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83 vs. Ireland
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85 vs. Scotland |
Monday,
27 March 1905
Home International Championship 1904-05
(22nd) Match
England 3 Wales 1
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.jpg) Match
Summary
England Party
Wales Party
Team Records |
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Anfield Road,
Anfield, Liverpool, Lancashire
Attendance:
26,100;
Kick-off
3.35pm GMT |
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England - Vivian Woodward
('a close range shot into the corner of the goal' 55, 'scored out of
a scrimmage after Bond centred well' 88), Stan Harris
('from close quarters after a Hardman centre' 80)
Wales - Grenville Morris
('headed through, from a Meredith cross' 75) |
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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 |
England |
Type |
Wales |
Referee -
Thomas Robertson
40 (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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Fouls Conceded |
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Possession |
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flg.jpg) England
Team |
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Rank: |
No official ranking system established;
ELO rating
1st |
Colours: |
White
collared jerseys and navy blue shorts |
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Capt: |
Howard Spencer, second captaincy |
Selectors: |
The seven-man FA
International Selection Committee,
on Saturday, 18 March 1905, at Villa Park, Birmingham.
53rd match, W 38 - D 10 - L 5 - F 186 - A 49. |
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England
Lineup |
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Linacre, J. Henry |
24 |
26 March 1881 |
G |
Nottingham Forest FC |
1 |
1
GA |
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Spencer, Howard |
29 |
23 August 1875 |
RB |
Aston Villa FC |
5 |
0 |
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Smith, Herbert |
27 |
22 November 1877 |
LB |
Reading FC |
1 |
0 |
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Wolstenholme, Samuel |
28 |
16 March 1877 |
RH |
Blackburn Rovers FC |
3 |
0 |
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Roberts, Charles |
21 |
6 April 1883 |
CH |
Manchester United FC |
2 |
0 |
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Leake,
Alexander |
33 |
11 July 1871 |
LH |
Aston Villa FC |
4 |
0 |
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Bond,
Richard |
21 |
14 December 1883 |
OR |
Preston North End FC |
2 |
0 |
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Bloomer, Stephen |
31 |
20 January 1874 |
IR |
Derby County FC |
20 |
27 |
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Woodward, Vivian J. |
25 |
3 June 1879 |
CF |
Tottenham Hotspur FC |
7 |
6 |
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Harris, Stanley S. |
23 |
19 July 1881 |
IL |
Old Westminsters
AFC
&
Corinthians FC |
3 |
1 |
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Hardman, Harold P. |
22 |
4 April 1882 |
OL |
Everton FC |
1 |
0 |
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reserves: |
reserves not known |
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team notes: |
Stephen Bloomer equals Gilbert Smith's record number of twenty
appearances. He aleady holds
the title of record goalscorer, and so becomes the first player to top
both lists at the same time. |
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2-3-5 |
Linacre -
Spencer, Smith -
Wolstenholme, Roberts, Leake
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Bond, Bloomer, Woodward, Harris, Hardman |
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Averages: |
Age |
25.8 |
Appearances/Goals |
4.5 |
2.8 |
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 Wales
Team |
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Rank: |
No official ranking system established;
ELO rating
14th |
Colours: |
Probably red shirts and white shorts |
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Capt: |
Billy Meredith |
Selectors: |
Team
selection chosen by Committee, on Saturday, 6 March 1905, following the Scotland match. |
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Wales
Lineup |
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Roose, Leigh R. |
27 |
27 November 1877 |
G |
Everton FC, England |
9 |
18 GA |
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Jones, Albert T. |
22 |
6 February 1883 |
RB |
Nottingham Forest FC, England |
1 |
0 |
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Morris, Charles R. |
24 |
29 August 1880
Born in Oswestry,
Shropshire |
LB |
Derby County FC, England |
13 |
0 |
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Latham, George
injured eye |
24 |
1 January 1881 |
RH |
Liverpool FC, England |
2 |
0 |
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Hughes, Edward |
28/29 |
1876 |
CH |
Tottenham Hotspur FC, England |
10 |
0 |
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Hughes, John |
24/25 |
1880 |
LH |
Liverpool FC, England |
2 |
0 |
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Meredith, William H. |
30 |
30 July 1874 |
OR |
Manchester City FC, England |
22 |
7 |
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Jones, William T. |
22 |
April 1882 |
IR |
Manchester City FC, England |
1 |
0 |
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Watkins, W. Martin |
24 |
summer 1880 |
CF |
Sunderland AFC, England |
8 |
3 |
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Morris, A.
Grenville
injured |
27 |
13 April 1877 |
IL |
Nottingham Forest FC, England |
11 |
2 |
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Oliver, Alfred |
22 |
15 September 1882 |
OL |
Blackburn Rovers FC, England |
2 |
0 |
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reserves: |
reserves not known |
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team notes: |
For the first time in England's history,
the opposition players were entirely compiled from English clubs, but
only after Wales had to make three changes from the side originally
named. Wrexham AFC's Horace Blew and Liverpool FC's Maurice Parry
withdrew because of injury, and Middlesbrough FC's Bobby Atherton
because of tonsillitis, their replacements were both the Jones' and
Latham. |
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2-3-5 |
Roose -
A.Jones, Morris -
Latham,
E.Hughes, J.Hughes -
Meredith, W.Jones,
Watkins, Morris, Oliver. |
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Averages: |
Age |
24.9 |
Appearances/Goals |
7.3 |
1.0 |
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Match Report |
 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.
- The Times - Tuesday 28th
March, 1905
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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 Welsh Football Data Archive
Original newspaper reports
Rothmans Yearbooks
FA Yearbooks 1950-60
Ancestry.com
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