page_title: 1901–02 Southampton F.C. season
section_title: FA Cup Final
hierarchical_section_title: 1901–02 Southampton F.C. season / FA Cup / FA Cup Final
caption_attribution_description: English: Panoramic shot of the Crystal Palace stadium during the 1905 FA Cup final.
context_page_description: The 1901–02 season was the 17th since the foundation of Southampton F.C. and their eighth in league football, as members of the Southern League.
  The club repeated their performance from two seasons earlier, again reaching the FA Cup Final, where they lost to the previous season's losing finalists, Sheffield United after a replay. In the League, they finished in third place behind local rivals Portsmouth and the FA Cup holders, Tottenham Hotspur.
context_section_description: For the final, the players again went to the Clump Inn for extra training but goalkeeper Jack Robinson caught a chill and was only declared fit on the morning of the final, with the final decision made less than an hour before kick off. With doubts also about C. B. Fry's fitness, Harry Moger and Bill Henderson travelled to Crystal Palace as reserves. Fry's inclusion in the final line up made him the first amateur player to appear in an FA Cup Final since 1893.
  Sheffield United had taken seven matches to reach the final, with a replay required to get past Newcastle United in Round 3 as well as the double replay in the semi-final. In the build up to the match, Ernie "Nudger" Needham, United's captain, had vowed to make amends for their defeat in the 1901 Final, declaring that his team "had let the north down".
caption: A panoramic view of the Crystal Palace ground during the 1905 FA Cup Final.
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