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England 1876


The earliest known photograph of an international football team.
This is the England XI that lost 3-0 to Scotland at the West of Scotland Cricket Ground, Glasgow on 4th March 1876.
Arthur Henry Patrick Savage (Crystal Palace), Edgar Field (Clapham Rovers), Frederick Thomas Green (The Wanderers), Beaumont Griffith Jarrett (Old Harrovians), Ernest Henry Bambridge (The Swifts), Walter Scott Buchanan (Clapham Rovers), George Hubert Hugh Heron (The Wanderers),Charles Eastlake Smith (Crystal Palace),William John Maynard (1st Surrey Rifles), Charles Francis William Heron (The Wanderers,capt), Arthur William Cursham (Notts County FC)