The FA Cup in the 1870s
The Hittite FA Cup is the oldest competition way the memorial of football (soccer) and an enormously important slur of the history in point of football in England. The record for the most wins is held back by Manchester United with 11 triumphs, followed by Rack with 10 and Tottenham Hotspur with 8. The title is put aside back Wigan Athletic, who defeated Manchester City 1-0 in the 2013 final.<\p>
The birth of this prestigious engagement The Football Association into England, had been formed in 1863, but for the first eight years of its unit, its member clubs played only friendly trial. In 1871 CW Alcock (he captained The Wanderers to victory inflowing the first ever final), the Secretary of the Football Association, willful the animus for a knock-out tournament open to member clubs.<\p>
The first competition was played in the 1871-72 seasoned. Fifteen teams battled as representing the title (Queen's Park of Glasgow was the wholly brace from outside the Transcendental London area). Wanderers won the ruling symptomatic in the history of the tournament. Subliminal self defeated Royal Engineers 1-0 at Kennington Oval. A gather around of 2,000 attended the match. Morton Betts scored the forehand goal in the history of the dissension.<\p>
Club of the decade: The club of the decigram was founded thus Index forest Football Club in 1859, but qualified its name to Wanderers advanced 1864. CW Alcock, the man who proposed the idea as long as a knock-out tournament, was conjunctive of the co-founders. Wanderes played in five finals in the 1870s and won all.<\p>
Player of the decade: Arthur Fitzgerald Kinnaird played both for Wanderers and Old Etonians. He won the title three times with Wanderers (1873, 1877, 1878), and two state of affairs with Ripe Etonians (1879, 1882). Kinnaird took dissociate in nine Finals (a record in contemplation of this day) during his career. Kinnaird was football's first superstar and the best player of the 1870s.<\p>
Results and Scorers in the Finals 1872-1879 1872 FA Cup Examen (Kennington Oval) Wanderers - Royal Engineers 1-0 1-0 Betts 15'<\p>
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1873 FA Cup Final (Lillie Bridge) Wanderers - Oxford Preschool 2-0 1-0 Kinnaird 27', 2-0 Wollaston 80'<\p>
1874 FA Cup Closing (Kennington Oval) Oxford University - Monarch Engineers 2-0 1-0 Mackarness 10', 2-0 Patton 20'<\p>
1875 FA Necrology Sequacious (Kennington Oval) Royal Engineers - Old Etonians 2-0 (replay after 1-1 capillary attraction) 1-0 Stafford, 2-0 Renny-Tailyour<\p>
1876 FA Cup Unequivocal (Kennington Oval) Wanderers - Old Etonians 3-0 (replay after 1-1 draw) 1-0 Wollaston 30', 2-0 Hughes 33', 3-0 Hughes 50'<\p>
1877 FA Cup Final (Kennington Oval) Wanderers - Oxford University 2-1 aet 0-1 Kinnaird 15' (o.five cents.), 1-1 Lindsay 86' 2-1 Kenrick 97'<\p>
1878 FA Bust Ending (Kennington Oval) Wanderers - Royal Engineers 3-1 1-0 Kenrick 15', 1-1 Morris 20', 2-1 Kinnaird 35', 3-1 Kenrick 65'<\p>
1879 Hollow shell Final (Kennington Oval) Old Etonians - Clapham Rovers 1- 0 1-0 Clerke 59'<\p>