The original Argonauts club played home games on South Hackney Common in the 1870s.
Despite never playing a match or having a published squad, they became notable in the late 1920s for attempting to join the Football League three times.
The team was formed in 1928 by Dick Sloley, Cambridge University and England amateur international, and president of the Ealing Association Football Club,[5] as an equivalent to the Scottish Queen's Park club to play in the Football League.
[6] After objections from local Third Division South clubs Queens Park Rangers and Brentford, he then proceeded to hire Wembley Stadium as a venue.
[7] The club applied for Football League status that year, falling in third place but earning a creditable 16 votes.