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1891–92 Newton Heath LYR F.C. season

season of football team

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 2, 2025
Entity authorityQ866050 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1891–92 season was Newton Heath LYR's third and final season in the Football Alliance. They applied for election to the Football League towards the end of the season, and, due to their second-place finish in the Alliance, the League accepted the application. The club also took part in the FA Cup, reaching the Fourth Qualifying Round; the Lancashire Senior Cup, in which they were knocked out by Bury in the first round; and the Manchester Senior Cup, in which they reached the semi-finals before being knocked out by Bolton Wanderers.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “1891–92 Newton Heath LYR F.C. season” is season of football team. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Newton, Heath and season, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1891—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Newton, Heath and season is the immediate research focus.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 2, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q866050. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1891.

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This entry incorporates text from “1891–92 Newton Heath LYR 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.