page_title: Arthur Johnson (historian)
section_title: Athletics and football career
hierarchical_section_title: Arthur Johnson (historian) / Athletics and football career
caption_attribution_description: English: Oxford University AFC's FA Cup winning team of 1873-74 edition of the FA Cup. Standing: Walpole Vidal, Frederick Green, Charles Mackarness, Arthur Johnson, Robert Benson, Francis Birley, Charles Nepean; Seated: Cuthbert Ottaway, Frederick Patton, Frederick Maddison, William Rawson
context_page_description: Reverend Arthur Henry Johnson was an English historian and the chaplain of All Souls College, Oxford. He was a member of the Oxford University football team which won the FA Cup in 1874. He played a pioneering role in the development of the Oxford University Department for Continuing Education.
context_section_description: Johnson was a keen athlete, winning the Eton College steeplechase in 1862. At Oxford, he won Blues for running in 1865 and 1866. He finished in second place in the two mile race in 1865, behind Richard Webster, later Viscount Alverstone, who represented Cambridge. In 1866, he was prevented from finishing the two mile race, because of crowd interference. At college, he was also keen on fishing, hunting and shooting. His Times obituary described him as "one of the very finest riders with any pack of hounds", "an indefatigable shot, and an almost perfect fisherman".
  He played football for Eton and Exeter College, before becoming a member of the Oxford University team, for whom he played as a forward, famed for his "speedy runs". Despite having graduated several years earlier, and being an ordained clergyman, Johnson was selected as a member of the University team that played in the 1874 FA Cup Final, although all the other ten members of the side were undergraduates. Of the eleven members of the university team, four (including Johnson) became clergyman and five took up the law as a profession. In the final, played at Kennington Oval on 14 March 1874 against a team from the Royal Engineers, the university ran out as 2–0 winners, with goals from Charles Mackarness and Frederick Patton.
  In later years, when a "don" at the university, he often surprised students returning late to their rooms, by the speed with which he was able to catch them if they tried to run away. His obituary in The Times states that "at all forms of sport he was facile princeps (easily the best)".
caption: Oxford University's F.A. Cup winning side of 1874. Johnson is fourth from left in the back row.
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