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Football club
Reading Hornets
Full nameReading Hornets Football Club
Nickname(s)Hornets
Founded1873
Dissolved1878
GroundRecreation Ground
Home colours

Reading Hornets F.C. was an English association football club.

History

The club claimed a foundation date of 1873 and was certainly playing matches in the 1874–75 season.

The Hornets competed in the FA Cup in 1876 and 1877. In 1876-77 the club lost 2–0 to the Swifts in the first round; as local rivals Reading F.C. had not entered the competition, two of the Reading players (Rogers and Marks) guested for the Hornets. The club had generally had a good season, with a win over Cup regulars Maidenhead and no heavy defeats.

However a defeat against Reading in 1876 under acrimonious circumstances saw key players leaving the Hornets for the more established club at the start of the 1877–78 season (including captain Gilbert Sillence), and, after losing 10–0 to Maidenhead in the first round of the Cup (a tie so one-sided that the tenth goal was scored by the Maidenhead goalkeeper W. E. Lovegrove, who had come out of goal for the last ten minutes) the club did not have enough players remaining to fulfil the next two fixtures which it had arranged. Its last members joined Reading.

Colours

The club wore black and amber jerseys, with a black cap and gold tassel.

References

  1. Alcock, Charles (1877). Football Annual. p. 171.
  2. "Sporting Diary for this week". Yorkshire Post: 8. 17 November 1874.
  3. "report". Sporting Life: 1. 8 November 1876.
  4. "Maidenhead 0-2 Reading Hornets". Maidenhead Advertiser. 6 December 1876.
  5. "report". Reading Observer: 3. 23 December 1876.
  6. Titford, Roger. "The Real Early History of Reading FC". Reading Supporters' Trust. Retrieved 26 September 2022.
  7. "Maidenhead 10-0 Reading Hornets". Maidenhead Advertiser: 3. 31 October 1877.
  8. "news". Henley Advertiser: 4. 10 November 1877.
  9. Alcock, Charles (1877). Football Annual. p. 171.


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