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Match
Summary |
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 Officials |
Scotland |
Type |
England |
Referee
- James
Torrans
Ireland
Linesmen - W.J. Albert,
Chatham, Kent, and unknown
For the first time in the fixtures history, the two teams are entirely
professional.
It was not until the meeting of the FA Council at 61 Chancery Lane on
Saturday, 19 April 1902, that the match was to be considered officially
'unfinished'. A matter that had been decided upon on the day.
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Hit Bar/Post |
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Corner Kicks Won |
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Offside Calls Against |
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Possession |
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What
began as an official international between two fierce rivals, with
Scotland needing a point to win the title and England needing to
win, ended as nothing more than an exhibition match, because of the
horrific collapse of part of the terracing in the West Tribune Stand
in the early stages of the game. 25 people lost their lives as they
disappeared through a gaping hole, and over 500 were injured, but following a twenty-minute
delay, the game continued and it was played to its conclusion. The
majority of the crowd were unaware of the magnitude of the disaster
and the authorities had decided that it would be safer for the rest
of the match to be played so as not to cause any further panic in a
now-overcrowded stadium. However, many of the players were aware of the
deaths and the second half was, consequently, played in a
non-competitive spirit. It was agreed that the game would be
replayed four weeks later, at Villa Park, Birmingham, where the
sides drew 2-2. All proceeds were donated to the Ibrox Disaster
Fund. |
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 Scotland
Team |
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Rank: |
No official ranking system established;
ELO rating
2nd |
Colours: |
Dark blue shirts and
white shorts |
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Capt: |
probably Andrew Aitken |
Selectors: |
The Scottish Football Association
Selection Committee, of seven members,
following their inter-league match, on Monday, 24 March 1902. |
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Scotland
Lineup |
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Doig, John Edward |
35 |
29 October 1866 |
G |
Sunderland AFC, England |
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Smith, Nicol |
28 |
25 December 1873 |
RB |
Rangers FC |
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Drummond, John |
31 |
13 April 1870 |
LB |
Rangers FC |
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Aitken, Andrew |
24 |
27 April 1877 |
RH |
Newcastle United FC, England |
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Raisbeck, Alexander G. |
23 |
26 December 1878 |
CH |
Liverpool FC, England |
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Robertson, John T. |
25 |
25 February 1877 |
LH |
Rangers FC |
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Templeton, Robert B. |
22 |
22 June 1879 |
OR |
Aston Villa FC, England |
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Walker, Robert |
23 |
10 January 1879 |
IR |
Heart of Midlothian FC |
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Brown, Alexander |
22 |
7 April 1879 |
CF |
Tottenham Hotspur FC, England |
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Livingstone, George T. |
25 |
5 May 1876 |
IL |
The Celtic FC |
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Smith, Alexander |
25 |
7 November 1876 |
OL |
Rangers FC |
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reserves: |
Hearts FC's Harry Rennie, Sunderland AFC's Jimmy Watson, Third Lanark
RV FC's
Hugh Wilson, and Newcastle United FC's Ron Orr. |
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team notes: |
Celtic's John Campbell was originally
named in the line-up, but a sprained thigh injury picked up in a match
a week earlier meant that he had to drop out. His place went to
clubmate Livingstone. |
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2-3-5 |
Doig -
N.Smith, Drummond -
Aitken,
Raisbeck, Robertson -
Templeton, Walker, Brown, Livingstone,
A.Smith |
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Averages: |
Age |
25.7 |
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flg.jpg) England
Team |
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Rank: |
No official ranking system established;
ELO rating
1st |
Colours: |
White jerseys and navy blue knickerbockers |
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Capt: |
Steve Bloomer, first captaincy |
Selectors: |
The seven-man
FA
International Selection Committee, on Monday, 24 March 1902, following
the Ireland match in Belfast. |
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England
Lineup |
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George, William |
27 |
29 June 1874 |
G |
Aston Villa FC |
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Crompton, Robert |
22 |
26 September
1879 |
RB |
Blackburn Rovers FC |
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Molyneux, George |
26 |
24 July 1875 |
LB |
Southampton FC |
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Wilkes,
Albert |
26 |
6 September 1875 |
RH |
Aston Villa FC |
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Forman, Frank |
26 |
23 May 1875 |
CH |
Nottingham Forest FC |
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Houlker,
Albert E. |
29 |
27 April 1872 |
LH |
Blackburn Rovers FC |
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Hogg, William |
22 |
29 May 1879 |
OR |
Sunderland AFC |
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Bloomer, Stephen |
28 |
20 January 1874 |
IR |
Derby County FC |
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Beats, William E. |
30 |
13 November
1871 |
CF |
Wolverhampton Wanderers FC |
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Settle, James |
26 |
5 September 1875 |
IL |
Everton FC |
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Cox, John T. |
24 |
21 December
1877 |
OL |
Liverpool FC |
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reserves: |
George Hedley (Sheffield United FC) |
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2-3-5 |
George -
Crompton, Molyneux -
Wilkes, Forman, Houlker -
Hogg, Bloomer, Beats, Settle, Cox. |
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Averages: |
Age |
26.0 |
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England teams
v. Scotland: |
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1901: |
Sutcliffe |
Iremonger |
Oakley |
Wilkes |
Forman |
Needham |
Bennett |
Bloomer |
Smith |
Foster |
Blackburn |
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1902: |
George |
Crompton |
Molyneux |
Wilkes |
Forman |
Houlker |
Hogg |
Bloomer |
Beats |
Settle |
Cox |
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Match Report |
 Nearly 80,000 people squeezed into Ibrox... to
watch the 31st Scotland v England international, the first between
wholly professional teams.
