The Sportsman (1865 newspaper)

For the 2006 UK sports newspaper, see The Sportsman (2006 newspaper).

The first British newspaper titled The Sportsman began publishing from 1865, some six years after the Sporting Life. Predominantly concerned with horse racing the paper did cover other sports and continued to be published until 1924 when it was absorbed into Sporting Life.[1] The last edition was published on Saturday 22 November 1924.[2]

It was at the offices of The Sportsman on 20 July 1871 that the Football Association committee meeting was held which adopted a proposal to establish a knockout competition for the FA's member clubs – the FA Cup.[3]

  1. ^ Brake, Laurel; Denmoor, Marysa, eds. (2009). Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century Journalism: In Great Britain and Ireland. Academia. p. 595. ISBN 978-0712350396. Retrieved 6 April 2021.
  2. ^ "To our readers". The Sportsman. No. 17, 237. 22 November 1924. p. 7 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  3. ^ Curry, Graham (2020). The Making of Association Football: Two Decades Which Created the Modern Game. pp. 105–106. ISBN 978-1527560772.