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A Potted Club History - The 1880's
Results and tables for the
following seasons can be found in our all-time
results section.
The Decades Winners
League Champions: 1889 Preston North End
FA Cup Winners: 1880 Clapham Rovers, 1881 Old
Carthusians, 1882 Old Etonians, 1883 Blackburn Olympic, 1884 Blackburn
Rovers, 1885 Blackburn Rovers, 1886 Blackburn Rovers, 1887 Aston Villa, 1888
West Bromwich Albion, 1889 Preston North End
Pictured above: 1889
League Champions Preston North End
Season
1880-81
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The
biggest win in the Club’s entire history is recorded with a 15-0 win
against East Stamford, John Knights registering three hat-tricks to become
the highest ever individual scorer in one game. 86 goals were scored in
sixteen fixtures with the Club still undefeated at home.
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Season
1881-82
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Not a
single game is lost during the entire season and only Colchester Town
(forerunner of Colchester United) are able to hold Ipswich to a draw. Sixteen-year-old
Stephen Notcutt makes his debut. Notcutt served the club as player, captain
and committee member for over forty-years until his death in 1923.
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Season
1882-83
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An
outhouse at The Inkerman on Norwich Road served as club’s changing rooms
during these early years with the club now playing most home games at
Brook’s Hall. A severe winter prevented many competitive games from being
played and practice matches became a common feature at weekends. Smokers v
Non-Smokers a favourite way of organising the players.
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Season
1883-84
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Ipswich
Association undertake their first away trip to London were they are
narrowly beaten 3-2 by The Pilgrims in Walthamstow. The Pilgrims are also
the opposition when the club play their first ever game at Portman Road in
a benefit match for the East Suffolk Hospital. A combination of Broom Hill
and Brook’s Hall continued to be used for other home games.
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Season
1884-85
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Seven
Association players represent Suffolk County in a 4-1 win over Norfolk.
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Season
1885-86
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The
Suffolk Challenge Cup is launched and the Association beat Ipswich Rangers,
Beccles College and Sudbury to reach the final. The largest ever crowd to
watch a game in Suffolk so far see the Association and Woodbridge play out
a 2-2 draw at Portman Road. Two replays are required before Woodbridge
clinch the trophy.
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Season
1886-87
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A
landmark season as the club win their first ever trophy, beating Ipswich
School 2-1 in the final at Portman Road to lift Suffolk Challenge Cup. And,
according to the EADT’s report of events “… the pavilion was filled, and
the sides of the field lined, with the youth and beauty of the town”.
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Season
1887-88
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In
what proved to be the Club’s final season at Brook’s Hall they were knocked
out of the Challenge Cup in the 2nd Round and overall lost six
out of sixteen matches. Ernest Aldous Kent makes his debut. Until injury
forced him to retire in 1902, the inside forward or centre-forward scored
fifty-five goals for the club in competitive games and more three times
that number in friendly fixtures.
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Season
1888-89
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The
club merges with Ipswich Rugby Club to become Ipswich Town Football Club and
makes Portman Road its permanent home. Fourteen of twenty matches are won
during the season including the Suffolk Challenge Cup final in which
Newmarket are beaten 4-0. Over 3,000 watch the final at Portman Road
including many non-paying spectators who stormed a gate on Constantine
Road.
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Season
1889-90
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Town win the
inaugural Suffolk Senior Cup with a 4-1 win in the final against Long
Melford (the County FA having channelled entries from the old Suffolk
Challenge Cup into two separate competitions for junior and senior sides).
Seventeen wins, two draws and just a single defeat are registered during
the season.
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