{{short description|English association football defender}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2023}} {{Use British English|date=November 2015}} '''Frederick Joseph Patton''' was an amateur footballer who played as a forward in the 1870s, and scored for Oxford University A.F.C. in the 1874 FA Cup final.
==Sporting career==
According to census records, Patton was born in Bombay in 1851.
Patton was captain of the Eton Field Game XI in 1868.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Pawson |first1=John |title=The Field Game |date=1922 |publisher=Spottiswoode}}</ref> He went up to Balliol College in 1870 and played for Oxford University Etonians in Field Game matches against their Cambridge University counterparts in 1870<ref>{{cite journal |title=Report |journal=Sportsman |date=1 December 1870 |page=4}}</ref> and 1871, scoring the only two goals in the latter game.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Report |journal=Sportsman |date=2 December 1871 |page=4}}</ref>
When the university started an association football side, he was one of its founder members.<ref>{{cite web |title=UC:P252/P1 - PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM |url=https://www.univ.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Univ-Kirke-Smith.pdf |website=University College Oxford |access-date=25 November 2023}}</ref> His greatest achievement was scoring the second goal in the 1874 FA Cup final, finishing off a move by Walpole Vidal and Cuthbert Ottaway with a smart shot from a Vidal cross.<ref>{{cite journal |title=report |journal=Oxford Times |date=21 March 1874 |page=2}}</ref> The following season he represented the Old Etonians in the competition.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Old Etonians v Swifts |journal=Field |date=21 November 1874 |page=561}}</ref>
After university, Patton became a barrister, and married Edith Furlonger on 1 November 1876 in Surrey.<ref>{{cite web |title=Surrey, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1937 |url=https://www.ancestry.co.uk/discoveryui-content/view/2182322:4779?tid=&pid=&queryId=8ff7ca2ea180b91439539073710156d6&_phsrc=hnZ546&_phstart=successSource |website=ancestry |access-date=25 November 2023}}</ref> He died in on 5 February 1922 in Ascot, Berkshire, leaving over £2,000 in assets.<ref>{{cite web |title=England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1995 |url=https://www.ancestry.co.uk/discoveryui-content/view/1270778:1904?tid=&pid=&queryId=8ff7ca2ea180b91439539073710156d6&_phsrc=hnZ546&_phstart=successSource |website=ancestry |access-date=25 November 2023}}</ref>
==Sporting honours== '''Oxford University''' *FA Cup winner: 1874
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