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Match
Summary |
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 Officials |
England |
Type |
Wales |
Referee
- Alexander A. Jackson
Scotland.
Linesmen -
T.F. Wilker (Hertfordshire) and
unknown.
In
December 1919, in addition to the Home Nations refusal to play against their
wartime foes, the self-imposed ban was to include any other country that had
subsequently played these foes, Germany, Austria and Hungary. |
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Goal Attempts |
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Attempts on Target |
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Hit Bar/Post |
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Corner Kicks Won |
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Offside Calls Against |
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Fouls Conceded |
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Possession |
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flg.jpg) England
Team |
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Rank: |
No official ranking system established;
ELO rating
1st to 2nd |
Colours: |
The 1903 uniform
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White collared jerseys and dark club shorts |
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Capt: |
Jesse Pennington, first captaincy |
Selectors: |
The
fourteen-man FA
International Selection Committee, following
the trial match, on Monday, 8 March 1920.
88th match, W 61 - D 16 - L 11 - F 292 - A 79. |
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England
Lineup |
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Hardy, Sam |
37 |
26 August
1882 |
G |
Aston Villa FC |
20 |
21 GA |
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Clay, Thomas |
27 |
19 November
1892 |
RB |
Tottenham Hotspur FC |
1 |
0 |
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Pennington, Jesse |
36 |
23 August 1883 |
LB |
West Bromwich Albion FC |
24 |
0 |
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Ducat, Andrew |
34 |
15 February 1886 |
RH |
Aston Villa FC |
4 |
1 |
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Barson, Frank |
28 |
10 April 1891 |
CH |
Aston Villa FC |
1 |
0 |
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Grimsdell, Arthur |
25 |
23 March 1894 |
LH |
Tottenham Hotspur FC |
1 |
0 |
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Chedgzoy, Samuel |
31 |
27 January 1889 |
OR |
Everton FC |
1 |
0 |
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Buchan, Charles M. |
28 |
22 September
1891 |
IR |
Sunderland AFC |
2 |
2 |
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Elliott, George W. |
31 |
7 January 1889 |
CF |
Middlesbrough FC |
3 |
0 |
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Smith,
Joseph |
30 |
25 June 1889 |
IL |
Bolton Wanderers FC |
5 |
1 |
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Quantrill, Alfred E. |
23 |
22 January 1897
in
India |
OL |
Derby County FC |
1 |
0 |
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reserves: |
Bert Smith (Tottenham Hotspur FC) and
Clem Stephenson (Aston Villa FC). |
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team notes: |
Sam Hardy extends his record of the
goalkeeper with most appearances, th this, England's oldest team so
far, for the second match in a row.
Andy Ducat's fourth appearance
comes nine years and 348 days after his third, in April 1910, a new
record. Meanwhile, Charlie Buchan's second appearance comes seven
years and 29 days after his first, and George Elliott, whose third
appearance comes six years and thirty days after his second. |
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2-3-5 |
Hardy -
Clay, Pennington -
Ducat, Barson, Grimsdell -
Chedgzoy, Buchan, Elliot, Smith, Quantrill |
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Averages: |
Age |
30.0 |
Appearances/Goals |
6.6 |
0.3 |
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 Wales
Team |
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Rank: |
No official ranking system established;
ELO rating
21st to 20th |
Colours: |
Made by St. Margaret's - Red shirts with white laced-up collars,
white shorts, red socks |
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Capt: |
Joe Jones |
Selectors: |
Team
selection chosen by Committee. |
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Wales
Lineup |
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Peers, Edward J. |
33 |
31 December 1886 |
G |
Wolverhampton Wanderers FC, England |
5 |
6
GA |
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Millership, Harold, injured |
nk |
*not known |
RB |
Rotherham County FC, England |
3 |
0 |
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Russell, Moses R. |
31 |
20 May 1888 |
LB |
Plymouth Argyle FC, England |
6 |
0 |
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Matthias, Thomas J. |
29 |
7 November 1890 |
RH |
Wrexham AFC |
5 |
0 |
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Jones, Joseph T. |
33 |
9 January 1887 |
CH |
Stoke FC, England |
10 |
0 |
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Keenor, Frederick C. |
25 |
31 July 1894 |
LH |
Cardiff City FC |
2 |
0 |
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Meredith, William H. |
45 |
30 July 1874 |
OR |
Manchester United FC, England |
48 |
10 |
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Jones, William T.J. |
37 |
28 June 1882 |
IR |
Southend United FC, England |
20 |
6 |
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Davies, Stanley C. |
21 |
24 April 1898 |
CF |
Preston North End FC, England |
3 |
3 |
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Richards, Richard W. |
30 |
14 February 1890 |
IL |
Wolverhampton Wanderers FC, England |
2 |
1 |
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Vizard, Edward T. |
30 |
7 June 1889 |
OL |
Bolton Wanderers FC, England |
9 |
0 |
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reserves: |
reserves not known |
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team notes: |
Southend United FC's Ivor Jones and Bolton Wanderers FC's Jennings
were part of the original line-up, there places going to Keenor and
Lot Jones respectively.
