flg.jpg) England Party
to tour
Germany November 1899 |
|
Player |
Birthdate |
Age |
Pos |
Club |
App |
G |
Capt |
|
Original Selection |
|
Bach, Philip |
8 September 1872 |
27 |
RB |
Sunderland AFC |
1 |
0 |
0 |
|
Bassett, William I. |
27 January 1869 |
30 |
OR |
West Bromwich Albion FC |
16 |
5 or 6 |
0 |
|
Brown, E.D |
not known |
nk |
IR |
Clapton
FC |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
Crabtree, James W. |
23 December 1871 |
27 |
HB |
Aston Villa FC |
9 |
0 |
0 |
|
Goodall, John |
19 June 1863 |
36 |
IR |
Derby County FC |
1 |
0 |
0 |
|
Goodall withdrew from the tour at some point |
|
Needham, Ernest |
21 January 1873 |
26 |
LHB |
Sheffield United FC |
12 |
5 or 6 |
0 |
|
Needham had not received permission from his club to take part |
Rogers, Joseph James
no evidence
of James |
1874
no evidence |
nk |
OR |
Newcastle United FC |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
Rothwell, Herbert |
28 February 1877 |
22 |
LB |
Glossop FC |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
Herbert Rothwell declined his invitation on 4 November |
|
Waller, Wilfred Hugh |
27 July 1877
in South Africa |
22 |
GK |
Richmond AFC |
0 |
0ᵍᵃ |
0 |
|
Wreford-Brown, Oswald Eric |
21 July 1877 |
22 |
HB |
Old Carthusians AFC |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
Additional Selection |
|
Barrett, Herbert
Roper |
24 November 1873 |
25 |
LHB |
Casuals AFC |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
Barrett, the tennis player, withdrew from the tour at some point |
|
Briggs, Stanley |
7 February 1871 |
28 |
CHB |
Clapton FC |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
Chadwick, Edgar W. |
14 June 1869 |
30 |
IL |
Burnley FC |
7 |
2 or 3 |
0 |
|
Cox, John D. |
21 October 1867 |
32 |
RHB |
Derby County FC |
1 |
0 |
0 |
|
Forman, Frederick R. |
8 November 1873 |
26 |
OL |
Nottingham Forest FC |
3 |
3 |
0 |
|
Holt, John |
16
October 1866 |
33 |
CHB |
Reading FC |
9 |
0 |
0 |
|
Holt was drafted in as a replacement for the original captain Charlie
Wreford-Brown |
|
Taylor, Stanley Shelbourne |
2 March 1875 |
24 |
IR |
Cambridge University AFC &
Corinthians FC |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
Wilson, Geoffrey P. |
21 February 1878 |
21 |
CF |
Corinthians FC &
'London Hospital' |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
Wreford-Brown, Charlesᶜ |
9 October 1866 |
33 |
CHB |
unattached 'retired' |
4 |
0 |
2 or 3 |
|
original captain Charlie Wreford-Brown withdrew from the tour because
of an injury |
All
information is complete to and including England's last match, the third
of the 1898-99 season, against Scotland on 8 April 1899.
Notes regarding Joe Rogers.... the only
Joseph James born in Coventry occurred in the 1876 summer, and he died
before the next quarter.
Diary
Wednesday, 18 October
1899 - The Football Association, by means of a
circular to all of its clubs, request names to be nominated to
for a team to send to Germany.
Friday, 27 October
1899 - "The International
Selection Committee of the Football Association are bent on
arranging the Internationals, England v. North Germany,
England v. South Germany, and England v. Austria, at the end
of November."
Monday, 6 November 1899 - Charlie Fry and Gilbert Smith
confirm that they cannot undertake the journey.
Glossop captain, Herbert Rothwell, has also declined the
invitation to join the tour.
Saturday, 11 November
1899 -
"It has now been
definitely decided that the English association team which is
to play four international matches in Germany are to appear in
Carlsruhe, Prague, and Berlin, in the order given. According to
the arrangements made, they are to leave London on the 20th
inst., in the evening. A journey of twenty-one hours will
bring them to Carlsruhe, where they are to play the opening
match on Wednesday, the 22nd. The programme, as completed, is:—
November
22.—Carlsruhe.
November
25.—Prague.
November 27,
28.—Berlin. |
|
The second match
at Berlin completes the tour, and the team, leaving on the
following morning (November 29), should reach London just
before eight a.m. on the 30th inst."
Saturday, 18 November
1899 - "Appended is
the revised official programme of the Football Association
Tour in Germany with the names of players and officials:—Monday,
November 20.—The party will meet at Holborn Viaduct Station at
8 p.m., and travel by the 8.45 train (saloon) to Queenborough.
Supper will be served on board the steamer on arriving at
10.30 p.m. Tuesday, November 21.—Arrive Berlin 7 p.m.
