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Title: The sports of the world, with illustrations from drawings and photographs
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Aflalo, Frederick G. (Frederick George), 1870-1918
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Publisher: London Paris New York : Cassell
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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ce on a defi-
nite plan by spreading across
the field when the scrum
broke up. C. Reid was a
great figure, who proved far more than any other
player that a good big un is alwavs better than a
good little un. His style was his own, and in
this regard his main influence on the game was
to create a preference for big, strong forwards
who united skill in their strength.
Since the davs of the pioneers of the Association
game, the now defunct, but always memorable.
Wanderers, there have been necessarily many
personalities to whose indefatigable efforts Soc-
cer owes itc present popularity. Many members
of the Wanderers figured, after their playing days,
as legislators, and they always commanded ad-
miration and respect for the manner in which they
carried out their duties.
The Wanderers were the first winners in 1871-2
of the Football Association Challenge Cup—popu-
larly known as the English Cup—which they won
again the next season. Then, after a break of
two years, they were successful in three successive
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A FALL.

32 THE SPORTS OF THE WORLD.

seasons, and the English Cup became their own
property. How they returned the Cup to the
Association to be competed for as a perpetual
trophy is a matter of common knowledge. Of
the players who organised the Wanderers there

THE FOUNDER OF THE CORINTHIANS:
MR. N. L. JACKSON.
(Photo: Elliott &. Fry, Baker Street. W)

were no greater personalities than C. W. Alcock,
known for many years as the Secretary of the
Football Association, and still Secretary of the
Surrey County Cricket Club, and Major Marindin,
the popular soldier, who was regarded as part and
parcel of final English Cup ties for many seasons
in the important position of referee.
In the Seventies there was little or none of
that combination which is so essential to-day.
The pioneers of the Association game believed
more in the clever dribbling of the ball and speedy
runs than in combination, the value of which was
not appreciated because it was not sufficiently
cultivated.

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