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Darwen F.C. was established as a football and Cricket club, and began to play by Association rules in 1875. They caused controversy in the 1879 FA Cup with the selection of two Scottish players Fergie Suter and Jimmy Love from Glasgow with one London amateur club even proposing that "no side which does not consist entirely of amateurs, as defined by the rules to be drawn up by the committee, be entitled to compete in the Challenge Cup competition". The motion was defeated and Darwen travelled down to the Oval three times to play the great amateur side Old Etonians in the quarter-final, drawing 5-5 and 2-2 before losing 6-2 in the second replay. The following year, a regulation that ruled that the final three rounds were to be played in London was changed and entries were grouped by region after complaints from northern clubs about the unfairness of travelling. They were a Football League club between the years 1891 and 1899, in total spending eight seasons in league football. Six of these were in the Second Division, and only two in the top flight. They are famous chiefly for having suffered 18 consecutive league defeats, during their last season as a league club in 1898-99. Sunderland narrowly managed to avoid equalling this unwanted record in 2003, when they beat Preston North End 2-0 at Deepdale . Darwen also hold the record for the heaviest league defeat in a First Division match: 12-0 away to West Bromwich Albion in the 1891-92 season. They are also believed to be the first club to install electric Floodlight s as well as employing football's first two professional players. HISTORY
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