Southill Park F.C.

Southill Park F.C. was an English association football club.

Southill Park
Full nameSouthill Park Football Club

History

The club competed in the FA Cup in the 1870s, never reaching higher than second-round ties.[1]

In 1879, according to C.W. Alcock's Football Annual for that year, Southill Park's ground was in Walthamstow, ten minutes' walk from Hoe Street railway station, its dressing room at the Rose and Crown public house in Leaf Lane. It then had 30 members.[2]

Team Strip

In 1879 the strip was described as "White shirt, blue knickers and red stockings".[2]

Notable former players
  • Clopton Lloyd-Jones – later joined Clapham Rovers with whom he scored the only goal of the 1880 FA Cup Final. He had played with Southill Park in two losing first round FA Cup ties, appearing against Cambridge University in 1877,[3] and captaining the team in 1878 in the losing FA Cup tie against Old Harrovians.[4]
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References
  1. http://fchd.info/SOUTHALP.HTM
  2. The Football Annual, 1879, Part XII, A List of all the Football Clubs in England, Clubs in and around London. Editor C.W. Alcock, page 150.
  3. "Late Football, The Cup Ties, Cambridge University v Southill Park". Bell's Life in London. 3 November 1877.
  4. "Football Association Challenge Cup Competition, Old Harrovians v Southill Park". Harrow Gazette. 9 November 1878.
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