1892–93 Eastville Rovers F.C. season

The 1892–93 season was the tenth to be played by the team now known as Bristol Rovers, and their ninth playing under the name Eastville Rovers. It was significant in that it was their first year competing in an organised league, when they became founder members of the Bristol & District League (now known as the Western League).

Eastville Rovers F.C.

1892–93 season
Ground	Three Acres, Ashley Down, Bristol
Bristol & District League	6th
Gloucestershire Senior Cup	1st round
Top goalscorer	Bill Rogers (9)
Home colours

Season review

Rovers finished in sixth place in the league. They had to a slow start to their campaign, but finished strongly, winning their last four games. There was some confusion surrounding the game against St George on 22 October, which although originally arranged as a league match it was played as a friendly as no referee had been appointed.[1]

Though the match between Eastville Rovers and St. George on Saturday was a league fixture, it now appears it was altered by consent of both sides to a "friendly" game. Through some misunderstanding a referee was not appointed and the captains arranged that the game should be played on another day.

— Bristol Mercury, 25 October 1892

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GR	Pts
1	Warmley	16	11	3	2	72	19	3.789	25
2	Trowbridge Town	16	10	4	2	66	17	3.882	24
3	St George	16	9	5	2	36	22	1.636	23
4	Bedminster	16	6	5	5	30	34	0.882	17
5	Clevedon	16	6	4	6	25	36	0.694	16
6	Eastville Rovers	16	6	3	7	36	40	0.900	15
7	Clifton	16	4	2	10	27	61	0.443	10
8	Mangotsfield	16	3	2	11	19	45	0.422	8
9	Wells City	16	1	4	11	14	51	0.275	6

Source: [2]

Match results

Bristol & District League

1 October 1892	Eastville Rovers	1–3	Mangotsfield	Mangotsfield^[α]
15:40 GMT	Perrin	Report (via BNA, subscription required)

8 October 1892	Trowbridge Town	6–2	Eastville Rovers	Trowbridge
	Laurie F. Everett Hurn G. Everett	Report (via BNA, subscription required)	Rogers	Attendance: 200 Referee: F. Crossley (Swindon)

12 November 1892	Eastville Rovers	2–2^[β]	Warmley	Ashley Down
	Thompson Summerill  (o.g.)	Report (via BNA, subscription required)	King Mackay	Referee: J. Bloor

19 November 1892	Wells City	2–2	Eastville Rovers	Wells
	Coleman McMahon	Report (via BNA, subscription required)	Lovett Yates	Referee: Sturgess Jones

26 November 1892	Eastville Rovers	1–2	Clevedon	Ashley Down
	Taylor	Report (via BNA, subscription required)	Grey Mertens	Referee: J. Bloor

3 December 1892	Bedminster	5–0	Eastville Rovers	Ashton Gate
	McCarthy Macfarlane Marshall Griffiths Unknown	Report (via BNA, subscription required)		Stadium: Ashton Gate Stadium Attendance: 1,000 Referee: J.R. Riddell

24 December 1892	Eastville Rovers	3–1	Clifton	Ashley Down
	Laurie Rogers Unknown  (o.g.)	Report (via BNA, subscription required)	Francis	Referee: S. Peacock

26 December 1892	St George	3–1	Eastville Rovers	St George
		Report (via BNA, subscription required)

21 January 1893	Eastville Rovers	2–2	Trowbridge Town	Ashley Down
	Unknown Johns	Report (via BNA, subscription required)	Hurn Wakeley	Referee: J.R. Riddell

11 February 1893	Eastville Rovers	2–1	St George	Ashley Down
	Bill Rogers Beverley	Report (via BNA, subscription required)	Unknown	Referee: F. Gyles

18 February 1893	Warmley	8–2	Eastville Rovers	Warmley
		Report (via BNA, subscription required)	Taylor A. Laurie

4 March 1893	Clevedon	1–0	Eastville Rovers	Clevedon
	Unknown	Report (via BNA, subscription required)

11 March 1893	Eastville Rovers	5–1^[γ]	Wells City	Ashley Down
	Horsey Rogers A. Laurie	Report (via BNA, subscription required)	Colman

18 March 1893	Clifton	1–3	Eastville Rovers	Kingswood
15:35 GMT	Unknown	Report (via BNA, subscription required)	Thompson Johns	Stadium: Chequers Ground Referee: C. Gyles

25 March 1893	Eastville Rovers	5–2	Bedminster	Ashley Down
	Rogers W. Thompson Johns Laurie	Report (via BNA, subscription required)	Griffiths Milne	Referee: J. Bloor

31 March 1893	Mangotsfield	0–5	Eastville Rovers	Mangotsfield
	Nolan Punter	Report (via BNA, subscription required)	Attwell Horsey A. Laurie	Referee: E.B. Nettle

