A sepia-toned photograph of the Westminster School football XI in April 1875, 6 3/4 by 8in., with manuscript title and legend of the team before the e
£500 - £700
A sepia-toned photograph of the Westminster School football XI in April 1875, 6 3/4 by 8in., with manuscript title and legend of the team before the entrance to the school, mounted together with another photograph taken in December 1924 of a group of elderly men, again with manuscript legend, the gentleman second from left is the boy holding the football in the 1875 photograph, P.G.L. Webb, the reverse of the frame has attached a page from The Graphic, 3rd November 1877 titled ''Our Artist's Notes At Westminster School'', 57 by 44cm., 22 1/2 by 17 1/4in.; sold with a copy of ''Epigrammatum Graecorum Delectus'' published for Westminster School, 1859, extensive pencilled notes (2) Three in the photograph went on to play for Oxford University in F.A. Cup Finals. E. Waddington & F.H. Alington (1877) and F.D. Crowdy (1880). The School played in Vincent Square, Westminster, against ten of the first eleven F.A. Cup Final winnners from 1872 to 1882. Captained seasons 1874-75 to 1877-78 by Webb, Alington and W.C. Aston, J.H. Williams also in the photograph. Also in this auction, offered as lot 118, is a book of records of cricket and football played at the School and elsewhere compiled by Herbert C. Benbow who was the captain in 1879-80. Westminster School joined the Football Association in 1868, just five years after the governing body's inauguration.