(Hotel Monopole). Wednesday, November 22.—Match played in
Berlin in afternoon. Thursday, November 23.—Return match played
in Berlin in afternoon. Friday, November 24.—Leave Berlin 8
a.m.. Arrive Prague 3.10 p.m. (Hotel Cheval Noir). Saturday,
November 25.—Match in Prague in afternoon. Sunday, November 26.—Leave
Prague 8.25 a.m., arrive Stuttgart 8.45 (Hotel Marguardt).
Monday, November 27.—Leave Stuttgart 10.35 a.m., arrive
Carlsruhe 12.32 a.m. (Hotel Germania). Tuesday, November
28.—Match in Carsruhe in afternoon. Wednesday, November
29.—Leave Carlsruhe 11.40 a.m. for home. Thursday, November
30.—Arrive London 7.50 a.m. N.B.—The arrangements between Prague
and Carlsruhe might be altered."
Monday, 20
November 1899 -
"DEPARTURE OF
ENGLISH TEAM FOR
GERMANY.—A large
company assembled at the Holborn Viaduct Station [tonight] to
witness the departure of the English footballers, who travel
via Queenborough and Flushing, to take part in the tour in
Germany. As was feared would be the case, C. Wreford-Brown,
who was present to see the players off, has been prevented
from joining them, owing to not having altogether recovered
from his recent injury, and his place as centre-half will be
filled by J. Holt (the old International centre-half) now of
Reading, while S. H. Taylor, of the Corinthians, has also been
included. The team are accompanied by Messrs J. J. Bentley
(Lancashire), G. S. Sherrington (Suffolk), and Charles J.
Hughes (Cheshire). They received a big ovation as the train
steamed out of the station sharp to time."
Thursday,
23 November
1899 -
"It is to be feared that certain of our Continental critics
will attach some political significance to the departure of an
English Association team to Germany at the same time that the
Kaiser is visiting our shores. As a matter of fact, football
relations between the two countries are somewhat strained, and
the German associations have sent something in the nature of
an ultimatum to the English Football Association."
Germany 2 England 13 -
"The
English Eleven played the first of the four matches arranged
on the Berlin Athletic Sports ground against a German team,
to-day, under Association rules. The Englishmen easily
defeated their opponents by 13 goals to 2, although a strong
wind blowing across the ground hampered the scoring."
Friday, 24 November 1899 - German 2 England
10 -
"The English football team in Germany are apparently having a good time.
They have the two matches played in Berlin by 13 goals to to 2 and 10 to
2. They are evidently teaching the Germans something. Who knows, but
England v. Germany may not be a great international in years to come." |
"Unfortunately the weather was not too good, rain
falling and the wind blowing, and consequently the
attendance was not what we get, say at Celtic Park,
when our International is played there. Still, the
people who braved the elements enjoyed themselves. The
Englishmen again had the benefit of the wind in the
first half, registering six goals to one. They had
nearly all the play, but hardly deserved the six
goals, the custodian being very weak. The Germans
opened the second half very well indeed, and Boch
scored, so that the totals were now six to two. We had
a lot of interesting play after this, and although
they were opposed to a more scientific team the German
contingent never gave up in the slightest degree, and
it was no child's play for our men if they did obtain
three more goals and won by ten to two. Rogers,
Taylor, and Wreford-Brown took the places of Chadwick,
E. D. Brown, and Cox, the latter officiating in quite
an expert manner as referee.
