1904 Is This The Earliest Orphanage Cup Game?

taken from the minutes of welfare meetings at blackburn station

Many books were kept for posterity some intentionally and others by accident .These are samples taken from the welfare minutes of 1904 , they describe the intention to play a competitive game of football for the orphans charity, the teams would be a police eleven and a police fireman team. The team for the firemen here listed here as PC’s F. Sudell , Birtwistle , Hamilton , Jones , Currie , Brew , Pollard , Duxbury , Brunskill , Crook , Atkinson , Barnes , Prescott , Forrest , Adams , Entwistle , Rostron , Pattison and Cayton