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Football League 1926-27

1927-28
  
Final League Table - Division I
Teams in a silver box denotes a player representing England in 1926-27
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
Newcastle United 42 19 1 1 64 20 6 5 10 32 38 56
Huddersfield Town 42 13 6 2 41 19 4 11 6 35 41 51
Sunderland 42 15 3 3 70 28 6 4 11 28 42 49
Bolton Wanderers 42 15 5 1 54 19 4 5 12 30 43 48
Burnley 42 15 4 2 55 30 4 5 12 36 50 47
West Ham United 42 9 6 6 50 36 10 2 9 36 34 46
Leicester City 42 13 4 4 58 33 4 8 9 27 37 46
Sheffield United 42 12 6 3 46 33 5 4 12 28 53 44
Liverpool 42 13 4 4 47 27 5 3 13 22 34 43
Aston Villa 42 11 4 6 51 34 7 3 11 30 49 43
Arsenal 42 12 5 4 47 30 5 4 12 30 56 43
Derby County 42 14 4 3 60 28 3 3 15 26 45 41
Tottenham Hotspur 42 11 4 6 48 33 5 5 11 28 45 41
Cardiff City 42 12 3 6 31 17 4 6 11 24 48 41
Manchester United 42 9 8 4 29 19 4 6 11 23 45 40
The Wednesday 42 15 3 3 49 29 0 6 15 26 63 39
Birmingham 42 13 3 5 36 17 4 1 16 28 56 38
Blackburn Rovers 42 9 5 7 40 40 6 3 12 37 56 38
Bury 42 8 5 8 43 38 4 7 10 25 39 36
Everton 42 10 6 5 35 30 2 4 15 29 60 34
Leeds United 42 9 7 5 43 31 2 1 18 26 57 30
West Bromwich Albion 42 10 4 7 47 33 1 4 16 18 53 30

Newcastle recorded a six-match winning run from 25 December 1926:
Cardiff (h) 5-0, Leeds (a) 2-1, (h) 1-0, Aston V. (a) 2-1, Bolton (h) 1-0, Derby (h) 3-0, and also won two FA Cup ties during the run, before losing 3-1 at Manchester United on 9 February 1927.

Middlesbrough, from the second division, also had a player representing England.


How The League Was Won 1926-27 Season
Timeline
37 Saturdays from 28 August 1926 to 7 May 1927 (a week later than the previous season), plus the first three Mondays and Wednesdays of the season, Boxing Day (Monday, 27th December 1926), Good Friday, 15 April 1927 and Easter Monday, 18 April 1927
There were four other games played on Mondays, and one on a Wednesday in September, two on a Monday, one on a Tuesday and one on a Wednesday in October, and one on a Monday in November. Five games were played on the last Tuesday of the year (Christmas Day and New Year's Day were both Saturdays), and one on a Monday in January. Games were played on Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays in February, on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays in March, every day except Sunday in April, and one each on the first Wednesday and Thursday of May. The FA Cup took precedence on six weekends from the third round on 8 January 1927 to the final on 23 April 1927. There were three weeks between each round, apart from two weeks before the sixth round, and four before the final. Last league games were on Saturday, 7 May 1927.
Saturday, 23 April 1927
Huddersfield Town 0 Manchester United 0
  
Leeds Road, Huddersfield (13,870)
Despite losing at Huddersfield, four days earlier, Newcastle's draw at Upton Park, coupled with the defending champions' failure to break down Manchester United's defence, meant that they only required one more point to end Huddersfield's three-year reign. In any case, with Newcastle's goal average being significantly better, it was quite unlikely that Huddersfield would catch them in the two remaining games. 
West Ham United 1 Newcastle United 1
  
Boleyn Ground, London (29,722)
Ruffell
~ Seymour
Top Two 23 April 1927
Team P
Newcastle United 40 54
Huddersfield Town 40 50
  
Saturday, 30 April 1927
Newcastle United 2 The Wednesday 1
  
St James' Park, Newcastle (28,421)
Gallacher (2) ~ Strange
The title was never in doubt, but Newcastle wrapped it up, thanks to two goals from star striker and captain, Hughie Gallacher, as Huddersfield crashed 4-0 at Bolton.
 
The Elite League 1926-27 Season (games between the top four)
Team P Home Away
W D L F A W D L F A
Sunderland 6 2 1 0 9 3 0 2 1 2 3 7
Newcastle United 6 3 0 0 3 0 0 0 3 1 5 6
Huddersfield Town 6 2 1 0 2 0 0 1 2 1 6 6
Bolton Wanderers 6 2 1 0 8 3 0 0 3 2 8 5
Bolton Wanderers and Newcastle United replaced Arsenal and Bury from the previous season's top four.
Games played between the top two:-
Friday, 15 April 1927
 Newcastle United 1 Huddersfield Town 0
  
St James' Park, Newcastle (60,149)
Gallacher
Tuesday, 19 April 1927
 Huddersfield Town 1 Newcastle United 0
  
Leeds Road, Huddersfield (44,636)
Brown

The Continuous Post-War League 1919-27 (eight seasons)
Team P Wins
Liverpool 336 152 394
Bolton Wanderers 336 148 383
Sunderland 336 157 381
Newcastle United 336 147 377
Bolton reduced Liverpool's lead to eleven points.
The 'Rolling Five-Season' League
1922-27
Team P Wins
Huddersfield Town 210 105 266
Sunderland 210 105 255
Liverpool 210 93 238
Newcastle United 210 92 238
Huddersfield increased their lead to eleven points.


Champions: Newcastle United
Manager:
Frank
Watt
1926-27 Most Appearances
by England Players
Name Played Goals
Frank Hudspeth 42 3
Tommy Urwin 39  
Charlie Spencer 34  
Frank Hudspeth, Charlie Spencer and Tommy Urwin did not play for England in the 1926-27 season.
1926-27 Most Goals
by England Players
Name Played Goals
Frank Hudspeth 42 3
The Wednesday's Jimmy Trotter was top scorer with 37 goals, one more than two Scotsmen; Newcastle's Hughie Gallacher, and Dave Halliday of Sunderland, on 36.

England and the Football League 1926-27 Season
England's impact on the Football League
Of the 33 playing positions used during the active 1926-27 season, Football League players provided 32 of them, and of the eight goals scored, League players scored all of them.
15 of the 22 first division clubs were represented, plus Middlesbrough from the second division.
15 Football League games had a direct impact on two of England's games, on 12 February 1927 and 2 April 1927.
As a result, on 12 February, England took Aston Villa's Billy Walker, Blackburn's Arthur Rigby, Bolton's Harry Nuttall and Jimmy Seddon, Burnley's Louis Page and George Waterfield, Everton's Bill Dean, Huddersfield's George Brown, Leeds' Willis Edwards, Middlesbrough's Billy Pease, Sheffield United's George Green, and Jack Brown of The Wednesday
. On 2 April, George Brown, Jack Brown, Dean, Edwards, Page and Rigby were again missing from their clubs, as were Arsenal's Joe Hulme, Blackburn's Herbert Jones, Burnley's Jack Hill, Huddersfield's Roy Goodall and Bob Kelly, Leicester's Sid Bishop, and Fred Kean of The Wednesday.
 
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