tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31231859580984345612024-02-08T01:47:38.710+00:00England's First Football CaptainCuthbert Ottaway, 1850-1878HistoryMickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00516020259231967938noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3123185958098434561.post-80095472108381405842010-09-01T22:45:00.012+01:002022-07-13T19:49:55.571+01:00England's Unsung Hero<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-color: initial; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-style: none; border-top: medium none; border-width: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5jVxHyYY8knpNWxYRGPAOWyO33HQtJ_O9mXvA8oBPi_JCHGqGel8khkJQHZMXj-W1DWWLCAMzlCWp10z2Jw3dM1Sl9gOH6JZKRdsH4UMz_kQrV5YpMJ5ekmPfRLq-zXgiFMXAW3-oD0w/s1600/Cuthbert_Ottaway.jpg" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5512060662512464226" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5jVxHyYY8knpNWxYRGPAOWyO33HQtJ_O9mXvA8oBPi_JCHGqGel8khkJQHZMXj-W1DWWLCAMzlCWp10z2Jw3dM1Sl9gOH6JZKRdsH4UMz_kQrV5YpMJ5ekmPfRLq-zXgiFMXAW3-oD0w/s320/Cuthbert_Ottaway.jpg" style="float: left; height: 223px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 160px;" /></a> <br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Cuthbert Ottaway was an all-round sportsman in the heyday of the gentlemen amateurs. Educated at Eton and Oxford, he played first-class cricket, excelled at rackets and athletics, and was England's football captain for the first official international with Scotland in 1872. His early death from pneumonia perhaps caused his sporting achievements to be overlooked.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">My contact email is </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">micksouthwick @ blueyonder.co.uk</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">My publisher, Tony Brown, can be contacted at </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">soccer @ innotts.co.uk</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span><br />
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