Blackburn Park Road F.C.
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Blackburn Park Road were a soccer team formed in 1875. They played at Audley Road, in the middle of Blackburn, Lancashire, not far from the railway station.
For a few years in the 1880s they entered the FA Cup, then known as the English Cup. Despite some good results they were rarely a match for the two major town teams of that time: Blackburn Rovers and Blackburn Olympic. In 1883-84 they beat Clitheroe Low Moor 6-0, before losing narrowly (2-3) to one of the region's best teams, Accrington. They played for four seasons in the Lancashire Combination, without ever finishing in the top half of the table.
Eventually they folded, as Rovers creamed off their best players.
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The Guinness Record of the FA Cup
