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Monday, 16 March 1914
Home International Championship 1913-14 (31st) Match

Wales 0 England 2
[0-0]
 
 

Ninian Park, Sloper Road, Cardiff, Glamorgan
Kick-off (GMT): '3.30'
Attendance: '17,586'.
Receipts:
'£1,037' (a new Welsh gate record)
Football League Record
England's first visit to Ninian Park, fifth to Cardiff & Glamorgan; their seventeenth visit to Wales
Ted Vizard won the toss kicked off

   
fifteenth ever scoreless first half - 32nd ever scoreless half

 [0-1] Joe Smith 50
'a hot low shot, after Peers had fisted out a Hampton header'

 [0-2] Billy Wedlock 70
'Wedlock back-heeled to Brittleton, and receiving the ball again, kicked high towards goal'
 
 
 

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Officials         

Wales Team Records England
Referee
James Mason
Burslem, England
 
Linesmen
M.C. Frowde
Dorset
 
 

Wales Team

 

Rank

No official ranking system established;
ELO rating 21st
Colours Red shirts with white laced collar, and white shorts
Captain Ted Vizard Selection Welsh Selection Committee
 
  team chosen on Saturday, 28 February 1914
Wales Lineup
  Peers, Edward J. 27 31 December 1886 G Wolverhampton Wanderers FC, England 3 4ᵍᵃ
  Russell, Moses R. 25 20 May 1888 RB Merthyr Town AFC 3 0
  Matthias, Thomas J. 23 7 November 1890 LB Wrexham AFC 2 0
  Hewitt, Thomas J. 24 26 April 1889 RH South Liverpool FC, England 8 0
  Davies, Lloyd 36
x days
9 August 1877 CH Northampton Town FC, England 16 1
final app 1904-14
  Jennings, William 21 25 February 1893 LH Bolton Wanderers FC, England 2 0
  Meredith, William Henry 39 30 July 1874 OR Manchester United, England 45 10
  Wynn, George 27 14 October 1886 IR Manchester City FC, England 11 1
    Rowlands, Alfred Stanley 24 12 November 1889 CF Tranmere Rovers FC, England 1 0
  Davies, William C. 30/31 1883 IL Crystal Palace FC, England 4 0
  Vizard, Edward, injured off 40th min. 24 7 June 1889 OL Bolton Wanderers FC, England 8 0

reserves:

not known

team changes:

Three changes were made from the original selection. Matthias replaced Ted Hughes (Manchester City FC, England), who was needed for the Cup tie, as was clubmate Lot Jones, who was replaced by Evan Jones (Bolton Wanderers FC, England), at inside-left. Walter Davis (Millwall Athletic FC, England) was also unavailable, his place was filled by Billy Davies. A.S. Rowlands then replaced Evan Jones. Rowlands and Davies then swapped places.

team notes:

Ted Vizard injured his right ankle and retired. He did try to carry on, returning to the field, but ultimately, he had to retire after forty minutes play.
 
2-3-5
second half: 2-3-4
Peers -
Russell, Matthias -
Hewitt,
L.Davies, Jennings -
Meredith, Wynn, Rowlands,
W.Davies, Vizard.

Averages:

Age   Appearances/Goals 9.4 1.1

 

England Team

 

