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Stanley Football Club
5 - 0
Elswick Leather Works (2nd)
Saturday, November 26, 1881.
Goal: Thomas S. Phalp; backs, John T. Hobson and James Gardner; half‑backs, Alexander Marr and John Armstrong; forwards, right‑wing, John P. Cook and Robert Finlay, centres, William A. Coulson (captain) and William Finlay, left‑wing, George McKenzie and John Dixon
So, is this Newcastle's first-ever game?