Alliance amateur amateur combination england football football

Description:History[ edit ] Following the general meeting of The Football Association on 31 May , it was decided by the Amateur Defence Federation that in the best interest of amateur football that a new and separate organisation must be created. Glanville of Clapham Rovers proposed the formation of the Association, which was seconded by N. It was stated that the foundation of the Association wasn't in opposition to professionalism in sport but instead to the "fungus growth which had become attached to the machinery of football management". Cambridge University pledged their allegiance to the Amateur Football Association and in response, so did Oxford University although they would have preferred to remain neutral between the two. Old Etonians and Old Carthusians , who both currently play in the Arthurian League , and Wanderers , who play in the Surrey South Eastern Combination although the latter is a re-established version of the original club, which disbanded in

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