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| Match Summary and Report | Team Records | England Pre-Match | Wales Pre-Match |
Match Summary
Not known.
England Team
No official ranking system established; 2nd in Elo world ranking both before and after this match.
England Lineup
| Player | Birthdate | Age | Pos | Club | App | G | Career |
| -Anderson, Rupert Darnley | 29-Apr-1859 | 19 | G | 1 | 1 GA | 1879 | |
| -Bury, Lindsay | 09-Jul-1857 | 21 | B | Old Etonians FC | 2 | 0 | 1877-79 |
| -Wilson, Claude W. | 09-Sep-1858 | 20 | B | 1 | 0 | 1879-1881 | |
| -Bailey, Norman C. | 23-Jul-1857 | 21 | HB | 2 | 0 | 1878-1887 | |
| -Clegg, William E. | 21-Apr-1852 | 20 | F | 2 | 0 | 1873-1879 | |
| -Parry, Edward H. | 24-Apr-1855 | 23 | F | 1 | 0 | 1879-1882 | |
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16-Feb-1856 | 22 | F | 1 | 1 | 1879 | |
| -Cursham, Arthur W. | 14-Mar-1853 | 24 | F | Notts County FC | 4 | 1 | 1876-1883 |
| -Wace, Henry | 21-Sep-1853 | 25 | F | 2 | 0 | 1878-1879 | |
| -Mosforth, William | early-1858 | 20/21 | F | 3 | 0 | 1877-82 | |
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25-Nov-1858 | 20 | F | 1 | 1 | 1879 |
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Wales Team
No official ranking system established; 3rd in Elo world ranking both before and after this match.
Wales Lineup
| Player | Birthdate | Age | Pos | Club | App | G | Career |
| -Glascodine, George | NK | NK | G |
Wrexham AFC |
1 | 0 | 1879 |
| -Kenrick, Samuel Llewellyn | summer-1847 | 31 | B |
Oswestry FC |
3 | 0 | 1876-1881 |
| -Higham, George Garnett | summer-1855 | 23 | B |
Oswestry FC |
2 | 0 | 1878-1879 |
| -Williams, William | NK | NK | B |
Oswestry FC |
3 | 0 | 1876-1883 |
| -Owen, Thomas | NK | NK | B |
Oswestry FC |
1 | 0 | 1879 |
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NK | NK | F |
Oswestry FC |
3 | 1 | 1876-1880 |
| -Shone, Watkin William | early-1858 | 20/21 | F |
Oswestry FC |
1 | 0 | 1879 |
| -Heywood, Dennis, left the field injured. | NK | NK | F |
Druids FC |
1 | 0 | 1879 |
| -Price, John | NK | NK | F |
Wrexham AFC |
3 | 0 | 1877-1883 |
| -Owen, William Digby | summer-1857 | 21 | F |
Oswestry FC |
1 | 0 | 1879 |
| -Roberts, William | NK | NK | F |
Llangollen FC |
1 | 0 | 1879-1883 |
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Match Report
Source Notes
notes
"Tom" and Digby Owen were not brothers. Digby Owen, who was a private tutor, died of pneumonia on June 2, 1901, at the age of only 44. Thomas Owen, is believed to be the father of famous wartime poet Wilfred Owen. He was a railwayman who died on October 17, 1931, at the age of 70. - IFFHS
Sources
Official Programme, England vs. Albania, 26 April
1989.
Cris Freddi: Football Historian
Welsh Football Data Archive
TheFA.com
Wrexham.Gov.uk: The story of Welsh football
IFFHS.de
FreeBMD.org.uk
Rothmans Yearbooks
CG