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1912-13

Football League 1913-14
1914-15
  
Final League Table - Division I
 Teams in a silver box denotes a player representing England in 1913-14
 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 14 4 1 51 15 6 7 6 27 27 51
Aston Villa 38 11 3 5 36 21 8 3 8 29 29 44
Middlesbrough 38 14 2 3 55 20 5 3 11 22 40 43
Oldham Athletic 38 11 5 3 34 16 6 4 9 21 29 43
West Bromwich Albion 38 11 7 1 30 16 4 6 9 16 26 43
Bolton Wanderers 38 13 4 2 41 14 3 6 10 24 38 42
Sunderland 38 11 3 5 32 17 6 3 10 31 35 40
Chelsea 38 12 3 4 28 18 4 4 11 18 37 39
Bradford City 38 8 6 5 23 17 4 8 7 17 23 38
Sheffield United 38 11 4 4 36 19 5 1 13 27 41 37
Newcastle United 38 9 6 4 27 18 4 5 10 12 30 37
Burnley 34 10 4 5 43 20 2 8 9 18 33 36
Manchester City 38 9 3 7 28 23 5 5 9 23 30 36
Manchester United 38 8 4 7 27 23 7 2 10 25 39 36
Everton 38 8 7 4 32 18 4 4 11 14 37 35
Liverpool 38 8 4 7 27 25 6 3 10 19 37 35
Tottenham Hotspur 38 9 6 4 30 19 3 4 12 20 43 34
The Wednesday 38 8 4 7 34 34 5 4 10 19 36 34
Preston North End 38 9 4 6 39 31 3 2 14 13 38 30
Derby County 38 6 5 8 34 32 2 6 11 21 39 27

Aston Villa recorded a seven-match winning run from 17 January 1914:
Sunderland (h) 5-0, Everton (a) 4-1, West Brom (h) 2-0, The Wednesday (a) 3-2, Bolton (h) 1-0, Chelsea (a) 3-0, Manchester U. (a) 6-0, before drawing 0-0 at home to Oldham Athletic on 18 March 1914. Manchester United also had a seven-match winning sequence from 20 September 1913, before losing at Aston Villa on 8 November 1913. Blackburn's biggest winning sequence was of five matches.

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

 
How The League Was Won 1913-14 Season
Timeline
34 Saturdays from 6 September 1913 to 25 April 1914, plus Christmas Day (Thursday, 25th December 1913), Boxing Day (Friday, 26th December 1913), New Year's Day (Thursday, 1st January 1914), Good Friday, 10 April 1914 and Easter Monday, 13 April 1914
 With no games allowed in August, there were seven opening games on Monday, 1 September 1913, plus five on later Mondays and two on Wednesdays in September. There was one game played on the last Monday of the year, in December, one on a Monday and three on Wednesdays in February, and games played on Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays in March, and on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays in April. The FA Cup took precedence on six weekends from the first round on 10 January 1914 to the final on 25 April 1914 (a week later than the previous season). There were three weeks between each round, apart from two weeks before the fourth round and four before the final. Last league games were on Monday, 27 April 1914.
Monday, 6 April 1914
Burnley 1 Middlesbrough 2
   Turf Moor, Burnley (6,000)
 Freeman ~ Carr, Elliott		 Blackburn's victory against Bolton, two days earlier, coming from behind to win 3-2, reinforced their intentions to win their second title in three years. Bolton's subsequent defeat at Sheffield left them with the slim chance of catching Blackburn on goal average, if they won their last four games and Blackburn lost all of their four. Middlesbrough's win also kept them in with a slim mathematical chance of winning the title on goal average, though in their case, they would have to win five matches, whilst Aston Villa also had five games left in which to get above Blackburn, who only needed two more points to lift the trophy.  
Sheffield United 2 Bolton Wanderers 0
   Bramall Lane, Sheffield (4,500)
Utley, Fazackerley
Top Four 6 April 1914
Team P ₧
Blackburn Rovers 34 47
Bolton Wanderers 34 39
Aston Villa 33 38
Middlesbrough 33 37
  
