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Everton Football Club, founded in 1878, can trace its roots back to a Methodist chapel dedicated to St Domingo that once stood in the north end of Liverpool. Ben Chambers, at that time, ministered the chapel. Reverend Chambers had recently arrived in Liverpool the Rugby playing stronghold of Huddersfield where he was born. It is unlikely that he brought with him any knowledge of football that was played under the rules of the Football Association. Nevertheless, amongst the local congregation was a certain Thomas Evans a well-experienced football player who had learnt to play the association game back in his native Derbyshire. Tom Evans, under the watchful eye of the church elders, would have likely organized a series of impromptu soccer matches amongst the younger members of the congregation on a piece of land, laid out for public recreation, named Stanley Park. One year later the players severed their eccliasitacal roots and found new headquarters at the Queens Hotel in the district of Everton to which they changed their name. They continued to play their home matches on Stanley Park and, it was at this location, that they first played host to a team of players from St Johns, church in Bootle. Their curate, Alfred Keely, led the visitors.
