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Raiding Fishponder's wonderful stats again. In the FA Amateur Cup between 1928 and 1974 we played 121 matches: W60 D23 L38 F281 A187 Rounds reached: Semi-final 2 Round Four 3 Round Three 3 Round Two 9 Round One 19 4th Qualifying Round 1 1st Qualifying Round 1 Highlights: The two semi-finals. 25th Ma...

The FA Cup is the only competition we enter where an annual defeat is guaranteed. Glancing through Fishponder's Stats I've gleaned the following: Matches played 285. Won 133 Drew 65 Lost 87 .Goals for 570. Goals against 428. Top scorers: Peter Hammond (1953-64) 15 Brian Figg (1954-59) 15 Jimmy Walke...

AMATEUR FOOTBALL ALLIANCE SENIOR CUP Hitchin Town's Full Record Season 1929/30 (Semi-finalists) Match 1 14 Dec 1929 Round 1 Broomfield 0 Hitchin 3 Match 2 11 Jan 1930 Round 2 Hitchin Town 5 Savings Bank 1 Match 3 1 Feb 1930 Round 3 Barclays Bank 4 Hitchin Town 4 Replay Match 4 8 Feb 1930 Hitchin Tow...

Last night's match. After a forgettable first half, Hitchin soon went two nil up early in the second half. Shefford replied with two goals of their own, before Hitchin scored a third near the end. The last kick of the match saw a Shefford shot hit the post.........

For the 1905/6 season cash-strapped Hitchin, £50 in debt, had to dispense with paid players for a time. Drawing Kettering in a preliminary round of the FA Cup, Hitchin had choice of ground but switched the tie to Kettering for a guarantee of £20 plus half the gross beyond that sum. Hitchin lost the ...

Henry Murray Downton (whose father Reverend Henry Downton accompanied Francis Henry Lucas to Geneva) also died at a young age. He died suddenly in 1887 at the age of 37. Henry Murray Downton (who also, like his father, became a clergyman) played about three games for Hitchin Football Club, including...

So we now know the game took place on Hitchin Cricket Club's Ground (not the present football ground). Is the field still there today? Or has it been built over? In 1925 John Willmott & Sons built the 'Manor Estate' on the cricket ground. The area is between Lister Avenue, Coach Drive, London R...

I tuned in for the pre-match info; very informative and useful background to the game. An entertaining end-to-end game, I thought, ending 5-3 to Hitchin.
Hitchin's passing game versus Royston's set-piece excellence.

Why was the cyclist Hitchin?
Because he fell in the Redditch

From John Bull Saturday 1st June 1907

SUFFRAGETTES AT FOOTBALL A novel match has been arranged for Good Friday afternoon, when visitors to the Bedford Road enclosure at Hitchin will be afforded an opportunity of seeing eleven Suffragettes striving for mastery with eleven Anti-Suffragettes. Citizen (Letchworth) Saturday 15th April 1911 I...