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FACTS
WORTH
KNOWING.
In
1888-9
Preston
North
End
won
the
League
Championship
without
losing
a
match,
and
in
the
same
season
they
won
the
English
Cup
without
having
a
goal
scored
against
them
throughout
the
competition.
No
club
has
succeeded
in
winning
the
League
Championship
thrice
in
succession.
Aston
Villa
holds
'the
record
with
five
suc-
cesses,
Sunderland
having
three,
Preston
North
End
two,
and
Sheffield
United,
Ever-
ton,
and
Liverpool
one
each.
Only
two
clubs
have
accomplished
the
double
•feat
of
winning
both
the
League
Championship
and
the
English
Cup
in
the
same
season:
Preston
North
End
in
1888-9,
and
Aston
Villa
in
1896-7.
Queen's
Park
did
not
lose
a
goal
during
the
first
seven
years
of
their
existence,
com-
mencing
with
the
year
1867.
An
English
club,
the
Wanderers,
was
the
first
to
lower
their
colours
in
London.
Arbroath
beat
Bon
Accord
on
September
5th,
1885,
by
36-0,
in
a
Scotch
Cup
tie,
and
on
the
same
day
Dundee
Harp
defeated
Aber-
deen
Rovers
35-0.
The
first
recognised
International
match
with
Scotland
took
place
on
November
30th,
1872,
at
Partick,
Glasgow,
no
goals
being
scored.
The
teams
were
:—England
:
R.
Bar-
ker
(Hertfordshire
Rangers),
goal;
E.
H.
Greenhalgh
(Notts),
three-quarter-back;
R.
C.
Welch
(Harrow
Chequers),
half-back;
Y.
C.
Maddison
(Oxford
University),
fly-kick;
C.
J.
Ottaway
(Oxford
University),
captain;
A.
S.
Kirke-Smith
(Oxford
University),
C.
J.
Chenery
(Crystal
Palace),
J.
C.
Clegg
(Shef-
field),
middles;
J.
Brockbank
(Oxford
Uni-
versity),
right
side;
W.
J.
Maynard
(First
Surrey
Rifles),
J.
F.
Moriee
(Barnes),
left
side.
Scotland:
R.
Gardner
(Queen's
Park),
captain,
goal;
W.
Ker
(Granville),
J.
Taylor
(Queen's
Park),
backs;
J.
J.
Thomson,.
J.
Smith
(South
Norwood),
half-backs;
R.
Smith
(South
Norwood),
A.
Rhind,
W.
Mac-
kinnon,
D.
Wotherspoon,
J.
Weir,
and
R.
Leckie
(Queen's
Park),
forwards..
The
first
Inter-League
match
with
Scotland
was
played
at
Bolton
on
April
11th,
1892,
and
ended
in
a
draw-2
each.
The
English
League
team
was:—Reader
(West
Bromwich
Albion),
goal;
Holmes
(Preston
North
End),
Gow
(Sunderland),
backs;
Reynolds
(West
Bromwich
Albion),
Gardiner
(Bolton
(Wan-
derers),
Groves
(West
Bromwich
Albion),
half-
backs;
Bassett
(West
Bromwich
Albion),
M`Innes
(Notts),
J.
Goodall
(Derby
County),
Chadwick
(Everton),
and
Daft
(Notts
County),
forwards.
In
1895-96
Shankhouse
and
Morpeth
Har-
riers
played
five
drawn
games
in
the
final
tie
for
the
Northumberland
Cup.
The
com-
mittee
then
decided
that
the
Cup
should
be
held
by
the
two
clubs
jointly.
In
1889-1890
New
Brompton
and
Woolwich
Arsenal
met
five
times
in
the
Qualifying
Rounds
of
the
English
Cup
Competition,
while
in
1890-1
,Blackburn
Rovers
had
to
make
a
similar
number
of
attempts
to
decide
their
Lanca-
shire
Cup
tie
against
Bury.
G.
O.
Smith
has
played
in
20
matches
for
England
(seven
against
Scotland),
N.
C.
Bailey
in
19,
and
E.
C.
Bainbridge
in
18.
It
is
not
generally
known
that
an
English
Cup
semi-final
has
been
played
at
Edinburgh.
In
1885
Queen's
Park
and
Nottingham
Forest
drew
at
Derby,
and
afterwards
met
at
Mer-
chiston
Park,
Edinburgh.
