Blackburn Olympic Football Club was an English football. in minor local competitions. In 1880, the club entered the FA Cup for the first time, and three years later defeated Old Etonians at Kennington Oval to win the trophy. Olympic, however, proved unable to compete with wealthier and better-supported clubs in the new professional era, and folded in 1889. Most of Olympic's home matches.
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More important is the FA Cup final of 1883, where the now-defunct team Blackburn Olympic beat the Old Etonians to become the first northern football club to win the competition, the first working.The Public Schools were first represented on the FA Council in 1904. However, in those days there was no formal schools association and Norman Malcolmson (Old Etonians), the Hon. Secretary of the newly formed Arthur Dunn Cup, was chosen to represent public schools football in its entirety, both the school and the old boy games.The Arthur Dunn Cup had been formed by 1902 and there had initially.It was held just seven years after Rovers was founded and two years after the club turned professional. The Old Etonians beat Rovers 1-0. Now 131 years after the cup final, the programme, which.
Old Etonians F.c. Entity Index This is the list of all entities in this result page. Click an entity to go directly to the entity box. Old Etonians F.C. Football club Blackburn Rovers F.C. Football club Old Carthusians F.C. Football club Darwen F.C. Football club Blackburn Olympic F.C. Football club Clapham Rovers F.C. Football club Shropshire Wanderers F.C. Football club.April 18, 1904 A former resident of Manchester now at the Cape sends an interesting letter, from which the following is an excerpt: “By the Continue reading Some representatives of old boys football clubs.
