Football played at Wateringbury (1869)

Post date: Mar 21, 2013 10:1:11 AM

Extract from Maidstone Telegraph, 16th January 1869. Although no Wateringbury team gets mentioned a number of games of football are played at Wateringbury at this time. Mid-Kent against Maidstone are recorded as playing at Wateringbury on 23rd December 1868 in the same newspaper.

Royal Engineers v. Mid Kent. —The above match was played at Wateringbury on Wednesday last, but resulted in a draw, neither party obtaining a goal. The Engineers, being the heavier team, drove the ball on one or two occasions in close proximity to the Mid Kent goal, but were helped by the excellent play the goal keeper, E. A Leney, Esq.