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Match No. 34 vs. Ireland Match No. 36 vs. Ireland Match Results


England National Football Team Match No. 35

England 4 Wales 1 [1-1]

Saturday, 23 February 1889

Match Summary and Report

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

 

Match Summary
Status: British (Home) Championship (6th) International, match one;
Venue: Victoria Ground, Stoke-Upon-Trent
Attendance: 6,000;
Goals: Goodall, Dewhurst, Southworth, Bassett
Owen
Cautions: None.
Expulsions: None.
Officials: Referee -
Umpires -
Notes: Umpires and Referees are of equal relevance.
Conditions: -
Miscellany: -
Notes: Both David Weir (Bolton Wanderers FC) and Alf Shelton (Notts County FC) withdrew from the line-up, replaced by William Betts and Arthur Lowder respectively.
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England Team
Ranking:

No official ranking system established; x in Elo world ranking both before and after this match.

Colours: -
Coach: -
Captain: Percy Walters, 2nd of four captaincies;
Notes: A small minority list the captain as Arthur Walters.

England Lineup
Player Birthdate Age Pos Club App G Career
-Moon, William R. 27-Jun-1868 20 G

Old Westminsters FC & Corinthians FC

 3 2 GA 1888-1891
-Walters, Percy M. 30-Sep-1863 25 RB Old Carthusians FC & Corinthians FC 10 0 1885-1890
-Walters, Arthur M. 26-Jan-1865 24 LB Old Carthusians FC & Corinthians FC 6 0 1885-1890
-Fletcher - - RH

-

 - - -
- - - CH

-

 - - -
-Betts - - LH

-

 - - -
-Bassett, William I. 27-Jan-1869 20 OR West Bromwich Albion FC 2 1 1888-1896
-Goodall, John 19-Jun-1863 25 IR Preston North End FC 3 2 1888-1898
-Southworth - - CF

-

 - - -
-Dewhurst, Frederick 16-Dec-1863 25 IL

Preston North End FC & Corinthians FC

 9 12 1886-1889
-Townley - - OL

-

 - - -
Formation:

-

-

Wales Team
Ranking:

No official ranking system established; x in Elo world ranking both before and after this match.

Colours: -
Coach: -
Captain: -

Wales Lineup
Player Birthdate Age Pos Club App G Career
- - - -

-

 - - -
- - - -

-

 - - -
-Roberts, Robert NK NK B

Bolton Wanderers FC, England

 6 0 1884-1892
- - - -

-

 - - -
-Jones, Humphrey NK NK B

East Stirlingshire FC, Scotland

 8 0 1885-1891
- - - -

-

 - - -
- - - -

-

 - - -
-Owen, William NK NK F

Chirk FC

 5 2 1884-1893
-Lewis, William circa 1864 24/25 F

Bangor FC

 7 2 1885-1898
- - - -

-

 - - -
- - - -

-

 - - -
Formation:

-

-

Match Report

 

Source Notes

 

Sources

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

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