The Match Card

This is the oldest match programme currently in existence. It''s owned by captain Alec Morten''s family and details the colours being worn by each player during the game: England: Alexander Morten (Crystal Palace, captain), black cap and brown stockings Alexander George Bonsor (Wanderers), light blue and red cap Charles John Chenery (Crystal Palace), blue and black cap, blue knickerbockers, blue stockings William Edwin Clegg (Sheffield), blue cap Alfred George Goodwyn (Royal Engineers), yellow blue and black stockings and cap Ernest Harwood Greenhalgh (Nottingham), red white and blue cap Hubert Heron (Uxbridge), blue stockings, blue cap with yellow crest Leonard Sidgwick Howell (Old Wykehamists), cerise cap Captain William Slaney Kenyon-Slaney (Household Brigade), red gold and black cap Robert Walpole Sealy Vidal (Oxford University), white knickerbockers, dark stockings Pelham George von Donop (Royal Engineers), red and blue stockings and cap. Scotland: Robert Gardner (Queen’s Park, captain), light blue cap John Edward Blackburn (Royal Engineers), scarlet and blue fez William Gibb (Clydesdale), black cap with magenta stripes William Ker (Queen’s Park), no cap Arthur Fitzgerald Kinnaird (Wanderers), blue and white cap William Muir Mackinnon (Queen’s Park), blue and scarlet cowl Henry Waugh Renny-Tailyour (Royal Engineers), blue and black cap, yellow tassel Robert Smith (South Norwood), black cap Joseph Taylor (Queen’s Park), white cap blue stars James John Thomson (Queen’s Park), blue with white stars David Wotherspoon (Queen’s Park), scarlet cowl.

Date of picture:

8th March 1873

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Pat

Date loaded:

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Copyright owner:

England

Team:

England

Other team:

Scotland

Ground:

The Oval

Category:

Programme