[1] At some point in late 1891, Reeves moved to Huelva after being hired by the local Waterworks Company, and while he was there, he began playing football in his free time with his friends and co-workers in order to feel more at home, and eventually, he joined the ranks of the only football club that existed in the region, Recreativo de Huelva, which had been founded just two years earlier, in December 1889, and which was then presided by a fellow Briton Charles Wilson Adam.

[4] Three months later, on 6 May, he again started as a defender for Huelva, this time in a match against Rio Tinto FC, playing alongside the likes of George Wakelin, William Alcock, and Luis Birchall.

[6] In May 1892, Reeves was appointed to a committee tasked with the preparation of the "Program of Events" organized by Recreativo de Huelva in commemoration of the fourth Centenary of the Discovery of America by Christopher Columbus, which consisted of several sporting events that took place in the months of August, September, and October, held at the so-called Campo del Velódromo, which had been inaugurated by Recreativo on 20 August,[6] and whose construction had already been confirmed as early as February 1892, around the time of Reeves' first known match for Huelva,[4] so it is likely that he might have contributed to this project through his knowledge as an artisan engineer and of the water services of the city.

[7] Unlike Recreativo, however, the Cricket Club was a strictly British entity, so instead of joining this team, Reeves, an enthusiastic and passionate lover of the game, aimed to create an organization that was not only exclusively dedicated to the practice of football, but also open to everyone, regardless of their origin.

[8] The individual from the English colony, Reeves, was the soul of that Club and managed to impress some of his countrymen with his entrepreneurial spirit so that in a short time he achieved a respectable number of members.

During their matches in the Spanish public holidays of 6 and 8 December, Reeves proposed to the cricketers the idea of creating a well-organized football club, and having impressed some of his countrymen with his passionate and entrepreneurial spirit, he convinced some of the Cricket Club members to join him, including some of its founders, such as Henry Wood, William MacAndrews, and the Morris (Jaime and Samuel), thus achieving a respectable number of partners in a short period of time.

[10] Even though the British colony of Barcelona had a large presence in the city, finding 22 individuals (plus the referee) was not an easy task, given that the expatriates came to work and many of them had positions of responsibility.

[7] It was not until the end of 1892, after months of hard work, that Reeves finally managed to gather enough players to assemble two teams to start practicing football, although in the vast majority of matches, they did not complete the 11s per side.

[1] Reeves kept organizing football games between the members of the British Club de Barcelona, including the infamous match on 12 March 1893 between a blue team captained by George Cochran and a red one led by himself, and Reeves captained by example as he netted his side's only goal in a 2–1 loss, with both Blue goals coming from non-Britons (Figueras and Jorge Barrié), meaning that his club's inclusion of locals was paying off, albeit they scored against the 51-year-old Jaime Morris (Senior).

[11] This was most likely the result of a growing conflict with Reeves, probably about the formalization process that the club was going through, which eventually caused the entity to split into two groups, one headed by Reeves, the so-called Sociedad de Foot-Ball de Barcelona ("Barcelona Football Society"), and the other by Cochran, Wood, and MacAndrews, which went on to form the Torelló Foot-ball Association.

[1] At the time of the 1911 United Kingdom census, he was living at 1 Grotes Buildings, Blackheath, London with his wife Katherine and his one-year-old son.