Good Friday, 10 April 1914
Manchester City 3 Aston Villa 1
   Hyde Road, Manchester (30,000)
Browell 15, 33, Dorsett 80 ~ Edgley 18		 Blackburn increased their lead at the top to nine points, but they would still have won the title if they had lost, with not only Villa losing, but Bolton going down 3-0 at Tottenham, and Middlesbrough losing 3-2 at home to Sheffield United. Villa subsequently closed the gap to seven points and finished runners-up, with Bolton dropping to sixth place. 
Newcastle United 0 Blackburn Rovers 0
   St James' Park, Newcastle (40,000)
  
 
The Elite League 1913-14 Season (games between the top four)
Team P Home Away ₧
W D L F A W D L F A
Blackburn Rovers 6 2 1 0 8 1 1 1 1 4 5 8
Middlesbrough 6 2 1 0 8 2 1 0 2 3 10 7
Oldham Athletic 6 1 1 1 4 2 0 2 1 1 2 5
Aston Villa 6 0 1 2 2 6 1 1 1 3 5 4
Only Aston Villa from the previous season's top four teams retained their status. Manchester United, Sunderland and The Wednesday all dropped out of the top four.
Games played between the top two:-
Saturday, 13 September 1913
 Aston Villa 1 Blackburn Rovers 3
    Villa Park, Birmingham (38,575)
Stephenson ~ Bradshaw (pen), Shea, Chapman
Saturday, 3 January 1914
 Blackburn Rovers 0 Aston Villa 0
   Ewood Park, Blackburn (15,000)

 
The Continuous League 1888-1914 (first 26 seasons)
Team P Wins ₧
Aston Villa 852 434 1026
Everton 852 405 962
Sunderland 808 401 951
Blackburn Rovers 852 339 874
Aston Villa increased their lead to 64 points. This was the ninth 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
 1905-14 (last nine seasons)
Team P Wins ₧
Aston Villa 342 167 404
Newcastle United 342 156 389
Blackburn Rovers 342 143 379
Sunderland 342 155 370
Aston Villa increased their lead to 15 points.
The 'Rolling Five-Season' League
 1909-14
Team P Wins ₧
Aston Villa 190 100 239
Blackburn Rovers 190 87 227
Sunderland 190 89 219
Manchester United 190 88 216
Aston Villa increased their lead to twelve points.

Champions: Blackburn Rovers
Manager: Robert Middleton
1913-14 Most Appearances
by England Players
Name Played Goals
Arthur Cowell 38  
Danny Shea 36 27
Eddie Latheron 35 13
Jock Simpson 34 2
Bob Crompton 33  
Joe Hodkinson 33 2
Billy Bradshaw 27 3
Billy Bradshaw, Arthur Cowell and Joe Hodkinson did not play for England in 1913-14.
1913-14 Most Goals
by England Players
Name Played Goals
Danny Shea 36 27
Eddie Latheron 35 13
Top scorer was George Elliott of Middlesbrough, with 31 goals.
Third on the list were Derby's Horace Barnes, and George Lillycrop of Bolton, with 24.
 
England and the Football League 1913-14 Season
England's impact on the Football League
Of the 33 playing positions used during the active 1913-14 season, Football League players provided 31 of them, and of the three goals scored, League players scored two of them.
Twelve of the twenty first division clubs were represented, plus Bristol City from the second division.
Twelve Football League games had a direct impact on two of England's games, on 14 February and 4 April.
As a result, on 14 February, England took Aston Villa's Sam Hardy and Charlie Wallace, Blackburn's Bob Crompton, Eddie Latheron and Danny Shea, Burnley's Billy Watson, Derby's Frank Buckley, Middlesbrough's George Elliott, Sunderland's Frank Cuggy, George Holley and Henry Martin, The Wednesday's Tom Brittleton, and Jesse Pennington of West Bromwich Albion. On 5 April, Crompton, Hardy and Pennington were again absent from their clubs, as were Aston Villa's Harry Hampton, Bolton's Joe Smith, Burnley's Eddie Mosscrop, Chelsea's Vivian Woodward, Preston's Joe McCall, Sheffield United's Albert Sturgess, Tottenham's Fanny Walden, and Bobby McNeal of West Bromwich Albion.
 
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