Match Summary

England Team

Scotland Team

England beat Scotland on the ground of the Sheffield Wednesday Club on Saturday by 5 goals to 4. It was a remarkable match, for England snatched a dramatic victory after the sides had changed ends with Scotland leading by 4 goals to 2. There were 35,000 spectators...

Within 10 minutes of the start, England took the lead after some brilliant combined work by the forwards. Kelly made an opening for Wallace to run down and centre the ball to Cock, who scored very cleverly from a position almost under the crossbar. Three minutes later Scotland drew level. The pace of Troup had previously threatened danger, and it was from one of his runs that Miller was enabled to score. This goal was followed by a series of hot attacks upon the Scottish goal, and three minutes later another brilliant movement by Kelly and Wallace enabled the latter to put the ball into the goal-mouth, and Quantrill dashed in and did the rest...

Ducat neglected Troup, who was far more dangerous than his partner, with the result that the outside man was able to outpace Longworth  and put his centres across before the English defence could get back to cover Hardy. Wilson was quite unmarked when he scored the second equalizing goal, but when Troup again got the better of Longworth, the centre forward was not in such a good position. Realizing that Donaldson had a better opening, he passed out to the latter, who took the ball on the run and beat Hardy with a very fast drive..

Scotland, however, again broke through the home defence, and Donaldson, who was unmarked, cleverly turned the ball over to Miller, who easily scored his side's fourth goal...

...12 minutes after the restart McCall passed to Kelly, who eluded the backs and sent in a shot that glanced off the goal-post into the net. The equalizing goal came 10 minutes later; Quantrill outpaced the defence, and, from his centre, Cock transferred the ball to Morris, who scored the finest goal of the match...

Campbell's wonderful goalkeeping kept the English forwards out for another six minutes, but Kelly then ran close in from a centre by Quantrill and scored a goal worthy of Bloomer at his best. Campbell made an heroic effort to save, and was damaged in the collision with Kelly. He was off the field for 10 minutes, Gordon keeping the goal in his absence...

Of the 44 matches between the two countries, Scotland have won 18 and England 14, with 12 drawn games. - The Times - Monday 12th April, 1920

Football League Division One 10 April 1920
Team	P	Pts
West Bromwich Albion	38	56
Burnley	39	48
Chelsea	38	46
Sunderland	39	45
Liverpool	39	44
Bolton Wanderers	39	43
Manchester City	38	41
Newcastle United	39	40
Bradford	37	38
Sheffield United	39	38
Aston Villa	37	37
Arsenal	38	37
Bradford City	39	37
Manchester United	38	36
Everton	38	36
Middlesbrough	39	36
Oldham Athletic	38	35
Preston North End	38	33
Derby County	39	33
Notts County	38	32
Blackburn Rovers	38	30
The Wednesday	37	21

 

Division One matches played on 10 April 1920:

ARSENAL 2-0 BURNLEY
Pagnam 41, Bradshaw 58
40,000 (Highbury, London)

Burnley were without Bob Kelly, who scored twice on his international debut against Scotland at Sheffield.

BLACKBURN ROVERS 0-1 OLDHAM ATHLETIC
(Gee 60)
12,000 (Ewood Park, Blackburn)

BOLTON WANDERERS 3-5 MANCHESTER UNITED
Herbert, Smith, Roberts (Bissett 2, Meredith, Toms, Woodcock)
25,000 (Burnden Park, Bolton)

Bolton were without Alex Donaldson, who scored for Scotland against England at Sheffield.

BRADFORD CITY 1-2 SHEFFIELD UNITED
Fox (Gillespie 2)
7,000 (Valley Parade, Bradford)

United were without Stan Fazackerley, who was a reserve against Scotland at Sheffield.

DERBY COUNTY 3-0 LIVERPOOL
Leonard Pen. 75, Burton 77, 79
10,000 (Baseball Ground, Derby)

Derby were without Alf Quantrill, who scored on his international debut against Scotland at Sheffield, whilst Liverpool were without Eph Longworth, who was also making his debut against Scotland, and Tom Miller, who scored twice on his debut for Scotland.

EVERTON 5-2 MIDDLESBROUGH
Kirsopp 10, Peacock 45, Rigsby 55, 87, Grenyer 75 (Jennings 15, Butler 78)
20,000 (Goodison Park, Liverpool)

MANCHESTER CITY 1-0 CHELSEA
Barnes 85
25,000 (Hyde Road, Manchester)

Chelsea were without Jack Cock, who scored the opening goal against Scotland at Sheffield.

