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in the latter year, in front of 4,000 spectators; the atmosphere of the match was subdued as most of the crowd considered
Attercliffe to have no real chance of winning, as Wednesday had not conceded a goal in the entire competition. The Attercliffe club had the consolation of receiving new jerseys as
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in football; the club visited Derby St
Andrews for a friendly in December 1872, and, after 45 minutes, a Mr Abney, one of the Derby members, turned up, having been delayed, and entered the pitch with one of the Derby players leaving it; "upon the umpire demanding how it was that an extra man had come
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The club's earliest named ground was on
Shirland Lane, near Attercliffe Station, in 1872. In 1878 the club moved to a ground at Brightside Lane. By 1886 the club had moved to the Newhall Grounds and in 1887 the club was playing at the Old Forge Ground. From the 1890–91 season the club played at the
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on 30 November 1870, the club being described as "most promising", with "several noted
University players" in its ranks and |proving themselves resolute and scientific". As the rules at the time did not stipulate a maximum number of players, the clubs agreed that the match should be 13 per side;
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despite the praise for the "A.C.C.F.C.", the visitors won 2–0. The club included a doctor, a vicar, and captain
Bernard Shaw, a surgeon, suggesting it drew its members from the middle classes; Shaw however died before the end of the season, aged just 24.
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club joined it in 1889. Attercliffe therefore resolved to turn professional for the 1889–90 season, but, with two
Sheffield clubs now part of national leagues, the smaller clubs were squeezed out. Attercliffe was one of the founder members of the
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The club continued to enter the FA Cup qualifying rounds until 1903, only getting past the first qualifying round on four occasions, and two of those were due to byes; the club's first win in the competition did not arrive until 1897–98, beating
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in 1889–90, finishing third in 1892–93, just 2 points behind champions
Wednesday Wanderers, but the following season only 5 clubs took part. The club did however play in the replacement
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in 1870 out of a cricket club dating back to at least 1862, and changed its name to
Attercliffe in 1873. In common with most of the clubs in the area, the club played under the
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runner-up prizes from the
Sheffield Association president. From 1871 to 1884 the club regularly hosted The Wednesday in the opening fixture of the season.
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The club originally played in blue and white, probably in hoops as that was the dominant design at the time. From 1878 the club played in blue and black.
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The arrival of professionalism in the game proved the undoing of the club. Wednesday was the only
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after another first round bye. The club seems to have disbanded after a preliminary round defeat to Mexborough West End in 1903.
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in the first round, the seventh goal being an overhead kick from Hay. The
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in, he was informed that it was an arrangement between the two captains".
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of the game until the Sheffield Association's merger with the
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Best Sheffield Senior Cup performance: runners-up, 1877–78
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508:"Staveley v Attercliffe".
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706:"Attercliffe v Heeley".
676:Alcock, Charles (1878).
661:Alcock, Charles (1873).
646:"Attercliffe v Albion".
553:"Attercliffe v Heeley".
538:"Heeley v Attercliffe".
523:"Heeley v Attercliffe".
417:Alcock, Charles (1874).
386:Alcock, Charles (1871).
371:"Heeley v Attercliffe".
303:performance: 1st Round,
587:: 7. 30 September 1889.
215:Sheffield Challenge Cup
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710:: 6. 10 October 1887.
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360:: 7. 2 January 1877.
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602:: 7. 12 April 1902.
449:Cambridge Chronicle
402:"Dronfield Feast".
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35:Nickname(s)
22:Attercliffe
762:Categories
343:References
207:substitute
194:in 1877.
168:Sheffield
51:Dissolved
27:Full name
615:Standard
239:Staveley
309:1887–88
305:1886–87
294:Records
277:Colours
235:1886–87
219:1876–77
178:History
43:Founded
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301:FA Cup
285:Ground
247:Heeley
231:FA Cup
59:Ground
299:Best
54:1903?
742:ISBN
326:and
46:1870
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