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1891

BLACKBURN ROVERS

Blackburn Rovers

(Dewar, John Southworth, Townley)

Pennington; Brandon, J. Forbes; Barton, Dewar, Forrest; Lofthouse, Walton. Southworth (John), Hall, Townley

Notts County

(Oswald)

Thraves; Ferguson, Hendry; H. Osborne, Calderhead, Shelton; A. McGregor, Mclnnes, Oswald, Locker, H. B. Daft 

Referee: C. J. Hughes

Strange though it may seem for all the tremendous feats performed by the Rovers in the competition, it was Notts County who most people thought would win the 1891 Final. Only a week before the Final, for example, County had beaten the holders 7-1 in a League match at Blackburn. The writing was surely on the wall.

Rovers, however, proved to be quicker on the ball, played better as a team, and their shooting was much more dangerous than County's. The defence seldom put a foot wrong, and Dewar at centre-half played the game of his life.

Nine minutes after the start Lofthouse's throw-in from near the corner-flag led to Rovers' opening goal, probably scored by Dewar in a terrific scramble for the ball. Thirteen minutes later Southworth put Rovers further ahead, and Townley headed a third four minutes after that.

The supremacy of the 'Blue and Whites' was not seriously challenged after they had changed round, three goals to the good, though Oswald succeeded in reducing the deficit with a goal for County in the seventy-first minute.

By their success. Blackburn equalled the record of the Wanderers team which had won the Cup five times during the first seven years of its existence.

First Round

Middlesbro Ir v BLACKBURN R 0-3; Chester v Lincoln C 1-0; Accrington S v Bolton Wand 2-2, 5-1; Long Eaton Rangers v Wolves 1-2; Royal Arsenal v Derby Co 1-2; SheffWed v Halliwell 12-0; Crusaders, Belfast v Birmingham St George's 0-2; WBA v Old Westminsters wo; Darwen v Kidderminster 13—0; Sunderland v Everton 1—0; Clapton v Nott'm Forest 0-14; Sunderland Alb v 93rd Highlanders 2-0; Sheff Utd v NOTTS CO 1-9; Burnley vCreweAlex 4-2; Stoke v PNE 3-0; Aston Villa v Casuals 13-1

Second Round

BLACKBURN R v Chester 7-0; Accrington S v Wolves 2-3; Derby Co v Sheff Wed 2-3; Birmingham St George's v WBA 0-3; Darwen v Sunderland 0-2; Nott'm Forest v Sunderland Alb 1 -1 0-, 5-0; NOTTS CO v Burnley 2-1; Stoke v Aston Villa 3-0

Third Round

BLACKBURN R v Wolves 2-0; Sheff Wed v WBA 0-2; Sunderland v Nott'm Forest 4-0; NOTTS CO v Stoke 1-0

Semi-Final

BLACKBURN R v WBA 3-2; Sunderland v NOTTS CO 3-3, 0-2