Mr.
Brodie,
of
Liverpool,
invented
and
patented
goal-nets
in
1890.
They
were
first
used
in
the
North
v.
South
match,
in
January,
1891.
Turton
and
Nottingham
Forest
both
claim
to
have
been
the
first
club
to
adopt
the
three
half-backs
system.
The
oldest
Association
club
is
the
Sheffield
Club,
which
was
started
in
1855.
The
minute
book
for
1857
is
still
in
existence.
The
oldest
League
clubs
are:
Notts
County
1862,
Stoke
1863,
Nottingham
Forest
1865,
and
Sheffield
Wednesday
1866.
Brothers
who
have
played
in
International
matches
are:—E.
C.,
E.
H.,
and
A.
L.
Bam-
bridge,
J.
C.
and
W.
E.
Clegg,
A.
W.
and
H.
A.
Cursham,
F.
and
A.
Heron,
Hon.
A.
and
Hon.
E.
Lyttelton,
H.
E.
and
W.
S.
Rawson,
P.
M.
and
A.
M.
Walters,
J.
and
F.
Hargreaves,
A.
T.
and
C.
F.
Dobson,
C.
and
A.
Shelton,
F.
and
F.
R.
Forman,
C.
and
T.
Perry.
John
Reynolds
has
played
for
both
Eng-
land
and
Scotland..
R.
H.
Birkett
(Clapham
Rovers),
C.
P.
Wilson
(Cambridge
University),
and
J.
W.
Sutcliffe
(Bolton
Wanderers)
have
all
gained
Association
and
Rugby
International
caps.
Sutcliffe,
however,
did
not
actually
play
against
Scotland,
Ireland,
or
Wales,
but
against
the
Maories.
A.
H.
Evans,
C.
J.
Ottaway,
C.
B.
Fry
(Oxford),
and
F.
G.
J.
Ford
(Cambridge)
have
captained
both
Association
and
cricket
elevens
at
their
respective
Universities.
S.
W.
Widdowson,
the
old
Nottingham
Forest
and
International
player,
brought
ont
and
registered
shinguards
in
1874.
The
re-
feree's
whistle
was
first
used
on
the
Notting-
ham
Forest
ground
in
1878.
Professionalism
was
legalised
in
England
in
the
summer
of
1885,
as
the
result
of
an
agitation
by
the
Lancashire
clubs.
The
penalty
kick
was
introduced
in
the
season
of1891-2.
N.
C.
Bailey
has
played
more
times
against
Scotland
for
England
than
any
other
player.
This
remarkable
half-back
did
duty
for
ten
consecutive
years,
commencing
in
1878
and
ending
in
1887.
W.
I.
Bassett
has
figured
in
eight
consecutive
meetings
from
1889
to
1896;
while
E.
C.
Bainbridge
has
also
turned
out
on
eight
occasions,
though
he
missed
one
year,
in
1883.
W.
Arnott,
of
Queen's
Park,
has
played
in
ten
consecutive
meetings
with
England,
from
1884
to
1893.
C.
Campbell,
of
the
same
club,
has
figured
in
ten
games,
while
W.
Mackin-
non,
also
a
Queen's
man,
was
first
selected
against
England
in
1872,
and
continued
to
play
until
the
1879
encounter.
The
record
gate
at
an
International
match
is
£1,387
9s.
6d.
for
Scotland
v.
England,
at
Celtic
Park,
Glasgow,
in
1900.
The
attend-
ance
was
about
62,000.
The
record
gate
money
for
an
English
League
match
is
£1,558'
1s.
Od.,
taken
on
the
Aston
Villa
Ground,
on
April
29th,
1899;
41,357
paid
for
admission..
On
two
other
oc-
casions
the
Villa
have
drawn
upwards
of
£1,300
;
on
January
15th,
1898,
v.
Sheffield
United,
and
on
March
3rd,
1900,
v.
Sheffield
United.
The
record
attendance
for
a
match
of
any
description
is
114,887
at
the
English
Cup
final
of
1901.
The
attendances
since
the
final
was
taken
to
the
Palace
are:-1895,
42,560;
1896,
48,836;
1897,
65,891;
1898,
62,017;
1899,
73,833;
1900,,68,945;
1901,
114,887.
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