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At first Spurs played in navy blue shirts. The club colours then varied from light blue and white halved jerseys, to red shirts and blue shorts, through chocolate brown and old gold and then finally, in the 1899-00 season, to white shirts and navy blue shorts as a tribute to [[Preston North End F.C.|Preston North End]], the most successful team of the time.

In 1888 Tottenham moved their home fixtures from the [[River Lee]] marshes to Northumberland Park where the club was able to charge for spectator admission. They turned professional just before Christmas 1895 and were then admitted to the [[Southern Football League|Southern League]] and attracted crowds nearing 15,000. [[Charles Roberts]] became Chairmanchairman in 1898 and stayed in post until 1943.

In 1899 Spurs made their final ground move to a former market garden in nearby High Road, Tottenham. In time the ground became known as [[White Hart Lane]], a local thoroughfare. Tottenham were the considerable beneficiaries of the escalating unionisation of the northern professional game in the 1890s. Both [[John Cameron]] and [[John Bell (Association Footballer)|John Bell]], formerly Everton players came to play for Tottenham as a result of the conflict caused by their organisation of the Association Footballers' Union, a forerunner of the [[Professional Footballers' Association]]. As a direct result of this in 1900, Tottenham won the [[Southern League]] title and crowned this achievement the next year by winning the [[FA Cup]] - becoming the only non-League club to do so since the formation of [[the Football League]].