Match Summary

Scotland Team

England Team

Scotland beat England in the last International match of the season at Hampden Park, Glasgow, on Saturday by two goals to one. It was a splendid game with hardly a dull moment, played before a crowd of over 134,000, the largest that ahs ever watched a football match, and it was over all too soon. Many could hardly realize that the time had flown and it seemed to be only a minute or two from the start to the whistle for the interval and again from the resumption of play till the end...

Within five minutes of the start of the game Scotland were a goal to the good. McGrory, McPhail, and Duncan settled down quickly to play finely and worry the English defence almost out of reason. At last McPhail made a dazzling, dribbling run and passed out to Duncan who made a centre straight across the goal-mouth and McGrory was up near the right post to push the ball through with no one near to hinder him...

England kept at it with an occasional Scottish raid and then at last Arnold gave Hunt a through pass which he took with his left foot as he swung round and the ball went low through the goal between the near post and Jackson, who was advancing...

Then at last a fine through pass by McPhail went straight in front of McGrory and he dashed in between the backs with the ball at his feet. He veered towards the left and, as Hibbs challenged him, he shot with his left foot, still going at full speed, and the ball went crashing over Hibbs's left shoulder, rising swiftly, and into the far corner of the net. No better goal could have been wished for. It was a fitting climax to a fine game, and it brought victory to the right side. - The Times - Monday 3rd April, 1933

Football League Division One 1 April 1933
Team	P	Pts
Arsenal	36	49
Sheffield Wednesday	35	47
Newcastle United	34	44
Aston Villa	34	44
West Bromwich Albion	34	42
Derby County	34	37
Huddersfield Town	35	37
Leeds United	34	36
Portsmouth	35	36
Blackburn Rovers	36	36
Sheffield United	35	34
Sunderland	35	34
Everton	34	33
Birmingham	33	32
Liverpool	35	31
Bolton Wanderers	36	30
Manchester City	34	29
Middlesbrough	34	27
Blackpool	36	27
Chelsea	35	27
Wolverhampton Wanderers	35	26
Leicester City	35	26

 

Division One matches played on 1 April 1933:

ARSENAL 5-0 ASTON VILLA
Jack 7, Lambert 23, 35, Bowden 63, James 74
54,265 (Highbury, London)

Arsenal were without Joe Hulme, who was playing against Scotland in Glasgow, whilst Villa were without Joe Beresford, who was a reserve against Scotland.

BIRMINGHAM 4-1 SHEFFIELD UNITED
Curtis 38, 71, Bradford 49, 84 (Williams 88)
11,074 (St Andrew's, Birmingham)

 Birmingham were without Hibbs, who was in goal against Scotland in Glasgow, and Stoker, who was a reserve against Scotland, whilst United were without Jack Pickering, who was making his only international appearance, against Scotland.

BLACKBURN ROVERS 1-1 LEICESTER CITY
Thompson 28 (Liddle 31)
7,562 (Ewood Park, Blackburn)

BLACKPOOL 1-3 BOLTON WANDERERS
Crawford (McKay pen., Rimmer 2)
15,849 (Bloomfield Road, Blackpool)

DERBY COUNTY 1-1 LIVERPOOL
Bowers 17 (Barton 14)
7,059 (Baseball Ground, Derby)

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

EVERTON 0-0 MIDDLESBROUGH
21,068 (Goodison Park, Liverpool)

LEEDS UNITED 0-1 PORTSMOUTH
(Weddle 47)
9,839 (Elland Road, Leeds)

Leeds were without Ernie Hart, who was playing against Scotland in Glasgow.

MANCHESTER CITY 1-2 NEWCASTLE UNITED
Brook 40 (Allen 70, Richardson 71)
34,686 (Maine Road, Manchester)

Newcastle were without Sam Weaver, who was playing against Scotland in Glasgow.

SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY 2-2 CHELSEA
Jones 25, Rimmer 33 (Gibson 28, Oakton 53)
10,121 (Hillsborough, Sheffield)

Wednesday were without Blenkinsop, Starling (who was making his international debut) and Strange, who were all playing against Scotland in Glasgow.

