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Monday, 27 March 1905
 Home International Championship 1904-05 (22nd) Match
England 3 Wales 1 [0-0]
 

Anfield Road, Anfield, Liverpool, Lancashire
 Kick-off (GMT): '3.35 p.m.';
 Attendance: '26,500';
Receipts: '£tbc'
Football League Record



England's first visit to Anfield is their fourth visit to Liverpool and ninth visit to Lancashire
Howard Spencer won the toss kicked off

   
eighth ever scoreless first half (record third consecutive) - eighteenth ever scoreless half
[1-0] Vivian Woodward 55
 'a close range shot into the corner of the goal'
  
[2-1] Stan Harris 80
 'from close quarters after a Hardman centre'
[3-1] Vivian Woodward 88
 'scored out of a scrimmage after Bond centred well'
[1≡1] Grenville Morris header 75
'headed through, from a Meredith cross'
   
 

"tbc" Morning Leader

Officials       

England Team Records Wales
Referee
Thomas Robertson
 41 (9 December 1863), Baldernock, Stirlingshire, Scotland FA
P 17 of 20 - W 12 - D 4 - L 1 - F 49 - A 13. played for Scotland against England in 1890
 
Linesmen
J Lewis
Blackburn Rovers		 R.G. Gough
Oswestry
 

England Team
 
Rank No official ranking system established;
ELO rating 1st		 Colours White collared jerseys and navy blue shorts
Captain Howard Spencer Selection The five-man FA International Selection Committee
P 2 of 3, W 2 - D 0 - L 0 - F 7 - A 1. P 53 of 195, W 38 - D 10 - L 5 - F 185 - A 51.
  team chosen at Villa Park, Birmingham, on Saturday, 18 March 1905
England Lineup
    four changes to the previous match league position (18th March) ave FL pos: 9th⁸
34   Linacre, J. Henry 24
1 day		 26 March 1881 G Nottingham Forest FC (FL1 13th) 1 1ᵍᵃ
308 the sixteenth Forester to represent England
  Spencer, Howard 29
216 days		 23 August 1875 RB Aston Villa FC (FL1 4th) 5 0
309   Smith, Herbert 27
125 days		 22 November 1877 LB Reading FC (SL1 2nd) 1 0
the third Reading player to represent England
  Wolstenholme, Samuel 28
11 days		 16 March 1877 RH Blackburn Rovers FC (FL1 12th) 3 0
final app 1903-04
  Roberts, Charles 21
355 days		 6 April 1883 CH Manchester United FC (FL2 3rd) 2 0
  Leake, Alexander 33
259 days		 11 July 1871 LH Aston Villa FC (FL1 4th) 4 0
  Bond, Richard 21
103 days		 14 December 1883 OR Preston North End FC (FL1 11th) 2 0
  Bloomer, Stephen 31
66 days		 20 January 1874 IR Derby County FC (FL1 8th) 20 27
=mst apps mst goals
Woodward, Vivian J. 25
297 days		 3 June 1879 CF Tottenham Hotspur FC (SL1 4th) 7 6
the 52nd brace scored
Harris, Stanley S. 23
251 days		 19 July 1881 IL Old Westminsters AFC & Corinthians FC 3 1
310   Hardman, Harold P. 22
357 days		 4 April 1882 OL Everton FC (FL1 TOP) 1 0
the twelfth Evertonian to represent England
reserves: Colin Veitch (Newcastle United FC (FL1 2nd)) and Jimmy Settle (Everton FC (FL1 TOP))
team notes: Goalkeeper Harry Linacre is the nephew of the Forman brothers (1898-1903).
appearance notes: Steve Bloomer is the second player to make twenty England appearances. Vivian Woodward is the thirtieth player to have made seven England appearances. Howard Spencer is the 46th player to make five. Alec Leake is the 71st player to have made four. 107 players have now made more than two appearances and 172 players have done so more than once.
Bloomer is the second player to make twenty appearances under the guidance of the ISC, whereas Woodward is the twentieth to have made seven.
records: England's twentieth victory over Wales, out of 27 attempts
 
