Oxford University and the Chatham-based Royal Engineers were among 28 entrants to the competition in the 1873–74 season.
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Their opponents had spent two weeks training for the match, an innovative concept at the time, but were repeatedly thwarted by Charles Nepean, the Oxford goalkeeper.
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Oxford were able to call on their first-choice goalkeeper, Charles Nepean, who had been unable to play in the previous year's final, which Oxford lost.
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