Football League Division One
7 March 1896 |
Team |
P
|
Pts |
Aston Villa |
26 |
39 |
Derby County |
24 |
36 |
Everton |
26 |
35 |
Sunderland |
26 |
31 |
Bolton Wanderers |
24 |
28 |
The Wednesday |
25 |
25 |
Stoke |
23 |
24 |
Blackburn Rovers |
23 |
24 |
Preston North End |
25 |
24 |
Nottingham Forest |
24 |
21 |
Sheffield
United |
25 |
21 |
Burnley |
25 |
20 |
Bury |
22 |
18 |
Small
Heath |
24 |
16 |
Wolverhampton Wanderers |
25 |
15 |
West Bromwich Albion |
25 |
15 |
Division One
matches played on 7 March 1896:
BOLTON
WANDERERS 2-2 ASTON VILLA
Wright, Cassidy (Devey 2)
15,000 (Burnden Park, Bolton)
Villa were without Jimmy Crabtree, who was
playing for England in Belfast.
EVERTON 3-2
PRESTON NORTH END
Boyle, Milward, Hartley (Stevenson, Blyth)
12,000 (Goodison Parl, Liverpool)
Everton were without Edgar Chadwick, who was
playing for England in Belfast.
NOTTINGHAM FOREST
2-1 BURNLEY
Richards, Carnelly (Nicol)
5,000 (Town Ground, Nottingham)
SHEFFIELD UNITED 1-1 BLACKBURN ROVERS
Hammond (Turnbull)
5,000 (Bramall Lane, Sheffield)
SMALL HEATH 1-0 BURY
Haddon
5,000 (Coventry Road, Birmingham)
SUNDERLAND 2-1 THE WEDNESDAY
Cowan, Hannah (Langley)
6,000 (Newcastle Road, Sunderland)
Wednesday were without Crawshaw and Spiksley, who
were playing for England in Belfast.
WOLVERHAMPTON WANDERERS 1-2 WEST BROMWICH ALBION
Malpass (W.Richards, Flewitt)
8,114 (Molineux, Wolverhampton)
West Brom were without Billy Bassett, who was
playing for England in Belfast.
Aston Villa fought back from a two-goal deficit at
Bolton to maintain their slender lead at the top of the Championship,
but the dropped point gave Derby renewed hope that they could catch
them.
Football League Division Two
7 March 1896 |
Team |
P
|
Pts |
Liverpool |
27 |
41 |
Manchester
City |
25 |
39 |
Burton
Wanderers |
25 |
36 |
Grimsby Town |
24 |
31 |
Newton Heath |
23 |
27 |
Newcastle
United |
23 |
26 |
Woolwich
Arsenal |
25 |
26 |
Leicester
Fosse |
23 |
24 |
Darwen |
24 |
23 |
Burton Swifts |
25 |
22 |
Notts County |
24 |
20 |
Lincoln City |
23 |
17 |
Rotherham Town |
25 |
14 |
Burslem Port
Vale |
20 |
13 |
Loughborough |
22 |
12 |
Crewe
Alexandra |
24 |
11 |
Division Two matches played on
7 March 1896:
BURSLEM
PORT VALE 1-1 LEICESTER FOSSE
Beckett (Morse o.g.)
1,500 (Athletic Ground, Stoke)
BURTON
WANDERERS 2-1 LIVERPOOL
Devey, Capes
(Allan)
2,000 (Derby Turn, Burton)
CREWE
ALEXANDRA 0-1 GRIMSBY TOWN
(Higgins)
4,000 (Alexandra Recreation Ground, Crewe)
LINCOLN
CITY 1-0 DARWEN
Burke
3,000 (Sincil Bank, Lincoln)
LOUGHBOROUGH 1-0 NEWCASTLE UNITED
Rose
2,000 (Athletic Ground, Loughborough)
MANCHESTER CITY 1-1 BURTON SWIFTS
Robertson (Dewey)
9,000 (Hyde Road, Manchester)
ROTHERHAM TOWN 2-3 NEWTON HEATH
Cutts, McCormick (Smith, Donaldson, Kennedy)
3,000 (Clifton Grove, Rotherham)
WOOLWICH
ARSENAL 2-0 NOTTS COUNTY
Jenkyns, Haywood
5,000 (Manor Ground, London)
Manchester City failed to take full advantage of Liverpool's slip-up,
but they still closed the gap at the top to two points, with two games
in hand.
IN OTHER NEWS...
It was on 7 March 1896
that two people were killed when a train carriage was derailed as it
approached Little Bytham Station in Lincolnshire. The subsequent inquiry
was presided over by Major Francis Marandin, who had played in the first
FA Cup Final, then refereed eight finals whilst President of the
Football Association and was now the Senior Inspector of Railways. His
report into the tragedy recommended the introduction of a number of
safety features, such as delaying the re-opening of the track to express
trains following its relaying, until it had been fully ballasted, or to
open it under restrictive conditions using flagmen until the completion
of the work.