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Monday,
29 February 1904
Home International Championship 1903-04
(21st) Match
Wales 2 England 2
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Match
Summary
Wales Party
England Party
Team Records |
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The Racecourse,
Mold Road, Wrexham, Denbighshire
Attendance:
9,000;
Kick-off
tbc |
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Wales-
Mart Watkins ('scored
from a Billy Meredith centre' 15),
Lloyd Davies ('from a corner, Davies hooked it past
Baddeley' 75)
England - George Davis ('a stinging shot from a
Leake centre' 68),
Joe Bache ('put in a shot, going in off Parry's shoulder' 77)
The Daily Telegraph, The Courier and
The Lancashire Advertiser state George Davis scored England's first
equalising goal, not Alf Common. |
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Results 1901-14 |
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England won the toss, Wales
kicked-off. |
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Match
Summary |
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 Officials |
Wales |
Type |
England |
Referee -
Thomas Robertson
39 (1 December
1864),
Torrance, Stirlingshire, Scotland Football Association
Linesmen -
A. Davis, Marlow, and A. Thomas, Druids
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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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The 1903 International Football Association Board meeting:
further alterations in the Laws of the Game,
including the offside rule and the indirect free kick rule. |
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Offside Calls Against |
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Fouls Conceded |
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Possession |
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The Racecourse Ground was covered in frost, and although the sunshine had
thawed the surface, it could not penetrate any depth. The majority of the
Welsh wore rubber soles, the English wore metal pins under their boots, and
were constantly slipping over. |
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 Wales
Team |
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Rank: |
No official ranking system established;
ELO rating
11th |
Colours: |
"... and the Welshmen red shirts and white knickers." |
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Capt: |
John Jones |
Selectors: |
Team
selection chosen by Committee, on Monday, 15 February 1904; |
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Wales
Lineup |
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Roose, Leigh R. |
26 |
27 November 1877 |
G |
Stoke FC, England |
7 |
14 GA |
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Played the second half with a broken finger |
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Meredith, Samuel |
31 |
5 September 1872 |
RB |
Stoke FC, England |
7 |
0 |
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Blew, Horace E. |
26 |
January 1878 |
LB |
Wrexham AFC |
8 |
0 |
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Parry, Maurice P. |
26 |
7 November 1877 |
RH |
Liverpool FC, England |
9 |
0 |
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Hughes, Edward |
27/28 |
1876 |
CH |
Tottenham Hotspur FC, England |
6 |
0 |
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Jones, John L. |
37/38 |
early 1866 |
LH |
Tottenham Hotspur FC, England |
19 |
0 |
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Meredith, William H. |
29 |
30 July 1874 |
OR |
Manchester City, England |
20 |
6 |
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Atherton, Robert |
27 |
29 July 1876 |
IR |
Middlesbrough FC, England |
6 |
0 |
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Watkins, W. Martin |
23 |
summer 1880 |
CF |
Aston Villa FC, England |
4 |
2 |
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Morris, Richard |
25 |
1 January 1879*
according
to Liverpool FC |
IL |
Liverpool FC, England |
6 |
0 |
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Davies, Lloyd L. |
27 |
23 February 1877 |
OL |
Stoke FC, England |
1 |
1 |
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reserves: |
reserves not known |
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team notes: |
The original line-up included Derby County FC's Charlie Morris, who
was granted permission to play in the FA Cup semi-final (he was
replaced by Blew), Nottingham Forest FC's Grenville Morris and Thomas
Jones, as well as Notts County FC's William Green.
Lloyd is the
fourth and final of the Davies' brothers to play for Wales against
England, following Bob in 1885 and 1892, Joe in 1888-93 and Tommy in
1903.
Sam and Billy Meredith were brothers.
This is both the
oldest and most experienced team to face England thus far. |
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2-3-5 |
Roose -
S.Meredith, Blew -
Parry,
Hughes, Jones -
W.Meredith, Atherton, Watkins,
Morris, Davies. |
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Averages: |
Age |
27.6-8 |
Appearances/Goals |
8.5 |
0.6 |
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flg.jpg) England
Team |
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Rank: |
No official ranking system established;
ELO rating
1st to 2nd |
Colours: |
"The Englishmen wore white shirts and
blue knickers..." |
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Capt: |
Bob Crompton, third captaincy |
Selectors: |
The seven-man
FA
International Selection Committee, on Tuesday, 9 February 1904 at 104
High Holborn, alongside the FA Cup second round draw.
