Match Summary

Ireland Team

England Team

In arranging for the annual match with England to be played at Dublin the Irish Association made quite a new departure, all Ireland's home international games having, until Saturday, been decided at Belfast. The experiment was a distinct success, the Lansdowne-road ground being visited by 7,000 or 8,000 people, who demonstrated very clearly their appreciation of the play. With the weather fine, if rather cold, and the turf in good order, the conditions were all in favour of a bright and interesting struggle. To some extent expectations were more than realized. Ireland had never beaten England at the Association game, and the matches with Wales and Scotland this season having both been lost it was not to be anticipated that the Irishmen would break their run of ill-success on Saturday. At the same time, Ireland's representatives, badly as they have fared in out matches, have of late years, when playing at home, generally been able to make a fair fight with England. Defeat was on Saturday once more their portion, the Englishmen winning by two goals to none, but it would be absurd to pretend that this score represented the merits of the game. As a matter of fact, play was more often in the English half than in that of the Irishmen, and Robinson had probably twice as many shots to stop as Reilly, the Irish goalkeeper. The Englishmen, however, were the quicker to settle down, and before the match had been in progress a quarter of an hour they had obtained their two goals. The first score came rather luckily, Cochrane, in an attempt to stop a shot from Johnson, merely turning the ball into the net and out of Reilly's reach. The second point was gained by Sagar, but the credit of it belonged mainly to G. O. Smith, who had dribbled half-way down the field and gave the ball to Sagar just at the moment the Bury man had a favourable opening...

With better combination between Sheehan, Campbell, and James Pyper, Ireland would no doubt have made a draw and might possibly have won. - The Times - Monday 19th March, 1900

 

Football League Division One 17 March 1900
Team	P	Pts
Aston Villa	28	39
Sheffield United	26	38
Wolverhampton Wanderers	26	33
Sunderland	25	29
Nottingham Forest	26	29
Bury	26	28
Newcastle United	25	26
Stoke	26	26
Derby County	25	25
Everton	27	25
Manchester City	25	23
Liverpool	27	23
Notts County	27	23
Burnley	27	23
West Bromwich Albion	25	21
Preston North End	25	20
Blackburn Rovers	24	20
Glossop North End	26	15

 

Division One matches played on 17 March 1900:

GLOSSOP NORTH END 0-0 BURY
2,000 (North Road, Glossop)

Bury were without Charlie Sagar, who scored for England in Dublin.

LIVERPOOL 2-0 NEWCASTLE UNITED
Robertson, Walker
18,000 (Anfield, Liverpool)

NOTTINGHAM FOREST 0-3 NOTTS COUNTY
(McConnachie, Hadley, Chalmers)
8,000 (City Ground, Nottingham)

County were without Walter Bull, who was a reserve for England in Dublin.

STOKE 1-1 DERBY COUNTY
Turner (Bradbury)
4,000 (victoria Ground, Stoke)

Derby were without Archie Goodall, who was playing for Ireland against England in Dublin.

WOLVERHAMPTON WANDERERS 2-1 EVERTON
Harper, Bowen (Taylor)
4,000 (Molineux, Wolverhampton)

 

 

 

Notts County's first ever away victory at their Nottingham rivals' home in the Football League was achieved despite losing left-half Ted McDonald, their recent 'big money' signing, to a broken nose for over half of the game.

Football League Division Two 17 March 1900
Team	P	Pts
The Wednesday	26	41
Bolton Wanderers	26	38
Small Heath	27	38
Newton Heath	26	35
Leicester Fosse	25	35
Grimsby Town	25	29
Lincoln City	25	29
Woolwich Arsenal	26	28
Burslem Port Vale	29	28
Chesterfield Town	25	27
Walsall	25	24
New Brighton Tower	26	22
Middlesbrough	28	21
Gainsborough Trinity	25	17
Burton Swifts	26	17
Barnsley	25	16
Luton Town	26	15
Loughborough	25	6

 

Division Two matches played on 17 March 1900:

BOLTON WANDERERS 3-0 LUTON TOWN
 3,659 (Burnden Park, Bolton)

BURTON SWIFTS 5-0 MIDDLESBROUGH
Mainman, Griffiths, Sellars, Wildes 2
 1,000 (Peel Croft, Burton)

CHESTERFIELD TOWN 1-3 WALSALL
Gooing (Martin, Connor, Moffatt)
2,000 (Recreation Ground, Chesterfield)

GAINSBOROUGH TRINITY 4-0 BURSLEM PORT VALE
Radford 2, Gettins, Vall
 1,000 (The Northolme, Gainsborough)

NEWTON HEATH 3-0 BARNSLEY
Cassidy 2, Leigh
 6,000 (Bank Street, Manchester)

SMALL HEATH 2-0 NEW BRIGHTON TOWER
Scrivens 2
 5,000 (Coventry Road, Birmingham)

THE WEDNESDAY 3-1 WOOLWICH ARSENAL
nk, Ruddlesdin, Davis (McNichol)
 3,000 (Owlerton Stadium, Sheffield)

 

 

Wednesday's 13th successive home win since the start of the season kept them on course to make an immediate return to the First Division, followed closely by Bolton, who had been relegated with them in the previous year. The 100% home record would continue until October (the twentieth game) after Wednesday had become the first club to win all 17 home games in a Football League season.

 

IN OTHER NEWS...

It was on 16 March 1900 that it was announced that 400 of the Boers fighting against the British army in the Orange Free State had surrendered following Lord Roberts's capture of Bloemfontein.

Source Notes

Northern Ireland's Footballing Greats
Original Newspaper Reports
TheFA.com
Rothman's Yearbooks
FA Yearbooks 1950-60
Ancestry.com
F.W. dayson's Standard Time in Ireland
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