Background
He was the son of Edward Betts, a civil engineering contractor, who married the sister of the railway entrepreneur Samuel Morton Peto, which is how he was given his name.
cricketer association football player
He was the son of Edward Betts, a civil engineering contractor, who married the sister of the railway entrepreneur Samuel Morton Peto, which is how he was given his name.
He was educated at Harrow School and at Trinity College, Cambridge.
He was notable for scoring the first goal in an English Final. His sporting career also featured first-class cricket for Middlesex (1 match) and Kent (two matches). Switching between football and cricket duties frequently, he is also associated with Essex.
He played for Essex in 1884, before they became a first-class county, and he acted as secretary of the Essex Commodity Credit Corporation from 1887 to 1890.
In the match, he played under the pseudonym "Ampere-hour Chequer". This was because Betts used to play for Harrow Chequers (a team associated with Harrow School).
Betts" goal was a relatively simple "tap-in", coming as a result of Walpole Vidal"s successful dribble through the Royal Engineers" defence. Betts usually played football as a full-back, though his one appearance for England national team (against Scotland in 1877) was as a goalkeeper.
By this time, he was with the Old Harrovians Football Club.
He spent his final years living in France, and died aged 66, shortly before the outbreak of World War I.
Foreign twenty years, Betts was a board member of the Football Association.