SUNDERLAND 0-1 WOLVERHAMPTON WANDERERS
(Hartill 2)
8,278 (Roker Park, Sunderland)

WEST BROMWICH ALBION 2-1 HUDDERSFIELD TOWN
W.G.Richardson 32, Carter 75 (Willingham 5)
17,610 (The Hawthorns, West Bromwich)

Arsenal won their next four games to secure their second title in three years.

Football League Division Two 1 April 1933
Team	P	Pts
Stoke City	35	48
Tottenham Hotspur	34	46
Bury	36	44
Fulham	34	41
Nottingham Forest	35	41
Millwall	35	40
Notts County	35	40
Bradford City	35	37
Swansea Town	36	37
Manchester United	34	35
Preston North End	35	34
Plymouth Argyle	35	34
Southampton	35	33
Port Vale	34	32
Bradford	34	31
Grimsby Town	35	29
Lincoln City	34	28
Oldham Athletic	35	28
Burnley	34	27
West Ham United	35	27
Chesterfield	35	27
Charlton Athletic	34	25

 

Division Two matches played on 1 April 1933:

BRADFORD CITY 2-2 GRIMSBY TOWN
Robson, Bauld (Glover, Jennings)
10,272 (Valley Parade, Bradford)

BURY 5-2 NOTTINGHAM FOREST
Robbie 2, Chalmers, Vernon 2 (Heslop 2)
8,622 (Gigg Lane, Bury)

CHESTERFIELD 1-1 TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR
Hill (Morrison)
10,631 (Recreation Ground, Chesterfield)

Sammy Abel hit the post from a penalty for Chesterfield, just before half-time. Tottenham were without George Hunt, who scored the equaliser against Scotland in Glasgow on his international debut.

FULHAM 3-1 MANCHESTER UNITED
Newton, Finch, Hammond (Dewar)
21,477 (Craven Cottage, London)

Fulham were without Johnny Arnold, who was making his only international appearance, against Scotland in Glasgow.

LINCOLN CITY 1-1 CHARLTON ATHLETIC
Cooper (Boulter)
7,745 (Sincil Bank, Lincoln)

MILLWALL 1-1 BRADFORD
Poxton (Lloyd)
12,415 (The Den, London)

NOTTS COUNTY 0-0 PRESTON NORTH END
9,346 (Meadow Lane, Nottingham)

PORT VALE 1-1 BURNLEY
Bennion o.g. (Smith)
7,221 (Recreation Ground, Stoke)

SOUTHAMPTON 2-0 PLYMOUTH ARGYLE
Coates, Neal
6,649 (The Dell, Southampton)

SWANSEA TOWN 2-0 OLDHAM ATHLETIC
Olsen, Scott
6,122 (Vetch Field, Swansea)

WEST HAM UNITED 1-2 STOKE CITY
Barrett (Palethorpe, Sale)
19,104 (Upton Park, London)

Stoke and Tottenham had each been relegated from the top flight in the previous decade, and now returned after a season in which they were clearly the outstanding teams in their division.

Division Three on 1 April 1933:

Norwich City led the southern section by a point from Exeter City (who had a game in hand) and Brentford (who had two games in hand). The gap had been closed by Exeter beating Norwich, whilst Brentford put seven goals past Cardiff City, and it was the Bees from west London who were unbeaten in their last eleven matches to win their first ever promotion after 13 seasons in the third division. Hull City beat Chester to overtake them and go back to the top of the northern section by a point from them, and with a game in hand. Chester then fell away to finish fourth whilst Hull went on to lift the title and return to the second division after three seasons in the third.

IN OTHER NEWS...

It was on 1 April 1933 that the newly-ensconced Chancellor Hitler formalised the sustained persecution of Jews in Germany by introducing a boycott of all Jewish businesses throughout the country, enforced by his army of paramilitary stormtroopers.

Source Notes

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