2-715-378 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The first FA Cup Final is held at the new Wembley Stadium in London, 28 April 1923, (1935). Police trying to keep the crowds back at the first Football Association Challenge Cup final match between Bolton Wanderers and West Ham United. 'The crowds were so enormous that they broke down the barriers and the police had to form cordons to prevent spectators overflowing on to the ground.' From "The Silver Jubilee Book - The Story of 25 Eventful Years in Pictures". [Odhams Press Ltd., London, 1935]