2-3-5 Linacre -
Spencer, Smith -
Wolstenholme, Roberts, Leake -
Bond, Bloomer, Woodward, Harris, Hardman

Averages:

 Age 26 years 119 days Appearances/Goals 4.5 2.8

 

Wales Team
 
Rank No official ranking system established;
ELO rating 14th		 Colours Probably red shirts and white shorts
Captain Billy Meredith Selection Welsh Selection Committee.
P 1 of 6, W 0 - D 0 - L 1 - F 1 - A 3.
  team chosen in Wrexham, on Saturday, 6 March 1905
Wales Lineup
  Roose, Leigh Richmond 27
120 days		 27 November 1877 G Everton FC, England 9 18ᵍᵃ
227   Jones, Albert Thomas 22
49 days		 6 February 1883 RB Nottingham Forest FC, England 1 0
  Morris, Charles Richard 24
210 days		 29 August 1880
in Oswestry, England		 LB Derby County FC, England 14 0
  Latham, George injured eye 24
85 days		 1 January 1881 RH Liverpool FC, England 2 0
  Hughes, Edward 29
259 days		 11 July 1875 CH Tottenham Hotspur FC, England 10 0
  Hughes, John 29
45 days		 10 February 1876
in Liscard, England		 LH Liverpool FC, England 2 0
  Meredith, William Henry 30
240 days		 30 July 1874 OR Manchester City FC, England 22 7
228   Jones, William 22
272 days		 28 June 1882 IR Manchester City FC, England 1 0
  Watkins, Walter Martin 25
6 days		 21 March 1880 CF Sunderland AFC, England 8 3
Morris, Arthur Grenville injured 27
348 days		 13 April 1877 IL Nottingham Forest FC, England 11 2
  Oliver, Alfred 22
193 days		 15 September 1882
in Eccles, England		 OL Blackburn Rovers FC, England 2 0
final app 1905
reserves: not known
team changes: For the first time in England's history, the opposition players were compiled entirely from English clubs, but only after Wales had to make three changes from the side originally named. Horace Blew (Wrexham AFC) and Maurice Parry (Liverpool FC, England) withdrew because of injury, and Bobby Atherton (Middlesbrough FC, England) because of tonsillitis, their replacements were both the Jones' and Latham.
records: This is Wales' eightieth match, and their fortieth away from home. Their solitary goal is their 120th scored, 45 of which have come at an away venue.
 
2-3-5 Roose -
A.Jones, Morris -
Latham, E.Hughes, J.Hughes -
Meredith, W.Jones, Watkins, Morris, Oliver.

Averages:

 Age 25 years 365 days Appearances/Goals 7.3 1.0
 
       Match Report Tbc, Tuesday, 28 March 1905

   tbc.     
   

       Match Report The Times, Tuesday, 28 March 1905

England beat Wales, at Liverpool, yesterday, by three goals to one. It was a splendid game, but England were, perhaps, rather fortunate to win by the margin of two goals. Wales played good, hard football and Meredith, the Welsh outside right, was certainly the most prominent forward on the field. At half-back Wales were strong and skilful, and were continually breaking up the English attack by their superior tackling...
The first goal of the match was scored by Woodward, and England held this lead until a quarter of an hour from " time." Then came A. G. Morris's goal from a wonderful centre by Meredith. Wales nearly got through again and then, with scarcely ten minutes to play, S. S. Harris scored from a rebound off Roose, Woodward getting the third goal from a scrimmage just before the close. Fine weather favoured the game and there was an attendance of 20,000 spectators.
 
       In Other News....
It was on 27 March 1905 that a burglary at a paint shop in Deptford in London ended with the shop's manager and his wife being killed. Brothers, Alfred and Albert Stratton were hanged less than two months later after becoming the first men in Britain to be convicted after fingerprints had been found at the scene.
  
       Source Notes
TheFA
England Football Factbook
Welsh Football Data Archive
 Rothman's Yearbooks		 The Football Association Yearbooks
 Original Newspaper Reports
 Ancestry.com
Ian Garland & Gareth M. Davies' Sons of Cambria
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