East Sheen F.C.
football club
East Sheen Football Club was an English football and rugby club from Surrey in England.
History
The first reference to an East Sheen Football Club is from 1873, as an offshoot of the East Sheen Cricket Club. It however played under rugby union rules. The club added an association football side in 1882, perhaps due to the influence of rugby captain R. R. H. Lockhart-Bruce, who also played association for Dorking, who also captained the association side in its first seasons, and who was stroke for the East Sheen Boat Club eights.
Its first reported matches under the association code were in the first Surrey Senior Cup in 1882; indeed the club reached the final, where it lost 2–0 at Reigate Priory - the Sheenites had been handicapped by losing A. M. Walters and T. W. Blenkiron before the match as the Charterhouse School headmaster refused to allow them leave to play, and the club had to find substitutes "on the ground". The two clubs met again in the 1884–85 final, East Sheen's second and last appearance, at the Kennington Oval, but this time East Sheen carried off the trophy, two first-half goals from captain Barter helping the side to a 2–1 win.
One notable fixture was in the first round of the Surrey Cup in 1887–88. The club had originally lost to Barnes F.C., but put in a protest, on the basis that darkness had ended the match early, which the Surrey Football Association upheld. The replayed match saw only eight Barnes players turn up to face only ten from East Sheen; despite this, Barnes won by ten goals to nil. The club had been handicapped by the emigration and retirement of a number of players, leaving the club denuded of backs and half-backs.
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