NOTTS COUNTY 2-1 ASTON VILLA
Henshall 15, McLeod 20 (Davis 80)
18,000 (Meadow Lane, Nottingham)

Villa were without Ducat, Hardy and Wallace, who were playing against Scotland at Sheffield.

SUNDERLAND 1-0 PRESTON NORTH END
Shore 74
10,000 (Roker Park, Sunderland)

Preston were without Joe McCall, who was playing against Scotland at Sheffield.

WEST BROMWICH ALBION 3-1 BRADFORD
Jephcott 10, Bentley 12, Bowser Pen. 55 (Keetley 30)
36,086 (The Hawthorns, West Bromwich)

West Brom were without Morris, who scored on his international debut, and Pennington, who were both playing against Scotland at Sheffield.

Releasing two of their players for England duty mattered not to West Brom, who secured their first league title, thanks also to defeats for Burnley and Chelsea.

Football League Division Two 10 April 1920
Team	P	Pts
Tottenham Hotspur	38	65
Huddersfield Town	37	54
Birmingham	38	53
Blackpool	39	49
Bury	38	46
Fulham	39	42
West Ham United	38	42
South Shields	38	38
Stoke	38	38
Port Vale	39	38
Barnsley	39	37
Hull City	38	37
Bristol City	38	37
Leicester City	38	37
Stockport County	37	35
Clapton Orient	38	33
Nottingham Forest	39	31
Rotherham County	38	30
Wolverhampton Wanderers	36	26
Lincoln City	39	25
Coventry City	38	24
Grimsby Town	38	21

 

Division Two matches played on 10 April 1920:

BIRMINGHAM 3-0 PORT VALE
Lane, Elkes 2
30,000 (St Andrew's, Birmingham)

BLACKPOOL 1-0 STOCKPORT COUNTY
Heathcote
6,000 (Bloomfield Road, Blackpool)

BRISTOL CITY 2-2 HULL CITY
Kirk 2 (Crawford, Deacey)
12,000 (Ashton Gate, Bristol)

COVENTRY CITY 4-2 NOTTINGHAM FOREST
Wynn, Parker, Mercer, Gibson (Belton, Shearman)
19,000 (Highfield Road, Coventry)

FULHAM 3-0 LINCOLN CITY
Bertram, Banks, Crockford
13,000 (Craven Cottage, London)

GRIMSBY TOWN 2-0 CLAPTON ORIENT
Smith, Spink
5,000 (Blundell Park, Cleethorpes)

HUDDERSFIELD TOWN 4-1 BARNSLEY
Taylor 2, Swan 2 (Gittins)
11,500 (Leeds Road, Huddersfield)

LEICESTER CITY 0-5 BURY
(Peake, Hird 2, Lomas, Ritchie)
12,000 (Filbert Street, Leicester)

Leicester were without John Paterson, who was making his only international appearance for Scotland, against England at Sheffield.

ROTHERHAM COUNTY 1-0 SOUTH SHIELDS
Glennon
6,000 (Millmoor, Rotherham)

STOKE 1-3 TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR
Maddock (Seed, Cantrell 2)
14,000 (Victoria Ground, Stoke)

Tottenham were without Grimsdell, who was playing against Scotland at Sheffield, and Smith, who was a reserve for England.

WEST HAM UNITED 4-0 WOLVERHAMPTON WANDERERS
Butcher 2, Puddefoot 2
16,000 (Upton Park, London)

Having clinched promotion, five days earlier, to reclaim, what they believed, should have been their rightful place in the top flight when the First Division was expanded to 22 clubs, Tottenham won the Second Division Championship.

IN OTHER NEWS...

It was on 11 April 1920 that concerns were growing that the President of the United States, Woodrow Wilson, was incapable of maintaining his office, whilst recovering from a stroke that left him bedridden and paralysed down the left side. His cabinet were only able to communicate with him via the First Lady, Edith Wilson. He was not nominated by the Democratic Party to stand for re-election later that year, but he outlived his successor as president, Warren Harding, who died in 1923 from a cardiac arrest.

Source Notes

Scottish Football Association
Scotland - The Complete International Record: Richard Keir
London Hearts
original newspaper reports
FA Yearbooks 1950-60
LFChistory
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