Tottenham Hotspur F.C. blue shorts since the 1898–99 season. The club's emblem is a cockerel standing upon a football, with a Latin motto "Audere est Facere" ("To Dare Is to Do"). Founded in 1882, Tottenham won the FA Cup for the first time in 1901, the only non-League club to do so since the formation of the Football League in 1888. Tottenham were the first club in the 20th century to achieve the League and FA Cup Double, winning both competitions in the 1960–61 season. After successfully defending the FA Cup in 1962, in 1963 they became the first British club to win
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