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Wales
Team |
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Rank |
No official ranking system established; ELO rating
15th |
Colours |
Red shirts with white collared trim
and white shorts |
Captain |
Billy Meredith |
Selection |
Welsh Selection Committee |
P 4 of 6, W 1 - D 1 - L 2 - F 6 - A 13. |
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Wales
Lineup |
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Roose, Leigh Richmond
injured off 25-30 min. |
30 |
27 November 1877 |
G |
Sunderland AFC, England |
17 |
28ᵍᵃ |
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Blew, Horace Elford |
30 |
20
January 1878 |
RB |
Wrexham AFC |
18 |
0 |
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Morris, Charles Richard |
27 |
29 August 1880 in Oswestry, England |
LB |
Derby County FC, England |
19 |
0 |
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Hughes, Edwin injured off 25-30 min. |
21 |
18 October 1886 |
RH |
Nottingham Forest FC, England |
4 |
0 |
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Latham, George |
27 |
1 January 1881 |
CH |
Liverpool FC, England |
7 |
0 |
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Parry, Maurice Pryce |
30
x days |
7 November 1877 in Oswestry,
England |
LH |
Liverpool FC, England |
13 |
0 |
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Meredith, William Henry |
33 |
30 July 1874 |
OR |
Manchester United, England |
26 |
8 |
 |
5th (& missed)
penalty kick against England |
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Mathews, William |
24/25 |
1883 |
IR |
Chester FC, England |
2 |
0 |
final app 1905-08 |
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Davies, William |
25 |
13 April 1882 |
CF |
Blackburn Rovers FC,
England |
4 |
1 |
|
Morris, A.
Grenville |
30 |
13 April 1877 |
IL |
Nottingham Forest FC, England |
14 |
3 |
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Evans, Robert Ernest |
22 |
19 October 1885
in Chester, England |
OL |
Aston Villa FC, England |
6 |
0 |
Wales
Substitute |
|
Davies, David, on 46th-50th min. for Roose |
27/28 |
1880 |
G |
Bolton Wanderers FC, England |
3 |
5ᵍᵃ |
reserves: |
the unused
reserves not known |
team changes: |
Lot Jones (Manchester City FC, England) was the
original named inside-right, but he sustained an injury in a club
match against Liverpool FC, he was replaced by Billy Mathews. |
team notes: |
Right back Horace Blew is playing on his
home ground. Leigh Roose was charged by Vivian Woodward (one source states George
Hilsdon) after
fifteen (or twenty) minutes, and after suffering concussion, he
retired and Charlie Morris took over in goal. Roose did return, but
only for a short time as he was suffering. Teddy Hughes at this time
injured his back (or he had a bad cold) and both he and Roose retired
after 25 minutes (or half an hour!). |
substitute notes: |
According to The Athletic
News, Woodward had offered the Welsh team the opportunity to bring on
two substitutes. As Wales were now playing
with nine men, Dai Davies came into goal 'shortly after the restart'
and became the first ever international substitute. |
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2-3-5 second half:
2-3-4 |
Roose (Davies) - Blew, C.Morris
- Hughes, Latham, Parry - Meredith, Mathews, Davies,
G.Morris, Evans.
Notes:
After half-time, Billy Mathews
took up the position vacated by Teddy Hughes, and the Welsh played
with a four-man forward line. |
Averages:
(starting XI) |
Age |
|
Appearances/Goals |
11.7 |
1.0 |
most experienced opposing XI |
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England
Team |
|
Rank |
No official ranking system established; ELO rating
1st |
Colours |
White
collared jerseys and navy blue shorts |
Captain |
Vivian Woodward |
Selection
Member in charge:
Charlie Hughes |
The five-man
FA
International Selection Committee |
P 2 of 14, W 2 - D 0 - L 0 - F 10 - A
2. |
P 62 of 195, W 44 - D 12 - L 6 - F 206 - A
57. |
4 |
team chosen, at 104 High Holborn, on Monday, 9 March
1908, along with the FA Cup semi-final draw. |
England
Lineup |
|
|
two changes to the previous match (Bailey & Hardman>Maskrey
& Wall) |
league position (9th March) |
ave FL pos:
8th⁷ |
37 |
|
Bailey, Horace P. |
26 257
days |
3 July 1881 |
G |
Leicester Fosse FC |
1 |
1ᵍᵃ |
333 |
 |
fifth keeper to face a penalty kick |
the first Leicester player to represent
England |
|
Crompton, Robert |
28 |
26 September
1879 |
RB |
Blackburn Rovers FC |
16 |
0 |
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Pennington, Jesse |
24 |
23 August 1883 |
LB |
West Bromwich Albion FC |
4 |
0 |
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Warren, Benjamin |
28 |
7 May 1879 |
RH |
Derby County FC |
8 |
0 |
 |
Wedlock, William J. |
27 |
