Match Summary

England Team

Scotland Team

Football League Division One 4 April 1936
Team	P	Pts
Sunderland	36	50
Derby County	36	42
Stoke City	36	41
Huddersfield Town	36	41
Arsenal	35	38
Manchester City	36	37
Preston North End	35	37
Birmingham	35	37
Brentford	36	36
Middlesbrough	36	35
Bolton Wanderers	36	35
Portsmouth	35	34
Leeds United	35	33
Everton	36	33
Wolverhampton Wanderers	35	33
Liverpool	36	33
Sheffield Wednesday	35	33
Grimsby Town	36	33
Chelsea	34	33
West Bromwich Albion	36	32
Aston Villa	37	31
Blackburn Rovers	36	27

 

Division One matches played on 4 April 1936:

ARSENAL 1-1 BRENTFORD
Dougall 75 (Holliday 33)
28,303 (Highbury, London)

Arsenal were without Bastin, Crayston, Hapgood (the captain) and Male, who were playing against Scotland at Wembley, whilst Brentford were without David McCulloch, who was playing for Scotland.

BIRMINGHAM 0-0 PRESTON NORTH END
15,811 (St Andrew's, Birmingham)

BLACKBURN ROVERS 0-3 BOLTON WANDERERS
(Milsom 67, 80, Westwood 72)
13,779 (Ewood Park, Blackburn)

CHELSEA 1-0 HUDDERSFIELD TOWN
Burgess pen. 75
22,369 (Stamford Bridge, London)

Huddersfield were without Ken Willingham, who was a reserve against Scotland at Wembley.

GRIMSBY TOWN 4-1 ASTON VILLA
Callaghan o.g. 15, Glover 41 (pen.), 49, Lewis 88 (Broome 40)
10,413 (Blundell Park, Cleethorpes)

Grimsby's George Tweedy saved a penalty from Eric Houghton. Villa were without Cummings and Massie, who were playing for Scotland against England at Wembley.

LEEDS UNITED 2-0 WOLVERHAMPTON WANDERERS
Hydes 21, Kelly 81
10,754 (Elland Road, Leeds)

LIVERPOOL 2-2 MIDDLESBROUGH
Glassey 8, 64 (Baxter 20, Yorston 57)
22,223 (Anfield, Liverpool)

Middlesbrough were without George Camsell, who scored the opening goal against Scotland at Wembley.

MANCHESTER CITY 1-0 DERBY COUNTY
McLeod 21
25,806 (Maine Road, Manchester)

City were without Bray and Brook, who were playing against Scotland at Wembley, whilst Derby were without Barker and Crooks, who were also playing against Scotland, and Duncan, who was playing for Scotland.

STOKE CITY 2-1 EVERTON
Turner 60, Matthews 62 (Stevenson 28)
18,819 (Victoria Ground, Stoke)

Everton were without Ted Sagar, who was in goal against Scotland at Wembley. His replacement, Frank King, saved a penalty, though Arthur Turner converted the rebound. 

SUNDERLAND 5-0 PORTSMOUTH
Gallacher 35, Carter pen. 43, Gurney 58, Connor 64, 85 
19,101 (Roker Park, Sunderland)

WEST BROMWICH ALBION 2-2 SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY
Rix 60, Jones 68 (Rimmer 26, Dewar 32)
17,719 (The Hawthorns, West Bromwich)

Following five games without a win, and a 6-0 loss at Middlesbrough, a week earlier, Sunderland brought in 18-year-old goalkeeper, Johnny Mapson to make his first-division debut and within nine days they had secured their first league title since 1913. It would be a fitting tribute to Jimmy Thorpe, the goalkeeper who had tragically passed away, two months earlier.

