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1866–67 Barnes F.C. season

season of football team

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 21, 2025
Entity authorityQ73906061 ↗
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This was the fifth season of Barnes Football Club. The club's season opened with a game between club members on 6 October 1866. With membership of the Football Association being at a low ebb, the club played very few matches against external opposition.

Athletic Sports

Date: 30 March 1867

Venue: Field belonging to J. Johnstone, Barnes.

Committee: Ebenezer Morley (starter), R. W. Willis, A. D. Houseman (judges).

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1866, 1867—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Barnes, season and football providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “1866–67 Barnes F.C. season” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.