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100 1  Bancroft, James W.,|d1953-|eauthor. 
245 14 The early years of the FA Cup :|bhow the British Army 
       helped establish the worlds first football tournament /
       |cJames W. Bancroft. 
264  1 Barnsley :|bFrontline Books,|c2021. 
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504    Includes bibliographical references and index. 
520    The 150th anniversary of the first FA Cup competition, the
       earliest knockout tournament in the history of football, 
       will be celebrated during the 2021-2022 season. The first 
       set of matches was played on 11 November 1871, with the 
       Engineers reaching the final played at Kennington Oval on 
       16 March 1872.During the first decade of the competition 
       three teams associated with the military, Royal Engineers,
       1st Surrey Rifles and 105th Regiment, were involved in 74 
       matches. They won more than half of them and scored 154 
       goals. The Army also produced one of the most respected 
       administrators in the history of football, in the form of 
       Major Francis Marindin, who was involved in the founding 
       of the FA Cup, played in two finals, and refereed a 
       further nine.Military men and units provided a number of 
       'firsts' in the early years of football. The Royal 
       Engineers played in the first ever FA Cup final; 
       Lieutenant James Prinsep of the Essex Regiment was the 
       youngest footballer to appear in an FA Cup final until 
       2004, although he remains the youngest to complete a full 
       match; Lieutenant William Maynard of the 1st Surrey Rifles
       played for England in the first ever official 
       international match against Scotland; Captain William 
       Kenyon-Slaney of the Grenadier Guards scored the first 
       ever goal in an official international match, while 
       playing for England; and Lieutenant Henry Renny-Tailyour 
       of the Royal Engineers scored the first ever goal for 
       Scotland in the same match.At a time when there has been 
       talk of a financially-motivated breakaway European Super 
       League, James gives the reader the opportunity to look 
       back at a time when football was played for the game 
       itself. Using his vast knowledge concerning Victorian 
       football and military history, The Early Years of the FA 
       Cup explores the fascinating history of the Army's 
       involvement in the early years of the world's most popular
       sport. With detailed descriptions of the finals and other 
       matches involving the military teams during football's 
       heyday, this book, for the first time, then follows the 
       men as they went on campaigns to build roads and bridges 
       in hostile territory, provide maps for commanders in 
       famous conflicts such as The Zulu War, Afghanistan, the 
       Sudan, and the Boer Wars, and saw active service on the 
       Western Front during the First World War. In some cases 
       they never returned.Often great footballers are referred 
       to as 'heroes' - in the case of the men who played for the
       Army teams in the early FA Cup competitions, such an 
       epithet is genuinely true. 
588 0  Print version record. 
610 10 Great Britain.|bArmy|xSports. 
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611 20 F.A. Cup (England)|xHistory. 
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776 08 |iPrint version:|aBancroft, James W., 1953-|tEarly years 
       of the FA Cup.|dBarnsley : Frontline Books, 2021
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