| Full name | St Mark's F.C. (Windsor) | |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 1876 | |
| Dissolved | 1888 | |
| Ground | St Mark's School, Windsor | |
St Mark's F.C. was an English association club based in Windsor.
| Full name | St Mark's F.C. (Windsor) | |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 1876 | |
| Dissolved | 1888 | |
| Ground | St Mark's School, Windsor | |
St Mark's F.C. was an English association club based in Windsor.
The first recorded match for the club was on 18 November 1876, a 2–1 home defeat to Runnymede. [1] Its players were pupils and masters [2] attending St Mark's School, under the headmastership of the Reverend E. Hawtrey, whose sons played for the club. [3] The school later became the Imperial Service College.
It entered the FA Cup once, in 1877–78 and was drawn to play Barnes, with choice of ground, [4] but scratched before playing. [5] This appears to be because a number of its players had pledged their allegiance to other clubs in the Windsor and Slough area, including Swifts and Remnants; the latter club was made up solely of masters from the school. [6]
The club provided three players to the Berkshire Football Association representative side in 1876–77. [7]
Matches are recorded for the club until 1888. [8] The club's pitch was also used for fixtures for other clubs in the area, when their own grounds were unavailable; the ground hosted an FA Cup tie in 1883. [9]
The club's colours were violet and white "jackets". [13] [14]
The club played its home matches in the school grounds. [15] [16]
There were two London clubs active at the time under the name St Mark's; St Mark's Guild, a team from a teacher training college who changed their name to Rangers in 1877, and St Mark's College from Chelsea, a team of undergraduates from a college linked to the teacher training college, who played into the late 1880s, and whose old boys formed a football club (Old St Mark's F.C.) in 1885.