The Old Wykehamist Association Football Club is an English association football club whose players are alumni of Winchester College, in Winchester, Hampshire. Having been a member of The Football Association and entered the FA Cup, Old Wykehamists currently play in the First Division, the second-highest level of the Arthurian League. History The club was founded in 1876, playing its first game at Westminster School in October, and entered the FA Cup twice in the 1870s, in 1876–77 and 1877–78, withdrawing on both occasions. Nevertheless the side was strong enough to provide five players for the England national side. The club entered the Cup again in 1883–84 and enjoyed its best-ever Cup run; beating Upton Rangers 7–0 at West Ham Park in the first round, and Windsor 1–0 at the latter's Home Park ground, before getting a bye in the third round. However in the fourth round (last 16) the club was paired with Cup holders Blackburn Olympic, a fully professional club. The tie was played at Olympic's Hole-i'-th'-Wall ground in front of 3,000 spectators and, even though Olympic had to play the second half with ten men because of injury, they were already 5–0 up at half-time; the Dark Blues only conceded one more in the second half. The following season the club reached the fourth round again, this time consisting of 18 clubs, beating both Maidenhead and Hotspur away from home, and Upton Park at the neutral Kennington Oval in the third round, before losing 7–0 to Queen's Park at the second Hampden Park, with six goals coming in the first half, before a crowd of 5,000. In 1885–86, the Dark Blues beat Uxbridge 5–0 in the first round at Home Park in Windsor, and were drawn to play Luton Wanderers in the second; the Luton Times & Bedford Advertiser, when reporting on the Wanderers' first round win, stated that the Luton side "showed some very good form, and if they play as well on November 21 [in the second round] as they did on Saturday it will be a hard job for the Old Wykehamists to beat them, if they do so at all." The game was held at the Kennington Oval and Old Wykehamists recorded their biggest-ever FA Cup win by scoring 10 goals without reply. In the third round, the club was due to face Great Marlow at the Dolphin Ground, the home of the Swifts,