Billy Meredith is the oldest player to face England, at 45 years and
229 days. And therefore making this side the oldest team England have
faced, thus far.
Millership was injured and carried off towards the
end of the first half. He returned for the second half. |
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2-3-5 |
Peers -
Millership, Russell -
Matthias, J.Jones,
Jennings -
Meredith, W.Jones, Davies, Richards,
Vizard.
notes - to cater for
Millership's injury, he went outside-left, Davies went left-back and
Vizard, inside-left. |
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Averages: |
Age |
31.4 |
Appearances/Goals |
10.3 |
1.6 |
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Match Report |
Wales beat England on the
ground of The Arsenal Club, at Highbury, yesterday, by 2 goals to 1.
England had not lost to Wales in a game of Association football since
1882, when, for the second time in succession, the Welshmen won, and so
equalized two previous reverses. Afterwards, except in six drawn games,
England had been supreme, and yesterday's success of Wales for the first
time during the era of professionalism was an event of peculiar
interest...
England took the lead after
seven minutes' play. Pennington placed the ball from a free-kick across
the field, and Buchan, having dribbled neatly in order to find an
opening, shot clear of Peers into the net...
...with play going more evenly
than at the start, the Welsh left wing ran down and Pennington handled
in the penalty area. Davies took the kick and beat Hardy with a powerful
shot...
The game became more open after
this, and, in the course of a Welsh attack, Clay put the ball back with
the intention of leaving Pennington an easy clearance. Instead, the ball
rolled slowly and Richards dashed up to tackle, first the full back and
then Hardy, who had run out of goal. Forward and goalkeeper both
stumbled, but Richards kept his feet, got the ball from Hardy's hands,
and proceeded to kick through an open goal...
Happily the weather kept fine
during the match, and there were about 22,000 people present. The
official return showed that 21,180 paid for admission at the gates, and
the receipts amounted to £1,700.
- The
Times - Tuesday 16th March, 1920
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Football League |
Football League Division Two
15 March 1920 |
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Team |
P
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Pts |
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Tottenham Hotspur |
31 |
52 |
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Birmingham |
32 |
45 |
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Huddersfield Town |
30 |
42 |
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Blackpool |
32 |
38 |
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Stoke |
32 |
36 |
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Bury |
32 |
36 |
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West Ham United |
31 |
35 |
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Stockport County |
32 |
34 |
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Hull City |
32 |
34 |
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Barnsley |
33 |
33 |
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South Shields |
32 |
32 |
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Bristol
City |
32 |
32 |
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Fulham |
32 |
32 |
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Port Vale |
32 |
31 |
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Leicester City |
32 |
30 |
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Nottingham Forest |
33 |
27 |
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Rotherham County |
33 |
27 |
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Clapton Orient |
32 |
26 |
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Wolverhampton Wanderers |
31 |
24 |
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Lincoln City |
33 |
23 |
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Coventry City |
33 |
18 |
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Grimsby Town |
32 |
17 |
Division Two
match played on
15 March
1920:
STOCKPORT COUNTY 2-1
BIRMINGHAM
Bullough, Danskin (Robson o.g.)
4 ,000 (Edgeley
Park, Stockport)
Birmingham's defeat was further evidence that Tottenham
would win promotion comfortably and the Blues were to suffer the disappointment
of losing second place to Huddersfield, who would also reach the FA Cup Final.
IN OTHER NEWS...
It was on 15 March
1920 that Rudolf Berthold, a German hero of the Great War, having shot
down 44 enemy planes, winning his country's highest military honour, was
killed whilst fighting for his own paramilitary organisation in Hamburg
in support of an attempted coup. He was shot six times and his body was
savagely mutilated by an angry mob.
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 Source Notes
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*Most sources state that Harold
Millership was born in Chirk in 1889, but there is no registration to
complete this information.
Welsh Football Data Archive
Original newspaper reports
Rothmans Yearbooks
FA Yearbooks 1950-60
Ancestry.com
Selwyn Rowley
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