<P> Several players, all involved in the earlier Zulus controversy, temporarily left the club to play for a local works team which had managed to submit its entry on time . Later in the season the same players threatened to walk out permanently and set up a professional club called Sheffield Rovers . Wednesday's President at the time, John Holmes, was against the club turning professional, but under the immense pressure of the possibility of losing his star players he entered into talks with the rebels, eventually offering professional terms . At the meeting called to set up Sheffield Rovers, one of the rebel players, Tom Cawley, argued that Wednesday should be given one final chance and the football club duly turned professional on 22 April 1887 . The initial wages were five shillings for home fixtures and seven shillings and sixpence for away games . </P> <P> The move to professionalism led to the team building their own stadium rather than playing at venues such as Bramall Lane or Sheaf House whose owners took a share of the "gate". They leased some land by the railway tracks near Queen's Road from the Duke of Norfolk and in 1887 built the Olive Grove ground . They named it so because an olive farm was bulldozed in order to build it </P> <P> In 1889, when their first application to join the Football League was rejected, the club became founder members of the Football Alliance of which they were the first champions in a season that they also reached the 1890 FA Cup Final, losing 6--1 to Blackburn Rovers at The Oval . They finished the following season bottom of the Alliance but recovered to finish in fourth place in the final Alliance season . The following season they were elected to Division 1 of the Football League when it was increased from 14 to 16 clubs, topping the poll with 10 votes . They won the FA Cup in 1896, beating Wolverhampton Wanderers by a 2--1 scoreline at Crystal Palace . </P> <P> In a strong decade Wednesday won the league twice in the 1902--03 and 1903--04 seasons and the FA Cup again in 1907, beating Everton, again at Crystal Palace by two goals to one . After this a relatively fallow period was to be suffered for another two decades . </P>

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