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1923-24

Football League 1924-25

1925-26
  
Final League Table - Division I
Teams in a silver box denotes a player representing England in 1924-25
Teams in italics were relegated to the second division for the following season
Team P Home Away
W D L F A W D L F A
Huddersfield Town 42 10 8 3 31 10 11 8 2 38 18 58
West Bromwich Albion 42 13 6 2 40 17 10 4 7 18 17 56
Bolton Wanderers 42 18 2 1 61 13 4 9 8 15 21 55
Liverpool 42 13 5 3 43 20 7 5 9 20 35 50
Bury 42 13 4 4 35 20 4 11 6 19 31 49
Newcastle United 42 11 6 4 43 18 5 10 6 18 24 48
Sunderland 42 13 6 2 39 14 6 4 11 25 37 48
Birmingham 42 10 8 3 27 17 7 4 10 22 36 46
Notts County 42 11 6 4 29 12 5 7 9 13 19 45
Manchester City 42 11 7 3 44 29 6 2 13 32 39 43
Cardiff City 42 11 5 5 35 19 5 6 10 21 32 43
Tottenham Hotspur 42 9 8 4 32 16 6 4 11 20 27 42
West Ham United 42 12 7 2 37 12 3 5 13 25 48 42
Sheffield United 42 10 5 6 34 25 3 8 10 21 38 39
Aston Villa 42 10 7 4 34 25 3 6 12 24 46 39
Blackburn Rovers 42 7 6 8 31 26 4 7 10 22 40 35
Everton 42 11 4 6 25 20 1 7 13 15 40 35
Leeds United 42 9 8 4 29 17 2 4 15 17 42 34
Burnley 42 7 8 6 28 31 4 4 13 18 44 34
Arsenal 42 12 3 6 33 17 2 2 17 13 41 33
Preston North End 42 8 2 11 29 35 2 4 15 8 39 26
Nottingham Forest 42 5 6 10 17 23 1 6 14 12 42 24

West Bromwich Albion recorded a six-match winning run from 13 December 1924:
Nottingham F. (h) 5-1, Bury (a) 2-0, Manchester C. (a) 2-1, (h) 3-1, Notts C. (a) 2-0, Everton (h) 3-0, and then won an FA Cup tie, before losing 3-0 at Sunderland on 17 January 1925. Tottenham also had a six-match winning sequence in league games from 24 January 1925, before losing at home to Huddersfield on 14 March 1925. Huddersfield's biggest winning sequence was their first four matches of the season.

Blackpool, Clapton Orient, Derby County, Millwall, Southampton, Stockport County and The Wednesday, from the second division, and Brighton & Hove Albion, from the third division (south) also had players representing England.


How The League Was Won 1924-25 Season
Timeline
36 Saturdays from 30 August 1924 (a week later than the previous season) to 2 May 1925, plus the first three days in September 1924 (Monday to Wednesday), Monday 8th and Wednesday 10th September 1924, Christmas Day (Thursday, 25th December 1924), Boxing Day (Friday, 26th December 1924), New Year's Day (Thursday, 1st January 1925), Good Friday, 10 April 1925 and Easter Monday, 13 April 1925
There were four other games played on Mondays, and three on Wednesdays in September, one on a Monday, two on Wednesdays and one on a Thursday in October, and one on a Monday, one on a Wednesday and one on a Thursday in November. One game was played on a Monday in December, and one on a Wednesday in January. Games were played on Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays in March, and on every day, except Sunday, in April. The FA Cup took precedence on six weekends from the first round on 10 January 1925 to the final on 25 April 1925. There were three weeks between each round, apart from two weeks before the fourth round, and four before the final. Last league games were on Saturday, 2 May 1925.
Wednesday, 29 April 1925
Notts County 1 Huddersfield Town 1
  
Meadow Lane, Nottingham (8,000)
Kemp ~ C.Wilson
A run of 16 games without defeat gave Huddersfield their second successive title, barring a most unlikely pair of results on the final day, three days later. For not only would Huddersfield have to lose at home to Liverpool, but West Brom would have to beat third-placed Bolton by, at least, 25 goals, for the Yorkshire club to lose their title on goal average. Bolton had only slipped out of contention themselves with Huddersfield's draw at Notts County.
Top Two 29 April 1925
Team P
Huddersfield Town 41 57
West Bromwich Albion 41 55
  