28 October 1880 |
CH |
Bristol City FC |
5 |
1 |
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Lintott, Evelyn H. |
24 |
2 November 1883 |
LH |
Queen's Park Rangers FC |
2 |
0 |
|
Rutherford, John |
23 |
12 October 1884 |
OR |
Newcastle United FC |
6 |
0 |
   |
Woodward, Vivian J. |
28 |
3 June 1879 |
IR |
Tottenham Hotspur FC |
11 |
10 |
the 56th brace,
21st hattrick scored |
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Hilsdon, George |
22 |
10 August 1885 |
CF |
Chelsea FC |
3 |
4 |
the 55th brace scored |
 |
Windridge, James E. |
25 |
21 October 1882 |
IL |
Chelsea FC |
2 |
1 |
|
Hardman, Harold P. |
25 347 days |
4 April 1882 |
OL |
Everton FC |
4 |
1 |
final app
1905-08 |
reserves: |
Sam Greenhalgh
(Bolton Wanderers FC) and
Frank Bradshaw (The Wednesday FC). |
team changes: |
Sam Hardy (Liverpool FC) was the original named goalkeeper, but an injury
in a club match against Manchester City FC
prevented him taking his place. His place went to Horace Bailey. |
records: |
Vivian Woodward is the second player to score three goals at The
Racecourse, after John Veitch, all in 1894. |
|
2-3-5 |
Bailey - Crompton, Pennington - Warren, Wedlock, Lintott
- Rutherford, Woodward, Hilsdon, Windridge, Hardman. |
Averages: |
Age |
|
Appearances/Goals |
5.6 |
0.9 |
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Match Report
The x |
Match Report
The Times, Tuesday,
17 March 1908 |
This match, which was played in
very unfavourable conditions at Wrexham, yesterday, was in every way
unfortunate for Wales, who lost two of their team during the first half
and suffered defeat by seven goals to one in a one-sided game that was
robbed of all interest. Heavy snow fell on Sunday, making the turf on
the racecourse very soft and muddy, and wretched weather yesterday made
matters worse, rain falling and the light becoming so bad that at times
the spectators, who numbered about 6,000, found much difficulty in
following the course of events. These circumstances caused all the more
disappointment as there seemed every promise of the strong England
eleven having a very hard fight. This anticipation was realized for the
first quarter of an hour, but then in a charge by V. J. Woodward L. R.
Roose received such a severe blow on the head that concussion of the
brain compelled him to retire. A further handicap soon completely
crippled the Welsh team, Hughes, who was suffering from a cold, becoming
so ill that he had to leave the field. Soon after ends had been changed
Davies, of Bolton Wanderers, came out and kept goal, but by then England
had obtained four goals. Considering that when they had only four
forwards Wales often troubled the English defence, the probability is
that the evenness that marked the early play would have extended right
through the game had the home eleven remained at full strength. With C.
Morris in goal and H. Blew alone at full back Woodward headed the first
goal from a centre by Rutherford. Windridge soon got the second after
more good work by the right wing, while Wedlock and Hilsdon each shot
through after Morris had failed to clear from Rutherford. Hilsdon and
Woodward (two) got the other goals for England, and W. Davies scored for
Wales from a free kick... As England and Scotland have
each beaten both Wales and Ireland, their meeting in Glasgow on April 4
should prove most interesting.
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In Other News....
It was on 16 March
1908 that Florence Nightingale, immortalised as the founder of the
modern nursing profession and as 'The Lady with the Lamp' as she
maintained regular nightly rounds to check on wounded soldiers during
the Crimean War, was honoured (at the age of 87 and bedridden) with the
Freedom of London. It was bestowed with regret that the previous
generations had not seen fit to make the award fifty years earlier when
the Nightingale Fund was established for the training of nurses. |
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Teams in a silver box denotes a player
representing England |
Domestic
Football Results (16 March 1908) |
The Football
League Division Two:
Wolverhampton Wanderers 5 Burnley 1
Molineux Grounds, Wolverhampton (16,000)
Radford (2),
Shelton, Hedley (2) ~ R.Smith |
Wolves dominated their opponents, who still
harboured ambitions of winning promotion, but it was Wolves who would
end the season with success, by winning the FA Cup. |
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Source Notes |
TheFA
England Football Factbook Welsh Football Data Archive
Rothman's Yearbooks |
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The Football Association Yearbooks
Original Newspaper Reports
Ancestry.com
Ian Garland & Gareth M. Davies' Sons of Cambria |
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