Football League Division One
9 March 1895 |
Team |
P
|
Pts |
Sunderland |
26 |
39 |
Aston Villa |
26 |
35 |
Everton |
24 |
35 |
Sheffield
United |
28 |
30 |
Blackburn Rovers |
26 |
28 |
Preston North End |
26 |
28 |
Nottingham Forest |
24 |
28 |
Burnley |
23 |
26 |
The Wednesday |
23 |
25 |
Wolverhampton Wanderers |
26 |
22 |
Small
Heath |
25 |
20 |
Liverpool |
25 |
19 |
West Bromwich Albion |
25 |
19 |
Bolton Wanderers |
25 |
18 |
Derby County |
24 |
15 |
Stoke |
24 |
13 |
Division One
matches played on 9 March 1895:
SHEFFIELD UNITED 4-0 SUNDERLAND
Docherty, Watson 2, Davies
8,000 (Bramall Lane, Sheffield)
United were without Rab Howell, who scored for England
against Ireland at Derby.
SMALL HEATH v. THE WEDNESDAY
MATCH POSTPONED - WATERLOGGED PITCH
(Coventry Road, Birmingham)
Wednesday would have been without Tommy Crawshaw,
who was playing for England against Ireland at Derby.
STOKE 1-2 WEST BROMWICH ALBION
Hyslop (Green, Hutchison)
MATCH ABANDONED AFTER 70 MINUTES - WATERLOGGED PITCH
(victoria Ground, Stoke)
Stoke were without Schofield and Turner, who were playing
for England against Ireland at Derby, as was West Brom's Billy Bassett,
who scored.
Although Sunderland suffered their heaviest defeat
of the season, and they lost the FA Cup semi-final to Aston Villa, the
following week, they won all of their remaining league games to regain
the Championship for the third time in four years.
Football League Division Two
9 March 1895 |
Team |
P
|
Pts |
Bury |
24 |
41 |
Notts County |
25 |
32 |
Darwen |
23 |
31 |
Newton Heath |
22 |
30 |
Grimsby Town |
23 |
30 |
Leicester
Fosse |
24 |
27 |
Woolwich
Arsenal |
25 |
27 |
Burton
Wanderers |
23 |
25 |
Manchester
City |
23 |
24 |
Newcastle
United |
24 |
23 |
Burton Swifts |
24 |
21 |
Rotherham Town |
26 |
20 |
Lincoln City |
23 |
16 |
Walsall Town
Swifts |
21 |
12 |
Burslem Port
Vale |
25 |
10 |
Crewe
Alexandra |
23 |
9 |
Division Two matches played on
9 March 1895:
BURTON
WANDERERS 4-0 BURSLEM PORT VALE
Rose 2, Capes, Garfield
1,000 (Derby Turn,
Burton)
CREWE
ALEXANDRA 2-1 NEWCASTLE UNITED
Barnett, o.g. (Hedley)
2,000 (Alexandra Recreation Ground, Crewe)
DARWEN
4-3 ROTHERHAM TOWN
Watson, Bailey, McKennie, McAvoy (nk,
Coupar)
2,000 (Barley Bank, Darwen)
GRIMSBY
TOWN 7-1 BURTON SWIFTS
Eccleston, McCairns 2, Rose, Frost,
Fletcher 2 (Birch)
2,000 (Abbey Park, Grimsby)
MANCHESTER CITY 7-1 NOTTS COUNTY
Rowan, Meredith, Finnerhan 2, McReddie, Sharples, Walker Pen. (Bruce)
7,000 (Hyde Road, Manchester)
NEWTON
HEATH 14-0 WALSALL TOWN SWIFTS
Donaldson, Smith 6, Cassidy 3, Peters, Clarkin, nk
(Bank Street, Manchester)
WOOLWICH
ARSENAL 3-3 LEICESTER FOSSE
Mortimer, Sharpe, O'Brien (nk)
3,000 (Lyttelton Ground, London)
Notts
County's hopes of catching Bury at the top of the Second Division were
all but extinguished by a ruthless Manchester City, who included a
twenty-year-old Welshman called Billy Meredith in their list of scorers.
Incredibly, he played his last match for City in the FA Cup semi-final,
29 years later, before retiring at the age of 49! Newton Heath's
incredible victory was declared void when Walsall's protest about the
state of the pitch was upheld. They returned to Manchester, the
following month, and promptly lost 9-0.
IN OTHER NEWS...
Scotland defeated
England, 6-3, at Richmond, to win the rugby union triple crown and their
third successive Calcutta Cup.
It was on 9 March 1895
that an inquest returned the verdict that 39-year-old, Frank Taylor, of
Tooting had murdered his wife and six of his seven children by cutting
their throats with a razor, two days earlier. He had then cut his own
throat and died on the way to hospital. His eldest child, 15-year-old,
Frank Junior, survived by fighting off his father's frenzied attack and
then escaping from the house with blood pouring from a neck wound. Notes
found in the house indicated that Frank Senior had been planning the
murders for a few days after a period in which he had been struggling to
find work to feed his family.