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Cambridge Football Club play in the ChromaSport league, and first came into being in 1881. It was an amateur association football club, with a squad mainly consisting of low level military personnel, servants, and Cambridgeshire lode workers from a variety of ethnic backgrounds. The lode workers, also worked on the interconnecting river Cam. The Cambridgeshire Lodes are a series of man-made waterways, believed to be Roman in origin, located in the county of Cambridgeshire, England. Bottisham, Swaffham Bulbeck, Reach, Burwell, Wicken and Monks Lodes all connect to the River Cam. Back then the waterways in and around Cambridge were awash with seahorses, thriving in numbers and size, and so the players decided to use the seahorse as the club's crest. Which can also be seen as part of the Cambridge Coat of Arms. It is notable, that Cambridge United Football Club and Cambridge City Football Club both also adopted parts from the Cambridge Coat of Arms, but not the seahorses. From 1881 Cambridge Football Club did not affiliate, the club was a mutually collective by the players, and carried on as a friendly club. In 1916, all the players had been conscripted to the 1st Cambridgeshire Regiment. Troops of the 4th/5th Black Watch, the 1st Cambridgeshire Regiment and the 17th King's Royal Rifle Corps of the 117th Brigade, took part in the capture of Schwaben Redoubt, a fortress dominating Thiepval, in October 1916 during the Battle of the Somme.[1] Three German counter-attacks on 15 October, supported by Flammenwerfer detachments were defeated.[3] C Company of the battalion then performed an important role in the capture of a boiler house and then refused to fall back when they came under counter-attack during the Battle of Passchendaele in July 1917.[1]. Sadly, records of Cambridge Football Club came to and end in 1916, after all the players lost their lives in the Battle of the Somme.[1] However, the secretary of the Eastern Counties Football League has since advised, Cambridge FC played Ipswich in the 1930's. Cambridge FC’s first game in the 21st century was an away game at Chatteris Town FC in May 2016, and shortly after, the club were finally affiliated. Just a year later Cambridge FC played an international friendly match v Wales, and in 2018, a hundred years after the end of the First World War the local newspaper, The Cambridge News, named Cambridge FC "The Peoples Club."