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Saturday, 10 April 1920
Home International Championship 1919-20 (32nd) Match

England 5 Scotland 4 [2-4]
 

Match Summary
England Party

Scotland Party

Hillsborough, Owlerton, Sheffield, West Riding of Yorkshire
Attendance: 35,000;
Receipts: £4,283; Kick-off: 3.30pm BST

England - Jack Cock (Wallace got the ball from Kelly and centred for Cock 9), Alf Quantrill (from a Kelly and Wallace combination 15), Bob Kelly (glanced in off the post 57, from a Quantrill cross 73), Fred Morris (laid off by Cock 67)
Scotland - Tom Miller (after good work by Troup 13, poor defending 40), Andrew Wilson (worked away from Pennington and shot at a difficult angle 21), Alex Donaldson (smashed following a run 31)
The Courier reports that Charlie Wallace scored the opening goal, in fact, it's pretty adamant about it, "actually scored by Wallace, though every scribe in the country was wrong, some thinking Morris scored and others that Cock was the marksman."
Results 1919-30

England won the toss, Scotland kicked-off.

 

Match Summary

Officials

England

Type

Scotland

Referee - Thomas R. Dougray
Bellshill, Scotland

Linesmen - not known

Thirteen days after this match, England, and the other home nations, would withdraw from FIFA.

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England Team

 

Rank:

No official ranking system established;
ELO rating 2nd to 1st
Colours: The 1903 uniform - White collared jerseys and dark club shorts
Capt: Jesse Pennington, second captaincy Selectors:
In Charge: Mr Morgan-Roberts
The fourteen-man FA International Selection Committee, following the inter-league match, on Monday, 29 March 1920.
89th match, W 62 - D 16 - L 11 - F 297 - A 83.
England Lineup
  Hardy, Sam 37
228 days
26 August 1882 G Aston Villa FC 21 25 GA
  Longworth, Ephraim 32
191 days
2 October 1887 RB Liverpool FC 1 0
  Pennington, Jesse 36
231 days
23 August 1883 LB West Bromwich Albion FC 25 0
  Ducat, Andrew 34
55 days
15 February 1886 RH Aston Villa FC 5 1
  McCall, Joseph 33
279 days
6 July 1886 CH Preston North End FC 4 1
  Grimsdell, Arthur 26
18 days
23 March 1894 LH Tottenham Hotspur FC 2 0
  Wallace, Charles W. 35
81 days
20 January 1885 OR Aston Villa FC 3 0
Kelly, Robert 26
146 days
16 November 1893 IR Burnley FC 1 2
Cock, John G. 26
147 days
15 November 1893 CF Chelsea FC 2 2
Morris, Frederick 26
227 days
27 August 1893 IL West Bromwich Albion FC 1 1
Quantrill, Alfred E. 23
79 days
22 January 1897
in India
OL Derby County FC 2 1

reserves:

Bert Smith (Tottenham Hotspur FC) and Charlie Buchan (Sunderland AFC). Sheffield United FC's Stan Fazackerley replaced Buchan on 8 April as reserve forward.

team notes:

Sam Hardy extends his record of the goalkeeper with most appearances, in this, England's oldest team so far, for the third match in a row.
Joe McCall's fourth appearance comes six years and six days after his third.
 
2-3-5 Hardy -
Longworth, Pennington -
Ducat, McCall, Grimsdell -
Wallace, Kelly, Cock, Morris, Quantrill

Averages:

Age 30.4 (153 days) Appearances/Goals 6.1 0.3

England teams v. Scotland (the previous year's game was a Victory International):

1919:

Hardy Longworth Duckworth Fleetwood McCall Grimsdell Turnbull Shea Puddefoot Smith Martin

1920:

Hardy Longworth Pennington Ducat McCall Grimsdell Wallace Kelly Cock Morris Quantrill

 

Scotland Team

 

Rank:

No official ranking system established;
ELO rating 8th
Colours: Dark blue laced-up shirts, white shorts
Capt: Alec McNair Selectors:
Trainer: W. Struth (Rangers FC)
The Scottish Football Association Selection Committee, of seven members, chosen, following the inter-league match, on Wednesday, 30 March 1920. Tom White and John McDowall in charge
Scotland Lineup
  Campbell, Kenneth, injured off temporarily c.75 27 6 September 1892 G Partick Thistle FC 3 6 GA
  McNair, Alexander 36 26 December 1883 RB The Celtic FC 15 0
  Blair, James 31 11 May 1888 LB The Wednesday FC, England 2 0
  Bowie, James 31 9 July 1888 RH Rangers FC 2 0
  Low, Wilfrid L. 35 8 December 1884 CH Newcastle United FC, England 5 0
  Gordon, James E. 31 23 July 1888 LH/G Rangers FC 10 0
Donaldson, Alexander P. 29 4 December 1890 OR Bolton Wanderers FC, England 5 1
Miller, Thomas 29 30 June 1890 IR Liverpool FC, England 1 2
Wilson, Andrew N. 24 15 February 1896 CF Dunfermline Athletic FC 3 2
  Paterson, John 23 14 December 1896 IL Leicester City FC, England 1 0
  Troup, Alexander 24 4 May 1895 OL Dundee FC 1 0

reserves:

Rankine

team notes:

Alex Troup was a late replacement for Queen's Park FC's Alan Morton.
James Gordon replaced Ken Campbell in goal for five minutes sometime around the 75th minute mark.
Not since May 1902 has an opposing player scored on his debut on English soil.
 
