Football career Walpole Vidal

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oxford university s f.a. cup winning side of 1874 (vidal standing extreme left).


vidal known prince of dribblers . in days, rule team scored kicked off afterwards. on 1 occasion rule allowed vidal score 3 goals in match without other team touching ball. played in first 3 fa cup finals, of 1872, 1873 , 1874. member of wanderers f.c. team when won first ever fa cup. said assisted first fa cup final goal when, 15 minutes match, vidal broke away , looped ball across morton betts, shot between posts. @ 18 years 195 days youngest ever player in cup final until surpassed 17 years old james f. m. prinsep in 1879, , winning player still @ school on cup final day.


the following year, vidal had moved oxford. team reached final, held on 29 march 1873 @ lillie bridge ground, faced vidal s old side, wanderers. oxford not penetrate defences , wanderers won 2–0.


in next season, oxford again qualified final, time face royal engineers @ kennington oval on 14 march 1874. vidal played again, setting charles mackarness s goal oxford university romped 2–0 victory. vidal became person have played in 3 of first fa cup finals. however, never played in final again. university side reached semi-finals in next year, 1875, engineers exacted revenge winning 1–0.


he received 1 cap england. cap came in second official international football match, against scotland on 8 march 1873 england won 4–2.


vidal played old westminsters , remnants football clubs , in representative matches london , south v north. member of football association committee in 1872 , 1874.








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