Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Football & Sporting Memorabilia
To be held on Thursday, Friday, Saturday & Sunday
6th, 7th, 8th & 9th August 2026
Lot 1861
Estimate: £50/80
Charles Alcock. Sporting Pioneer. Original front cover of ‘Man of the World” magazine issued 8th February 1890, featuring a hand-tinted engraving of Alcock, three quarter length, with a football match in progress in the background. Titled ‘Association Football’. The page measures 9.5”x15”. set in modern mount, overall 14.25”x21”. Very good condition.
C.W. Alcock was involved in the organisation of the first England international football match against Scotland in 1870, and proposed the introduction of the F.A. Challenge Cup, which first took place in 1872, played at The Oval, Alcock himself captaining the winning Wanderers side. He also arranged the first cricket Test Match to be played in England, England against Australia at the Kennington Oval in 1880 where he had recently been appointed as Secretary of Surrey C.C.C. He founded and edited James Lillywhite’s Cricketers’ Annual from 1872 to 1900, and was the first editor of the cricket magazine, ‘Cricket a Weekly Record of the Game’ from 1882 to 1907.