As an amateur footballer who played as a full back, he helped the Old Etonians win the FA Cup in 1879.
[5] Bury also made a single first-class appearance for Hampshire against Derbyshire at Derby in the same season.
[5] In eight first-class matches for Cambridge, he took 17 wickets with his right-arm roundarm fast bowling, at an average of 13.29, with best figures of 4 for 26.
As Wales had been defeated 9–0 in their previous international against Scotland, England were confident of victory and selected an inexperienced eleven, including five débutantes.
Due to the atrocious snowfall, both captains agreed to play halves of only 30 minutes each.
Clegg, a solicitor, was working late on a case (the trial of Charles Peace, the Banner Cross murderer) and was unable to leave Sheffield for London on the Friday night.
[10] In 1879, he helped the Old Etonians reach the FA Cup Final where they met Clapham Rovers at The Oval on 29 March.
Bury and his team captain, Arthur Kinnaird, were required to call on "their well-known powers ... to keep the enemy out of their quarters".