Charles Henry Reynolds Wollaston (31 July 1849 – 22 June 1926) was an English

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who played as a

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for Wanderers and

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. He won the

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five times with Wanderers, becoming the first player to do so. Wollaston was born in

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and died in

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Football career

Wollaston played for Wanderers in the inaugural

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and scored in the second half of the 1873 final. In all he won five winner's medals, the first player to achieve this feat. Arthur Kinnaird, James Forrest and

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are the only other players with five FA Cup winning medals, and all of them are only bettered by

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, who has won the FA Cup six times, beating the record in 2010. In Wanderers' 1874 FA Cup first round match against

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, Wollaston scored four goals in a 16–0 victory for Wanderers; the match was Wanderers biggest ever win. Wollaston had previously scored

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in 1872 against

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and in 1873 against

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. In 1879, Wollaston became Wanderers' club secretary, and was also the club's

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. In total, Wollaston played ten seasons for Wanderers and became the club's second top scorer, before joining Clapham Rovers in 1880/81. He earned four

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for

, scoring one goal. Wollaston captained the national side against

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in 1880; he was the eighth English team captain. Wollaston is also recorded as having refereed an 1884 match between Old Westminsters and Wednesbury Town. In 2013, Wollaston was included on a special London

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released by the

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to celebrate its 150th anniversary. The map replaced station names with famous footballers.

Honours

Wanderers *

winners:

, 1873,

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, 1877 &

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International goals

:''Scores and results list England's goal tally first.''

Cricket career

Wollaston is known to have appeared in a total of 13 cricket matches between 1863 and 1869, although he did not play any first-class matches. He made appearances for

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, FH Birley's XI, Oxford University freshman, and an Etceteras team. His first recorded appearance was for

against

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at the

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; Wollaston made scores of 6 and 12 * in the match. Wollaston made a half-century in a match for FH Birley's XI against S Pelham's XI, and his last known match was for an Etceteras team against a Perambulators team, in which he scored 9 and 29*, and took one wicket.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Wollaston, Charles 1849 births 1926 deaths Association football forwards Clapham Rovers F.C. players England international footballers England v Scotland representative footballers (1870–1872) English cricketers English footballers English solicitors FA Cup Final players Oxford University A.F.C. players People educated at Lancing College People from Felpham Wanderers F.C. players