Match Summary

Wales Team

England Team

Yesterday, at Wrexham, England defeated Wales decisively by three goals to none. The result hardly represents the difference between the teams, and probably on a more suitable ground the Englishmen's superiority would have been much more manifest. At all points of the game they were much the stronger. The Association game does not yet seem to arouse much enthusiasm in Wales, and the crowd of about 5,000 people included a good proportion of visitors from the neighbouring English counties. As far as concerned England the game was primarily of importance as the final trial before their match with Scotland next Saturday, and the performance of the Englishmen gave such satisfaction that only three changes have been deemed necessary, and these in places where yesterday's side obviously needed strengthening...

...Wheldon scoring the only goal when play had been in progress about ten minutes...

...to within 15 minutes of time England had failed to increase their lead, but then Wheldon shot a second goal, and just before the close G. O. Smith headed a third. - The Times - Tuesday 29th March, 1898

 

Football League Division Two 28 March 1898
Team	P	Pts
Burnley	27	45
Newcastle United	26	40
Manchester City	25	33
Woolwich Arsenal	26	32
Luton Town	26	28
Gainsborough Trinity	24	28
Newton Heath	24	27
Small Heath	24	27
Leicester Fosse	25	25
Walsall	27	24
Grimsby Town	26	23
Burton Swifts	25	17
Blackpool	24	16
Lincoln City	27	16
Darwen	26	14
Loughborough	24	11

 

Division Two match played on 28 March 1898:

BURNLEY 9-3 LOUGHBOROUGH
Ross 5, Morrison, Toman, Taylor, Ferguson (nk)
 400 (Turf Moor, Burnley)

 

Burnley swept aside their struggling opponents with a club record scoreline that still stands today. This clinched their place in the test matches, where they were to win promotion in controversial circumstances by engineering a goalless draw at Stoke which also ensured that the home side would escape relegation. As it transpired, however, both divisions were extended at the end of the season and all four teams in the test matches were placed in the First Division. Meanwhile, Loughborough were re-elected after finishing bottom.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

IN OTHER NEWS...

It was on 27 March 1898 that the SS Greenland arrived back at St. John's in Newfoundland having lost 48 lives on the annual seal-hunting expedition. 154 men were left stranded on the ice in a storm when the ship became icebound. Six men survived for two nights before they were rescued. The severe frostbite meant that some of the survivors needed amputations, but it took the ship another four days to get home. It almost sank in another storm on its return. Only 25 bodies were recovered.

Source Notes

Welsh Football Data Archive
Original newspaper reports 
Rothmans Yearbooks
FA Yearbooks 1950-60
Ancestry.com
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CG