I Football: FA Cup - the first final of the FA's first race

The FA Cup is the oldest football competition. First played in 1872, was the idea of Charles Alcock. Initially, only twelve teams that participated in the competition and reduces the number to nine before the first round should have been made. However, another six teams, including Queen's Park from Scotland, were persuaded to enter.

So at November 11, 1871 a total of four games were played - Barnes defeated 2-0 Civil Service;Hitchen and Crystal Palace (not the current club of the same name) to take both advanced to the next round, despite a zero to zero beat Maidenhead Marlow 1-0 Clapham Rovers won 3-0 at Upton Park against the first marker Clapham , a Kenrick Jarvis is credited with goals after he scored the first FA Cup - three player games were not Queen's Park and Donington school could not accept the game where you play, get to be so advanced, and the Royal Engineers and Wanderers both feetAcquisitions against Reigate Priory and Harrow Chequers respectively. Hampstead Heath, with a bye due to an odd number of market participants.

In the second round of matches, was the team of ten in 4 of the five games to play. The only one that has taken place, the band between Donington Park and Queen's School, some of which are still not where you play against each other after the drawing. Therefore, Queen's Park extended into the third round. In gameswere played, drew 1-1 with Barnes and Barnes on Hampstead Heath for a response, Crystal Palace plays Maindenhead 3-0, 5-0 Hitchin were royally stuffed by the Royal Engineers and Wanderers enjoyed a 3-1 win against Clapham Rovers.

due to the fact that the Queen's Park for the semi-finals with an already advanced - The third round was 20 and 27 January 1872, when Hampstead Heath Royal Engineers and Wanderers 3-0 and defeated Crystal Palace played a goalless draw madehello, these two were not required to repeat. Thus, the added 17 February at Kennington Oval, Crystal Palace and Royal Engineers played out a goalless draw against Queen's Park and Wanderers 5 similar to the same place in March. On March 9, 1872, Royal won the final with a 3-0 play for engineers. Bu that should be addressed? Well, as it happens, would Wanderers, back to Queen's Park because of the prohibitive cost of travel to London for a retreatRepeat.

Saturday, March 16, 1872, Royal Engineers and Wanderers met at Kennington Oval, the first FA Cup final to play. Obviously, the game was the rules of the day, no goals or nets allowed to play sleepers. The track was not a center circle or the center line and there were no free kicks or penalties. Again, an oversight that will be corrected almost 100 years, there were no substitutions allowed. The Wanderers has helped moresuch as the Royal Engineers as after ten minutes, they lost Lieutenant Creswell with a broken collarbone. The only goal of the game was to play only 15 minutes by Morton Peto Betts scored under the pyseudonym AH Chequer. At the end of the game, maybe it was right that 'Wanderers captain, a CW Alcock was the first man FA Cup for the abolition des