105th Regiment F.C.

105th Regiment F.C.
Full name105th Regiment Football Club
NicknameLight Bobs
Founded1874
Dissolved1881
Groundregimental barracks
SecretaryLt. F. C. Cooper

105th Regiment Football Club (also known as the 103rd Light Infantry) was an English association football club in the 19th century, made up of soldiers with the 105th Regiment of Foot (Madras Light Infantry).

History

The club's first match was in 1874 under the Sheffield rules as the regiment was stationed in Sheffield at the time; however the club adopted association laws the same season.

It competed in some of the first stagings of the Football Association Challenge Cup, entering the competition between 1875 and 1878, winning one tie. Unlike the Royal Engineers, the Light Bobs allowed "other ranks" to represent the regiment, and the scorers in its 3–0 win over the 1st Surrey Rifles in the 1876–77 FA Cup included a Private Morris and Lance Corporal Ford.

The club remained a member of the Football Association until 1880, but a merger in 1881 into the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry ended the club's existence.

Seasons

1875–76

105th Regiment0 – 0Crystal Palace
Aldershot barracks
Attendance: 500
Crystal Palace3 – 0105th Regiment
Attendance: 1,578

1876–77

105th Regiment3 – 01st Surrey Rifles
Colchester barracks
Attendance: 500
Referee: Osmond Orpen (Colchester Town F.C.)
Oxford University6 – 1105th Regiment
Attendance: 1,204

1877–78

105th Regiment0 – 2Old Harrovians
Colchester barracks

1878–79

Minervaw/o105th Regiment

Colours

Two football matches for the 105th Regiment, against Chesterfield and a side from Aston Hall, Yorkshire: Sheffield Independent, 16 March 1875

The club wore red and buff "stripes", which, at the time, referred to hoops.

Ground

The club played its home matches at its barracks, wherever it was based:

References

  1. 1 2 "105th Regiment 0-0 Crystal Palace". The Field: 580. 20 November 1875.
  2. ↑ "Crookes 2–0 105th Infantry". Sporting Life: 4. 28 November 1874.
  3. 1 2 Alcock, Charles (1875). Football Annual. London: Virtue. p. 150.
  4. ↑ 105th Regiment at the Football Club History Database
  5. 1 2 "105th Regiment 3-0 First Surrey Rifles". The Field: 614. 18 November 1876.
  6. ↑ Alcock, Charles (1880). Football Annual. London: Cricket Press. p. 59.
  7. 1 2 (27 November 1875). Athletic Sports, Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News, p. 206 col. 2 (reports of matches against Crystal Palace)
  8. ↑ "103rd Light Infantry 0-2 Old Harrovians". The Sportsman: 4. 12 November 1877.
  9. ↑ The regiment had moved to Guernsey in May 1878 and could not fulfil the fixture: Essex County Standard, 24 May 1878, page 8.
  10. ↑ Alcock, Charles (1877). Football Annual. London: Cricket Press. p. 153.
  11. ↑ Alcock, Charles (1876). Football Annual. London: Cricket Press. p. 42.
  12. ↑ Alcock, Charles (1876). Football Annual. London: Cricket Press. p. 147.