The ground was state-of-the-art, built at the substantial
cost of £20,000. Both Rangers and Celtic wanted to host the match which
went to Ibrox by just a single vote.
By the time the sides trooped off after a 1-1 draw, 26 people lay
dead and 547 were injured. Grotesquely, the applause of the crowd was
punctuated by groans from the injured and dying. Some casualties hung,
seriously injured and upside down, from the latticework of torn girders
and woodwork, before they could be lowered to the ground.
The authorities thought more havoc and injury might have been
wrought if the match had been abandoned.
 The majority apparently left
ignorant of any incident, although the match was interrupted for almost
20 minutes.
Eighteen were reported dead 24 hours later, but it was three weeks
before the final victim died.
Wooden joists snapped clean through in what would become Broomloan
stand. They'd been laid on a steel frame-work, supporting wooden
decking, but a hole some 20 yards square opened up. Hundreds of
spectators plunged up to 40 feet to the ground. Rescuers found: "a scene
of indescribable horror and confusion . . . a mass of mangled and
bleeding humanity, the victims piled one above the other . . . enough to
unman the strongest." The resources of the city's hospitals were
over-stretched. Doctors in the crowd leant immediate help, but at Govan
police station, cells were called into service as a casualty clearing
station.
The scale of disfiguring injuries can best be judged from a Herald
report of how the father of one unfortunate went to the Western
Infirmary on Saturday night in the hope of finding his 25-year-old son,
William Robertson. He was not among the injured, so the father was shown
to the mortuary where he identified a body as being that of William. He
was arranging the funeral when his son arrived home at
Bainsford,
Falkirk.
The accident, on Saturday April 5 1902, was reported in these
columns on the Monday. The previous day there had been hardly any debris
at the scene, according to Glasgow Herald reporters. Virtually all the
timber and sheets of corrugated iron had been used as makeshift
stretchers.
More than two weeks after the incident, we put the injured at 547.
The match was declared void and was replayed in Birmingham. All
proceeds went to the disaster fund.
The contractor was later prosecuted, but was acquitted. However
the accident ended the practice of supporting wooden terracing on steel
frames. Earth embankments or concrete terracings were introduced. -
TheHerald.co.uk
As described in another column, the England and Scotland match in
Glasgow on Saturday brought together a crowd of such dimensions as to
become quite unmanageable. The ground was overrun and the play spoiled.
But these incidents were trifling compared with the disastrous collapse
of the western terraces. Before the accident, however, the crowd had
been driven back from the field of play by mounted police, but they
rushed the enclosure again in a quarter of an hour, putting a stop to
the match. And it was just at this time that the stand gave way, and
hundreds fell headlong into the wreckage 30ft. below. There was a delay
of 20 minutes, and then the players again took the field, the officials
thinking it best to go on with the match to prevent any chance of a
further calamity that might have taken the form of a riot. The crowd had
become unmanageable, and the only thing was to appease them. It was
agreed, however, by the committees of the English and Scottish
Associations that the match should not be reckoned in the records of
England v. Scotland. In these circumstances there is no necessity to
give more than a mere outline of the play. In the first half the
football was bright and fast, but England did most of the attacking,
and, in spite of the greasy ground, Bloomer kept the side splendidly
together. However, the first goal fell to Scotland, for whom Brown
dribbled through after Templeton had made a great run down the right
wing. The play ruled even, and the first period had nearly elapsed when
Settle scored a clever goal for England...
