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Monday, 18 March 1907
Home International Championship 1906-07 (24th) Match


England 1 Wales 1
[0-1]
 
 

Craven Cottage, Stevenage Road, Fulham, County of London
Kick-off (GMT): '3.30 p.m.';
Attendance: '22,000';
Receipts: 'exceeding £700.'
1 player lost since last match
Charlie Alcock (27 February 1907) 64
35 players have now died


Football League Record
England's first visit to the Cottage, but sixteenth visit to London, and second to the County.
Bob Crompton won the toss  kicked off

[1-0] Lot Jones 25
 'Hardy saved a Meredith shot, it ran along the crossbar, Evans dropped it in front of goal for Jones to to put through'
 
 
26th equalising goal from England>
[1≡1] Jimmy Stewart 62
'After a hot shot by Wall, Davies cleared the ball to Stewart, who beat Roose with a tremendous shot'
   
 

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Officials       

England Team Records Wales
Referee
Robert Taylor Murray
33 (15 February 1874), Stenhousemuir, Scotland FA
 
Linesmen
Arthur George Hines
49 (22 January 1858), Radford (Nottinghamshire FA)
J Everall
(Welsh FA).
 

England Team

 

Rank

No official ranking system established;
ELO rating 1st
Colours White collared jerseys and navy blue shorts
Captain Bob Crompton Selection
member in charge: Charlie Hughes
The five-man FA International Selection Committee
P 6 of 21, W 3 - D 2 - L 1 - F 9 - A 6. P 59 of 195, W 42 - D 11 - L 6 - F 195 - A 54.
  team chosen at 104 High Holborn on Monday, 11 March 1907, along with the FA Cup semi-final draw.
England Lineup
    x changes to the previous match league position (11th March) ave FL pos: 11th
  Hardy, Sam 24 26 August 1882 G Liverpool FC 2 1ᵍᵃ
  Crompton, Robert 27 26 September 1879 RB Blackburn Rovers FC 13 0
326   Pennington, Jesse 23 23 August 1883 LB West Bromwich Albion FC 1 0
the thirteenth Albionite to represent England
  Warren, Benjamin 27 7 May 1879 RH Derby County FC 5 0
  Wedlock, William J. 26 28 October 1880 CH Bristol City FC 2 0
  Veitch, Colin C.M. 25 22 May 1881 LH Newcastle United FC 4 0
  Rutherford, John 22 12 October 1884 OR Newcastle United FC 3 0
  Bloomer, Stephen 33 20 January 1874 IR Middlesbrough FC 22 27
the second Boro player to represent England mst apps mst gls
327   Thornley, Irvine 23 11 October 1883 CF Manchester City FC 1 0
the third City player to represent England
328 Stewart, James 24 15 January 1883 IL The Wednesday FC 1 1
twelfth Wednesday player to represent England
329   Wall, George 22 20 February 1885 OL Manchester United FC 1 0
the second United player to represent England

reserves:

Kenneth Hunt (Oxford University AFC) and Vivian Woodward (Tottenham Hotspur FC).
Both had also been named in the England Amateur team to face Netherlands on Monday, 1 April.

team notes:

Steve Bloomer extends his tally as record appearance holder.
 
2-3-5 Hardy -
Crompton, Pennington -
Warren, Wedlock, Veitch -
Rutherford, Bloomer, Thornley, Stewart, Wall.

Averages:

Age   Appearances/Goals 4.9 2.5

 

Wales Team

 

Rank

No official ranking system established;
ELO rating 15th
Colours "wearers of the Welsh red."
Captain Billy Meredith Selection Welsh Selection Committee.
P 3 of 6, W 1 - D 1 - L 1 - F 5 - A 6.
  team chosen in Wrexham, on Monday, 4 March 1907, following the Scotland match
Wales Lineup
  Roose, Leigh Richmond 29 27 November 1877 G Stoke FC, England 15 22ᵍᵃ
  Meredith, Samuel 34 5 September 1872
in Trefonen, England
RB Leyton FC, England 8 0
final app 1900-07
  Davies, Lloyd 29
x days
9 August 1877 LB Stoke FC, England 4 1
  Latham, George 26 1 January 1881 RH Liverpool FC, England 6 0
  Morgan-Owen, Morgan Maddox 30 20 February 1877 CH Corinthians FC, England 13 2
final app 1897-1907
  Hughes, Edward 31 11 July 1875 LH Tottenham Hotspur FC, England 14 0
final app 1899-1907
  Meredith, William Henry 32 30 July 1874 OR Manchester United FC, England 25 8
Jones, William 24
x  days
28 June 1882 IR Manchester City FC, England 8 3
  Green, Arthur William 25 28 April 1881 CF Nottingham Forest FC, England 7 3
  Morris, Arthur Grenville 29 13 April 1877 IL Nottingham Forest FC, England 13 3
  Evans, Robert Ernest 21 19 October 1885
in Chester, England
OL Aston Villa FC, England 4 0

reserves:

reserves were probably Davies and Sam Meredith

team changes:

The back-line of Derby County FC's Charlie Morris and Wrexham AFC's Horace Blew were replaced on the morning of the match, by Lloyd Davies and Sam Meredith.

team notes:

Sam and Billy Meredith were brothers. Morgan Morgan-Owen's younger brother, Hugh, also played for Wales (1906).
A resurgent Welsh team was thus far, the oldest and most experienced team to face England.
 
2-3-5 Roose -
S.Meredith, Davies -
Latham, Morgan-Owen, Hughes -
W.Meredith, Jones, Green, Morris, Evans.

Averages:

Age   Appearances/Goals 10.5 1.7

 

    Match Report

Owing to the poor play of the forwards, England failed to beat Wales, at Fulham, yesterday, the match ending in a draw of one goal all.

During the first half, when a strong wind blew at their backs, the Englishmen generally gave a disappointing display. Such an advantage did winning the toss appear to carry with it that England's prospect of escaping defeat looked rather bad when they crossed over a goal behind ; but as it happened they improved wonderfully. They were wanting in dash and certainty when everything favoured them, they rose to the occasion splendidly on realizing their danger, but they could do no more than avert defeat. Except when breaking away three times Wales practically had to defend all the second half ; yet they were only once beaten. The inability of the English forwards to play effectively made the Welsh half-backs and backs very good. Particularly in the first half, when the necessity to dribble close and keep the ball low was most apparent, the Englishmen constantly kicked high, attempting to rush through...

W. Meredith often ran down the right wing, Pennington rarely stopping him, and a shot by the outside right led up to the Welshmen's goal. Hardy touched the ball, which went across to Evans, from whose centre Jones scored...

England's goal was in a sense lucky, and in no way due to first-rate football. For once Wall shot hard and straight, Davies kicking it out to Stewart, who returned it with great force out of Roose's reach...

There were well over 20,000 spectators, the receipts amounting to �700. - The Times - Tuesday 19th March, 1907

IN OTHER NEWS...

It was on 18 March 1907 that William Slack, an ex-army officer with a previous assault offence, murdered his ex-lover, Lucy Wilson with a hatchet as she walked along a Chesterfield street with their baby in a pram, and then casually walked off with the pram and child. Four months later, he became the last person ever to be hanged at Derby prison.

Source Notes

Welsh Football Data Archive
Original newspaper reports 
Rothmans Yearbooks
FA Yearbooks 1950-60
Ancestry.com
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