The 2nd Scots Guards Eleven and Their Cups, 1891

A regiment’s football team, posed with the Army Association and Henesey Cups.

Work: magazine engraving
Maker: Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News
Date: 1891
Era: The Victorian game · 1870–1900
Source: Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News · via Wikimedia Commons

A battalion’s year, counted in silver.

Format

The full-resolution scan, colour-managed to the source — yours to print, study, and explore.

Size

$29.00

The story

Boxing Day 1891, and the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News gives a page to a regiment. The football club of the 2nd Scots Guards sits for its portrait with two trophies, which the paper names as the Army Association Cup and the Henesey Cup. The army ran football competitions of its own beside the civilian ones, and a battalion side that won two of them in a year had earned the engraving. The cups are set in front, where nobody could miss them. The weekly had been founded in London in 1874, and this page carried a regiment’s season to its readers.

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The 2nd Scots Guards Eleven and Their Cups, 1891, printed large and framed — in the den, the club bar, the supporters’ bar. Every edition ships ready to become the piece the room is built around.

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About this reproduction

A reproduction of magazine engraving — Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News, 1891 — from the copy held by Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News · via Wikimedia Commons. The source. The work was published before 1931 and is public-domain verified.
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