The match was affected by both a dense fog and "the behaviour of the spectators, who joined to the insolence of the town the coarseness and boorishness of the country rough, and thoroughly impeded the game, on two occasions bringing it to an actual standstill.

The scheduled first round opponents, the Old Etonians, withdrew, as at this time the better players had chosen to play for the Wanderers.

[7] The club entered the Cup in the next four seasons, suffering a 15–0 defeat to holders the Royal Engineers in 1875–76[8] and withdrawing the following year to avoid similar humiliation at the hands of Cambridge University, but in 1877–78 the club finally won a tie for the first time, beating Wood Grange at West Ham Park 4–0 in the first round, all of the goals coming in the second half.

The club instead continued on a lower level, being one of the founder members of the Berks & Bucks Football Association[10] and was the inaugural winner of the even more local Wycombe Challenge Cup in 1883–84.

[13] The club's original colours were orange and black, which it changed to navy and red from the 1877–78 season.