1865–66 Barnes F.C. season

This was the fourth season of Barnes Football Club.

4 November 1865 BarnesW-LCivil ServiceBarnes
Note: [1]
11 November 1865 BarnesW-LC.C.C.Barnes
Note: [1]
2 December 1865 Crystal Palace0-0BarnesPenge
15:15
Note: Match was "nominally fifteen-a-side", but Barnes had 9 men (absentees included the captain Ebenezer Morley): Crystal Palace had 14. Game lasted one hour.
 Barnes (9 players): Barnes, Graham, Roberts, Le B. Smith, et al.[1]
20 January 1866 Barnes0-2Civil Service[4][3]Barnes
O. N. Fuller, F. Deacon
Note: The Civil Service team "could muster only eight men, and were obliged to fill up the vacancies with members of other well-known clubs".
Barnes (15 players): Barnes, C. Bagot, Courtenay, Drake, R. Graham, Greenhill, Karslake, H. P. Mackrell, Montgomery, W. Nettleship, M. Roberts, Sheppard, Le B. Smith, Tebbs, R. Willis.
Civil Service (14 players): C. W. Alcock, A. E. Bateman, G. B. Blount, F. Deacon, R. D. Elphinstone, O. U. Fuller, Q. Hogg, J. Kirkpatrick, Rose, Seppings, A. H. Turner, X. Turner, C. G. Wandby, J. Wearne.[5][6][3]
3 February 1866 BarnesW-LCrystal PalaceBarnes
Note: "Only a very small number of the representatives of Crystal Palace showed up".[7]
10 March 1866 Barnes0 (2) - 0 (1)[8]Crystal PalaceBarnes
15:45[9] Barnes, Villiers (touches down) Unknown (touch down) Attendance: "Numerous bystanders"
Note: Game ended at 5 o'clock after 1 and a quarter hours' play.
Barnes (14 players):[10] E. C. Morley (captain), R. Bamburry, T. K. Barnes, Boyle, R. Carrington, Farquharson, R. Graham, Hudson, D. M. O'Leary, M. Roberts, R. Shepard, S. L. B. Smith, R. Villiers, R. Willis.
Crystal Palace (15 players): A. Morton (capt.), E. Abraham, D. Allport, W. Allport, Cockerell, A. Cutbill, E. Cutbill, H. Foster, Grose, E. K. Hammond, A. Lloyd, H. Lloyd, T. Lloyd, Saward, T. Sharland.[7]
Barnes
1865-65 season
CaptainEbenezer Morley
SecretaryRobert Willis
RulesLaws of the Game (1863)
Laws of the Game (1866) (after 22 February 1866).

Athletic Sports
  • Date: 24 March 1866[11]
  • Venue: The Limes, Mortlake. (Field belonging to T. Marsh Nelson, to the back of the White Hart public house).
  • Committee: Ebenezer Morley (starter), H. H. Playford (judge), E. Conant, R. G. Graham, R. Wright, G. Villiers
  • Secretary: Robert Willis
  • Events: 100 yards race, 300 yards race, one mile handicap, 220 yards hurdle race, one mile steeple chase, long jump, high jump with pole.

Notes
  1. "Barnes v. Crystal Palace". Sporting Life: 3. 1865-12-06.
  2. Allegedly a scratch team, of which nine happened to be civil servants, the actual "Civil Service" team not playing because Barnes refused to play to its rules.
  3. Kirkpatrick, Ja[me]s (1866-02-03). "Barnes v. Civil Service". Field: 26.
  4. Allegedly a scratch team, of which nine happened to be civil servants, the actual "Civil Service" team not playing because Barnes refused to play to its rules.
  5. "Barnes v. Civil Service". Field: 19. 1866-01-27.
  6. "Barnes v. Civil Service". Field: 19. 1866-01-27.
  7. "Barnes v. Crystal Palace". Field: 23. 1866-03-17.
  8. Barnes won by 2 touches down to 1
  9. imputed
  10. report states that Barnes had 15 players, but only 14 are listed
  11. "Barnes Football Club". Bell's Life in London: 7. 1866-03-31.
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