Match Summary

Wales Team

England Team

The Welsh eleven were completely outclassed at Cardiff yesterday, and England beat them by nine goals to one. This is the severest defeat Wales have experienced in the 18 years of the match ; but the heavy score in no way exaggerated the greater merits of the Englishmen. The forwards were a splendid lot, and combined brilliantly, and were well-supported by the judicious manner in which the halves placed the ball for them...

At an early period of the game the better football of the Englishmen made itself felt, and after G. O. Smith had opened the scoring, the visitors began to build up a heavy record. Bassett, Goodall, and G. O. Smith were brilliant in their game near goal, and were mostly responsible for the increase of the English score to five goals to none before half time. England had to face the wind in the second period, but their skill always prevailed ; and they obtained four more goals to one by Wales, so that in the end England won by nine goals to one.

This was England's 14th win to two by Wales, while two matches have been drawn. The goal aggregate is 64 to 18. - The Times - Tuesday 17th March, 1896

 

Football League Division One 16 March 1896
Team	P	Pts
Aston Villa	27	41
Derby County	25	36
Everton	26	35
Sunderland	27	31
Bolton Wanderers	25	30
Stoke	25	26
The Wednesday	26	25
Blackburn Rovers	23	24
Preston North End	26	24
Sheffield United	26	23
Burnley	26	22
Nottingham Forest	24	21
Bury	23	20
Small Heath	24	16
Wolverhampton Wanderers	25	15
West Bromwich Albion	26	15

 

Division One match played on 16 March 1896:

BURNLEY 2-0 STOKE
Clawley o.g., Robertson
 1,500 (Turf Moor, Burnley)

Burnley had put four goals past Stoke in January without reply, when the game was abandoned because of fog with only 16 minutes remaining, so they would have felt that justice had prevailed. Their request that the original result should stand had been rejected and the game was thus replayed.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Football League Division Two 16 March 1896
Team	P	Pts
Liverpool	27	41
Manchester City	26	41
Burton Wanderers	25	36
Grimsby Town	25	33
Newcastle United	24	28
Woolwich Arsenal	26	27
Newton Heath	24	27
Leicester Fosse	23	24
Darwen	25	24
Burton Swifts	26	24
Notts County	25	20
Lincoln City	25	18
Rotherham Town	27	17
Burslem Port Vale	21	13
Loughborough	23	12
Crewe Alexandra	24	11

 

Division Two match played on 16 March 1896:

ROTHERHAM TOWN 2-2 LINCOLN CITY
300 (Clifton Grove, Rotherham)

This was the last point secured by Rotherham Town as a football club. They lost their three remaining fixtures and then chose not to apply for re-election to the Football League at the end of the season. The club folded shortly afterwards.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

IN OTHER NEWS...

It was on 16 March 1896 that 63-year-old William Cromwell, of Birkenshaw in Yorkshire was sentenced to death for the murder of his next-door neighbour, Sarah Baxendale (70), with an axe, following a long-running argument over the use of a communal well. Cromwell, at first, fled the scene, but as a crowd approached his house looking for retribution, he gave himself up to the village constable. His victim clung to life for almost four weeks, before finally succumbing to her injuries.

Source Notes

The venue of Cardiff Arms Park was chosen when the Welsh Selection Committee chose their team to face Ireland on Wednseday, 19 February 1896.

Welsh Football Data Archive
Original newspaper reports 
Rothmans Yearbooks
FA Yearbooks 1950-60
Ancestry.com
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