Rank

No official ranking system established;
ELO rating 1st
Colours White collared jerseys and navy blue shorts
Captain Bob Crompton Selection
in Charge: Charles Crump
The five-man FA International Selection Committee
P 20 of 21, W 11 - D 5 - L 4 - F 33 - A 21. P 87 of 195, W 62 - D 16 - L 9 - F 288 - A 80.
  team chosen at 42 Russell Square, London, on Monday, 9 March 1914, alongside the FA Cup semifinal draw.
England Lineup
    eight changes to the previous match (Hardy, Crompton & Shea remain) league position (9th March) ave FL pos: 8th¹⁰
  Hardy, Sam 30 26 August 1882 G Aston Villa FC (FL1 3rd) 17 15ᵍᵃ
most gk apps
  Crompton, Robert 34 26 September 1879 RB Blackburn Rovers FC (FL1 TOP) 40 0
most apps 1909-14
379   Colclough, A. Horace 25
133 days
3 November 1888 LB Crystal Palace FC (SL1 2nd) 1 0
the first Palace player to represent England only app 1914
  Brittleton, J. Thomas 31
327 days
23 April 1882 RH The Wednesday FC (FL1 17th) 5 0
final app 1912-14
Wedlock, William J. 33
139 days
28 October 1880 CH Bristol City FC (FL2 11th) 26 2
oldest goalscorer so far final app 1907-14
380   McNeal, Robert 23
60 days
15 January 1891 LH West Bromwich Albion FC (FL1 8th) 1 0
the fourteenth Albionite to represent England
  Simpson, John 28
81 days
25 December 1885 OR Blackburn Rovers FC (FL1 TOP) 8 1
final app 1911-14
  Shea, Daniel 26
162 days
6 November 1887 IR Blackburn Rovers FC (FL1 TOP) 2 0
final app 1914
  Hampton, J. Henry 28 21 April 1885 CF Aston Villa FC (FL1 3rd) 3 2
Smith, Joseph 24 25 June 1889 IL Bolton Wanderers FC (FL1 2nd) 2 1
381   Mosscrop, Edwin 24
273 days
16 June 1889 OL Burnley FC (FL1 10th) 1 0
eighth Burnley player to represent England

reserves:

Billy McLeod (Leeds City FC (FL2 5th)) and Jimmy Harrop (Aston Villa FC (FL1 3rd)).

team changes:

Jesse Pennington (West Bromwich Albion FC (FL1 8th)) was the original selected left-back, but an injury led to his place going to Horace Colclough.

appearance notes:

Bob Crompton and Billy Wedlock continue to extend their tally as England's top two record appearance holders, whereas record appearance holder for a goalkeeper, Sam Hardy, is the tenth to make seventeen. Jock Simpson is the 35th player to have made eight and Tom Brittleton is the 71st to have made five.
41 players have now played for England more than twice, whereas 222 have played more than once.
Crompton is also the first player to make forty appearances under the guidance of the ISC, and Billy Wedlock is the second to make 26.

records:

This is England's fortieth clean sheet.
Also their 25th competitive victory over Wales.
 
2-3-5 Hardy -
Crompton, Pennington -
Brittleton, Wedlock, McNeal -
Simpson, Shea, Hampton, Smith, Mosscrop.

Averages:

Age   Appearances/Goals 9.6 0.4
 
       Match Report The x

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       Match Report The Times, Tuesday, 17 March 1914

England beat Wales in a hard game at Cardiff yesterday by two goals to none.
England deserved their victory, but the score hardly does justice to the plucky work of Wales up to half-time. The Welshmen had shown promising form--in fact, their play had been more encouraging that that of their opponents--but the unfortunate accident to Vizard, a most valuable player, was a factor that cannot be measured...
Neither of the two goals could be called good ones, and the second by Wedlock came as a surprise, for the Bristol City player had handled before the ball was returned to him to shoot...
The side certainly played much better as a whole than in the previous international, but there are still a few rough edges to be taken off, the most noticeable weakness being at half-back.
  

       In Other News....
It was on 16 March 1914 that a Paris newspaper editor, Gaston Calmette, was shot and killed by Henriette, the wife of the Minister of Finance, Joseph Caillaux, after threatening to publish letters that the minister had written to her whilst married to his first wife. She was acquitted of the murder, four months later, on the grounds that it was a crime of passion.
 
Domestic Football Results (16 March 1914)
Football Association Challenge Cup Fourth Round second replay:
Manchester City 0 Sheffield United 1
   Villa Park, Birmingham (23,000)
Simmons
City were without George Wynn
United started with Albert Sturgess and George Utley
A single goal separated the teams after two scoreless encounters. United lost to the eventual winners, Burnley, in the semi-finals, by only the second goal that they conceded in their eighth match of the competition.
 
 
       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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