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Note: Match was "nominally fifteen-a-side", but Barnes had 9 men (absentees included the captain Ebenezer Morley): Crystal Palace had 14. Game lasted one hour. Barnes (9 players): Barnes, Graham, Roberts, Le B. Smith, et al.[1]
Note: The Civil Service team "could muster only eight men, and were obliged to fill up the vacancies with members of other well-known clubs". Barnes (15 players): Barnes, C. Bagot, Courtenay, Drake, R. Graham, Greenhill, Karslake, H. P. Mackrell, Montgomery, W. Nettleship, M. Roberts, Sheppard, Le B. Smith, Tebbs, R. Willis. Civil Service (14 players): C. W. Alcock, A. E. Bateman, G. B. Blount, F. Deacon, R. D. Elphinstone, O. U. Fuller, Q. Hogg, J. Kirkpatrick, Rose, Seppings, A. H. Turner, X. Turner, C. G. Wandby, J. Wearne.[4][3]
Note: Game ended at 5 o'clock after 1 and a quarter hours' play. Barnes (14 players):[8] E. C. Morley (captain), R. Bamburry, T. K. Barnes, Boyle, R. Carrington, Farquharson, R. Graham, Hudson, D. M. O'Leary, M. Roberts, R. Shepard, S. L. B. Smith, R. Villiers, R. Willis. Crystal Palace (15 players): A. Morton (capt.), E. Abraham, D. Allport, W. Allport, Cockerell, A. Cutbill, E. Cutbill, H. Foster, Grose, E. K. Hammond, A. Lloyd, H. Lloyd, T. Lloyd, Saward, T. Sharland.[5]
Venue: The Limes, Mortlake. (Field belonging to T. Marsh Nelson, to the back of the White Hart public house).
Committee: Ebenezer Morley (starter), H. H. Playford (judge), E. Conant, R. G. Graham, R. Wright, G. Villiers
Secretary: Robert Willis
Events: 100 yards race, 300 yards race, one mile handicap, 220 yards hurdle race, one mile steeple chase, long jump, high jump with pole.
Notes
^ abc"Barnes v. Crystal Palace". Sporting Life: 3. 6 December 1865.
^Allegedly a scratch team, of which nine happened to be civil servants, the actual "Civil Service" team not playing because Barnes refused to play to its rules.
^ abKirkpatrick, Ja[me]s (3 February 1866). "Barnes v. Civil Service". Field: 26.
^"Barnes v. Civil Service". Field: 19. 27 January 1866.
^ ab"Barnes v. Crystal Palace". Field: 23. 17 March 1866.