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Monday, 15 March 1909
Home International Championship 1908-09 (26th) Match


England 2 Wales 0
[2-0]
 
 

City Ground, Pavilion Road, West Bridgford, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
Kick-off (GMT): '...';
Attendance: '11,500';
Receipts: '....'
Football League Record
England's first visit to the City Ground, but second visit to Nottingham.
Vivian Woodward won the toss  kicked off

[1-0] George Holley 15
 'converted a fine Woodward dribble'
[2-0] Bert Freeman 42
 
'converted hard and low from another Woodward dribble'
 
 
   
twelfth ever scoreless second half - 24th ever scoreless half
   
 

"..." Daily News

Officials       

England Team Records Wales
Referee
David Phillips
Scotland FA
 
Linesmen
Arthur George Hines
51 (22 January 1858), Radford (Nottinghamshire FA)
 
 

England Team

 

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.
  team chosen at 104 High Holborn, London, on Monday, 9 March 1909, alongside the FA Cup semi-final draw.
England Lineup
  five changes to the previous match league position (9th March) ave FL pos: 8th
  Hardy, Sam 26 26 August 1882 G Liverpool FC 6 3ᵍᵃ
  Crompton, Robert 29 26 September 1879 RB Blackburn Rovers FC 23 0
=most apps
  Pennington, Jesse 25 23 August 1883 LB West Bromwich Albion FC 7 0
  Warren, Benjamin 29 7 May 1879 RH Chelsea FC 15 1
  Wedlock, William J. 28 28 October 1880 CH Bristol City FC 12 1
  Veitch, Colin C.M. 27
297 days
22 May 1881 LH Newcastle United FC 6 0
final app 1906-09
338   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
  Woodward, Vivian J. 29 3 June 1879 IR Tottenham Hotspur FC 18 18
339 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
  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.
 
2-3-5 Hardy -
Crompton, Pennington -
Warren, Wedlock, Veitch -
Pentland, Woodward, Freeman, Holley, Bridgett.

Averages:

Age oldest? Appearances/Goals 8.9 2.0

 

Wales Team

 

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.
   
Wales Lineup
  Roose, Leigh Richmond 31 27 November 1877 G Sunderland AFC, England 19 32ᵍᵃ
  Blew, Horace Elford 31 20 January 1878 RB Wrexham AFC 21 0
  Morris, Charles Richard 28 29 August 1880
in Oswestry, England
LB Derby County FC, England 21 0
  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
  Peake, Ernest 20 May 1888 CH Liverpool FC, England 3 0
  Price, I. Haydn 25/26 1883 LH Wrexham AFC 4 0
  Meredith, William Henry 34 30 July 1874 OR Manchester United, England 29 8
  Wynn, George 22 14 October 1886 IR Wrexham AFC 2 0
  Davies, William 26 13 April 1882 CF Blackburn Rovers FC, England 6 3
  Jones, William 26
x days
28 June 1882 IL Manchester City FC, England 11 5
  Davies, William C. 25/26 1883 OL West Bromwich Albion FC, England 2 0

reserves:

not known

team notes:

 
 
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
 
       Match Report The x

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          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.

 
       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.
 
      
International Football Results (15 March 1909)
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British International Championship 1908-09:
 
Scotland 5 Ireland 0
   Ibrox Park, Glasgow
(24,000)
McMenemy (2), MacFarlane, Thomson, Paul
 
British Championship Table
Team P
England 2 4
Scotland 2 2
Wales 2 2
Ireland 2 0
 
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.

 
Division One Table
Team P
Newcastle United 28 42
Everton 29 37
Manchester United 28 33
The Wednesday 28 32
Sunderland 28 31
Liverpool 30 31
Sheffield United 30 30
Notts County 28 29
Bristol City 27 29
Middlesbrough 28 28
Manchester City 29 28
Blackburn Rovers 28 28
Aston Villa 29 28
Preston North End 29 26
Woolwich Arsenal 29 26
Chelsea 28 26
Bury 29 25
Nottingham Forest 27 23
Bradford City 26 17
Leicester Fosse 28 17
     
  
 
       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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