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120 vs. Ireland
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122 vs. Scotland

Monday, 15 March 1920
 Home International Championship 1919-20 (32nd) Match

England 1 Wales 2 [1-2]
 

 Match Summary
England Party
Wales Party

Arsenal Stadium, Highbury, Islington, County of London
Attendance: 21,180; Receipts £1,700; Kick-off: 3.00pm GMT

England - Charlie Buchan (dribbled and shot after a Pennington free-kick 7)
Wales - Stan Davies (penalty 14), Dick Richards (Clay's pass to Pennington, who slipped, and the pass was collected by Richards, who rounded Hardy to shoot into an empty net 35)
Results 1919-30

Wales won the toss, England kicked-off.
 

Match Summary

Officials

England

Type

Wales
Referee - Alexander Allan Jackson
44 (20 January 1876), Glasgow, 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.		   Goal Attempts  
  Attempts on Target  
  Hit Bar/Post  
  Corner Kicks Won  
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  Possession  

England Team
 

Rank:

 No official ranking system established;
ELO rating 1st to 2nd		 Colours: The 1903 uniform - White collared jerseys and dark club shorts
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.
England Lineup
  Hardy, Sam 37 26 August 1882 G Aston Villa FC 20 21ᵍᵃ
first keeper to face three penalty kicks oldest to face a penalty (so far) most gk apps
          
    Clay, Thomas 27 19 November 1892 RB Tottenham Hotspur FC 1 0
  Pennington, Jesse 36 23 August 1883 LB West Bromwich Albion FC 24 0
  Ducat, Andrew 34 15 February 1886 RH Aston Villa FC 4 1
nine years and 348 days since his last app in April 1910
    Barson, Frank 28 10 April 1891 CH Aston Villa FC 1 0
only app 1920
    Grimsdell, Arthur 25 23 March 1894 LH Tottenham Hotspur FC 1 0
    Chedgzoy, Samuel 31 27 January 1889 OR Everton FC 1 0
Buchan, Charles M. 28 22 September 1891 IR Sunderland AFC 2 2
seven years and 29 days after his first appearance
  Elliot, George W. 31 7 January 1889 CF Middlesbrough FC 3 0
six years and thirty days after his second app final app 1913-20
  Smith, Joseph 30 25 June 1889 IL Bolton Wanderers FC 5 1
final app 1913-20
    Quantrill, Alfred E. 23 22 January 1897
in India		 OL Derby County FC 1 0

reserves:

 Bert Smith (Tottenham Hotspur FC) and Clem Stephenson (Aston Villa FC).

records:

 For their first time, England have gone three competitive matches without victory.
 
2-3-5 Hardy -
Clay, Pennington -
Ducat, Barson, Grimsdell -
Chedgzoy, Buchan, Elliot, Smith, Quantrill

Averages:

 Age 30.0 Appearances/Goals 6.6 0.3
oldest team so far

 

Wales Team
 

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
Capt: Joe Jones Selectors: Team selection chosen by Committee.
Wales Lineup
  Peers, Edward J. 33 31 December 1886 G Wolverhampton Wanderers FC, England 5 6ᵍᵃ
  Millership, Harold, injured nk *not known RB Rotherham County FC, England 3 0
  Russell, Moses R. 31 20 May 1888 LB Plymouth Argyle FC, England 6 0
  Matthias, Thomas J. 29 7 November 1890 RH Wrexham AFC 5 0
  Jones, Joseph T. 33 9 January 1887 CH Stoke FC, England 10 0
  Keenor, Frederick C. 25 31 July 1894 LH Cardiff City FC 2 0
  Meredith, William Henry 45
229 days		 30 July 1874 OR Manchester United FC, England 48 10
oldest opposition player final app 1895-1920
  Jones, William 37
x days		 28 June 1882 IR Southend United FC, England 20 6
final app 1905-20
  Davies, Stanley C. 21 24 April 1898 CF Preston North End FC, England 3 3
second penalty against scored (8th awarded) oldest so far (until 1923)
      14 February 1890
Richards, Richard W. 30 IL Wolverhampton Wanderers FC, England 2 1
  Vizard, Edward T. 30 7 June 1889 OL Bolton Wanderers FC, England 9 0

reserves:

 reserves not known

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.
Millership was injured and carried off towards the end of the first half. He returned for the second half.
 
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.

Averages:

 Age 31.4 Appearances/Goals 10.3 1.6
oldest opposition XI

 

    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

Source Notes

*Most sources state that Harold Millership was born in Chirk in 1889, but there is no registration to complete this information.

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Ancestry.com
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