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Morton Peto Betts (b.
30 August 1847,
Bloomsbury, d.
19 April 1914,
Menton,
France) was a leading
English sportsman of the late
19th century. He was notable for scoring the first goal in an English
FA Cup Final.
His sporting career also featured first-class cricket for
Middlesex (1 match) and
Kent (2 matches). Switching between
football and
cricket duties frequently, he's also associated with
Essex. He played for Essex in 1884, before they became a first-class county, and he acted as secretary of the
Essex CCC from 1887 to 1890.
Betts' most notable moment came when he scored the winning goal in the
1872 FA Cup Final for
Wanderers F.C., the first ever final of the tournament. In the match, he played under the
pseudonym A.H. Chequer. This was because Betts was
cup-tied for the match; he'd begun the tournament registered with
Harrow Chequers (a team associated with
Harrow School). They had withdrawn prior to the first game but, under the rules of the time, Betts couldn't play with another club in the same tournament. Betts' goal was a relatively simple 'tap-in', coming as a result of
Robert Vidal's successful
dribble through the
Royal Engineers' defence.
Betts usually played football as a
full-back, though his one appearance for
England national team (against
Scotland in 1877) was as a
goalkeeper. By this time, he was with the
Old Harrovians Football Club.
For twenty years, Betts was a board member of
the Football Association.
He spent his final years living in France, and died aged 66, shortly before the outbreak of
World War I.
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