Blackburn 3 - 1 Notts County
- Blackburn
- Dewar
- Southworth
- Townley
- Notts County
- Oswald
Kennington Oval - Saturday 21st March
Attendance: 23,000
Match Referee: C. J. Hughes
Team Line-ups:
Blackburn Rovers
- 1Pennington
- 2Brandon
- 3J. Forbes
- 4Barton
- 5Dewar
- 6Forrest
- 7Lofthouse
- 8Walton. Southworth (John)
- 9Hall
- 10Townley
Notts County
- 1Thraves
- 2Ferguson
- 3Hendry
- 4H. Osborne
- 5Calderhead
- 6Shelton
- 7A. McGregor
- 8Mclnnes
- 9Oswald
- 10Locker
- 11H. B. Daft
Match Gallery
Match Report
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.
Blackburn Rovers - Cup Winners 1891
Back Row: Birtwistle (Umpire), Brandon, Pennington, Barton, Southworth, Dewar, Forrest, Murray (Trainer)