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137 vs. Ireland

138
139 vs. Wales

Thursday, 1 November 1923
Football Association Friendly Match

Belgium 2 England 2 [1-1]
 

Match Summary
Belgium Party

England Party

Bosuil Stadion, Schoten, Antwerpen
Attendance: 40,000;
Kick-off: tbc GMT

Belgium - Henri Larnoe (7), Achille Schelstraete (penalty 75)
England - Bill Brown (32), Tommy Roberts (80)
Results 1919-30

? won the toss, ? kicked-off.

 

Match Summary

Officials

Belgium

Type

England

Referee - Johannes Mutters
34, (19 February 1889) Netherlands

Linesmen - not known

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Belgium Team

 

Rank:

No official ranking system established;
ELO rating 6th
Colours: Probably Black shirts, black shorts and black socks
Capt: Armand Swartenbroeks Selectors: William Sturrock Maxwell, 47 (21 September 1876)
Belgium Lineup
  de Bie, Jan 31 9 May 1892 G Royal Racing Club de Bruxelles 17 26 GA
  Swartenbroeks, Armand J.A.A. 31 30 June 1892 RB Daring Club de Bruxelles Societe Royale 25 0
  Verbeeck, Oscar 32 6 August 1891 LB Union Saint-Gilloise Societe Royale 19 0
  Fierens, Andréas J. 25 8 February 1898 RH Beerschot AC 14 0
  Vanhalme, Florimond 28 21 March 1895 CH Cercle Sportif Brugeois 9 0
Schelstraete, Achille 26 31 January 1897 LH Cercle Sportif Brugeois 5 1
  Goetinck, Hector 37 5 March 1886 OR Royal FC Brugeois 17 2
  Gillis, Maurice 25 6 November 1897 IR Royal Standard Club Liege 8 4
Larnoe, A. Henri 26 18 May 1897 CF Beerschot AC 16 9
  Thys, Ivan 26 29 April 1897 IL Beerschot AC 7 2
  Bastin, Désiré 23 4 March 1900 OL Royal Antwerp FC 11 0

reserves:

reserves not known

team notes:

Coach, Willie Maxwell, played for Scotland against England in 1898.
 
formation formation -

Averages:

Age 28.2 Appearances/Goals 13.5 1.5

 

England Team

 

Rank:

No official ranking system established;
ELO rating 9th
Colours: The 1923 uniform - White collared jerseys and dark club shorts
Capt: Graham Doggart, first captaincy Selectors: The fourteen-man FA International Selection Committee, following the trial match, on Monday, 8 October 1923.
105th match, W 70 - D 21 - L 14 - F 329 - A 101.
England Lineup
  Hufton, A. Edward 30 25 November 1892 G West Ham United FC 1 2 GA
  Cresswell, Warneford 25 5 November 1897 RB Sunderland AFC 3 0
Bower, Alfred George 27 10 November 1895 LB Corinthians FC, Casuals FC & Old Carthusians FC 2 0
  Moss, Frank 28 17 April 1895 RH Aston Villa FC 4 0
  Seddon, James 28 20 May 1895 CH Bolton Wanderers FC 4 0
  Barton, Percy A. 30 20 January 1893 LH Birmingham FC 4 0
  Hegan, Lt. Kenneth E. 22 24 January 1901 OR Royal Army Service Corps FC & Corinthians FC 4 4
Brown, William 23 22 August 1900 IR West Ham United FC 1 1
Roberts, W. Thomas 26 29 November 1896 CF Preston North End FC 1 1
  Doggart, A. Graham 26 2 June 1897 IL Corinthians FC 1 0
  Urwin, Tom 27 5 February 1896 OL Middlesbrough FC 3 0

reserves:

George Armitage (Wimbledon FC) and Harold Miller (Chelsea FC)
 
2-3-5 Hufton -
Cresswell, Bower -
Moss, Seddon, Barton -
Hegan, Brown, Roberts, Doggart, Urwin

Averages:

Age 26.6 Appearances/Goals 2.5 0.3

 

    Match Report

IN OTHER NEWS...

It was on 1 November 1923 that a convicted burglar, known as 'Silky Bob' Sheppard had his death sentence commuted to life in prison for the murder of his twenty-year-old girlfriend, Florence Jones in Tottenham. He had placed a gas tube in her mouth, but claimed that they had made a suicide pact which he then regretted. However, a year earlier, he had attempted to strangle her and had also briefly confessed to the vicious murder of Sarah Blake, a pub landlady in Oxfordshire, only for the police to instead arrest a fifteen-year-old boy, Jack Hewitt, who ended up serving ten years for the crime, with Sheppard serving just six months for burglary. Sheppard's true nature was surely confirmed, four months after avoiding the death penalty, when he tried to strangle a prison officer's daughter, Ethel Fry, and also knocked out her mother after escaping from a working party outside Parkhurst Prison on the Isle of Wight. Two months later, he was certified insane and sent to Broadmoor Asylum for the rest of his life.

 

Source Notes

TheFA.com
Belgianfootball.be

Rothmans Yearbooks
Textbelgium/teams
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