Founded as Rotherham in 1870, the club known as Rotherham
Town joined the Football League in 1893 but were voted out in 1896. Rotherham
County was elected to division two in 1919. In 1925 the clubs amalgamated and
became United. The club moved away from Millmoor to the Don Valley Stadium in
May 2008 after a dispute with the ground owner Ken Booth. In January 2010 the
club purchased the former site of the Guest and Chrimes Foundry for the new
stadium. Guest and Chrimes was a steelworks company, who made the iconic fire
hydrants seen in New York City, often spouting water after being hit in a car chase.
The name of the stadium was announced as the 'New York
Stadium' on 19 December 2011. The reason is that the area of land the stadium
is sited is called New York. The club also hopes that the name could bring investment from
New York City, as the New York Yankees chairman had recently said that he
wanted to invest in an English football team.
Saturday's opposition MK Dons, of course, are more recent additions to
the Football league, but the club had its origins in Wimbledon FC, the only
club known to have won the FA Cup (1988) and FA
Amateur Cup (1963) apart from the non pyramid Old Carthusians, the old boys of
Charterhouse School. For true amateurs, they dominated the 1880-90s football scene, winning the FA Cup in 1881 and the FA Amateur Cup in 1894 and 1897, losing in the final to Middlesbrough Ironopolis in 1895.
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