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England
Team |
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Rank |
No official ranking system established; ELO rating
1st |
Colours |
White
collared jerseys and navy blue shorts |
Captain |
Vivian Woodward |
Selection |
The five-man
FA
International Selection Committee |
¹² most
goals as captain |
P 9 of 14, W 8 - D 1 - L 0 - F 45 - A
5. |
P 69 of 195, W fifty - D 13 - L 6 - F 241 - A
60. |
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team chosen at 104 High Holborn, London, on Monday, 9 March 1909, alongside
the FA Cup semi-final draw. |
England
Lineup |
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five changes to the previous match |
league position (9th March) |
ave FL pos:
8th⁷ |
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Hardy, Sam |
26 |
26 August
1882 |
G |
Liverpool FC |
6 |
3ᵍᵃ |
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Crompton, Robert |
29 |
26 September
1879 |
RB |
Blackburn Rovers FC |
23 |
0 |
=most apps |
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Pennington, Jesse |
25 |
23 August 1883 |
LB |
West Bromwich Albion FC |
7 |
0 |
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Warren, Benjamin |
29 |
7 May 1879 |
RH |
Chelsea FC |
15 |
1 |
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Wedlock, William J. |
28 |
28 October 1880 |
CH |
Bristol City FC |
12 |
1 |
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Veitch, Colin C.M. |
27 297 days |
22 May 1881 |
LH |
Newcastle United FC |
6 |
0 |
final app
1906-09 |
338 |
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Pentland, Frederick B., injured
off 15th min |
25 229
days |
29 July 1883 |
OR |
Middlesbrough FC |
1 |
0 |
the fourth Boro player to represent
England |
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Woodward, Vivian J. |
29 |
3 June 1879 |
IR |
Tottenham Hotspur FC |
18 |
18 |
339 |
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Freeman, Bertram C. |
23 153
days |
13 October 1885 |
CF |
Everton FC |
1 |
1 |
the fourteenth Evertonian to represent
England |
340 |
 |
Holley, George H. |
23 115
days |
20 November 1885 |
IL |
Sunderland AFC |
1 |
1 |
the fifth Sunderlander to represent
England |
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Bridgett, G. Arthur |
26 |
11 October 1882 |
OL |
Sunderland AFC |
8 |
2 |
reserves: |
Dick Duckworth
(Manchester United FC) and
Harold Fleming (Swindon Town FC). |
team notes: |
Just
before the first goal, Fred Pentland collided with Charlie Morris and
had to retire from the game. |
appearance notes: |
Bob Crompton equals Steve Bloomer's record appearance tally |
records: |
In the
44th minute, England broke their own record of not conceding a goal
for 325 minutes, ending the game with their goal intact for 372
minutes. Also, England created a new record of keeping four clean sheets in a row.
Fiftieth victory under the guidance of the
International Select Committee. |
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2-3-5 |
Hardy - Crompton, Pennington - Warren, Wedlock, Veitch -
Pentland, Woodward, Freeman, Holley, Bridgett. |
Averages: |
Age |
oldest? |
Appearances/Goals |
8.9 |
2.0 |
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Wales
Team |
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Rank |
No official ranking system established; ELO rating
19th |
Colours |
probably
Red shirts with white collared trim
and white shorts |
Captain |
Charlie Morris |
Selection |
Welsh Selection Committee |
P 8 of 15, W 2 - D 1
- L 5 - F 6 - A 14. |
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Wales
Lineup |
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Roose, Leigh Richmond |
31 |
27 November 1877 |
G |
Sunderland AFC, England |
19 |
32ᵍᵃ |
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Blew, Horace Elford |
31 |
20
January 1878 |
RB |
Wrexham AFC |
21 |
0 |
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Morris, Charles Richard |
28 |
29 August 1880 in Oswestry,
England |
LB |
Derby County FC, England |
21 |
0 |
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Parry, Maurice Pryce,
injured towards the end |
31
x days |
7 November 1877 in Oswestry,
England |
RH |
Liverpool FC, England |
16 |
0 |
final app
1901-09 |
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Peake, Ernest |
20 |
May 1888 |
CH |
Liverpool FC, England |
3 |
0 |
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Price, I.
Haydn |
25/26 |
1883 |
LH |
Wrexham AFC |
4 |
0 |
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Meredith, William Henry |
34 |
30 July 1874 |
OR |
Manchester United, England |
29 |
8 |
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Wynn, George |
22 |
14 October 1886 |
IR |
Wrexham AFC |
2 |
0 |
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Davies, William |
26 |
13 April 1882 |
CF |
Blackburn Rovers FC,
England |
6 |
3 |
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Jones, William |
26
x days |
28 June 1882 |
IL |
Manchester City FC, England |
11 |
5 |
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Davies, William C. |
25/26 |
1883 |
OL |
West Bromwich Albion FC, England |
2 |
0 |
reserves: |
not known |
team notes: |
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2-3-5 |
Roose - Blew, Morris - Parry, Peake, Price -
Meredith, Wynn, W.Davies, Jones, W.C.Davies. |
Averages: |
Age |
|
Appearances/Goals most experienced |
12.1 |
1.5 |
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Match Report
The x |
Match Report
The Times, Tuesday,
16 March 1909 |
As Wales had to make only one
change in the eleven that defeated Scotland at Wrexham two weeks ago
they had an exceptionally good chance of overcoming England at
Nottingham yesterday, but in a rather disappointing game the home
country gained the victory, scoring two goals to none. Largely remodelled, the English
eleven proved good enough for the occasion, but in a game largely
spoiled by the wind they showed to no special advantage. As the play
went there was nothing to choose between the sides, but, aided by the
blustering wind in the first half, England obtained a lead which they
held to the end. Seeing that the turf was fairly soft and in quite
favourable condition, the play all round fell far below expectations.
Most noticeable was the fault of lifting the ball when every effort
should have been made to keep it under control ; and on such a squally
afternoon the play naturally became very uncertain. The match was rarely
attractive as an exhibition of skilled football, and the crowd of 12,000
people that assembled on the Nottingham Forest Club's ground had little
cause for enthusiasm... At the end of a quarter of an
hour England scored their first goal, Woodward dribbling through and
giving Holley a neat pass, and the latter, being well placed, had no
difficulty in beating Roose... Close upon half-time Woodward
dribbled through again and passed to Freeman, who, with the way made
clear, shot hard and low past Roose, thus scoring England's second
goal... The record now stands
:--England, 23 wins ; Wales, 2 ; drawn games, 6.
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In Other News....
It was on 15 March
1909 that Edward Payson Weston, at the age of seventy, set off from New
York to become the first person to walk from coast to coast across the
United States. He arrived in San Francisco, almost four months later,
following a gruelling struggle against fierce snowstorms and desert
heat. |
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International
Football Results (15 March 1909) |
British International Championship 1908-09:
Scotland 5 Ireland 0
Ibrox Park, Glasgow
(24,000)
McMenemy (2), MacFarlane, Thomson, Paul |
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Teams in a silver box denotes a player
representing England |
Domestic
Football Results (15 March 1909) |
The Football
League Division One:
Manchester United 2 Sunderland 2
Bank Street, Manchester
(10,000) J.Turnbull²¹,
Payne⁶⁸ ~
Montgomery⁸, Brown²⁰ |
United were without Dick Duckworth and
Billy Meredith |
Sunderland were without Arthur Bridgett, George Holley and
Leigh Roose |
United would soon
have to concede that their title defence was over. They only
picked up four points from their remaining ten games and
plummeted to a final position of thirteenth, but they did
win the FA Cup for the first time. |
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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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