|
Rank |
No official ranking system established; ELO rating
6th |
Colours |
"...their opponents in dark blue, following a few minutes later."
"...blue-jerseyed Irishmen." "The home representatives wore royal
blue jerseys." |
Captain |
Willie Gordon |
Selection |
Ireland Selection Committee |
P 1 of 2, W 0 - D 0 - L 1 - F 0 - A 2. |
team chosen on
Tuesday, 1 March 1892 |
Ireland
Lineup |
|
Clugston, William John |
22 207 days |
11 August 1869 |
G |
Cliftonville FAC |
10 |
51ᵍᵃ |
will be a linesman in the 1898 fixture |
|
Gordon, Robert William Willis |
21 6 days |
28 February 1871 |
RB |
Linfield FAC |
3 |
0 |
|
Stewart, Robert Kennedy |
23 203 days |
15 August 1868 |
LB |
Cliftonville FAC |
5 |
0 |
|
McKeown, Nathaniel |
23 178 days |
9 September 1868 |
RHB |
Linfield FAC |
2 |
0 |
|
Spencer, Samuel |
23 239 days |
10 July 1868 |
CHB |
Distillery FC |
4 |
0 |
|
Cunningham, William R. |
nk |
not known |
LHB |
Ulster FC |
2 |
0 |
|
Dalton, William Boyd |
21 355 days |
16 March 1870 |
OR |
Linfield FAC |
7 |
4 |
|
Gaffikin, George John |
23 293 days |
17 May 1868 |
IR |
Linfield FAC |
6 |
1 |
|
Stanfield, Olphert Martin |
23 8 days |
26 February 1869 |
CF |
Distillery FC |
16 |
7 |
most apps |
most gls |
|
Torrans, Samuel |
22 30 days |
4 February 1869 |
IL |
Linfield FAC |
7 |
0 |
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first (& missed)
penalty kick against England |
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Peden, John,
injured off
30th min. |
28 237 days |
12 July 1863 |
OL |
Linfield FAC |
12 |
2 |
reserves: |
not known |
team
notes: |
Ireland played most of the match with just ten men, following Peden's
injury, 'a small ligament had parted from
a region in his ankle', he had collided with Jack Cox. |
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2-3-5 |
Clugston - Gordon, Stewart - McKeown, Spencer,
Cunningham - Dalton, Gaffikin, Stanfield, Torrans, Peden |
Averages: |
Age |
23 years 175
years10 |
Appearances/Goals |
6.7 |
1.3 |
most experienced team that England have faced so far |
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Rank |
No official ranking system established; ELO rating
2nd to 1st |
Colours |
"...the English
were first to appear in white jerseys..."
"clad in white jerseys and dark pants." |
Captain |
not known |
Selection |
following
the trial game,
The seven-man FA
International Selection Committee |
|
(Messrs.
Jackson, Clegg, Gregson, Hughes, Widdowson, Crump, Bentley and Gunning) |
There is not a single contemporaneous record of England's captain for this
match |
P 13 of 195, W 11 - D 1 -
L 1 - F 54 - A
13. |
teams chosen at the Queen's Hotel, Birmingham on Monday, 29
February 1892 |
England
Lineup |
|
five changes to
previous match |
league position (29th
February) |
ave lge pos:
15th⁹ |
|
Rowley, William S. |
26 176 days |
11
September 1865 |
G |
Stoke FC
(FL 13th) |
2 |
1ᵍᵃ |
|
first goalkeeper to face a penalty kick |
final app 1889-92 |
|
Clare,
Thomas |
27 30 days |
4
February 1865 |
RB |
Stoke FC
(FL 13th) |
2 |
0 |
|
Underwood, Alfred |
22 326 days |
14 April 1869 |
LB |
Stoke FC
(FL 13th) |
2 |
0 |
final app
1891-92 |
185 |
|
Cox, John D. |
24 136 days |
21
October 1867 |
RHB |
Derby County FC
(FL 11th) |
1 |
0 |
the third County player to represent
England |
only app
1892 |
|
Holt, John |
25 141 days |
16
October 1866 |
CHB |
Everton FC
(FL 7th) |
4 |
0 |
186 |
|
Whitham,
Michael |
24 120 days |
6 November 1867 |
LHB |
Sheffield United FC |
1 |
0 |
the first United player to represent
England |
only app
1892 |
187 |
|
Athersmith
Harper, W.