2-3-5 Campbell -
McNair, Blair -
Bowie, Low, Gordon -
Donaldson, Miller, Wilson, Patterson, Troup.

Averages:

Age 29.1 Appearances/Goals 4.4 0.1

 

    Match Report

England beat Scotland on the ground of the Sheffield Wednesday Club on Saturday by 5 goals to 4. It was a remarkable match, for England snatched a dramatic victory after the sides had changed ends with Scotland leading by 4 goals to 2. There were 35,000 spectators...

Within 10 minutes of the start, England took the lead after some brilliant combined work by the forwards. Kelly made an opening for Wallace to run down and centre the ball to Cock, who scored very cleverly from a position almost under the crossbar. Three minutes later Scotland drew level. The pace of Troup had previously threatened danger, and it was from one of his runs that Miller was enabled to score. This goal was followed by a series of hot attacks upon the Scottish goal, and three minutes later another brilliant movement by Kelly and Wallace enabled the latter to put the ball into the goal-mouth, and Quantrill dashed in and did the rest...

Ducat neglected Troup, who was far more dangerous than his partner, with the result that the outside man was able to outpace Longworth  and put his centres across before the English defence could get back to cover Hardy. Wilson was quite unmarked when he scored the second equalizing goal, but when Troup again got the better of Longworth, the centre forward was not in such a good position. Realizing that Donaldson had a better opening, he passed out to the latter, who took the ball on the run and beat Hardy with a very fast drive..

Scotland, however, again broke through the home defence, and Donaldson, who was unmarked, cleverly turned the ball over to Miller, who easily scored his side's fourth goal...

...12 minutes after the restart McCall passed to Kelly, who eluded the backs and sent in a shot that glanced off the goal-post into the net. The equalizing goal came 10 minutes later; Quantrill outpaced the defence, and, from his centre, Cock transferred the ball to Morris, who scored the finest goal of the match...

Campbell's wonderful goalkeeping kept the English forwards out for another six minutes, but Kelly then ran close in from a centre by Quantrill and scored a goal worthy of Bloomer at his best. Campbell made an heroic effort to save, and was damaged in the collision with Kelly. He was off the field for 10 minutes, Gordon keeping the goal in his absence...

Of the 44 matches between the two countries, Scotland have won 18 and England 14, with 12 drawn games. - The Times - Monday 12th April, 1920

    Football League

Football League Division One
10 April 1920
Team P Pts
West Bromwich Albion 38 56
Burnley 39 48
Chelsea 38 46
Sunderland 39 45
Liverpool 39 44
Bolton Wanderers 39 43
Manchester City 38 41
Newcastle United 39 40
Bradford 37 38
Sheffield United 39 38
Aston Villa 37 37
Arsenal 38 37
Bradford City 39 37
Manchester United 38 36
Everton 38 36
Middlesbrough 39 36
Oldham Athletic 38 35
Preston North End 38 33
Derby County 39 33
Notts County 38 32
Blackburn Rovers 38 30
The Wednesday 37 21

 

Division One matches played on 10 April 1920:

ARSENAL 2-0 BURNLEY
Pagnam 41, Bradshaw 58

40,000 (Highbury, London)

Burnley were without Bob Kelly, who scored twice on his international debut against Scotland at Sheffield.

BLACKBURN ROVERS 0-1 OLDHAM ATHLETIC
(Gee 60)
12,000
(Ewood Park, Blackburn)

BOLTON WANDERERS 3-5 MANCHESTER UNITED
Herbert, Smith, Roberts (Bissett 2, Meredith, Toms, Woodcock)

25,000 (Burnden Park, Bolton)

Bolton were without Alex Donaldson, who scored for Scotland against England at Sheffield.

BRADFORD CITY 1-2 SHEFFIELD UNITED
Fox (Gillespie 2)

7,000 (
Valley Parade, Bradford)

United were without Stan Fazackerley, who was a reserve against Scotland at Sheffield.

DERBY COUNTY 3-0 LIVERPOOL
Leonard Pen. 75, Burton 77, 79
10,000 (
Baseball Ground, Derby)

Derby were without Alf Quantrill, who scored on his international debut against Scotland at Sheffield, whilst Liverpool were without Eph Longworth, who was also making his debut against Scotland, and Tom Miller, who scored twice on his debut for Scotland.

