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The Arthur Dunn Cup is a football cup competition played between the Old Boys of public schools. It started in 1903 and is named in honour of Arthur Tempest Blakiston Dunn who had proposed such a competition but died very suddenly shortly after. Dunn was a leading amateur player of his day and was in the winning Old Etonians side in the 1882 FA Cup Final. It was Dunn who passed the ball to Anderson who scored the only goal to defeat Blackburn Rovers at the Kennington Oval.〔Daily Telegraph - 31 March 1882〕 == Origins of the Cup Competition == On 12 October 1901 an article appeared in a newspaper headed "Amateur Clubs and the English Cup". It began "It has been said that amateur football is in the decline, that it is not what it was, and that its ultimate insignificance is, in fact, merely a matter of time".〔Fabian, A H; Green, Geoffrey, ''Association Football'', Volume two, p 140-146. The Caxton Publishing Company Ltd., London 1960〕 This reflected the growing impression that amateur football was doomed and when Arthur Dunn read this, he was so moved that he wrote a brief note to another Old Etonian, Norman Malcolmson, as follows: Arthur did not have time to follow this thought through because he died suddenly on the evening of 19 February 1902.〔Grayson, Edward, ''Corinthians and Cricketers and Towards a New Sporting Era''. Yore Publications, Harefield, Middlesex 1955〕 (Other sources state the date of death as 20 February and this is the date on his memorial at Eton College). However, on 12 March 1902, just three weeks later, an informal meeting of Old Boys interested in amateur football was convened by Norman Malcolmson and held at the Sports Club. At this meeting the following resolutions were passed: # That, in the opinion of this Meeting, an annual competition, under Association Rules, in the form of a cup contest, confined to the representatives of the chief Public Schools, is desirable; # That a trophy, to be called "The Arthur Dunn Memorial Cup", or by some such title, be provided for competition, to be held by the winners for one year; # That the following schools be invited to appoint one representative to act on the General Committee: Bradfield, Brighton, Charterhouse, Eton, Felsted, Forest, Harrow, Lancing, Malvern, Radley, Repton, Rossall, Shrewsbury, Westminster and Winchester, the competition to be for the Old Boys of the above schools〔Minutes of the first meeting of the Arthur Dunn Cup 1902〕 Those present also expressed the view that any surplus profits from the competition should be given to charity. This informal meeting was followed, three weeks later, by a formal one, at which the chair was taken by no less a figure that C Wreford-Brown, a pillar of the Corinthians and capped four times for England in full internationals. The motions passed by the informal meeting were unanimously confirmed, and then officers were elected as follows: President: Lord Kinnaird (Eton); Vice-Presidents: R C Guy (Forest); R C Gosling (Eton); Committee: R T Squire (Westminster), G O Smith (Charterhouse), W J Oakley (Shrewsbury), C Wreford-Brown (Charterhouse), R E Foster (Malvern), W M Cowan (Brighton), J R Mason (Winchester). Hon Secretary: N Malcolmson.〔Fabian, A H; Green, Geoffrey, ''Association Football'', Volume two, p 140-146. The Caxton Publishing Company Ltd., London 1960〕 During the next few weeks a special committee drew up the rules of the competition. Meanwhile, the actual trophy was presented by R C Gosling; and thus, within 14 weeks of Dunn’s death, the vision had become a reality. Six months later the Arthur Dunn Challenge Cup competition was well and truly launched, the schools taking part in the first season being: Bradfield, Brighton, Charterhouse, Eton, Felsted, Forest, Harrow, Lancing, Malvern, Repton, Rossall, Shrewsbury, Westminster and Winchester. Radley College decided not to participate at this stage.〔Roy, David; Bevan, Ian; Hibberd, Stuart; Gilbert, Michael, The Centenary History of the Arthur Dunn Cup. Replay Publishing Limited, Beckenham, Kent 2003〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Arthur Dunn Challenge Cup」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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