Seventeen-a-Side

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H.Y.Thompson, Esq's XVII v Harrow School
This exciting match came off on Saturday week, and is remarkable as being the first football match in which the School has ever been defeated. The victorious Seventeen consisted mainly of old and present Cantabs, and was throughout the game too strong in all points for its antagonists.The match was won by two bases to one. Those for the invaders were kicked respectively by Currey and Thompson; the solitary one obtained by the School was kicked by one of their adversaries in a fit of misguided generosity. Where all played so well it is impossible to particularise individual merit, but an exception must be made in the case of Mr Burnett, one of the four representatives of Oxford, whose base-keeping was the theme of universal admiration. The play of the School appeared in the eyes of their critical conquerors somewhat below the mark of former years. They would, it was thought, do well not to pay so much attention to giving catches for their own side. The School lost the services of Mr Daniel, one of their best players. On the other side, Mr Arkwright was disabled early in the game. The following were the players:
The Old Harrovians: H.Y.Thompson, J.D.Burnett, A.E.Northey, E.E.Bowen, G.A.Holmes, W.H.Deverell, A.Smith, H.B.Crosse, W.Latham, G.H.Hodgson, G.W.Fisher, E.Arkwright, W.E.Currey, R.Lang, H.Strutt, H.Hardcastle, H.A.Brassey.
The School: Cruikshank, Master, Thornton, Webster, Walker, Prior, Williams, Davies, Elphinstone, Mackenzie, Alexander, Upcher, Martin, Stow, Swinny, Medlicott, Wilson.
Bell's Life in London Sunday 20th November 1859

Harrow School XI 1859 (plus 6 others)
James Alexander Cruikshank
Arthur William Trollope Daniel
George Reynolds Davies
Robert Dalrymple Horn Elphinstone
Edward Phillipe Mackenzie
Thomas William Chester Master
John Templer Prior
Percy Melville Thornton
Russel Donnithorne Walker
George Kennedy Webster
Henry Lewis Williams

Old Harrovians
Henry Yates Thompson
John David Burnett
Alfred Edward Northey
Edward Ernest Bowen
George Armit Holmes
William Henry Deverell
A.Smith (possibly Albert Smith)
Hugh Banastre Crosse
William Latham
George Harris Hodgson
Edwyn Arkwright
William Edmund Currey
Robert Lang
Henry Strutt
Henry Hardcastle
Henry Arthur Brassey
G.W.Fisher (details not found)