Club on 21 February 1863, with Crusaders fielding 12 men and No Names 13 (although G. H. Pember of the latter was injured early on).

In November 1866, the club played against the Civil Service side at Battersea Park, The Field noting that "Mr Berens,[6] with praiseworthy zeal, has collected some scattered remnants of the body".

[9] The first match for "the Flyers" was meant to be against Westminster School in January 1868, but a Drury Lane pantomime had attracted many of the schoolboys, and the opponents were listed as "Mr H.R.

[11] With the Middlesex ground being sold at the end of 1868, the Eton/Westminster old boy combination side metamorphosed back into the Crusaders.

[12] The club also played the Royal Engineers in February 1869, holding the Sappers to a 0–0 draw, although the Crusaders did not have a single attempt at goal.

It could only muster six players for the Westminster School fixture,[14] and did not turn up at all to the Charterhouse match.

[16] The club played two more recorded games, the last being a 2–1 win away to Merton College, Oxford, in February 1870.