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The effect of this galaxy of
Scotsmen on the game in Hampshire was electifying. Up to then, few local people knew anything about the fine points of the game, and the public troubled little about it as a spectacle. The opening of the Woolston Shipyard turned Southampton into an association (football)
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by two goals to nil to claim the trophy. With St. Mary's winning the Junior Cup, the two clubs decided that they should compete to decide which was
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Woolston shipyard was closed in April 1889 and Oswald, Mordaunt & Co. was wound up, resulting in the disbanding of the football team.
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Both teams have had a wonderfully good time of it on the whole and the people of
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361:In 1960,
319:Aldershot
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43:Dissolved
27:Full name
344:F.A. Cup
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