"The ground was very
soft, and occasionally the players kicked up a bit of
turf instead of the ball, but it is a capital
enclosure, and quite English in its construction. The
team of Friday was better than the one which met the
previous day, with the one exception of the
goalkeeper, for the diminutive gentleman who
officiated in our opening match played a very smart
game. So did Langer in the second half, but previous
to that he shaped poorly. The backs were very good,
Westendarp, a well-built young fellow, and a student
with several honourable duel marks on his face, being
particularly serviceable, especially in tackling, and
Kohts did well also. I. Schricker was again prominent
at half-back, and this young gentleman would make a
rattling good footballer with proper training. We met
the same left wing as on Thursday, and they again
played well, whilst in Link they possess a speedy and
clever outside right. The team as a whole played a
capital game, and have been taught a lesson of
unselfishness, for with one or two exceptions they
seldom try to dribble past an opponent, but
immediately endeavour to pass the ball to one of their
own side, whilst they never give up. From what I have
seen there is a big future for Association football in
Berlin, and one or two expert coaches from England
would make a vast difference in a very short time. The
Englishmen played a pretty game—not too much show, but
just show enough. Bassett had done so well on Thursday
that the Germans, who are thorough in anything they
undertake, held a Council or War, and decided that
Bassett had to be shadowed. It wanted a lot of doing,
but the West Bromwich man was not nearly so
successful, and the best of the lot was Rogers, who
scored five goals from inside-left. Both Taylor and
Wilson worked hard, and the last-named should make a
capital centre-forward if he will only know when he
has gone far enough 'on hos own,' for he is very
clever with the ball. At half-back Holt was to the
fore, and in a collision the opposing centre-half
imagined a giant had come across him unawares. Both
Stanley Briggs—who makes a splendid captain, and is the
most jovial of companions—and Wreford-Brown laboured
industriously. Indeed, the whole team went about it as
if they meant business, and were compelled to do, for
their opponents were not discouraged by being
outwitted or outmanœuvered, but immediately returned
to the attack. Crabtree again gave a splendid
exhibition of back play, all things considered, and so
did Bach, whilst Waller filled the unsatisfactory
position of goalkeeper very well indeed. It is not a
pleasant task to watch your own people attacking and
then to find an unexpected attack from a flank which
had not been previously covered." |
|
| The England party depart from the match and leave
immediately for Prague. |
|
"It was a rush to catch the 1-20 train to Prague, and
we had left the luggage, no inconsiderable item, at
the hotel, but Mr. J. Haan, the courier sent out by
Cook's, has been a little further afield than Berlin,
and when we arrived at the station all the baggage was
there, and as showing the care which Mr. Haan was
taking of us belated travellers in an unknown land, I
may mention the fact that I had left a dearly loved
pipe in the bedroom, but it formed part of Mr. Haan's
stock-in-trade. Our altered arrangements, owing to the
postponed match on Wednesday, had somewhat upset the
train accommodation, but we got along pretty fairly,
and took advantage of half an hour's stop at Dresden
to partake of dinner, afterwards proceeding to Prague,
where he had a most hearty reception. This is Friday
night, and in the morning we intend to explore the
historic associations of the city, which is one of
churches and palaces. At the present time we are
wondering what the results of to-morrow's matches will
be, and hope that some kind friend will send us a
comprehensive telegram for we are a bit lucky to have
received English news two days late."
- The
Athletic News, Monday, 27 November 1899 |
|
"We had jolly doings at Berlin, and the Germans in
Prague were quite equal to the occasion, for although
we arrived in the ancient city late, there was a
deputation to receive us, and Professor Von
Leudenfield welcomed us in appropriate terms and
excellent English, but then, he read a paper at the
meeting of the British Association last year. Prague
is historical rather than beautiful.
"The Professor and other supporters of the game in
Prague were early on the scone with half-a-dozen
carriages, and as Prague is a very hilly city, and as
some of the English party are young Daniel Lamberts,
it was necessary to bring them along with a pair of
horses. There were many buildings of historical
interest, and from the Castle we had a splendid view
of the City of Churches, towers, and palaces. Our
guide informed us that there were 55 churches, 102
towers, and 68 palaces. We took his word for it
without counting. The ground is situated at the top of
a hill, and the Prague players evidently like plenty
of room, for I should say it is 85 yards wide and
about 125 long. There was a capital crowd, probably
about 4,000, and it was one of the most fashionable
gatherings I have ever seen at a football match.
Nearly all the leading German families were
represented, whilst the Bohemian Governor and his wife
put in an attendance, and there were, if anything,
more ladies than gentlemen. And the Prague ladies know
how to dress! Without hearing them speak you would
imagine you were in the company of English ladies."
- The
Athletic News, Monday, 4 December 1899 |
|
|
England
Form: last six
games |
|
W W W W W W
f 28:a 6
success: 100% |
|
62 |
5 March 1898 -
Ireland 2
England 3
[1-2]
Cliftonville Gardens,
Belfast
(10,000 to 15,000) |
Pyper,
McAllen
Richards, Athersmith, Morren |
BC |
AW |
|
63 |
28 March 1898 -
Wales 0
England 3
[0-1]
The Racecourse, Wrexham
(5,000 to 6,000) |
Wheldon (2),
Smith |
AW |
|
64 |
2 April 1898 -
Scotland 1 England 3
[0-2]
Celtic Park, Glasgow
(39,850) |
Millar
Wheldon,
Bloomer (2) |
AW |
|
65 |
18 February 1899 -
England
13
Ireland
2 [5-0]
Roker Park Ground, Sunderland
(10,000 to 15,000) |
Fk
Forman, Fd
Forman (2), Athersmith,
Smith (4), Bloomer (2), Settle
(3)
McAllen, Campbell |
BC |
HW |
|
66 |
20 March 1899 -
England 4
Wales
0 [2-0]
Athletic Ground, Bedminster
(6,000) |
Needham, Bloomer (2),
Fd Forman |
HW |
|
67 |
8 April 1899 -
England 2
Scotland
1 [2-0]
Aston Lower Grounds, Birmingham
(25,590) |
Smith, Settle
Morgan |
HW |
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