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The Amateur Status Committee of the Football Association offered the club the opportunity to play in Paris at the inaugural Olympic Games. Records show that Upton Park were the first club to agree to play but were unlikely to be the first to be asked. Upton Park were not participating in a league at
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Upton Park FC was responsible for proposing two of the most important rule changes in the history of association football: in 1870, the club proposed abolishing all handling of the ball (previously, any player was allowed to catch the ball). In 1871, the club introduced a proposal to create the
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stadium (officially known as the Boleyn Ground), the club had no connection with the ground and never played there; however there were formal links between Upton Park and
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The club were wound up in 1887 but were resurrected four years later in 1891. In 1892 they were founder members of the
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attracted large crowds to their games, which may have influenced Thames Ironworks' decision to move to the area from
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The team was refounded in 2016, it is an amateur team and competes only in friendlies, usually for charity.
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An Upton Park team of 1900. That year the team won the Gold medal representing Great Britain at the Olympics
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the time playing only cup games and friendlies. They had never reached the semi-final stage of the
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joined from Bridport FC. Gosling's Chelmsford side had beaten Upton Park 7–1 in January 1900.
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have since retrospectively awarded one. The team that day (playing a 2–3–5 formation) was:
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Upton Park continued to play until at least 1911, according to modern-day records. The
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lists Great Britain as being 1900 gold medal-winners in the football tournament.
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Note that the spellings of names differs slightly from names listed by RSSSF.
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GB United? : British olympic football and the end of the amateur dream
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selected the team and brought in players from other amateur teams;
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The scorers were Nicholas (with two), Turner and Zealley.
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was not awarded to the side at the time (it being a
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Index

West Ham United F.C.
Boleyn Ground
West Ham Park
Club website
Home colours
football
1900 Paris
Team
football
Upton Park
Essex
London Borough of Newham
FA Cup
1871
Great Britain
first ever Olympic football tournament
1866
very first edition
FA Cup
1871–72
London Senior Cup
1882–83
professionalism
Preston North End
FA Cup in 1884
Southern Alliance
1892–93
Upton Park
West Ham United
Thames Ironworks

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