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Darwen Old Wanderers F.C.

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The Old Wanderers did turn professional, but its list of professional players for the 1887–88 season did not include any "imports"; all were local men and most had played for the Old Wanderers since the amateur days. Burnley got a measure of revenge in the FA Cup, beating the Old Wanderers 4–0, with
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rules on eligibility for the competition (requiring a 2-year residence period) made most of the Burnley players ineligible for the competition. As a consequence the Old Wanderers faced a reserve side and won 11–0, the club's biggest competitive victory, and Burnley's biggest competitive defeat. In
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and Preston". As the Lancashire FA refused to move the match, Preston withdrew from the Lancashire FA, and the other finalists, Accrington, were given a walk-over. However, in order to award the silver medallists for the runners-up, the Lancashire FA arranged a match between the Old Wanderers and
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The club suffered from two accidents in the season. In October, the club played a minor friendly against Heaton Park, during which match one of the Old Wanderer players fell onto Heaton Park's James Harkins. Harkins suffered an injury which turned into an abscess, from which he died on 1 January
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2–1 in the first round of the competition in 1883–84; a result which was considered a surprise by the club itself, with the Liverpool Mercury remarking that "a greater surprise than was witnessed at Bolton on Saturday is not likely to take place throughout the competition for the Lancashire Cup”.
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There were a number of players who stayed with the Old Wanderers from at least 1883 to the club's demise; the backs G. Moorhouse and R. Kirkham, Jonathan Pearson and captain J. W. Almond (who both played as forwards or half-backs), forward T. Chadwick, and winger J. Eccles.
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3,000 attending at Turf Moor; however the FA ordered a replay at Pot House because of doubts over the eligibility of some of the Burnley players, and the cash-strapped Old Wanderers agreed to forfeit the tie in return for a monetary payment.
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On 14 May 1889, at a meeting of the members of the club, the treasurer announced that there was now a positive balance of £4 5s 4.5d. However, after a long discussion, it was resolved that the club should cease to exist.
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Not the later Barrow A.F.C. but a club which had lost in the first round of the Junior Cup and was also known as Barrow-in-Furness: see Manchester Courier, 18 September 1891, p. 3.
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The club was formed in 1879, and the first reported game for the club was against Livesey Grasshoppers at the start of the 1882–83 season, as part of a series of matches hosted by
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Despite the long run in the Lancashire Cup of 1887–88, the club started the 1888–89 season £4 in debt, and, with the closest local clubs now engaged in activities with the
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The final did not take place. The Lancashire FA arranged for it to be played in Blackburn, and Preston demanded a change in venue, "on account of the feeling between
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The only two downsides were that one of the Wanderers, Marsden, broke his leg after an accidental collision with a team-mate, and that the referee, a Mr Ormerod from
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with ease; notably, the crowd was only 1,000, despite no other matches going on in the area. The run ended in the third round with a defeat at
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The club's first seasons were low key, with the Wanderers first coming to local attention in 1882–83, by reaching the third round of the
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8–3 to Bell's Temperance in the second round and vanishing from the scene after a 4–0 defeat to the Barrow club at the end of the year.
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The name was briefly revived for a junior club in 1891, but that club seems to have lasted little more than four months, losing in the
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The Wanderers made it through to the quarter-finals of the local competition, and were not disgraced in a 2–1 defeat at the mighty
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That season the club had its best run in the Lancashire Cup. Although the club lost in the first round to
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itself, Darwen Ramblers, Darwen Rovers, Darwen Hibernians, Darwen Temperance, and in the next door village
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an ominous sign for the future, on the same day, Burnley's new professionals played a friendly against
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The club's colours were black and white "quarters", which was the term at the time for halved shirts.
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Manchester Weekly, 22 October 1887, notes that the FA upheld 16 different protests in the first round
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The difficulties of being a small side in an area saturated with football clubs - the town of
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1888, the jury returning a verdict of accidental death. In November 1887, after losing at
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side 2–1, in front of 1,000 spectators, while the first choice Owd Reds side beat
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A similar instance happened in the second round, when the club beat a weak
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6–2 at home, to reach the semi-finals, where the club was drawn to play
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Its first impact on the football world was when the club beat
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Emboldened by this rise in fortune, the club entered the
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Index

Home colours
association football
Darwen
Lancashire
Blackburn Olympic
Lancashire Senior Cup
Padiham F.C.
Bolton Wanderers
Accrington
Blackburn Rovers
FA Cup
1884-85
Higher Walton
Bolton Association
Lower Darwen
1885-86
Burnley
Football Association's
Wolverhampton Wanderers
Accrington
Blackburn Olympic
Blackburn Rovers
Darwen
Darwen
Lower Darwen
1886-87
Glaswegian
Cowlairs
Heart of Midlothian
Port Vale

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