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1910-11

Football League 1911-12
1912-13
  
Final League Table - Division I
 Teams in a silver box denotes a player representing England in 1911-12
 Teams in italics were relegated to the second division for the following season
Team P Home Away ₧
W D L F A W D L F A
Blackburn Rovers 38 13 6 0 35 10 7 3 9 25 33 49
Everton 38 13 5 1 29 12 7 1 11 17 30 46
Newcastle United 38 10 4 5 37 25 8 4 7 27 25 44
Bolton Wanderers 38 14 2 3 35 15 6 1 12 19 28 43
The Wednesday 38 11 3 5 44 17 5 6 8 25 32 41
Aston Villa 38 12 2 5 48 22 5 5 9 28 41 41
Middlesbrough 38 11 6 2 35 17 5 2 12 21 28 40
Sunderland 38 10 6 3 37 14 4 5 10 21 37 39
West Bromwich Albion 38 10 6 3 23 15 5 3 11 20 32 39
Woolwich Arsenal 38 12 3 4 38 19 3 5 11 17 40 38
Bradford City 38 12 3 4 31 15 3 5 11 15 35 38
Tottenham Hotspur 38 10 4 5 35 20 4 5 10 18 33 37
Manchester United 38 9 5 5 29 19 4 6 9 16 41 37
Sheffield United 38 10 4 5 47 29 3 6 10 16 27 36
Manchester City 38 10 5 4 39 20 3 4 12 17 38 35
Notts County 38 9 4 6 26 20 5 3 11 20 43 35
Liverpool 38 8 4 7 27 23 4 6 9 22 32 34
Oldham Athletic 38 10 3 6 32 19 2 7 10 14 35 34
Preston North End 38 8 4 7 26 25 5 3 11 14 32 33
Bury 38 6 5 8 23 25 0 4 15 9 34 21

Bolton Wanderers recorded a six-match winning run from 2 March 1912:
West Brom (h) 2-0, Sunderland (a) 1-0, Blackburn (h) 2-0, The Wednesday (a) 1-0, Bury (h) 1-0, Aston V. (a) 1-0, before losing 1-0 at Middlesbrough on 6 April 1912. Blackburn's biggest winning sequence was of four matches.

Bristol City and Burnley, from the second division, also each had a player representing England.

 
How The League Was Won 1911-12 Season
Timeline
35 Saturdays from 2 September 1911 to 27 April 1912, plus Christmas Day (Monday, 25th December 1911), Boxing Day (Tuesday, 26th December 1911), New Year's Day (Monday, 1st January 1912), Good Friday, 5 April 1912 and Easter Monday, 8 April 1912
 There were three additional games on the first Monday in September, plus two on the first Wednesday, and one on a Monday and one on a Thursday in October. In December, there was one game played on the last Thursday of the year. Games were played on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays in February, on Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays in March, and on every day of the week (apart from Sundays) in April. The FA Cup took precedence on six weekends from the first round on 13 January 1912 to the final on 20 April 1912. There were three weeks between each round, apart from two weeks before the fourth round. Last league games were on Monday, 29 April 1912.
Monday, 22 April 1912
Everton 3 West Bromwich Albion 0
   Goodison Park, Liverpool (7,000)
 Browell, Makepeace (pen), Uren		 On the brink of their first title, Blackburn, unexpectedly, crashed to their heaviest defeat of the season when a win would have secured it. Everton's victory took them to within a point of the leaders, but they only had one game left, whereas Blackburn still had three games to play.
Woolwich Arsenal 5 Blackburn Rovers 1
   Manor Ground, London (7,000)
Flanagan (2), Grant (3) ~ Ducat OG
Top Two 22 April 1912
Team P ₧
Blackburn Rovers 35 46
Everton 37 45
  
Thursday, 25 April 1912
Blackburn Rovers 4 West Bromwich Albion 1
   Ewood Park, Blackburn (10,001)
 Clennell (2), Aitkenhead (2) ~ Morris
 Blackburn quickly shrugged off their disappointment of three days earlier and were ahead on eleven minutes, before cruising home to the victory that gave them their crucial three-point lead and their first title.
 
The Elite League 1911-12 Season (games between the top four)
Team P Home Away ₧
W D L F A W D L F A
Newcastle United 6 3 0 0 11 4 1 1 1 3 3 9
Blackburn Rovers 6 2 1 0 5 2 1 0 2 5 7 7
Everton 6 2 0 1 4 3 1 0 2 3 5 6
Bolton Wanderers 6 1 0 2 3 4 0 0 3 2 8 2
Only Everton retained their top-four placing from the previous season. Aston Villa, Manchester United and Sunderland all dropped out of the top four.
Games played between the top two:-
Saturday, 9 December 1911
 Blackburn Rovers 2 Everton 1
    Ewood Park, Blackburn (13,724)
Bradshaw (pen), Chapman ~ Bradshaw
Saturday, 13 April 1912
 Everton 1 Blackburn Rovers 3
   Goodison Park, Liverpool (40,000)
 Davidson ~ Clennell (2), Latheron

 
The Continuous League 1888-1912 (first 24 seasons)
Team P Wins ₧
Aston Villa 776 396 932
Everton 776 378 890
Sunderland 732 359 857
Blackburn Rovers 776 303 778
Everton reduced Aston Villa's lead to 42 points. This was the seventh season of 38 games each, following three of 22, one of 26, six of thirty, and seven of 34 games each.
The Continuous '38 Games' League
 1905-12 (last seven seasons)
Team P Wins ₧
Newcastle United 266 131 318
Aston Villa 266 129 310
Everton 266 123 295
The Wednesday 266 114 283
Newcastle increased their lead to eight points.
The 'Rolling Five-Season' League
 1907-12
Team P Wins ₧
Aston Villa 190 93 226
Newcastle United 190 91 224
Manchester United 190 92 223
Everton 190 88 213
After an eleven-year gap, Aston Villa returned to the top.

Champions: Blackburn Rovers
Manager: Robert Middleton
1911-12 Most Appearances
by England Players
Name Played Goals
Billy Bradshaw 36 3
Jock Simpson 35 2
Bob Crompton 33  
Arthur Cowell 31  
Eddie Latheron 22 7
Eddie Latheron did not play for England until 1913.
1911-12 Most Goals
by England Players
Name Played Goals
Eddie Latheron 22 7
Top scorers were Villa's Harry Hampton, Sunderland's George Holley and Scottish international, David McLean of The Wednesday. All scored 25 goals.
 
England and the Football League 1911-12 Season
England's impact on the Football League
Of the 33 playing positions used during the active 1911-12 season, Football League players provided 32 of them, and of the nine goals scored, League players scored six of them.
Nine of the twenty first division clubs were represented, plus Bristol City and Burnley from the second division.
15 Football League games had a direct impact on two of England's games, on 10 February and 23 March.
As a result, on 10 February, England took Aston Villa's Joe Bache, Blackburn's Billy Bradshaw, Bob Crompton and Jock Simpson, Bristol City's Billy Wedlock, Burnley's Bert Freeman, Derby's George Richards, Liverpool's Sam Hardy, Sunderland's George Holley and Jackie Mordue, The Wednesday's Tom Brittleton, and Jesse Pennington of West Bromwich Albion. On 23 March, Brittleton, Crompton, Freeman, Holley, Pennington, Simpson and Wedlock were again absent from their clubs, as were Everton's Frank Jefferis and Harry Makepeace, Manchester United's George Wall, Middlesbrough's Tim Williamson and Charlie Buchan of Sunderland.
 
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