Celebration

American sailors celebrated their team’s victory with a snake dance across the Stamford Bridge playing grounds. All then snapped to attention and saluted when a British military band struck up “The Star Spangled Banner.”

“The meaning of this most significant of all ball games was carried along the air,” said The Times. “There was more cheering afterwards, but cheering of a radically different kind. The crowd awoke to consciousness that the afternoon had passed into the history of two great nations