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Match No. 29 vs. Ireland Match No. 31 vs. Scotland Match Results


England National Football Team Match No. 30

England 4 Wales 0 [1-0]

Saturday, 26 February 1887

Match Summary and Report

Match Summary and Report Team Records England Pre-Match Wales Pre-Match

 

Match Summary
Status: British (Home) Championship (4th) International, match three;
Venue: The Surrey Cricket Ground, The Oval, Kennington, London;
Attendance: 4,500
Goals: England - Jack Powell, 14th minute own-goal, [some sources state that this was a Nevill Cobbold goal];
England - Tinsley Lindley, 55th minute;
England - Nevill Cobbold, 75th minute;
England - Tinsley Lindley, 80th minute;
Cautions: None.
Expulsions: None.
Officials: Referee - Thomas Devlin, Scotland;
Umpires -
Notes: Umpires and Referees are of equal relevance.
Conditions: not known.
Notes: Wales had lost three players before the match, which had to be replaced. Jack Powell replaced his brother Albert, Tom Burke replaced Robert Roberts, and Bill Turner replaced Tom Bryan.
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England Team
Ranking:

No official ranking system established; 2nd in Elo world ranking both before and after this match.
Equal first with Scotland in the British Championship table before and first after this match.
Colours: -
Coach: None; team selection by the Football Association Committee following trial games
Captain: Norman Bailey, 14th of 15 captaincies.

England Lineup
Player Birthdate Age Pos Club App G Career
-Arthur, W. J. Herbert 14-Feb-1863 24 G Blackburn Rovers FC 7 4 GA 1885-1887
-Walters, Percy M. 30-Sep-1863 23 RB Old Carthusians FC & Corinthians FC 6 0 1885-1890
-Walters, Arthur M. 26-Jan-1865 22 LB Cambridge University FC, Old Carthusians FC & Corinthians FC 4 0 1885-1890
-Haworth, George 17-Oct-1864 22 RH Accrington FC 2 0 1887-1890
-Bailey, Norman C. 23-Jul-1857 29 CH

Clapham Rovers FC & Corinthians FC

 18 1 1878-1887
-Forrest, James H. 24-Jun-1864 22 LH

Blackburn Rovers FC

 8 0 1884-1890
-Lofthouse, Joseph M. 14-Apr-1865 21 OR Blackburn Rovers FC 4 0 1885-1890
-Dewhurst, Frederick 16-Dec-1863 23 IR

Preston North End FC & Corinthians FC

 4 4 1886-1889
-Cobbold W. Nevill 04-Feb-1863 24 CF

Old Carthusians FC & Corinthians FC

 8 6 1883-1887
-Lindley, Tinsley 27-Oct-1865 21 IL

Nottingham Forest FC, Cambridge University FC & Corinthians FC

 5 7 1886-1891
-Bambridge, E. Charles 30-Jul-1858 28 OL

Swifts FC & Corinthians FC

 17 11 1879-1887
Formation:

not known.

not known.

Wales Team
Ranking:

No official ranking system established; 5th in Elo world ranking both before and after this match.
Unplayed in the British Championship table before and third after this match.
Colours: -
Coach: None;
Captain: Humphrey Jones;

Wales Lineup
Player Birthdate Age Pos Club App G Career
-Mills-Roberts, Dr Robert H. 05-Aug-1862 24 G

St. Thomas' Hospital, London, & Corinthians FC, England

 5 24 GA 1885-1892
-Davies, Alfred O. NK B

Swifts FC, England

 4 0 1885-1890
-Powell, John NK B

Newton Heath FC, England

 11 0 1878-1888
-Burke, Thomas early-1864 20/21 HB

Newton Heath FC, England

 6 0 1883-1887
-Jones, Humphrey NK B

Queen's Park FC, Scotland

 7 0 1885-1891
-Evelyn, Edward C. NK F

Crusaders FC, England

 1 0 1887
-Owen, William NK F

Chirk FC

 3 1 1884-1893
-Challen, John B. 26-Mar-1863 23 F

Corinthians FC, England

 1 0 1887-1890
-Wilding, Job NK F

Bootle FC, England

 6 1 1885-1892
-Lewis, William circa 1864 22/23 F

Bangor FC

 4 2 1885-1898
-Turner, William H. NK F

Wrecsam AFC

 1 0 1887-1891
Formation:

not known.

not known.

Match Report

Dr. Robert Mills-Roberts apparently played in this match with both his wrists in plaster.  He was club secretary of St. Thomas Hospital.

Source Notes

 

Sources

Cris Freddi: Football Historian
Welsh Football Data Archive
TheFA.com
FreeBMD.org.uk
Rothmans Yearbooks
IFFHS.de

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