Re: Hitchin F.C: An Auspicious Beginning
Posted: Thu Mar 28, 2024 5:26 pm
The first Hitchin Football Club was founded by the Reverend John Pardoe, assisted by Cecil Frederick Reid and other Forest FC & Wanderers players. John Pardoe was given the task of spreading the 'association game' into Hertfordshire by Charles Alcock (of the Wanderers).
Joined by local 'gentleman amateurs' Francis Shillitoe, Hubert Delme Radcliffe, William Hill, Reverend J.B.Parker, Arnold Clarkson Conder, George Jackson junior, and others, about twenty members met for practice for the first time at the Dog Kennel Farm, Charlton on Saturday 25th November 1865.
Joined by local 'gentleman amateurs' Francis Shillitoe, Hubert Delme Radcliffe, William Hill, Reverend J.B.Parker, Arnold Clarkson Conder, George Jackson junior, and others, about twenty members met for practice for the first time at the Dog Kennel Farm, Charlton on Saturday 25th November 1865.