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in November 1907 when Fulham

beat them 2-0 at Craven Cottage

thanks to goals from Alex Fraser

and Fred Threlfall. The Whites’

biggest win came in March 1912

when they beat City 7-2 at home

and Leeds’ largest victory over

Fulham came in February 1911

when they won 3-1 at Elland Road.

Leeds United took over from City

in 1920 after they were disbanded

by the Football League over an

illegal payments scandal.

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EGGAT, GRAHAM.

Graham Leggat won the first

of his 18 Scotland caps against

England in April 1956. Leggat

joined Fulham from Aberdeen in

August 1958 for a fee of £20,000.

Very fast and extremely brave,

Leggat scored in his first six

matches for the Club, eventually

helping Fulham into the top flight

with 21 goals. He hit eight hat-

tricks for Fulham in all, scored 23

goals in 1960/61 and the following

season helped the Club reach the

Semi-Final of the FA Cup. Leggat

scored a hat-trick in three minutes

during the 10-1 demolition of

Ipswich Town on Boxing Day 1963.

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IMITED COMPANY.

Fulham became a limited

company with a share of capital

of £7,500 in May 1903. The Club

had been unable to move up to

Division One of the Southern

League as they had lost to

Brentford 7-2 in a test match

after finishing the season as

Division Two champions. The

Southern League committee

informed them that if they could

raise a first-class team by 30th

May 1903 then promotion would

be guaranteed. To enable the

Club to finance the obtaining of

better quality players, Fulham

had to raise capital, thus they

became a limited company. The

most famous player to be signed

was goalkeeper Jack Fryer

who had played in the 1903 FA

Cup Final for Derby County.

New players came mainly

from Football League clubs.

These included established

professionals such as Harry

Fletcher and Peter Gray from

Grimsby Town, Jock Hamilton

from Bristol City, Fergus Hunt

from Woolwich Arsenal and

Billy Orr from Manchester City.

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ONDON CHALLENGE CUP.

Fulham competed in the

London Challenge Cup from

1908-1973. By the late 1920s it

had started to lose its shine. In

1931 it became a competition

for London reserve and leading

amateur sides. These matches

were usually played on a Monday

on autumn or winter afternoons.

Our first opponents in the

competition were Woolwich

Arsenal who visited the Cottage

in late September 1908 and won

1-0 before a 7,000 crowd. Fulham

won the cup in 1909/10 when

they beat Tottenham Hotspur

4-1 in the Final at Stamford

Bridge. Fulham lost 2-1 to Spurs

in the following season’s Final

at Chelsea. Fulham had to wait

until 1931/32 before winning

the London Challenge Cup again

when the reserves beat Crystal

Palace 2-1 in the Final. Fulham

lost 3-1 to Spurs’ reserves in the

1947/48 Final and were beaten

by Brentford in the Final in

1966/67. Fulham’s final match in

the competition was a 1-0 home

defeat against non-League Hayes

in October 1973.

The Fulham Alphabet

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Graham Leggat

Jack Fryer

Bert Pearce scores against West Ham in 1911

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