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Cuthbert Ottaway, first captain of the England international football team, was regarded by contemporaries as perhaps the most versatile sportsman of his generation. Cuthbert John Ottaway (19 July 1850 – 2 April 1878) was an English footballer.
May 29, 2014 · Cuthbert Ottaway (1850-1878) was in his final year studying classics at Brasenose College when he captained the England association football side against Scotland at Glasgow on 30 November 1872 in what sports historians regard as the first ever official international football fixture.
May 29, 2014 · Cuthbert Ottaway (1850-1878) was in his final year studying classics at Brasenose College when he captained the England association football side against Scotland at Glasgow on 30 November 1872 in what sports historians regard as the first ever official international football fixture.
In an age in which the gentleman scholar-athlete was king, Cuthbert Ottaway reigned supreme, and helped pave the way for the next generation of more famous all-rounder superstars such as the great C.B.Fry. Ottaway, though, was there, performing, during the formative years of organised sport; untied by the contractual world of professionalism ...
45 likes, 4 comments - distant_echoes76 on October 19, 2022: "If you are an England serious football fan, then you should know who Cuthbert John Ottaway was, a..."
In 1874 he captained the first ever Oxford vs Cambridge Association Football match and played in three successive FA Cup finals between 1873 and 1875. He had earlier captained the England team in the first international match played against Scotland in 1872.
Cuthbert Ottaway was an all-round sportsman in the heyday of the gentlemen amateurs. Educated at Eton and Oxford, he played first-class cricket, excelled at rackets and athletics, and was England's football captain for the first official international with Scotland in 1872.
