service team "could muster only eight men, and were obliged to fill up the vacancies with members of other well-known clubs".
Barnes (15 players): Barnes, C. Bagot, Courtenay, Drake, R. Graham, Greenhill, Karslake, H. P. Mackrell, Montgomery, W. Nettleship, M. Roberts, Sheppard, Le B. Smith, Tebbs, R. Willis.
Civil Service (14 players): C. W. Alcock, A. E. Bateman, G. B. Blount, F. Deacon, R. D. Elphinstone, O. U. Fuller, Q. Hogg, J. Kirkpatrick, Rose, Seppings, A. H. Turner, X. Turner, C. G. Wandby, J. Wearne. [5] [3]
3 February 1866 Barnes W-L Crystal Palace Barnes
Note: "Only a very small number of the representatives of Crystal Palace showed up". [6]
10 March 1866 Barnes 0 (2) - 0 (1) [7] Crystal Palace Barnes
15:45 [8] Barnes, Villiers (touches down)Unknown (touch down)Attendance: "Numerous bystanders"
Note: Game ended at 5 o'clock after 1 and a quarter hours' play.
Barnes (14 players): [9] E. C. Morley (captain), R. Bamburry, T. K. Barnes, Boyle, R. Carrington, Farquharson, R. Graham, Hudson, D. M. O'Leary, M. Roberts, R. Shepard, S. L. B. Smith, R. Villiers, R. Willis.
Crystal Palace (15 players): A. Morton (capt.), E. Abraham, D. Allport, W. Allport, Cockerell, A. Cutbill, E. Cutbill, H. Foster, Grose, E. K. Hammond, A. Lloyd, H. Lloyd, T. Lloyd, Saward, T. Sharland. [6]

Athletic Sports

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 "Barnes v. Crystal Palace". Sporting Life: 3. 6 December 1865.
  2. ↑ Allegedly a scratch team, of which nine happened to be civil servants, the actual "Civil Service" team not playing because Barnes refused to play to its rules.
  3. 1 2 3 Kirkpatrick, Ja[me]s (3 February 1866). "Barnes v. Civil Service". Field: 26.
  4. ↑ Allegedly a scratch team, of which nine happened to be civil servants, the actual "Civil Service" team not playing because Barnes refused to play to its rules.
  5. ↑ "Barnes v. Civil Service". Field: 19. 27 January 1866.
  6. 1 2 "Barnes v. Crystal Palace". Field: 23. 17 March 1866.
  7. ↑ Barnes won by 2 touches down to 1
  8. ↑ imputed
  9. ↑ report states that Barnes had 15 players, but only 14 are listed
  10. ↑ "Barnes Football Club". Bell's Life in London: 7. 31 March 1866.


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