Jimmy Logan's FA Cup Final Hat-trick

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Jimmy Logan: How Notts County's FA Cup final hat-trick hero finally got a headstone

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James Logan scored a hat-trick in the 1894 FA Cup final to help Notts County clinch their first major trophy.

Logan became only the second man to score an FA Cup treble after Blackburn Rovers' William Townley in 1890 and matched only once more by Blackpool striker Stan Mortensen in 1953 .

Logan was buried in an unmarked pauper's grave in Loughborough Cemetery , more than 300 miles away from his family home in Ayr .

"Then one sunny day after the grass had been cut, I noticed a clump where there was a headstone for a 16-year-old girl that shouldn't have been there â she'd also been buried in Compartment 114 , so I was able to measure to the point from there." The find was enough to confirm Logan 's burial site, allowing for a headstone to be placed at a ceremony in 2016 , finally marking Logan 's resting place 122 years after the striker flew highest..

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