Saturday, 2 May 1925
Huddersfield Town 1 Liverpool 1
  
Leeds Road, Huddersfield (16,000)
Cawthorne
40 ~ T.Wilson o.g. 5
A low-key end to the season at Leeds Road, in comparison to the drama of twelve months earlier. Meanwhile, West Brom secured the runners-up spot in a goalless draw with Bolton, whose run of five wins in six games had come just too late to mount a challenge for the title. Surprisingly, with Huddersfield setting their sights on becoming the first to win a hat-trick of Championships, their manager, Herbert Chapman left to join Arsenal in June, a decision that would lead to him proving just what an inspiration he was.
 
The Elite League 1924-25 Season (games between the top four)
Team P Home Away
W D L F A W D L F A
Bolton Wanderers 6 2 1 0 4 1 0 3 0 0 0 8
West Bromwich Albion 6 1 2 0 1 0 0 3 0 3 3 7
Huddersfield Town 6 0 3 0 2 2 1 0 2 3 4 5
Liverpool 6 0 2 1 3 4 0 2 1 1 3 4
Liverpool and West Bromwich Albion replaced Cardiff City and Sunderland from the previous season's top four. Eight of the twelve games ended in draws.
Games played between the top two:-
Saturday, 1 November 1924
 West Bromwich Albion 1 Huddersfield Town 0
  
The Hawthorns, West Bromwich (15,683)
James
Wednesday, 11 March 1925
 Huddersfield Town 1 West Bromwich Albion 1
  
Leeds Road, Huddersfield (16,000)
Brown ~ Carter

The Continuous Post-War League 1919-25 (six seasons)
Team P Wins
Liverpool 252 120 307
Bolton Wanderers 252 112 291
Sunderland 252 115 284
West Bromwich Albion 252 108 279
Bolton reduced Liverpool's lead to 16 points.
The 'Rolling Five-Season' League
1920-25
Team P Wins
Liverpool 210 101 259
Huddersfield Town 210 95 246
Bolton Wanderers 210 93 244
Sunderland 210 93 236
Huddersfield reduced Liverpool's lead to 13 points.


Champions: Huddersfield Town
Manager:
Herbert
Chapman
1924-25 Most Appearances
by England Players
Name Played Goals
Billy Smith 41 9
Tom Wilson 40  
Roy Goodall 38  
Sam Wadsworth 33  
George Brown 32 20
Clem Stephenson 29 5
Billy Smith and Clem Stephenson did not play for England in the 1924-25 season, George Brown and Roy Goodall did not play for England until 1926 and Tom Wilson did not play for England until 1928.
1924-25 Most Goals
by England Players
Name Played Goals
George Brown 32 20
Billy Smith 41 9
Charlie Wilson scored 24 goals from 38 games.
Frank Roberts of Manchester City was top scorer with 31 goals. Second on the list was Bolton's David Jack, with 26, followed by George James of West Brom with 25 goals.

England and the Football League 1924-25 Season
England's impact on the Football League
Of the 44 playing positions used during the active 1924-25 season, Football League players provided 41 of them, and of the nine goals scored, League players scored all of them.
Including the game at the end of the season, 15 of the 22 first division clubs were represented, plus seven clubs from the second division, and Brighton & Hove Albion, from the third division (south).
18 Football League games had a direct impact on two of England's games, on 28 February 1925 and 4 April 1925.
As a result, on 28 February, England took Aston Villa's Arthur Dorrell and Billy Walker, Bolton's Dick Pym, Brighton's Tommy Cook, Burnley's Jack Hill and Bob Kelly, Clapton Orient's Jack Townrow, Manchester City's Frank Roberts, Millwall's Len Graham, Newcastle's Charlie Spencer, Notts County's Bill Ashurst
, and Joe Carter of West Bromwich Albion. On 4 April, Ashurst, Graham, Kelly, Pym, Roberts, Townrow and Walker were again missing from their clubs, as were Blackburn's Harry Healless, Huddersfield's Sam Wadsworth, Sheffield United's Fred Tunstall, Tottenham's Jack Elkes and Jimmy Seed, and Tommy Magee of West Bromwich Albion.
 
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