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A Potted Club History - The 1890's
 Results and tables for the following
seasons can be found in our all-time
results section.
The Decades Winners
League Champions: 1890 Preston North End, 1891
Everton, 1892 Sunderland, 1893 Sunderland, 1894 Aston Villa, 1895 Sunderland,
1896 Aston Villa, 1897 Aston Villa, 1898 Sheffield United, 1899 Aston Villa
FA Cup Winners: 1890 Blackburn Rovers, 1891
Blackburn Rovers, 1892 West Bromwich Albion, 1893 Wolverhampton Wanderers,
1894 Notts County, 1895 Aston Villa, 1896 Sheffield Wednesday, 1897 Aston
Villa, 1898 Nottingham Forest, 1899 Sheffield United
Pictured above: Aston
Villa winners of the FA Cup in 1894
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Season
1890-91
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Town
entered the FA Cup for the very first time with a large crowd witnessing a
2-0 win against Reading at Portman Road (George Sherrington and Stanley
Turner the goal scorers). Further victories against Norwich Thorpe and
Huntingdon County followed before a 4-1 home reverse to the 93rd
Highlanders stopped Town from reaching the first round proper at the very
first attempt.
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Season
1891-92
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The
penalty-kick is ‘invented’ with Fred Turner converting Town’s first ever
spot-kick in a 7-0 win against Saxmundham. Hopes of a repeat of the
previous seasons FA Cup exploits are short lived with a 5-0 defeat at the hands
of Old Westminsters in the 1st Qualifying Round. A
Canadian/American Touring side become the first foreign side to play at
Portman Road and lose 2-1, and three Town players are in the Suffolk County
side that take on and lose to Preston North End, the first professional
side to visit Portman Road.
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Season
1892-93
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Royal
Arsenal, shortly to be elected to the Football League, and considered to be
the strongest club in the south of England defeat Town 5-0 in a friendly at
Portman Road, despite having inside left Elliott sent-off. Ernest Aldous
Kent hits five hat-tricks during the course of the season and Town score
after just 5 seconds in a 5-0 win over Sudbury Town.
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Season
1893-94
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Town enter
the FA Amateur Cup for the very first time. 123 goals are scored in 29
matches over the course of the season with Town victorious in 22 of them
including a 13-0 drubbing of the 58th Regiment Northants.
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Season
1894-95
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The
1894/95 campaign proved to be one of the most exciting of the clubs amateur
years. Victories against Norwich CEYMS, Peterborough Town and the 2nd Scots Guards propelled Town into the last 16 of the FA Amateur Cup where
they lost 7-3 in a replay to the Old Etonians, twice winners of the FA Cup,
after a 1-1 draw at Portman Road. A 1-0 defeat at the hands of Saxmundham
stopped Town from reaching the Suffolk Senior Cup final but as the season
drew to a close it was off-fields events that took the headlines as Town declined
an invitation to join the newly formed Southern League and any immediate
possibility of turning ‘professional’.
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Season
1895-96
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Town won the Suffolk Senior Cup and also undertook there longest away journey to
date when they travelled to the North East for an FA Amateur Cup 2nd Round tie against Bishop Auckland. A crowd of 2,000 saw the home side win
by three goals to one.
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Season
1896-97
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Sparta
Rotterdam became the first continental side to play at Portman Road were they
were defeated 10-0 by an Ipswich representative XI and Town won the Ipswich
Charity Cup beating Beccles Caxton after a replay.
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Season
1897-98
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Town
again decline an invitation to take part in league football – this time
from the Norfolk & Suffolk League. Of Town’s friendly fixtures fourteen
were against London opposition, all of which were played at Portman Road,
while Tom Haward became the first Town player to be sent-off when he was
dismissed in the game at Framlingham College. The Ipswich Charity Cup was
retained and Aston Villa, Football League and FA Cup double winners the
previous season, attracted a crowd of 5,000 when they visited Portman Road
to take on Suffolk County.
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Season
1898-99
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With a
no league football, and no Grandstand at the ground, the Club are described
as ‘fossilised amateurs’. The Ipswich Charity Cup is won for the third year
in succession but Town lose heavily to Beccles Caxton in the semi-final of
the Suffolk Senior Cup in an otherwise unremarkable season.
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Season
1899-00
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League football
arrives at Portman Road as Town finish a creditable fourth in the Norfolk
& Suffolk League with the clubs first ever league match ending in a 1-1
draw with Norwich CEYMS. Two men of the cloth, the Revd M.W. Murray and
Revd H.A.P. Gardiner, were frequent members of a side that won the Suffolk
Senior Cup for the first time in four years with a 3-1 final win against
Sudbury and retained the Ipswich Charity Cup for the fourth consecutive
year. Complaints by the Ipswich & East Suffolk CC about damage to their
crease results in the relocation of the football pitch at Portman Road to
its present day location (it was previously aligned from East to West on
the area now covered by the practice pitch).
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