Medals
This is the medal awarded to
Herbert Muscroft after Wednesday won the first ever Sheffield Challenge Cup in
1877.
The crowd (around 8000) was one of the largest attendances for any match in
England at that time - beating the
FA Cup Final that year by 4 or 5 thousand.
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Around the outside it says SHEFFIELD FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION
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| Notice that the winners were Wednesday Club not Sheffield Wednesday or The Wednesday |
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