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Notts County

(Logan 3, Watson)

Toone; Harper, Hendry; Bramley, Calderhead, A. Shelton; Watson, Donnelly, Logan, Bruce, H. B. Daft

Bolton wanderers

(Cassidy)

Sutcliffe; Somerville, Jones; Gardiner, Paton, Hughes; Dickinson, Wilson, Tannahill, Bentley, Cassidy

Referee: C. J. Hughes

The Football Association chose Goodison Park, Liverpool as the venue for the 1894 Final, and every precaution was taken to avoid a repetition of the previous year's fiasco at Fallowfield. The 37,000 crowd was smaller than anticipated, many people obviously fearful of being hurt in a crush.

County ran away with the Cup, scoring four goals, and becoming the first Second Division club to triumph in a Final. What the score might have been but for Sutcliffe, the Bolton goalkeeper, whom the County forwards pounded the whole afternoon, can only be imagined.

Logan, playing a superb game at centre-forward, was still able to register a hat-trick and thereby equal Townley's feat for Blackburn in 1890. Watson was County's other scorer, and Cassidy replied for Bolton.

Bolton tried their best, but were labouring under severe disadvantages. Paton was swathed in bandages, Gardiner wasn't fit, Bentley was ill, Somerville was troubled with a facial injury and shouldn't have played, and Hughes got hurt only five minutes after the start.

County, though in the Second Division, were the best side in the country for a period of about six weeks, which, fortunately for them, coincided with the Final.

First Round

Middlesbro Ir v Luton T 2-1; Nott'm Forest v Heanor T 1-0; NOTTS CO v Burnley 1-0; Stockport Co v Burton Wand 0-1; Leicester Fosse v South Shore 2-1; Derby Co v Darwen 2-0; Newton Heath v Middlesbro 4-0; WBA v Blackburn R 2-3; Newcastle Utd v Sheff Utd 2-0; Small Heath v BOLTON WAND 3-4; Liverpool v Grimsby T 3-0; PNE v Reading 18-0; Woolwich Arsenal v Sheff Wed 1 -2; Stoke v Everton 1 -0; Sunderland v Accrington S 3-0; Aston Villa v Wolves 4-2

Second Round

Middlesbro Ir v Nott'm Forest 0-2; NOTTS CO v Burton Wand 2-0; Leicester Fosse v Derby Co 0-0, 0-3; Newton Heath v Blackburn R 0-0. 1 -5; Newcastle Utd v BOLTON WAND 1 -2; Liverpool v PNE 3-2; Sheff Wed v Stoke 1 -0; Sunderland v Aston Villa 2-2,1-3

Third Round

Nott'm Forest v NOTTS CO 1 -1,1 -4; Derby Co v Blackburn R 1 -4; BOLTON WAND v Liverpool 3-0; Sheff Wed v Aston Villa 3-2

Semi-Final

NOTTS CO v Blackburn R 1 -0; BOLTON WAND v Sheff Wed 2-1