Football League Division Two 4 April 1936
Team	P	Pts
West Ham United	36	47
Manchester United	35	45
Sheffield United	37	45
Charlton Athletic	36	45
Tottenham Hotspur	35	43
Leicester City	36	43
Plymouth Argyle	36	41
Fulham	35	39
Newcastle United	35	36
Blackpool	36	35
Bury	36	35
Doncaster Rovers	37	35
Norwich City	35	33
Bradford	35	33
Bradford City	35	33
Southampton	37	33
Nottingham Forest	37	32
Burnley	35	31
Swansea Town	36	31
Port Vale	36	28
Barnsley	36	27
Hull City	36	18

 

Division Two matches played on 4 April 1936:

BLACKPOOL 2-4 TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR
Finan, Cardwell (Hunt 3, Cardwell o.g.)
11,044 (Bloomfield Road, Blackpool)

BRADFORD 2-1 HULL CITY
Barker 2 (Spivey)
4,746 (Park Avenue, Bradford)

BURY 5-0 PORT VALE
Chalmers, Matthews 2, Griffiths o.g., Whitfield
3,829 (Gigg Lane, Bury)

DONCASTER ROVERS 0-0 MANCHESTER UNITED
13,474 (Belle Vue, Doncaster)

LEICESTER CITY 4-1 CHARLTON ATHLETIC
Sharman, Carroll, Jones, Coutts (Hobbis)
12,992 (Filbert Street, Leicester)

NORWICH CITY 1-1 BRADFORD CITY
Russell (Travis)
11,032 (Carrow Road, Norwich)

NOTTINGHAM FOREST 1-2 NEWCASTLE UNITED
Simpson (Ware, Bott)
6,107 (City Ground, Nottingham)

SHEFFIELD UNITED 2-0 BARNSLEY
Dodds 2
20,591 (Bramall Lane, Sheffield)

United were without Bobby Barclay, who was playing against Scotland at Wembley.

SOUTHAMPTON 2-0 PLYMOUTH ARGYLE
Sillett, Holt
5,822 (The Dell, Southampton)

SWANSEA TOWN 1-3 BURNLEY
Olsen (Fletcher pen., Lawton 2)
5,890 (Vetch Field, Swansea)

16-year-old Tommy Lawton scored his first goals and gave notice of a glittering career that lay ahead.

WEST HAM UNITED 0-0 FULHAM
32,062 (Upton Park, London)

Charlton crashed to defeat at Leicester, but it was the Londoners who were to win a second successive promotion (the first to achieve the feat) as runners-up to Manchester United, after a run of four successive victories, whilst West Ham's form eluded them when it mattered most.

Selected Division Three matches on 4 April 1936:

BRIGHTON & HOVE ALBION 2-1 CRYSTAL PALACE
Law, Stephens (Waldron)
5,879 (Goldstone Ground, Hove)

Palace were without Albert Dawes, who was a reserve against Scotland at Wembley.

 QUEEN'S PARK RANGERS 0-1 READING
(Tait)
14,378 (Loftus Road, London)

ROTHERHAM UNITED 0-0 CHESTERFIELD
7,139 (Millmoor Ground, Rotherham)

Luton Town lost at Torquay, but still led the southern section on goal average from Reading, and had a game in hand. Coventry City were a point behind in third, just embarking on an eight-match unbeaten run which would win them the title and a first ever promotion. Chesterfield led the northern section by two points from Tranmere Rovers, but had played a game more. Tranmere's form faded away, however, and Chesterfield wrapped up the title with ease.

IN OTHER NEWS...

It was on 3 April 1936 that Richard Hauptmann was executed by electric chair at the New Jersey State Prison. He had been convicted of the murder of the twenty-month-old son of Charles Lindbergh, who, in 1927, had become the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, and acquired worldwide fame as a result. Although the child had been abducted and killed, a ransom was paid and it was two months before the child's body was found. Hauptmann was arrested, two years later, tried and convicted.

Source Notes

Scottish Football Association
Scotland - The Complete International Record: Richard Keir
London Hearts
Glen Isherwood's Wembley: The Complete Record (SportsBooks Limited, Cheltenham, U.K., 2006)
original newspaper reports
FA Yearbooks 1950-60
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