- The Times - Monday 7th April,
1902
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Football League |
Football League Division One
5 April 1902 |
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Team |
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Pts |
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Sunderland |
30 |
40 |
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Everton |
32 |
39 |
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Newcastle
United |
31 |
35 |
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Aston Villa |
33 |
34 |
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Nottingham Forest |
32 |
34 |
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Blackburn Rovers |
31 |
33 |
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Bolton Wanderers |
30 |
32 |
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Wolverhampton Wanderers |
33 |
32 |
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The Wednesday |
31 |
31 |
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Bury |
30 |
30 |
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Derby County |
29 |
30 |
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Sheffield
United |
31 |
29 |
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Grimsby Town |
31 |
29 |
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Liverpool |
29 |
27 |
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Notts County |
31 |
27 |
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Stoke |
31 |
26 |
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Small Heath |
31 |
25 |
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Manchester
City |
32 |
25 |
Division One
matches played on
5 April 1902:
BOLTON
WANDERERS 4-0 BLACKBURN ROVERS
Picken, nk, McKee, Barlow
5,784 (Burnden Park,
Bolton)
Blackburn were without Crompton and Houlker, who were playing for
England in Glasgow.
DERBY COUNTY 1-0
SUNDERLAND
Warren
2,000 (Baseball Ground, Derby)
Derby
were without Steve Bloomer, who was playing for England in Glasgow,
whilst Sunderland were without Scotland goalkeeper, Doig, and Hogg, who
was also playing for England.
LIVERPOOL 1-0
SHEFFIELD UNITED
Raybould
5,000 (Anfield, Liverpool)
Liverpool were without Cox, who was playing for
England in Glasgow, and Raisbeck, who was playing for Scotland.
MANCHESTER CITY
2-0 BURY
Meredith, Gillespie
7,000 (Hyde Road, Manchester)
NEWCASTLE UNITED 2-1 ASTON VILLA
Stewart 2 (Niblo)
14,000 (St James' Park, Newcastle)
Newcastle were without Andy Aitken, who was
playing for Scotland against England in Glasgow, whilst Villa were
without Templeton, who was also playing for Scotland, and George and
Wilkes, who were both playing for England.
NOTTS COUNTY 1-1 STOKE
Bull (Harris)
5,000 (Trent Bridge, Nottingham)
SMALL HEATH 1-1
NOTTINGHAM FOREST
Athersmith (Robinson o.g.)
6,000 (Coventry Road, Birmingham)
Forest were without Frank Forman, who was playing
for England in Glasgow.
THE WEDNESDAY 1-1
EVERTON
Beech (Bowman)
2,500 (Owlerton Stadium, Sheffield)
Everton were without Jimmy Settle, who scored
England's equaliser in Glasgow.
Sunderland slipped up at Derby, but were still in
a very strong position at the top of the table.
Football League Division Two
5 April 1902 |
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Team |
P
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Pts |
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West Bromwich Albion |
32 |
51 |
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Middlesbrough |
30 |
45 |
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Woolwich Arsenal |
32 |
42 |
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Preston North End |
30 |
40 |
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Bristol
City |
30 |
38 |
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Lincoln City |
29 |
34 |
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Burnley |
30 |
29 |
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Glossop North End |
31 |
29 |
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Barnsley |
32 |
29 |
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Blackpool |
31 |
28 |
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Doncaster Rovers |
31 |
28 |
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Leicester Fosse |
32 |
27 |
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Burslem Port Vale |
31 |
26 |
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Chesterfield Town |
31 |
25 |
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Burton United |
29 |
24 |
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Newton Heath |
30 |
23 |
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Stockport County |
30 |
17 |
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Gainsborough Trinity |
31 |
17 |
Division Two
matches played on
5 April 1902:
BARNSLEY 3-0 DONCASTER ROVERS
1,000 (Oakwell, Barnsley)
BURSLEM PORT VALE 0-1 BLACKPOOL
(Scott)
1,000 (Athletic Ground, Stoke)
CHESTERFIELD TOWN 1-0 BRISTOL CITY
Brown
1,000 (Recreation Ground, Chesterfield)
GAINSBOROUGH TRINITY 1-4 MIDDLESBROUGH
nk (Wardrope 3, Brearley)
500 (The Northolme, Gainsborough)
STOCKPORT COUNTY 0-2 PRESTON NORTH END
(Pegg, Walton)
3,000 (Green Lane, Stockport)
WEST BROMWICH ALBION 2-1 BURTON UNITED
Poynton, Buck (Arkesden)
1,206 (The Hawthorns, West Bromwich)
WOOLWICH ARSENAL 2-0 LINCOLN CITY
Briercliffe, Fitchie
6,000 (Manor Ground, London)
West Brom had already secured promotion back to
the First Division at the first attempt just three days earlier and they
would clinch the Second Division Championship, seven days later.
IN OTHER NEWS...
It was on 6 April 1902 that the
bodies of six men were retrieved from a mine shaft at Garswood Colliery
in Ashton-in-Makerfield in Lancashire. An explosion had occurred four
days earlier and, in all, fourteen men were killed.
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The
Herald
original newspaper reports
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