Football League Division One
5 March 1898 |
Team |
P
|
Pts |
Sheffield
United |
26 |
36 |
Sunderland |
25 |
33 |
The Wednesday |
25 |
29 |
Aston Villa |
24 |
28 |
West Bromwich Albion |
22 |
28 |
Everton |
23 |
27 |
Wolverhampton Wanderers |
24 |
26 |
Nottingham Forest |
21 |
24 |
Derby County |
24 |
22 |
Blackburn Rovers |
23 |
20 |
Bolton Wanderers |
23 |
19 |
Liverpool |
22 |
18 |
Preston North End |
25 |
18 |
Stoke |
26 |
18 |
Notts County |
24 |
17 |
Bury |
21 |
15 |
Division One
matches played on 5 March 1898:
ASTON VILLA 4-1 DERBY COUNTY
Smith, Fisher, Sharp 2 (Boag)
11,900 (Villa Park, Birmingham)
Villa
were without Athersmith (who scored, what turned out to be, the winning
goal) and Wheldon, who were playing for England in Belfast, whilst Derby
were without Jimmy Turner, who was also playing in Belfast.
EVERTON
4-2 BURY
Divers, L.Bell, Chadwick, J.Bell (Cust, Wilson)
12,000 (Goodison Park,
Liverpool)
NOTTS COUNTY 0-0 BLACKBURN ROVERS
6,000 (Trent Bridge,
Nottingham)
PRESTON NORTH END 0-0 STOKE
6,000 (Deepdale, Preston)
SUNDERLAND 3-1 SHEFFIELD UNITED
Howell o.g., Wilson, Leslie (Cunningham)
24,000 (Newcastle Road, Sunderland)
Sheffield United were without Tom Morren, who scored England's equaliser
in Belfast.
THE WEDNESDAY 2-0 WOLVERHAMPTON WANDERERS
Brady 2
5,000 (Olive Grove, Sheffield)
All eyes were on Sunderland, where a capacity
crowd saw the hosts close the gap on their opponents to three points,
with a game in hand. Sunderland were forced to switch to white shirts
when Sheffield United turned up in red and white stripes, and then
Sunderland had to lend their own red and white stripes to them, so that
United could wear dry shirts for the second half.
Football League Division Two
5 March 1898 |
Team |
P
|
Pts |
Burnley |
23 |
40 |
Newcastle
United |
23 |
34 |
Manchester
City |
22 |
31 |
Woolwich Arsenal |
23 |
28 |
Small
Heath |
22 |
27 |
Luton Town |
22 |
25 |
Newton Heath |
21 |
24 |
Leicester
Fosse |
22 |
22 |
Walsall |
26 |
22 |
Gainsborough Trinity |
20 |
21 |
Grimsby Town |
23 |
19 |
Blackpool |
22 |
14 |
Burton Swifts |
22 |
14 |
Lincoln City |
25 |
14 |
Darwen |
23 |
14 |
Loughborough |
21 |
11 |
Division Two matches played on
5 March 1898:
BURTON SWIFTS 0-2 BURNLEY
(Toman, Ross)
4,000 (Peel Croft, Burton)
DARWEN 1-3 NEWCASTLE UNITED
Sugden (Peddie 3)
2,000 (Barley Bank,
Darwen)
GAINSBOROUGH TRINITY 4-0 LOUGHBOROUGH
Raby 2, Scott, Wigmore
3,500 (The Northolme, Gainsborough)
GRIMSBY
TOWN
1-2 WALSALL
Goldie (Copeland, Griffin)
2,000 (Abbey Park, Grimsby)
LINCOLN
CITY 1-4 LEICESTER FOSSE
Fletcher (McLeod, McMillan, Dorrell, Keech)
2,000 (Sincil Bank, Lincoln)
WOOLWICH ARSENAL 4-2 SMALL HEATH
Hannah 3,1 pen., White (Hare, Oakes)
8,000 (Manor Ground, London)
Burnley maintained their six-point cushion at the top and were closing
in on a test match place in their attempt to win promotion straight back
to the First Division, following the previous year's relegation.
IN OTHER NEWS...
It was on 6 March 1898 that
Felice Cavallotti, the 55-year-old leader of the Italian Extreme Radical
party was killed in a duel with the 36-year-old editor of a newspaper,
Count Ferruccio Macola in Rome, when the sword was thrust into his mouth
and throat. It was Cavallotti's 33rd duel and he had never killed anyone
himself. Macola was sentenced to 13 months in prison. He was said to
have been full of remorse and committed suicide in 1910.