139:(later renamed the Amateur Athletic Association of England) and from 1866 to 1879 was the de facto governing body for amateur athletics in the United Kingdom. The club was formed at the beginning of 1866 by some old University and London athletes. In the prospectus it was announced that the club was formed to 'supply a want which existed of some established ground on which competitions in amateur athletic sports might take place, and to afford as completely as possible to all classes of gentlemen amateurs the means of practising and competing against one another, without being compelled to mix with professional runners.' The newly formed club determined to institute an Annual Open Athletics Championship and the first of these known as the
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prevented anyone in manual labour from joining. This caused debate and unease from the beginning and by 1879, the
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Despite the club claiming a membership of over 350 in 1873, there is no record of it having played a match against external opposition after
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It has been argued that the cause of the demise of The
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from 1868 to 1876 and playing its first match against external opposition in
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later wrote that he believed the intention of the founders of the
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