High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1873 FA Cup final
was a football match between Wanderers and Oxford University on 29
March 1873 at Lillie Bridge in London. It was the second final of
the world's oldest football competition, the Football
Association Challenge Cup (known in the modern era as the FA Cup).
Unusually, the final was held in the morning, so as to avoid a
clash with the annual Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race which was held on
the same day. Wanderers reached the final without playing a match,
as the original rules of the competition stated that the holders
would receive a bye straight to the final and other teams would
compete to gain the other place in the final and challenge the
holders for the trophy. Oxford reached the final when their
semi-final opponents, Queen's Park, dropped out of the
competition.