Charles |
19 300 days |
10 May
1872 |
OR |
Aston Villa FC
(FL 4th) |
1 |
0 |
the 6th/7th Villain to represent
England |
188 |
|
Pearson, John H. |
24 40 days |
25 January 1868 |
IR |
Crewe Alexandra FC |
1 |
0 |
the only Alexandrian to represent
England |
only app
1892 |
189 |
|
Devey, John H.G. |
25 70 days |
26 December 1866 |
CF |
Aston Villa FC
(FL 4th) |
1 |
0 |
the 6th/7th Villain to represent
England |
|
Daft, Harry B. |
25 335 days |
5
April 1866 |
IL |
Notts County FC
(FL 5th) |
5 |
3 |
the 28th brace scored |
final app 1889-92 |
|
Hodgetts,
H. Dennis |
28 98 days |
28 November 1863 |
OL |
Aston Villa FC
(FL 4th) |
4 |
1 |
reserves: |
not known; despite the announcement from The Queen's Hotel (left). |
|
appearance notes: |
Harry Daft is 28th player to make five
England appearances. 34 players have
now appeared for England more than four times. One hundred players have
now played for England more than once. Harry Daft is also the seventh
player to make five appearances under the ISC. |
records: |
England's first clean sheet on a Saturday since March 1888 (eleven matches).
Which, incidentally, make the only two clean sheets under the guidance
of the ISC. The first time that England have won by scoring just
two goals from the same player. |
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"The English team arrived yesterday
[Friday] morning, and put up at
the Hotel Shaftesbury, and afterwards drove to Bangor in one or Mr.
Braithwaites well-appointed four-horse brakes." |
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2-3-5 |
Rowley - Clare, Underwood - Cox, Holt, Whitham -
Athersmith, Pearson, Devey, Daft, Hodgetts |
Averages: |
Age |
24 years 327
days |
Appearances/Goals |
2.2 |
0.2 |
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Match Report
Dublin Daily Express, Monday,
7 March 1892 |
Ireland
again sustained defeat to-day in the eleventh international contest with
England, which took place on the Cliftonville grounds, Belfast. The
weather was most favourable, the ground was in excellent condition, and
the match throughout was a splendid exposition of Association football.
The English team was a very fine combination, and was said authoritatively
to be the best that has ever done battle against Ireland. The Irish team
was an excellent one, and played well throughout the match. The Irish
captain winning the toss, Devey kicked off for England. The visitors at
once started to press, Holt sending in some hot shots. The Irish team now
put in some good work, M'Keown showing up well. S Torrans gave a splendid
centre to Stanfield who shot hard, Rowley just saving, and no more, the
ball going into touch. Clugston was called upon several times to save some
of Daft's splendid shots. Peden, Ireland's principal forward, when on the
ball got an ugly kick from Cox on the leg. The play was suspended, the
injured player being carried off the field. A medical examination showed
that Peden's ankle had sustained a severe twist. The referee decided to
give a foul for the offence, but that was poor compensation for the loss
of a first-rate forward. Play was resumed by Dalton, who had run the
entire length of the field. The play for a time was very vigorous on
either side, several capital shots being saved by Clugston. Athersmith,
however, sending well across the goal mouth, Daft headed through, scoring
first for England. No further scoring took place till half-time, when
England was leading by 1 goal to nil. The second half was in a large
measure a repetition of the first. Gaffikin got away in midfield, and
tackling Holt passed to Stanfield, who dribbled up the field, until
knocked over by Whitten. The English right wing raced down the
field, and Athersmith cantering very swiftly across the goal mouth Daft
caught the leather on the fly, and promptly scored the second goal for
England. Clugston, whose play throughout was excellent, had to save
several lightning shots by the English forwards. Holt got his leg injured
by G Gaffikin, but no foul followed, as the injury was the result of an
accident. No further scoring was made and the match ended in another
victory for England.