EVERTON 5-2 MIDDLESBROUGH
Kirsopp 10, Peacock 45, Rigsby 55, 87, Grenyer 75 (Jennings 15, Butler 78)
20,000 (
Goodison Park, Liverpool)

MANCHESTER CITY 1-0 CHELSEA
Barnes 85
25,000 (Hyde Road, Manchester)

Chelsea were without Jack Cock, who scored the opening goal against Scotland at Sheffield.

NOTTS COUNTY 2-1 ASTON VILLA
Henshall 15, McLeod 20 (Davis 80)
18,000 (Meadow Lane, Nottingham)

Villa were without Ducat, Hardy and Wallace, who were playing against Scotland at Sheffield.

SUNDERLAND 1-0 PRESTON NORTH END
Shore 74
10,000 (Roker Park, Sunderland)

Preston were without Joe McCall, who was playing against Scotland at Sheffield.

WEST BROMWICH ALBION 3-1 BRADFORD
Jephcott 10, Bentley 12, Bowser Pen. 55 (Keetley 30)
36,086 (The Hawthorns, West Bromwich)

West Brom were without Morris, who scored on his international debut, and Pennington, who were both playing against Scotland at Sheffield.

Releasing two of their players for England duty mattered not to West Brom, who secured their first league title, thanks also to defeats for Burnley and Chelsea.

Football League Division Two
10 April 1920
Team P Pts
Tottenham Hotspur 38 65
Huddersfield Town 37 54
Birmingham 38 53
Blackpool 39 49
Bury 38 46
Fulham 39 42
West Ham United 38 42
South Shields 38 38
Stoke 38 38
Port Vale 39 38
Barnsley 39 37
Hull City 38 37
Bristol City 38 37
Leicester City 38 37
Stockport County 37 35
Clapton Orient 38 33
Nottingham Forest 39 31
Rotherham County 38 30
Wolverhampton Wanderers 36 26
Lincoln City 39 25
Coventry City 38 24
Grimsby Town 38 21

 

Division Two matches played on 10 April 1920:

BIRMINGHAM 3-0 PORT VALE
Lane, Elkes 2
30
,000 (St Andrew's, Birmingham)

BLACKPOOL 1-0 STOCKPORT COUNTY
Heathcote

6,000 (Bloomfield Road, Blackpool)

BRISTOL CITY 2-2 HULL CITY
Kirk 2 (Crawford, Deacey)
12,000
(Ashton Gate, Bristol)

COVENTRY CITY 4-2 NOTTINGHAM FOREST
Wynn, Parker, Mercer, Gibson (Belton, Shearman)

19,000 (Highfield Road, Coventry)

FULHAM 3-0 LINCOLN CITY
Bertram, Banks, Crockford
13,000 (Craven Cottage, London)

GRIMSBY TOWN 2-0 CLAPTON ORIENT
Smith, Spink
5,000 (Blundell Park, Cleethorpes)

HUDDERSFIELD TOWN 4-1 BARNSLEY
Taylor 2, Swan 2 (Gittins)
11,500 (Leeds Road, Huddersfield)

LEICESTER CITY 0-5 BURY
(Peake, Hird 2, Lomas, Ritchie)

12,000 (Filbert Street, Leicester)

Leicester were without John Paterson, who was making his only international appearance for Scotland, against England at Sheffield.

ROTHERHAM COUNTY 1-0 SOUTH SHIELDS
Glennon
6,000 (Millmoor, Rotherham)

STOKE 1-3 TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR
Maddock (Seed, Cantrell 2)
14,000 (Victoria Ground, Stoke)

Tottenham were without Grimsdell, who was playing against Scotland at Sheffield, and Smith, who was a reserve for England.

WEST HAM UNITED 4-0 WOLVERHAMPTON WANDERERS
Butcher 2, Puddefoot 2
16,000 (Upton Park, London)

Having clinched promotion, five days earlier, to reclaim, what they believed, should have been their rightful place in the top flight when the First Division was expanded to 22 clubs, Tottenham won the Second Division Championship.

IN OTHER NEWS...

It was on 11 April 1920 that concerns were growing that the President of the United States, Woodrow Wilson, was incapable of maintaining his office, whilst recovering from a stroke that left him bedridden and paralysed down the left side. His cabinet were only able to communicate with him via the First Lady, Edith Wilson. He was not nominated by the Democratic Party to stand for re-election later that year, but he outlived his successor as president, Warren Harding, who died in 1923 from a cardiac arrest.

Source Notes

Scottish Football Association
Scotland - The Complete International Record: Richard Keir
London Hearts
original newspaper reports
FA Yearbooks 1950-60
LFChistory
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