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Match
Summary |
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 Officials |
Wa |
les |
Type |
England |
Referee -
Thomas Robertson
37
(1 December
1864),
Torrance, Stirlingshire, Scotland Football Association
Linesmen -
not known
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Goal Attempts |
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Attempts on Target |
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Hit Bar/Post |
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Corner Kicks Won |
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Offside Calls Against |
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The 1901 International Association Football
Board meeting:
eighteen-yard line mark added
substitute
goalkeepers |
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Fouls Conceded |
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Possession |
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 Wales
Team |
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Rank: |
No official ranking system established;
ELO rating
7th |
Colours: |
Green/white halved shirts and black shorts. |
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Capt: |
William Jones |
Selectors: |
Team
selection chosen by Committee, on Monday, 24 February 1902. |
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Wales
Lineup |
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Roose, Leigh R. |
24 |
27 November 1877 |
G |
Stoke FC, England |
5 |
7 GA |
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Meredith, Samuel |
29 |
5 September 1872 |
RB |
Stoke FC, England |
5 |
0 |
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Morris, Charles R. |
21 |
29 August 1880
Born in Oswestry,
Shropshire |
LB |
Derby County FC, England |
7 |
0 |
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Parry, Maurice P. |
24 |
7 November 1877 |
RH |
Liverpool FC, England |
5 |
0 |
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Jones, John L. |
35/36 |
early 1866 |
CH |
Tottenham Hotspur FC, England |
17 |
0 |
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Jones, William J. |
25/26 |
1876 |
LH |
West Ham United FC, England |
3 |
0 |
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Meredith, William H. |
27 |
30 July 1874 |
OR |
Manchester City, England |
15 |
6 |
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Watkins, W. Martin |
21 |
summer 1880 |
IR |
Stoke FC, England |
1 |
0 |
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Parry, Thomas D. |
21/22 |
early 1880
Born in Oswestry, Shropshire |
CF |
Oswestry FC |
7 |
3 |
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Williams, Ephraim |
24 |
winter 1877 |
IL |
Druids FC |
5 |
0 |
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Morris, Richard |
23 |
1 January 1879*
according
to Liverpool FC |
OL |
Druids FC |
2 |
0 |
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reserves: |
reserves not known |
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team notes: |
Tottenham Hotspur FC's Edward Hughes and Manchester City FC's Richard
Jones were due to play, their places went to Bill Jones and Tom Parry.
Sam and Billy Meredith, as well as Tom and Maurice Parry, were brothers. Charlie and
Bobby Morris were the third set of brothers, born on the English side of
the Welsh border. |
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2-3-5 |
Roose -
S.Meredith, C.Morris
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Parry, J.Jones, W.Jones
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W.Meredith, Watkins, Parry, Williams,
R.Morris. |
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Averages: |
Age |
24.9-25.2 |
Appearances/Goals |
6.5 |
0.8 |
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flg.jpg) England
Team |
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Rank: |
No official ranking system established;
ELO rating
1st |
Colours: |
White jerseys and navy blue knickerbockers |
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Capt: |
Tip Foster, first captaincy |
Selectors: |
The seven-man
FA
International Selection Committee, on Monday, 24 February 1902 at The
Crystal Palace, following
the North vs. South trial match.
43rd match, W 32 - D 7 - L 4 - F 166 - A 39. |
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England
Lineup |
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George, William |
27 |
29 June 1874 |
G |
Aston Villa FC |
1 |
0
GA |
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Crompton, Robert |
22 |
26 September 1879 |
RB |
Blackburn Rovers FC |
1 |
0 |
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Crabtree, James W. |
30 |
23 December 1871 |
LB |
Aston Villa FC |
14 |
0 |
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Wilkes,
Albert |
26 |
6 September 1875 |
RH |
Aston Villa FC |
3 |
0 |
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Abbott, Walter |
24 |
7 December 1877 |
CH |
Everton FC |
1 |
0 |
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Needham, Ernest |
29 |
21 January 1873 |
LH |
Sheffield United FC |
16 |
3 |
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Hogg, William |
22 |
29 May 1879 |
OR |
Sunderland AFC |
1 |
0 |
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Bloomer, Stephen |
28 |
20 January 1874 |
IR |
Derby County FC |
15 |
25 |
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Sagar, Charles |
23 |
28 March 1878 |
CF |
Bury FC |
2 |
1 |
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Foster, Reginald E. |
23 |
16 April 1878 |
IL |
Old Malvernians AFC &
Corinthians FC |
5 |
2 |
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Lipsham, Herbert B. |
23 |
29 April 1878 |
OL |
Sheffield United FC |
1 |
0 |
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reserves: |
reserves not known |
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team notes: |
Nottingham Forest FC's
Frank Forman was named in the original line-up, he was replaced by
Portsmouth FC's
Arthur Chadwick. Unfortunately, he was unable to travel up in time
for the match, so his place went to Walter Abbott.
This is the
first time in 52 matches (March 1884) that England have failed to
score. |
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2-3-5 |
George -
Crompton, Crabtree -
Wilkes, Abbott, Needham -
Hogg, Bloomer, Sagar, Foster, Lipsham. |
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Averages: |
Age |
25.2 |
Appearances/Goals |
5.5 |
2.7 |
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Match Report |
At Wrexham yesterday, Wales had a
better team than for many years past, and they drew with England, not a
goal being scored. Had luck favoured the Welshmen they might well have
won, as, indeed, they deserved to, for they had distinctly the larger
share of the play, but the uneven turf on the Wrexham Racecourse, which
is practically in furrows, was all against accurate shooting...
The fine play of the home team
greatly delighted 10,000 spectators, the biggest crowd ever attracted to
an international match in Wales.
- The Times - Tuesday 4th
March, 1902
At the end of half-an-hour's
play one of the spectators, hungering perhaps for the stimulating hubbub
that usually accompanies Saturday afternoon football, appealed for a
livelier entertainment. "Now then, you English players with big names,"
he shouted, "do something to wake up this crowd or we shall hear pins
dropping." "Something" was "done" immediately afterwards, and the crowd
awakened from its lethargy to enjoy the tension of excitement over a
penalty kick. One of the Welsh players fouled Sagar within the twelve
yards line, and the ball was placed for Needham to kick it. Penalty
kicks are a good tonic for sluggishness. The chances are so greatly in
favour of the kicker. And when he is magnificently frustrated by a
goalkeeper who stops the ball as cleverly as Roose did to-day there is
really something worth shouting about.
- The Manchester Guardian -
Tuesday 4th March, 1902
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IN OTHER NEWS...
It was on 3 March
1902 that the smallpox epidemic continued with 1,335 reported cases. 53%
of deaths from smallpox in 1902 in England and Wales were in London.
Source Notes
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Welsh Football Data Archive
Original newspaper reports
Rothmans Yearbooks
FA Yearbooks 1950-60
Ancestry.com
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