49th match, W 35 - D 9 - L 5 - F 178 - A 46. |
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England
Lineup |
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Baddeley,
Thomas |
29 |
30 October 1874 |
G |
Wolverhampton Wanderers FC |
3 |
3
GA |
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Crompton, Robert |
24 |
26 September
1879 |
RB |
Blackburn Rovers FC |
6 |
0 |
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Burgess, Herbert |
23 |
25 February 1881 |
LB |
Manchester City FC |
1 |
0 |
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Lee, E. Albert |
24 |
19 August
1879 |
RH |
Southampton FC |
1 |
0 |
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Crawshaw, Thomas H. |
31 |
28 December 1872 |
CH |
The
Wednesday FC |
9 |
1 |
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Ruddlesdin, Herod |
27 |
9 June 1876 |
LH |
The
Wednesday FC |
1 |
0 |
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Brawn, William F. |
25 |
1 August 1878 |
OR |
Aston Villa FC |
1 |
0 |
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Common, Alfred |
23 |
25 May 1880 |
IR |
Sheffield United FC |
1 |
0 |
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Brown, Arthur S. |
18 |
6 April 1885 |
CF |
Sheffield United FC |
1 |
0 |
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Bache, Joseph W. |
24 |
8 February 1880 |
IL |
Aston Villa FC |
2 |
2 |
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Davis, George H. |
22 |
5 June 1881 |
OL |
Derby County FC |
1 |
1 |
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reserves: |
Steve Bloomer (Derby County FC) |
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team notes: |
The team remained unchanged to that which was originally named. The
Selection Committee had refused permission for Tom Baddeley and George
Davis to play for the respective clubs in their FA Cup semi-final
against each other. |
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2-3-5 |
Baddeley -
Crompton, Burgess -
Lee, Crawshaw, Ruddlesdin
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Brawn, Common, Brown, Bache, Davis. |
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Averages: |
Age |
24.5 |
Appearances/Goals |
2.5 |
0.2 |
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Match Report |
The English and Welsh teams,
after a close game, drew their match at Wrexham yesterday, each side
having scored two goals...
Wales scored their first goal a
quarter of an hour from the start, when Watkins, taking a clever centre
from W. Meredith, completely beat Baddeley. Wales held this lead until
the last 20 minutes. Then came three goals in quick succession. Davies
shot the first equalizing goal for England, and Lloyd-Davies immediately
put Wales ahead again, but Bache a few minutes later drove the ball
through off one of the defending backs, and made the score two goals
all. In the last ten minutes there were many shots at both goals, and it
was anybody's game to the finish.
- The Times - Tuesday 1st
March, 1904
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Football
Association Challenge Cup |
Second Round Second
Replay played on 29 February 1904:
DERBY
COUNTY 1-0 WOLVERHAMPTON WANDERERS
Bloomer
22,507 (Villa Park, Birmingham)
Derby
were without George Davis, who scored England's first equaliser on his
international debut at Wrexham, whilst Wolves were without goalkeeper,
Tom Baddeley, who was also playing at Wrexham.
Having been humiliated 6-0 by Bury in the previous year's final, Derby
went on to reach the semi-finals for the seventh time in eight years,
but had still to win the trophy and lost to Second Division, Bolton
Wanderers.
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Football League |
Football League Division Two
29 February 1904 |
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Team |
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Pts |
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Preston North End |
24 |
38 |
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Woolwich Arsenal |
22 |
33 |
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Burnley |
25 |
32 |
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Bolton Wanderers |
26 |
29 |
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Bristol
City |
23 |
26 |
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Manchester United |
20 |
26 |
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Bradford City |
22 |
24 |
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Grimsby Town |
22 |
23 |
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Gainsborough Trinity |
23 |
22 |
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Burton United |
24 |
21 |
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Lincoln City |
25 |
21 |
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Chesterfield Town |
23 |
20 |
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Leicester Fosse |
25 |
19 |
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Barnsley |
23 |
19 |
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Burslem Port Vale |
23 |
18 |
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Blackpool |
23 |
18 |
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Glossop North End |
24 |
17 |
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Stockport County |
25 |
16 |
Division Two
match played on 29 February
1904:
WOOLWICH ARSENAL 4-0 BURNLEY
Shanks 3, Gooing
4,000 (Manor Ground, London)
With games in hand, Woolwich Arsenal's emphatic
victory kept them well on course to become the first southern club to
break into the First Division of the Football League.
IN OTHER NEWS...
It was on 29 February
1904 that the naval torpedo-boat destroyer, HMS Vixen collided with a
small steam picket boat launched from HMS Edgar in Devonport Harbour.
Two men from the small boat were killed. The Vixen's defence at the
inquest was that avoiding the collision would have meant ramming the
battleship HMS Magnificent and likely also sinking the Vixen.
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Source Notes |
,%20Fred.jpg) Bobby
Atherton, the Welsh inside-right, the captain of Middlesbrough
FC, was lost at sea on 19 October 1917. But there seems to be no
trace of him after leaving Chelsea FC in 1906. The 1911 Census
Return states that the Bethesda-born player was in fact the Hotel Manager
of the Market Hotel in Hartlepool (left). The same place that
English outside-left
Alf Priest would also manage and later die in.
Welsh Football Data Archive
Original newspaper reports
Rothmans Yearbooks
FA Yearbooks 1950-60
Ancestry.com
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