Garrick Football Club was an English

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club based in

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History

Garrick was formed in October 1866, holding its first practice match at East Bank on the 27th. The club took its name from the Garrick Hotel where the club held its meetings. The earliest recorded game for the club was a 1 rouge to 0 win over

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club the next month, in a 12-a-side match at East Bank. Along with Wellington, it was the first to participate in the first two open footballing competitions. In the first, the

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of 1867, Garrick lost by one goal and one rouge to nothing against the

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club at the Orphanage ground on London Road. The following year it entered the Cromwell Cup and after beating Wellington (apparently borrowing seven players from Heeley to ensure victory), it met the newly formed

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in the final at

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. In front of around 500 spectators the two clubs fought out a goalless draw. It was agreed to play extra time with the first team to score being the victor (thus becoming the first use of the

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), but Garrick lost when Wednesday scored a goal after 10 minutes. Garrick then withdrew from playing the more popular local teams, instead taking on the minor teams and playing the occasional out-of-town match (including one of Sheffield's first rugby matches against Manchester Free Wanderers). The club was reasonably active until 1877 but the last record of activity in the regular game is a failure to turn up to a friendly with Staveley F.C. in December that year; a one-off match in 1886 against the local pantomime actors seems to have been a scratch team using the name as a pun, as the contemporary Garrick Cricket Club was also made up of actors.

Colours

The club's colours were red, white, and blue; the style of multicoloured jerseys at the time was to arrange colours in hoops.

Ground

The club originally played home matches at East Bank, in the south-east of Sheffield, 2 miles from

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. By 1871 it had moved to Sharrow Vale at Endcliffe, one mile from the station.

References

{{Reflist Defunct football clubs in South Yorkshire Association football clubs established in 1866 Association football clubs disestablished in 1878 1866 establishments in England 1878 disestablishments in England Defunct football clubs in England Sports clubs and teams in Sheffield