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and it scratched to St Columb's Court. The club still had a fitful existence in 1901, with former stalwart player
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The club appealed the decision, setting up a rival County
Londonderry Association as a back-up plan, but legal action by Richard Baxter of Distillery ensured that the Irish FA awarded the medals, given that, as Judge Ross Q.C. pointed out, "although the game was rather rough, the rules of the
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The club played at
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October 1889, when it beat the
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Association are against ." Ill-feelings between the two clubs evaporated surprisingly quickly - Crone of
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for half of its games; some of its players were recruited for the short-lived
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