Match Summary

Scotland Team

England Team

SCOTLAND BECOME CHAMPIONS

ENGLAND BEATEN BY A CORNER KICK

A lucky goal in the last two minutes of a distinctly disappointing game decided the championship of Association Football for 1928-29 in favour of Scotland, at Hampden Park, Glasgow, on Saturday.

Up to that point neither Scotland nor England had been able to master a gusty wind, a hard ground and a lively ball sufficiently to score a goal...

In the nick of time, however, the wind did come to the rescue of the ten men and, fairly enough, it was Cheyne, the lonely substitute for Muirhead on the right wing, apparently deprived of his last hopes of distinction when Jackson retired hurt, who landed the knock-out blow. This took the form of a corner kick, taken, very wisely, with the left foot, and swept round and into the far corner of the net by the very element that had very nearly spoiled the great game of the season--a game, moreover, watched by 110,000 spectators, mostly experts of the deepest dye of Scottish blue. - The Times - Monday 15th April, 1929

Football League Division One 13 April 1929
Team	P	Pts
The Wednesday	39	51
Leicester City	39	46
Aston Villa	38	46
Sunderland	39	45
Derby County	39	44
Liverpool	38	42
Arsenal	38	40
Manchester City	39	40
Leeds United	37	40
Blackburn Rovers	38	39
Everton	38	38
Newcastle United	39	38
West Ham United	39	37
Birmingham	39	36
Manchester United	39	36
Huddersfield Town	37	35
Bolton Wanderers	37	35
Sheffield United	39	35
Portsmouth	38	33
Burnley	37	31
Bury	38	30
Cardiff City	40	27

 

Division One matches played on 13 April 1929:

ARSENAL 1-1 LEICESTER CITY
Parker pen. (Chandler)
19,139 (Highbury, London)

BIRMINGHAM 0-0 CARDIFF CITY
12,997 (St Andrew's, Birmingham)

BLACKBURN ROVERS 0-3 MANCHESTER UNITED
(Reid 2, Ramsden)
8,193 (Ewood Park, Blackburn)

Blackburn were without Austen Campbell, who was a reserve against Scotland in Glasgow.

BOLTON WANDERERS 1-0 NEWCASTLE UNITED
Blackmore
10,463 (Burnden Park, Bolton)

Bolton were without Nuttall and Seddon, who were playing against Scotland in Glasgow, whilst Newcastle were without Hughie Gallacher, who was playing for Scotland.

DERBY COUNTY 2-5 LIVERPOOL
Bedford 2 (Race 2, Hodgson, Clark 2)
11,377 (Baseball Ground, Derby)

Derby were without Tom Cooper, who was playing against Scotland in Glasgow.

EVERTON 0-1 ASTON VILLA
(Waring)
20,594 (Goodison Park, Liverpool)

Everton were without Bill Dean, who was playing against Scotland in Glasgow.

HUDDERSFIELD TOWN 0-2 BURY
(Amos 2)
8,609 (Leeds Road, Huddersfield)

Huddersfield were without George Brown, who was playing against Scotland in Glasgow, and Alex Jackson, who was injured playing for Scotland.

MANCHESTER CITY 3-1 SHEFFIELD UNITED
Brook, Marshall, Tilson (Phillipson)
25,581 (Maine Road, Manchester)

City were without Jimmy McMullan, who was playing for Scotland against England in Glasgow.

PORTSMOUTH 3-1 BURNLEY
Watson, Bowsher o.g., McIlwaine pen. (Page)
23,031 (Fratton Park, Portsmouth)

Burnley were without Jack Bruton, who was playing against Scotland in Glasgow.

SUNDERLAND 2-1 LEEDS UNITED
Wright, McLean (Keetley)
12,208 (Roker Park, Sunderland)

Leeds were without Edwards (the captain) and Wainscoat (making his only international appearance), who were playing against Scotland in Glasgow.

THE WEDNESDAY 6-0 WEST HAM UNITED
Strange 2, Hooper 2, Rimmer, Allen
22,596 (Hillsborough, Sheffield)

Wednesday were without Ernie Blenkinsop, who was playing against Scotland in Glasgow, as was West Ham's Jimmy Ruffell.

