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Wanderers FC
Founded 1859 as The Forest Club
Present Name Change 1872
Disbanded 1882

Players provided 21
 Total appearances 33
1872-80

 

Battersea Park
Domestic Honours FA Cup original entrants, winners 1871-72, 1872-73, 1875-76, 1876-77, 1877-78;
Home venue, based in London Battersea Park
Home strip Orange, violet and black hooped shirts, white shorts

 

The 21 Players   15 with only one app.
Ply no. Name Pos App Gls
GA		 Mins Playing Career
1 Robert Barker GK/F 1 0ᵍ 1ᵍᵃ 90 1872 90 min
with Hertfordshire Rangers
3 Reginald Welch D/GK 2 0ᵍ 2ᵍᵃ 180 1872-74 1 year
97 days
with Harrow Chequers
Thomas Hooman unlucky that injury forced his withdrawal from the first two matches 1872-73
13 Leonard Howell B 1 0 90 1873 90 min
with Old Wykehamists
16 Alexander Bonsor F 2 1 180 1873-75 1 year
 363 days
with Old Etonians
19 Hubert Heron F 5 0 450 1873-78 4 years
360 days
also with Uxbridge & Swifts
20 William Kenyon-Slaney F 1 2 90 1873 90 min
with Old Etonians
A.C. Thompson was also due to start the March 1873 friendly, but withdrew injured
22 Alfred Stratford FB 1 0 90 1874 90 min
with Malvern College
25 Charles Wollaston F 4 1 360 1874-80 6 years
6 days
with Lancing Old Boys & Clapham Rovers
26 Hawley Edwards F 1 0 90 1874 90 min
with Shropshire Wanderers
27 Robert Kingsford F 1 1 90 1874 90 min
also with Old Marlburians & Crystal Palace (amateur)
29 Edward Haygarth FB 1 0 90 1875 90 min
also with Swifts, Reading & Lancing Old Boys
30 William Rawson FB 2 0 180 1875-77 1 year
362 days
also with Oxford Univ & Old Westminsters
23 Francis Birley FB 1 0 90 1875 90 min
31 Charlie Alcock F 1 1 90 1875 90 min
36 F.T. Green FB 1 0 90 1876 90 min
with Old Wykehamists
40 Charles Smith F 1 0 90 1876 90 min
with Crystal Palace
41 Frank Heron F 1 0 90 1876 90 min
Frederick Maddison withdrew from the match in 1876
43 Monty Betts GK 1 3ᵍᵃ 90 1877 90 min
with Old Harrovians
44 William Lindsay FB 1 0 90 1877 90 min
with Old Wykehamists
55 J.G. Wylie F 1 1 90 1878 90 min
with Sheffield
56 Henry Wace F 3 0 270 1878-79 1 year
 34 days
with Clapham Rovers

The Wanderers team were integral to the early England sides.
They provided two of the eleven players in the very first match,
and then another four in the second match in 1873 (Howell, Bonsor, Heron and Kenyon-Slaney).
They broke their own record the next match when they provided five of the starting line-up
(Stratford, Wollaston, Kingsford, Edwards and Heron).
And then again in the fourth match, they provided seven players to the starting line-up
(Haygarth, Rawson, Birley, Wollaston, Alcock, Bonsor and Heron).

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