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Match Report
The Times, Monday,
7 March 1892 |
Many thousand spectators visited
the Cliftonville Ground, Belfast, to witness the 11th annual match
between England and Ireland...
At length, a little before the
first half of time had elapsed, Athersmith muddled the ball to Daft, who
butted it between the posts, thus securing the first goal for the
visitors...
...The English resumed their
attacks, and Daft, who had the ball well passed to him, sent it under
the cross-bar, thus registering the second goal... |
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In Other News....
It was on 5 March 1892 that the
inquest into the Cleckheaton Chimney Disaster of the previous week was
resumed. A 150-foot Yorkshire flannel manufacturer's mill chimney which
had been visibly deteriorating was undergoing repairs when it collapsed
onto the workplace, killing 15 people. The verdict, three weeks later,
was that it was an accident, but the owners should not have let the
chimney get into such a terrible state. |
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England gained revenge for
the previous year's Calcutta Cup defeat to beat Scotland 5-0 at Raeburn
Place in Edinburgh and win the rugby union 'Triple Crown' without conceding
a single point in the championship, a feat that has never been equalled |
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Domestic
Football Results (5 March 1892)
Teams in a silver box denotes a player representing England |
Football
Association Challenge Cup
Semi-final replay:
Nottingham Forest 1 West Bromwich Albion 1
Molineux Ground, Wolverhampton
(15,930)
Higgins
~
Bassett |
Forest had Albert Smith and Tinsley Lindley in their
line-up. |
West Brom were without Seth
Powell, but did include Joe Reader, Jack Reynolds, Charlie Perry,
Billy Bassett, their goalscorer, and Jem Bayliss (making
his final Albion appearance). |
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The tie was finally
settled in a snowstorm, four days later, at Derby, with West Brom recording
a comfortable 6-2 victory and they went on to win the trophy for the second
time, making them exempt from having to seek re-election to the Football
League after a poor season in that competition. |
The Football
League:
Accrington 3 Sunderland 5
Thorneyholme Road, Accrington
(2,000)
Bowman, Irvine, nk
~ Scott (2),
J.Hannah, McLellan OG,
Millar |
George Haworth started for Accrington |
Blackburn Rovers 4 Aston Villa 3
Ewood Park, Blackburn
(2,000)
Dewar, Townley
(2), Lofthouse
~
Campbell
(3) |
Herbie Arthur,
Jimmy Forrest,
Joe Lofthouse, Nat Walton and Billy Townley started for Rovers. |
Villa
were without Charlie Athersmith, Jack Devey and Dennis Hodgetts, and Walter Evans. |
Burnley 1 Bolton Wanderers 2
Turf Moor, Burnley
(5,000)
Nicol
~
Cassidy,
Bentley |
John Sutcliffe and Jimmy Turner started for Bolton |
Everton 1 Stoke 0
Anfield Ground, Liverpool
(7,000)
Chadwick |
Everton were without Johnny Holt, but did
have Bob Howarth, Alf Milward and Edgar Chadwick |
Stoke were without
Tommy Clare, Bill Rowley and Alf Underwood,
as well as
Joe Schofield. |
Preston North End 3 Derby County 0
Deepdale, Preston
(5,000)
J.Ross, Becton, Taylor |
Preston started with Bob Holmes |
Derby
were without Jack Cox, but did start with Jack Robinson and John Goodall. |
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Although Preston
recorded their twelfth successive victory and obviously had their
sights on regaining the League Championship for the third time in
four years, Sunderland won their ninth in a row and they would end
Preston's run in the following week, before going on to win their
first title at only the second attempt. |
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Source Notes |
TheFA
Jonny Dewart at
Northern Ireland's Footballing Greats
Cris Freddi's England Football Factbook |
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Rothman's Yearbooks The Football Association Yearbook Original Newspaper Reports
Rootschat/Ancestry.com |
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