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Wednesday,
18 November 1931
Home International Championship 1931-32
(44th) Match
England
3 Wales 1
[1-1]
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Match
Summary
England Party
Wales Party |
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Anfield Road,
Anfield, Liverpool, Lancashire
Attendance:
15,000;
Kick-off:
tbc GMT |
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Wales -
Walter
Robbins (Cook controlled the ball
skilfully before passing to Robbins whose left foot shot was well out
of the reach of Hibbs 30)
England -
Jack Smith (placed from a Strange pass from a free-kick 38), Sammy Crooks
(cut in finely to shoot on the run following a Bastin cross 50), Ernie Hine (scored
from a pass from Crooks, the ball going in off Gray's arm 65) |
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Results 1930-39 |
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England won the toss, Wales
kicked-off. |
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Match
Summary |
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 Officials |
England |
Type |
Wales |
Referee -
William Frederick Bunnell
47 (21 July 1884), Liverpool,
England.
Linesmen -
F. Boardman, Cheshire, and not known
Prior to the match, the draw for the FA Cup first round was made.
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Goal Attempts |
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Attempts on Target |
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Hit Bar/Post |
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Corner Kicks Won |
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Offside Calls Against |
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Fouls Conceded |
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Possession |
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flg.jpg) England
Team |
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Rank: |
No official ranking system established;
ELO rating
6th |
Colours: |
The 1923 uniform
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White collared jerseys and dark club shorts |
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Capt: |
Alf Strange, third captaincy |
Selectors:
In charge:
Arthur G. Kingscott |
The
fourteen-man FA International Selection Committee, following a trial match, on
Monday, 9 November 1931.
146th match, W 94 - D 27 - L 25 - F 448 - A 166. |
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England
Lineup |
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Hibbs, E.
Henry |
25 |
27 May 1906 |
G |
Birmingham FC |
9 |
11 GA |
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Cooper, Thomas |
26 |
9 April 1905 |
RB |
Derby County FC |
9 |
0 |
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Blenkinsop, Ernest |
29 |
20 April 1902 |
LB |
Sheffield Wednesday FC |
20 |
0 |
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Strange, Alfred H. |
31 |
2 April 1900 |
RH |
Sheffield Wednesday FC |
10 |
0 |
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Gee, Charles W. |
22 |
6 April 1909 |
CH |
Everton FC |
1 |
0 |
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Campbell, Austen F. |
30 |
5 May 1901 |
LH |
Huddersfield Town AFC |
7 |
1 |
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Crooks, Samuel D. |
23 |
16 January 1908 |
OR |
Derby County FC |
10 |
3 |
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Smith, John W. |
33 |
28 October 1898 |
IR |
Portsmouth FC |
2 |
2 |
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Waring, Thomas |
25 |
12 October 1906 |
CF |
Aston Villa FC |
4 |
3 |
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Hine, Ernest W. |
30 |
9 April 1901 |
IL |
Leicester City FC |
6 |
4 |
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Bastin, Clifford S. |
19 |
14 March 1912 |
OL |
Arsenal FC |
1 |
0 |
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reserves: |
Joe Tate (Aston Villa FC) and
Tosh Johnson (Everton FC) |
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2-3-5 |
Hibbs -
Cooper, Blenkinsop -
Strange, Gee, Campbell -
Crooks, Smith, Waring, Hine, Bastin |
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Averages: |
Age |
26.6 |
Appearances/Goals |
7.2 |
0.9 |
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 Wales
Team |
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Rank: |
No official ranking system established;
ELO rating
30th to 31st |
Colours: |
Made by St. Margaret's -
Red shirts with white collars, white shorts, red socks |
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Capt: |
Ben Williams |
Selectors: |
Team
selection chosen by Committee. |
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Wales
Lineup |
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Gray, Albert |
31 |
23 September 1900 |
G |
Tranmere Rovers FC, England |
17 |
35
GA |
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Williams, Benjamin D. |
31 |
29 October 1900 |
RB |
Everton FC, England |
6 |
0 |
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Ellis, Benjamin |
25 |
11 April 1906 |
LB |
Motherwell FC, Scotland |
1 |
0 |
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Jones, Charles |
31 |
12 December 1899 |
RH |
Arsenal FC, England |
7 |
0 |
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Griffiths, Thomas |
25 |
21 February 1906 |
CH |
Everton FC, England |
7 |
1 |
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John, Robert F. |
32 |
3 February 1899 |
LH |
Arsenal FC, England |
10 |
0 |
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Phillips, Cuthbert |
21 |
23 June 1910 |
OR |
Wolverhampton Wanderers FC, England |
2 |
1 |
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O'Callaghan, Eugene |
25 |
6 October 1906 |
IR |
Tottenham Hotspur FC, England |
4 |
1 |
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Astley, David J. |
22 |
11 October 1909 |
CF |
Aston Villa FC, England |
2 |
0 |
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Robbins, Walter W. |
20 |
24 November 1910 |
IL |
Cardiff City FC |
4 |
1 |
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Cook, Frederick |
29 |
20 January 1902 |
OL |
Portsmouth FC, England |
8 |
0 |
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reserves: |
reserves not known |
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2-3-5 |
Gray -
Williams, Ellis -
Jones, Griffiths, John -
Phillips, O'Callaghan, Astley, Robbins, Cook |
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Averages: |
Age |
26.5 |
Appearances/Goals |
6.2 |
0.3 |
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Match Report |
England beat Wales yesterday
afternoon on the ground of the Liverpool F.C. at Anfield by three goals
to one.
A defeat by two goals scarcely
did justice to the Welsh team, who, if their inside forwards had shot
better, might well have scored several times. Up to half-time the Welsh
team seemed, on the muddy ground, to be the more aggressive side, for
they kept the play open and did not waste time in close dribbling...
Griffiths started a movement
which Cook carried on before passing to Robbins, who shot a goal with
his left foot. England pressed hard after that. Strange got the ball
from a free kick and passed to Smith, who took it on a few paces and
shot a goal.
In the second half Bastin could
not elude Jones and Williams, but after five minutes he took a long pass
from the right wing, returned the ball to the centre, and gave Crooks
the chance to dash in and shoot past Gray as he came out...
Strange once more started an
attack and Crooks took the ball down the field and then passed to Hine,
who scored, the ball touching the goalkeeper's arm before going into the
net...- The Times -
Thursday
19th November, 1931
IN OTHER NEWS...
It was on 17 November 1931
that an inquest was adjourned due to the mysterious lack of
identification from a double shooting in a Southampton hotel, three days
earlier, which left a man dead and a woman seriously ill, both from
gunshot wounds. The mystery was eventually solved and the inquest
concluded, five months later. It transpired that the couple, 55-year-old
Roland Draper, and his lover, Gladys Tressider, had conspired to die
together in a suicide pact and had attempted to destroy everything that
could identify them. Draper had shot Gladys and then turned the gun on
himself. The woman survived because the bullet missed her heart, and she
rang the service bell for help, but she was left paralysed from the
waist down.
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Source Notes |
Welsh Football Data Archive
Original newspaper reports
Rothmans Yearbooks
FA Yearbooks 1950-60
Ancestry.com
John Treleven
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