Edouard Wynn

Wynn in 1897
Personal information
Full name	Edouard Wynn
Date of birth	c. 1891
Place of birth	Roubaix, France
Date of death	Unknown
Position(s)	Defender
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1891–1892	Gordon Football Club
1892–1902	Standard AC
1902–1907	United Sports Club
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Edouard Wynn was a French football pioneer who, together with his brother Henri, co-founded Standard AC in 1892, which he served as a defender during the 1890s.^[1]

In October 1891, the Wynn brothers founded the Gordon Football Club with several of their compatriots, whose name was intended to honour the memory of General Charles Gordon, who had died in 1885.^[1] A few months later, in March 1892, Gordon decided to join forces with a fellow English club called Paris AFC, and the result of this merge was the birth of Standard Athletic Club,^[a] whose seventeen British founders were the members of those two clubs, most notably the Wynn brothers, the Tunmer brothers (Neville and Alfred), and William Attrill, the latter serving as the club's first captain.^[1][3] This group of football pioneers wanted the young British people living in Paris to have the opportunity to continue the sports that they had been playing across the English Channel. Standard AC is said to have been founded at The Horse Shoe bar on Rue Copernic in Paris.^[3]

Standard AC joined the USFSA in March 1894, and on 22 April of the same year, the Wynn brothers started in the semifinal of the inaugural USFSA championship, which ended in a 5–0 win over CP Asnières.^[4] The Wynn brothers started in the final against Rovers on 6 May, helping their side to a 2–0 win, thus becoming the first national champions in French history.^[5][6] In the final, Wynn, a left-back, played "remarkably well, his way of charging making even the heaviest of his opponents bite the dust".^[5]

In the following edition, the Wynn brothers once again started in the final for Standard AC, helping their side to another win over the White Rovers, this time by 3–1.^[7] In May 1897, the Wynn brothers started in the final of the 1897 USFSA Championship, helping their side to yet another victory over the White Rovers (3–2).^[8] In the following year, on 3 April, they started in the final of the USFSA Championship against Club Français at Courbevoie, which ended in a 3–2 win.^[9] It was around this time that the Wynn brothers seem to leave Standard AC, as they disappear from the club's line-ups.

At some point at the turn of the century, the Wynn brothers joined United Sports Club, a club of English and Swiss immigrants, and on 16 March 1902, they started in the final of the 1902 Coupe Dewar, which ended in a 1–0 loss to their former club Standard AC.^[10]

In 1904, the United of the Wynn brothers, which was known for playing hard, won the USFSA Paris championship [fr],^[11][12] and this victory qualified the club for the 1904 USFSA national championship, in which they lost in the final to RC Roubaix (4–2).^[13] They were still playing at the club as late as October 1905.^[14]

Standard AC

• USFSA Football Championship:
  • Champion (4): 1894, 1895, 1897, and 1898

United Sports Club

• USFSA Football Championship:
  • Runner-up (1): 1904

• Coupe Dewar:
  • Runner-up (1): 1902
  • Champion (1): 1903

• Duhamel, Georges (1959). Le football français: ses débuts [French football: its beginnings] (in French). Paris: Imprimerie de la Charente. p. 80.
• Denaunay, Pierre; De Ryswick, Jacques; Cornu, Jean; Vermand, Dominique (1993). 100 ans de football en France [100 years of football in France] (in French). Paris: Atlas. ISBN 978-27312136-5-2.