Walpole Vidal

It is said that he assisted the first FA Cup Final goal when at 15 minutes Vidal broke away and looped the ball across to Morton Betts, who shot between the posts.

His team reached the Final, held on 29 March 1873 at Lillie Bridge, where they faced Vidal's old side, the Wanderers.

In the next season, Oxford again qualified for the final, this time to face the Royal Engineers at Kennington Oval on 14 March 1874.

Vidal played again, setting up Charles Mackarness's goal as Oxford University romped with a 2–0 victory.

Vidal also played for the Gitanos,[3] Old Westminsters, and Remnants football clubs and in representative matches for London and The South v The North.

Later in his life he was Rural Dean of Hartland in the area his parish stood, and shortly before his death, which followed major breakdown in health, was made Prebendary of Exeter Cathedral.

[1] He was also very active in local public affairs in Devon, as chairman of Abbotsham Parish Council, member of Bideford Rural District Council, vice-chairman of Bideford Board of Guardians, member of Devon County Education Committee and a local Commissioner for Income Tax.