The Wednesday were in commanding form and would clinch the championship, two weeks later.

Football League Division Two 13 April 1929
Team	P	Pts
Middlesbrough	39	49
Grimsby Town	38	49
Notts County	40	47
Southampton	39	44
Stoke City	39	43
Bradford	38	42
Chelsea	39	42
West Bromwich Albion	38	42
Blackpool	39	40
Millwall	38	39
Nottingham Forest	39	38
Preston North End	39	37
Tottenham Hotspur	38	37
Wolverhampton Wanderers	39	35
Hull City	37	35
Bristol City	39	35
Swansea Town	39	35
Reading	39	35
Barnsley	39	34
Oldham Athletic	39	33
Port Vale	39	31
Clapton Orient	39	30

 

Division Two matches played on 13 April 1929:

BARNSLEY 4-1 TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR
Ashton, Eaton 2, Curran (Scott)
8,449 (Oakwell, Barnsley)

BLACKPOOL 4-0 PORT VALE
Downes, Hampson, Upton, Benton pen.
8,696 (Bloomfield Road, Blackpool)

BRADFORD 2-2 NOTTS COUNTY
McLean 2 (Andrews, Haden pen.)
15,104 (Park Avenue, Bradford)

BRISTOL CITY 0-0 READING
10,651 (Ashton Gate. Bedminster)

CHELSEA 0-0 HULL CITY
9,654 (Stamford Bridge, London)

CLAPTON ORIENT 2-0 OLDHAM ATHLETIC
Whipp, Batten
6,267 (Millfields Road, London)

Oldham were without Jack Hacking, who was in goal against Scotland in Glasgow.

GRIMSBY TOWN 2-0 WOLVERHAMPTON WANDERERS
Bestall, Coglin
12,699 (Blundell Park, Cleethorpes)

NOTTINGHAM FOREST 4-1 PRESTON NORTH END
Heathcock 3, Wallace (Harrison pen.)
5,213 (City Ground, Nottingham)

Preston were without Alex James, who was playing for Scotland against England in Glasgow.

STOKE CITY 3-0 SOUTHAMPTON
Wilson 3
8,556 (Victoria Ground, Stoke)

SWANSEA TOWN 2-0 MILLWALL
Deacon 2
11,502 (Vetch Field, Swansea)

WEST BROMWICH ALBION 1-1 MIDDLESBROUGH
Glidden (Pease)
14,068 (The Hawthorns, West Bromwich)

Grimsby won at Notts County, a week later, and were back in the first division for the first time since 1903. Middlesbrough beat Nottingham Forest on the same day and secured their own promotion after the previous year's relegation. They would go on to win the title by completing the double over Grimsby in their last game.

Division Three on 13 April 1929:

Stockport County led the northern section by a point from Bradford City, but had played a game more. Both sides finished in championship form. Stockport won nine of their last eleven games, but the Yorkshiremen won 13 of their last 15 games, they had scored 29 goals without reply in five consecutive games in March and conceded only three goals in their last twelve games, pipping Stockport to promotion by a point. Northampton Town led the southern section by a point from Queen's Park Rangers and Luton Town, each of whom had a game in hand over them, but there was an even closer finish, with none of those three teams finishing in the top two. At this point, there were only three points between the top six clubs, and crucially, two of them, Charlton Athletic and Crystal Palace, had two games in hand. It was these two who managed to finish two points ahead of the pack. Both finished with three wins, but Charlton, with a superior goal average, won their first ever promotion.

IN OTHER NEWS...

It was on 13 April 1929 that an open verdict was reached in Kensington at the inquest of Evelyn Greig, the estranged wife of film actor, Colin Clive. She was, herself, a film actress and was going through divorce proceedings with her husband. She died at the home of a midwife from a heart attack following an abortion, though it appeared that the midwife was unaware that she had been pregnant, and that she was merely a boarder at the midwife's house. It was assumed that she had bought her own drugs to induce a miscarriage. Her husband went on to achieve Hollywood movie fame as Dr. Frankenstein, two years later.

Source Notes

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