Middlesex Wanderers A.F.C.
association football club in England
Middlesex Wanderers A.F.C. is an English touring amateur football team.
History
When the Richmond Old Boys team (from the British School in Richmond, Surrey, failed financially after undertaking a tour of France, two members, brothers Bob and Horace Alaway, formed a successor club, Richmond Town Wanderers, in 1905 with the initial intention of a farewell tour. However, the club flourished, pursuing its mission of spreading football to countries where it was less developed than in England.
By 1912, it had affiliated to the Middlesex County Football Association, adopted the name Middlesex Wanderers, and had begun to restrict membership of its touring teams to players with county representative honours or better. The club's constitution set out its remit as:
To promote a good fellowship among football clubs and other sporting organisations throughout the world.
To send teams of British footballers on tours abroad.
To play occasional football games in the British Isles and such other games as the Executive Committee may approve.
Colours
The club colours were royal blue and white.
Early tours
1912 tour
The team included Alaway (goalkeeper), Palmer, Fisher, Alley, Gibson, Mitchell, Humphreys, Jeacocke, Guscott, Bowman and Cookson.
1913 tour
1914 tour
1939 tour
Wanderers' 50th tour, to Turkey in 1939, made them the first British club to visit that country; the team included international players from Wales and Ireland as well as England.
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