St Mark's F.C. (Windsor) should not be confused with Old St Mark's F.C..
| Clubname: | St Mark's |
| Fullname: | St Mark's F.C. (Windsor) |
| Founded: | 1876? |
| Dissolved: | ? |
| Ground: | St Mark's School, Windsor |
| Leftarm1: | D0417E |
| Body1: | D0417E |
| Rightarm1: | D0417E |
| Socks1: | D0417E |
St Mark's was an English association club based in Windsor. Its players were pupils and masters[1] attending St Mark's School, under the headmastership of the Reverend E. Hawtrey, whose sons played for the club.[2] The school later became the Imperial Service College.
The club entered the FA Cup once, in 1877–78. It was drawn to play Barnes, with choice of ground,[3] but scratched before playing.[4] This appears to be because a number of its players had pledged their allegiance to other clubs in the Windsor and Slough area, including Swifts F.C. and Remnants F.C.; the latter club was made up solely of masters from the school.[5]
The club provided three players to the Berkshire Football Association representative side in 1876–77.[6]
The first recorded match for the club was on 18 November 1876, a 2–1 home defeat to Runnymede F.C,[7] and matches are recorded for the club until 1888.[8] The club's pitch was also used for fixtures for other clubs in the area, when their own grounds were unavailable; the ground hosted an FA Cup tie in 1883.[9]
The club is likely to have played in magenta, being the college colour; possibly taken from the original rowing colour of Cambridge University.
There were two London clubs active at the time under the name St Mark's; St Mark's Guild, a team from a teacher training college who changed their name to Rangers in 1877, and St Mark's College from Chelsea, a team of undergraduates from a college linked to the teacher training college, who played into the late 1880s, and whose old boys formed a football club (Old St Mark's F.C.) in 1885.