Walter Hansell

Walter Edward Hansell (15 November 1860[1] - 25 May 1938) was an association football right-sided forward who won the FA Cup in 1881 playing for the Old Carthusians.

[3] Unlike most of his Charterhouse contemporaries, he did not go up to Oxford or Cambridge University, so was free to play football for his new club, and was elected captain in 1880.

Hansell's abilities were demonstrated to Charterhouse's old boys when he was part of the school XI which beat the Old Carthusians in 1878, making one of the goals with an excellent "middle".

[16] His reputation grew to the extent that the Carthusians selected him for the first time in the 1880–81 FA Cup quarter-final tie against Clapham Rovers, and he made the crucial third score with a cross that left Page with an empty goal.

[17] Having made his mark in the side, Hansell retained his place for the semi-final against Darwen, and scored one goal, plus struck the post, in the O.C.

[18] He was duly selected for the final but did not have much involvement in the match, given the Carthusians had a comparatively easy task in beating the Old Etonians 3–0,[19] and his gold medal was his most treasured possession in the decades afterwards.