^[α] Eastville Rovers were nominally the home team, but the match was played at Mangotsfield[3]
^[β] Game stopped after 78 minutes due to poor light
^[γ] Wells only fielded ten players

Gloucestershire Senior Challenge Cup

28 January 1893 First round	Eastville Rovers	2–2	Mangotsfield	Ashley Down
	Rogers Unknown	Report (via BNA, subscription required)	Punter Johns  (o.g.)	Referee: G. Gay

13 February 1893 First round replay	Mangotsfield	2–1	Eastville Rovers	Mangotsfield
	Unknown	Report (via BNA, subscription required)	Unknown	Referee: Mr Deakin

Gloucestershire Junior Challenge Cup

First round

Fillwood

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Eastville Rovers Reserves

Filwood

First team

10 September 1892	Warmley	2–3	Eastville Rovers	Warmley
		Report (via BNA, subscription required)

17 September 1892	St George	4–1	Eastville Rovers	St George
15:40 GMT	Brown Unknown Unknown Unknown	Report (via BNA, subscription required)	Unknown	Referee: G. Bloor

22 October 1892^[δ]	St George	2–0	Eastville Rovers	St George
15:10 GMT	Gerrish Britton	Report (via BNA, subscription required)		Referee: A. Greenough

4 February 1893	Bedminster	0–0	Eastville Rovers	Ashton Gate
		Report (via BNA, subscription required)		Stadium: Ashton Gate Stadium Attendance: 600

15 April 1893^[ε]	Swindon Athletic	0–1	Eastville Rovers	Swindon
		Report (via BNA, subscription required)		Stadium: The Croft Referee: Frank Crossley

^[δ] The game against St George on 22 October was originally scheduled to be a league match, but was played as a friendly when it was discovered that no referee had been appointed.[1]
^[ε] Swindon Athletic began the game with eight players, but were brought up to full strength when three substitutes were found.[4]

Reserves

1 October 1892	Mangotsfield Reserves	2–0	Eastville Rovers Reserves	Mangotsfield
		Report (via BNA, subscription required)

22 October 1892	Eastville Rovers Reserves	0–4	St George Reserves	Ashley Down
		Report (via BNA, subscription required)

4 February 1893	Eastville Rovers Reserves	0–3	Bedminster Reserves	Ashley Down
		Report (via BNA, subscription required)

Statistics

Friendly matches are not included in this section.

Match record

Competition	Home						Away						Total
	P	W	D	L	F	A	P	W	D	L	F	A	P	W	D	L	F	A
Bristol & District League	8	4	2	2	21	14	8	2	1	5	15	26	16	6	3	7	36	40
Gloucestershire Cup	1	0	1	0	2	2	1	0	0	1	1	2	2	0	1	1	3	4
Total	9	4	3	2	23	16	9	2	1	6	16	28	18	6	4	8	39	44

Goalscorers

Player	Goals
	League	Cup	Total
Bill Rogers	8	1	9
Laurie	5	0	5
Johns	4	0	4
Attwell	3	0	3
Bob Horsey	3	0	3
Thompson	3	0	3
Taylor	2	0	2
Beverley	1	0	1
Lovett	1	0	1
Walter Perrin	1	0	1
Yates	1	0	1
Unknown	1	1	2
Opposition own goal	2	0	2

Cumulative record

The total cumulative record of Eastville Rovers up to the end of the 1892–93 season is shown below. This is calculated by adding the numbers in the section above to the total games played up to the end of the previous season. Friendly matches are not included in this table, and games held at neutral venues are considered to have been played away from home.

Match record

Competition	Home						Away						Total
	P	W	D	L	F	A	P	W	D	L	F	A	P	W	D	L	F	A
Bristol & District League	8	4	2	2	21	14	8	2	1	5	15	26	16	6	3	7	36	40
Gloucestershire Cup	4	0	2	2	5	9	9	6	0	3	19	18	13	6	2	5	24	27
Total	12	4	4	4	26	23	17	8	1	8	34	44	29	12	5	12	60	67

References

1. "Athletics". Bristol Mercury. 25 October 1892. Retrieved 12 December 2017 – via British Newspaper Archive.
2. Robinson, ed. (2006)
3. Byrne & Jay (2003), p.36
4. "Football". Western Daily Press. 17 April 1893. Retrieved 14 December 2017 – via British Newspaper Archive.

Bibliography

• Byrne, Stephen; Jay, Mike (2003). Bristol Rovers Football Club: The Definitive History 1883–2003. Stroud: Tempus. ISBN 0-7524-2717-2.
• Robinson, Michael, ed. (2006). Non-League Football Tables 1889–2006. Cleethorpes: Soccer Books. ISBN 978-1862231443.