Fuller Hamlets Wanderers Team Names Origins

The Wanderers team names are from the first Hamlet team names. Back in early 1970’s the first Fuller Hamlets teams played their 6 vs. 6 games on what is now the entrance to the parking lot on Fuller Field. The 14 houses in the community were divided into four team groups. The small Hamlets on Fuller Road, Mendon Road, and Hartford (Central) Turnpike became the basis of each teams name. Each team had a “banner” made and proudly displayed them for each game.
The names were Fuller Whalers –who soon became Mendon (Roaders) Rovers, Kattor’s Killers (near Kattor’s Pond) now Kattor’s Kickers, and Hartford Tigers (on Hartford Turnpike) and Fuller Mosquitoes (from the swamp next to Fuller Field).

Where the Fuller Hamlets name developed from is best explained from an excerpt from Martyn Bowden’s book Hamlets.

‘We liked the name (Fuller Mosquitoes – a comment on the problem of living on lower Fuller Road alongside a sluggish marshy brook) but needed something to include the other three groups of houses and their teams. It dawned on me that we had four small clusters of 3 to 4 houses each of which, in England would constitute a hamlet (Oxford English Dictionary - - - “a group of houses or small village in the country, especially without a church”). There was an amateur team in London whose name had always fascinated me called Dulwich Hamlets. Furthermore, before the Industrial Revolution, Everton had been a hamlet five miles from Liverpool, and there was a borough created in London in the area around the Tower of London and Tower Bridge called Tower Hamlets. So we called the team FULLER HAMLETS.’

It was from these “hamlets “ that the Fuller Hamlets derived their name. As interest in soccer increased throughout the town of Sutton more soccer hamlets within the town were recognized. The name which started thirty plus years ago has remained since.

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