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suffered an eye injury, which required him to go in goal for the remainder of the match, "weakening his side considerably"; the
Sappers duly scored twice in the second half to go through. There were obviously no hard feelings between the sides, as the Sappers nominated the Old Harrovian half-back
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in the first round, which was also a team primarily made up of Harrow graduates. Indeed, one 1869 match report stated that the
Wanderers and Chequers consisted of "almost the same team" of men. In any event, the Chequers withdrew and thus the Wanderers advanced on a
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3–1, putting them into the semi-finals and needing only to beat the Royal
Engineers to face the Wanderers (who had a bye) in the final. However, they lost 2–1 in the semi-finals on 16 March 1878; the Harrovians took the lead, but, just before half-time, captain
248:, who played under the pseudonym "A.H. Chequer", i.e. "A Harrow Chequer", the team for which he had previously played. It is sometimes suggested in modern times that he played under a fake name to avoid being
499:, which commented on the fact that clubs could come and go over time. The 1874 annual listed less than 200 football clubs in all of England, and the author asked "what has become of such old giants as the
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reported that the club had changed its name to the "Old
Harrovians" The name "Old Harrovians" had previously been used to describe matches contested by old Harrow pupils, such as against
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in the third round, the first replay also ended 2–2, before a second replay saw Old
Harrovians win 2–0 to advance to the fourth round. Of the three-match battle with Cambridge,
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4–2 in the first round but lost to the Old
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competitions in the 1870s, but they forfeited each time, and never contested an FA Cup match as the
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The club played in blue and white "chequers", the term used for quartered shirts at the time, the shade confirmed as dark in 1877.
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Under its new name, the team played in the FA Cup competitions regularly in the late 1870s and 1880s. Though they lost 2–1 to the
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The club was formed in 1865, "consisting of
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