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

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Charles W. Alcock played in the first FA Cup final. He had first proposed the creation of the tournament in 1871. Ranji 1897 page 364-2 Charles W. Alcock.jpg
Charles W. Alcock played in the first FA Cup final. He had first proposed the creation of the tournament in 1871.

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]

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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

William Kenyon-Slaney played in the 1873 final for Wanderers and was also the first player to score a goal for England. W.S. Kenyon-Slaney.jpg
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. Arthur Fitzgerald Kinnaird.jpg
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 1896 FA Cup.jpg
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
PlayerPositionApps.GoalsFinal(s)Refs
Charles W. Alcock FW10 1872 [21] [22]
Morton Betts FW11 1872 [22] [23]
Alexander Bonsor FW20 1872, 1873 [22] [24] [25]
Edward Bowen FW/HB20 1872, 1873 [22] [24] [25]
William Crake FW10 1872 [22] [26]
Thomas Hooman FW10 1872 [22] [27]
Edgar Lubbock FB10 1872 [22] [28]
Albert Thompson HB10 1872 [20] [22]
Walpole Vidal FW10 1872 [22] [29]
Reginald Courtenay Welch GK20 1872, 1873 [22] [25] [30]
Charles Wollaston FW62 1872, 1873, 1876 (both matches), 1877, 1878 [22] [25] [31] [32] [33] [34] [35]
Leonard Howell FB10 1873 [25] [36]
William Kenyon-Slaney FW10 1873 [19] [25]
Robert Kingsford FW10 1873 [25] [37]
Arthur Kinnaird FW/GK/HB32 [c] 1873, 1877, 1878 [25] [33] [34] [37]
Charles Thompson FW10 1873 [20] [25]
Henry Stewart FW10 1873 [25] [38]
Julian Sturgis FW10 1873 [25] [39]
Francis Birley HB30 1876 (both matches), 1877 [31] [32] [33] [40]
John Hawley Edwards FW21 1876 (both matches) [31] [32] [41]
W. D. O. Greig GK20 1876 (both matches) [31] [32] [42]
Francis Heron FW20 1876 (both matches) [31] [32] [43]
Hubert Heron FW40 1876 (both matches), 1877, 1878 [31] [32] [33] [34] [43]
Thomas Hughes FW32 1876 (both matches), 1877 [31] [32] [33] [36]
Jarvis Kenrick FW43 1876 (both matches), 1877, 1878 [31] [32] [33] [34] [44]
William Lindsay FB41 1876 (both matches), 1877, 1878 [31] [32] [33] [34] [45]
Frederick Maddison HB20 1876 (both matches) [31] [32] [46]
Alfred Stratford FB40 1876 (both matches), 1877, 1878 [31] [32] [33] [34] [47]
Charles Denton FW20 1877, 1878 [33] [34] [48]
Frederick Green HB20 1877, 1878 [33] [34] [49]
Henry Wace FW20 1877, 1878 [33] [34] [50]
James Kirkpatrick GK10 1878 [9] [34]
John Wylie FW10 1878 [34] [51]

Footnotes

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]

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