Association Football
England
- FA Cup final – Blackburn Rovers 2–0 Queen's Park (Glasgow) at The Oval
- 20 July — the FA finally legitimises professionalism
- Millwall FC founded by workers on the Isle of Dogs as Millwall Rovers.
- Southampton FC founded as Southampton St Mary’s by members of St Mary’s Church YMCA.
Scotland
- Scottish Cup final – Renton 3–1 Vale of Leven at Hampden Park (replay following 0–0 draw)
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“An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
“People stress the violence. That’s the smallest part of it. Football is brutal only from a distance. In the middle of it there’s a calm, a tranquility. The players accept pain. There’s a sense of order even at the end of a running play with bodies stewn everywhere. When the systems interlock, there’s a satisfaction to the game that can’t be duplicated. There’s a harmony.”
—Don Delillo (b. 1926)
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