105th Regiment F.C.

105th Regiment Football Club (also known as the 103rd Light Infantry) was an English association football club in the 19th century, made up of soldiers with the 105th Regiment of Foot (Madras Light Infantry).

[3] It competed in some of the first stagings of the Football Association Challenge Cup, entering the competition between 1875 and 1878, winning one tie.

[4] Unlike the Royal Engineers, the Light Bobs allowed "other ranks" to represent the regiment, and the scorers in its 3–0 win over the 1st Surrey Rifles in the 1876–77 FA Cup included a Private Morris and Lance Corporal Ford.

The club wore red and buff "stripes", which, at the time, referred to hoops.

[11] The club played its home matches at its barracks, wherever it was based:

Two football matches for the 105th Regiment, against Chesterfield and a side from Aston Hall, Yorkshire : Sheffield Independent, 16 March 1875