1900-1914 - Walter Brown and Bob Ramsey

The club were now established as a force in local football and won their first silverware in 1903, lifting the Dursley League Cup in front of a crowd in excess of 1000, beating Stonehouse 2-1 after extra time.

 

As well as W and T Brinkworth, Walter Brown features in the team photo. Walter is seen as a very young player in the 1899 photo, and was in Rovers’ first winning team in 1903. He continued to play throughout the decade and also featured in the second cup win for the renamed “Nailsworth and Forest Green United” (N&FGU) in 1912. Whilst not playing again after the First World War, Walter remained a committee man for the rest of his life and features in the club photograph in 1951.

 

Bob Ramsay was a farmer in Forest Green and was also an imposing goalkeeper for Rovers in the years immediately before the First World War. He is, as far as we know, the first Forest Green Rovers player to be chosen on a regular basis for the County team, and played for the very successful Rovers team after the Great War.