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Yes, quite possible. I don't think there was a laid-down structure back then - some clubs will have run teams in their local county league, or in other leagues, such as the Metropolitan League you quote. I suspect too that things changed over the years - divisions 3(S) and 3(N) may have plodded...

Going back (50s and 60s) clubs often had more than two teams - first XI, reserves, the 'A' team and the 'B' team, etc. I remember Bournemouth having a couple of teams (they named them Boscombe A and Boscombe B) in divisions 1 and 2 of the Hampshire (county) league, so it's quite possible that...