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Old 17th April 2016, 17.06:05   #136-0 (permalink)
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Found this from 1891.
Wales International match against Canada at The Racecourse, which doesn't appear in Wales FA results history.

FOOTBALL.|1891-09-22|South Wales Echo - Welsh Newspapers Online

Wales 1 Canada 1

21st September 1891

http://newspapers.library.wales/view...l%20F.A.%20ban

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Found this from 1891.
Wales International match against Canada at The Racecourse, which doesn't appear in Wales FA results history.

FOOTBALL.|1891-09-22|South Wales Echo - Welsh Newspapers Online

Wales 1 Canada 1

21st September 1891

FOOTBALL.|1891-09-18|Carnarvon and Denbigh Herald and North and South Wales Independent - Welsh Newspapers Online

That is interesting, I wonder why it doesn't appear in the official records?

This website has it down as an unofficial international, wonder if that has anything to do with it?
Welsh Football Online | Gorau Chwarae Cyd Chwarae

It would also predate our first official game against a non British Isles team by more than 40 years.
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That is interesting, I wonder why it doesn't appear in the official records?

This website has it down as an unofficial international, wonder if that has anything to do with it?
Welsh Football Online | Gorau Chwarae Cyd Chwarae

It would also predate our first official game against a non British Isles team by more than 40 years.
Thanks CABW, I hadnt seen that unofficial international games page.
I know that the Canadian team later went down to play South Wales in Cardiff after John Taylor- secretary to WFA wrote to the Cardiff Association.
I can only presume that as Canada was not part of the Home International pact, they were not deemed to be an official national club, and I presume at that time, true international matches against non British countries had really not really been thought of much due to cost, as there is a lot in the newspapers at that time about trying to find money for international matches.

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seems that Canada didn't have an official FA untill 1912
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadi...er_Association

This team was the Ontario based Western Football Association. the forerunners of the Canadian FA who toured GB in 1888/89

http://gottfriedfuchs.blogspot.co.uk...sles-1888.html

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Whilst he did not play in the clubs first ever game, there can be few people, if any, who were more influential in the founding of Wrexham Football and Athletics Club, or The Football Association of Wales, or indeed the history of Wrexham itself.

Evan Morris

Evan Morris was born in Wrexham on July 25th 1842.
From humble beginnings, Evan rose to become a man of means, whose career and social endeavours were extraordinary.
After leaving school he trained as a solicitor, although he had many other business interests including chairmanships and directorships, and was the sole owner of a number of companies, as well as being a director of The Provincial Insurance Company. In addition, he played a major role in the expansion of the railway network in the region and he owned a considerable portfolio of properties and land, including land next to The Turf Tavern on The Racecourse.
In 1859, Evan joined The Denbighshire Rifle Volunteers, where he was later promoted to the rank of Captain, although he was also a Major in The Volunteer Brigade of The Royal Welch Fusiliers.
A member of The Denbighshire County Cricket Club Committee, Evan Morris was a founding member of The United Volunteer service Club, whose ideas gave rise to the birth of Wrexham Football and Athletics Club, a club which he played for and helped to fund. He was also elected as the clubs first President on its inception in 1864 and remained in the roll for most of his life.
Evan married Fannie Elizabeth Rowland, in Wrexham, on 17th September 1872, and the couple would have 6 daughters and one son: their family home was Rosenheath House on Rhosddu Road, which was later converted into The War Memorial Hospital.
He was elected a member of The Incorporated Law Society in 1875 and later served as a Magistrate. That same year, he was approached by Samuel Llewelyn Kenrick to help found The Football Association of Wales and subsequently, he would serve as Secretary and Vice President of the association for many years
A devout Christian who held a lifelong involvement with the church, Evan was passionate in his belief that athletics and football helped to improve moral behaviour, ease social tensions and bridge the void between the different social classes ‘football should be encouraged, for it brings men together; high and low, rich and poor, to contend on an equal platform, where one man is as good as another, and the best man wins’.
A County Counsellor for Holt, a Clerk to the Lieutenancy of the Borough, Secretary to The Denbighshire Ordnance Survey Association, Agent for local politicians and Chairman of The Finance Committee, he was also Chairman of the committee for The National Eisteddfod which was held in Wrexham in 1888. In November of the same year, Evan Morris was elected Lord Mayor of the Borough. Then, after Queen Victoria visited the town during a tour of the region, he was called to her residence at Pale Hall in Bala on 27th August 1889 and was bestowed with the honour of knighthood.
A man who was genuinely, highly regarded by the townsfolk of Wrexham, Evan Morris died at the age of 49 at The Grand Hotel in Eastbourne, while en route to France, on 18th April 1890.

Evan Morris
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He crammed a lot into his short life.
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He crammed a lot into his short life.
He did Mr W: and what I posted was just a part of it. I think he was also president of Fox and hounds Athletics club, who also had a football team which played against WAFC. Seems to have been a self made man, who gave much of his life to WAFC, for whom he was an instrumental figure in its founding and who he seems to have had a passion about for the rest of his life.
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We stand on the shoulders of giants . . as the saying goes. Gotta be said, it's brilliant research tbf.
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We stand on the shoulders of giants . . as the saying goes. Gotta be said, it's brilliant research tbf.
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That is interesting, I wonder why it doesn't appear in the official records?

This website has it down as an unofficial international, wonder if that has anything to do with it?
Welsh Football Online | Gorau Chwarae Cyd Chwarae

It would also predate our first official game against a non British Isles team by more than 40 years.
I will email Guiness book of records over the weekend to see if this game would qualify to push 'internationals played at The Racecourse' back another 40 years.
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