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A scarce souvenir programme for the Royal Military College Fete and Gala at Sandhurst featuring a football match between Tottenham Hotspur (Cup Winner

Hammer Price:
£450
Estimated Price:

£500 - £700

A scarce souvenir programme for the Royal Military College Fete and Gala at Sandhurst featuring a football match between Tottenham Hotspur (Cup Winners) and Fulham on 14th May 1921, 52 pages with pictorial card covers, the football match featured on p.41; sold with a scan of the match report published in The Times 16th May 1921 and a further scan of a teamsheet relating to the match (3) The gala programme covers all of the events that took place at Sandhurst on 13th & 14th May 1921 under the patronage of the Prince of Wales, later King Edward VIII and the Duke of Windsor. The purpose of the gala and fete was to raise money for the enlargement of the Royal Military College's chapel in order that nearly 4,000 names of past Sandhurst cadets who fell in the Great War could be cut on the walls. Other sporting attractions at the two day event included a cricket match between the College and Mr H.D.G. Leveson-Gower's XI, and a gymkhana. The football feature announces that a teamsheet, priced 3d, will be sold at the ground, and a scan of one of these originals is offered with the lot. Both articles also announced that the match ball was to be autographed by the Prince of Wales and both teams for auction after the game. The Times reported that the ball sold for ?55 to Mr C.D. Roberts, chairman of Tottenham Hotspur FC. The newspaper report also states that the Prince of Wales personally kicked-off the match and that he awarded gold souvenir medals to both teams. Spurs fielded the side that had won the F.A. Cup the previous month with just one change, Charlie Wilson replacing Jimmy Cantrell at centre-forward. In a 60-minutes match the Cup winners beat Fulham 4-0 with goals by Grimsdell, Banks, Wilson & Bliss. Tottenham returned to Sandhurst for the corresponding event in 1922 to contest a match with Chelsea.