1875 FA Cup Final

A trophy, silver in colour and topped by a figure of a footballer, on an ebony plinth

Event

Royal Engineers	Old Etonians

1	1

Date

13 March 1875

Venue

Kennington Oval, London

Referee

Charles Alcock (Wanderers F.C.)

Attendance

3,000

The 1875 FA Cup Final was won by Royal Engineers after a replay at The Oval, London. The runners-up were the Old Etonians.

Tournament layout

There were 29 entrants in the 1874–75 FA Cup, one more than the previous year. One team got a bye in the first round, meaning that the second round consisted of 15 teams. The Old Etonians received a bye in the second round, therefore the quarter-finals had the standard eight teams.

Route to the Final

The Engineers, who lost the final on two of the three previous occasions, kicked off with a resounding 3–0 win over Marlow. They kept the scoring feat up in the next round, beating Cambridge University 5–0. The Quarter Final was a closely fought match against Clapham Rovers, just prevailing 3–2. The Semi-final produced a repeat fixture of the final of 1874, as the Engineers faced Oxford University. This time, the Engineers won 1–0.

The Old Etonians started off against the Swifts, which proved a very tough match. After two drawn games, the Etonians managed to pull off a 3–0 victory. In the second round they received a bye which led them into the quarter-finals. Following a win against Maidenhead, they played Shropshire Wanderers. An extremely close match was just edged out by a single goal to nil.

Final

Teams


Royal Engineers 1 (Renny-Tailyour)
GK	Capt William Merriman
DF	Lieut George H. Sim
DF	Lieut Gerald Onslow
DF	Lieut Richard Ruck
FW	Lieut Pelham von Donop
FW	Lieut Charles Wood
FW	Lieut Herbert Rawson
FW	Lieut William Stafford
FW	Capt Henry Renny-Tailyour
FW	Lieut Alexander Mein
FW	Lieut Cecil Wingfield-Stratford


Old Etonians 1 (Bonsor)
GK	Charles Farmer
DF	Francis Wilson
DF	Albert Thompson
DF	Edgar Lubbock
FW	Robert Benson
FW	William Kenyon-Slaney
FW	Frederick Patton
FW	Alexander Bonsor
FW	Cuthbert Ottaway
FW	Hon Arthur Kinnaird
FW	Sir James Stronge

Match report

The first match was notable chiefly because it was played in a "howling gale". The conditions considerably favoured the Etonians team, which had the wind at its backs for all but 10 minutes of the 90, and all 30 minutes of extra time (teams in this period changed ends after every goal- this game was the last to feature this rule).^[1] Cuthbert Ottaway received a severe hack on his ankle 37 minutes into the final and was forced to leave the field; in his absence, the Old Boys were regarded as fortunate to have held on for a 1–1 draw.

Ottaway failed to recover in time for the replay, held only three days later, and Etonians also lost the services of three other players who had prior commitments. Unable to obtain adequate replacements, the Old Boys arrived at the ground an hour late and lost the delayed replay 0–2.

Henry Renny-Tailyour scored in both matches for the Engineers.

Replay

1875 FA Cup Final replay

Royal Engineers	Old Etonians

2	0

Date

16 March 1875

Venue

Kennington Oval, London

Referee

Charles Alcock, Wanderers F.C.

Attendance

3,000

Teams


Old Etonians 0
GK	Capt Edward Drummond-Moray
DF	Matthew Farrer
DF	Edgar Lubbock
DF	Francis Wilson
FW	Thomas Hamond
FW	Alfred Lubbock
FW	Frederick Patton
FW	Alexander Bonsor
FW	Charles Farmer
FW	Hon Arthur Kinnaird
FW	Sir James Stronge


Royal Engineers 2 (Stafford & Renny-Tailyour)
GK	Capt William Merriman
DF	Lieut George Sim
DF	Lieut Gerald Onslow
DF	Lieut Richard Ruck
FW	Lieut Pelham von Donop
FW	Lieut Charles Wood
FW	Lieut Herbert Rawson
FW	Lieut William Stafford
FW	Capt Henry Renny-Tailyour
FW	Lieut Cecil Wingfield-Stratford
FW	Lieut Alexander Mein

References

1874–75 Competition Results at rsssf.com
FA Cup Final lineups

↑ Motson, John, "Motson's FA Cup Odyssey: The World's Greatest Knockout Competition”, Robson Publishing, 2005

External links

Royal Engineers Museum When the Sappers won the FA Cup (1875)
Match report at www.fa-cupfinals.co.uk

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