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Upper Clapton Football Club (Rugby Union)

The Upper Clapton Football Club was formed in 1879 for the purpose of playing Rugby Union.

No record remains to show why the Club was started, and, indeed, it was not until two and a half years had elapsed that any written record was made. The earliest evidence of the Club appears to have been written by the third Secretary of the Club, A. H. Ashmore, in January 1882, and records that the Club was established in September 1879, by Percy Barber, W. Newcomb, and W. Sewell Singer, who were joined by about twenty members.

The original title of the Club was the Orion Football Club, but almost from the first the words "Upper Clapton" had been coupled with the name "Orion", and on the 11th March, I882, the title was changed to the Upper Clapton Football Club.