50 YEARS AGO Saturday 1st Jan 1972: its not quite the 50th but here's the First Division that day.
Sheff Utd 1 – 1 Leicester City Liverpool 0 – 2 Leeds Utd Huddersfield
T 0 – 0 Stoke City
Wolves 2 – 0 Newcastle Utd Ipswich 2 – 3 West Brom A Coventry City
1 - 0 Southampton
Crystal Palace 1 – 1 Tottenham Arsenal 1 – 1 Everton Man
City 2 – 2 Nottm Forest
Derby C 1 – 0 Chelsea West
Ham 3 - 0 Man Utd
Those in bold are now in the Championship, "bar" Ipswich Town in League One.
100 YEARS AGO Saturday 14th January 1922 Football League First Division.
Preston 1-2 Tottenham Liverpool 2-1 Bradford Huddersfield 2-0 WBA Blackburn 3-2 Oldham
Bolton 1-0 Everton Arsenal 1-0 Chelsea Aston Villa 2-0 Burnley Middlesbrough 1-1 Sheffield Utd
Man Utd 0-1 Newcastle Utd Sunderland 2-3 Manchester City Cardiff 3-1 Birmkngham
150 YEARS AGO 1872 there was no Football League, but there was an "embryo" FA Cup competition. 15 teams chose to enter. On January 6th, Hampstead Heathens had a bye in Rd One and next met Barnes away in Round 2, winning 1-0 in a replay, after a 1-1 draw. Barnes previously had beaten the Civil Service 2-0. The Heathens then lost to the Royal Engineers 3-0 in Rd 3 in the Quarter-final. The Royal Engineers lost in the final to Wanderers ( a team made up from a variety of 1-0. Wanderers had a BYE in the semi-final, walking over as Queen's Park from Glasgow did not travel!
The Hampstead Heathens club is known to have existed as of December 1868, when it is recorded as playing a match against its neighbour, N.N.Club of Kilburn. The Heathens would proceed to play against many other London clubs over the 1868-9, 1869–70 and 1870-1 seasons. The club joined the FA during the 1869-70 season.
The Heathens' last competitive fixture was the cup defeat, although he club did play one subsequent match a week later—a rain-sodden 3-0 defeat to Wanderers, for which the team was unable to supply a full complement of players. There is little record of the club after this match: the Heathens did not enter any subsequent competitions, nor did they contest any of the leagues which began to appear nearly two decades later. The club is absent from lists of Football Association members from 1873 onwards.
Wanderers Football Club was founded as "Forest Football Club" in 1859 in Leytonstone, East London. In 1864, it changed its name to "Wanderers". Comprising mainly former pupils of the leading English public (independent) school, Forest School in Epping. Wanderers was among the dominant teams of the early years of organised football and won the FA Cup on five occasions, including defeating Royal Engineers in the first Cup Final in 1872.
The club played only friendly matches until the advent of the FA Cup in 1871, with the rules often differing from match to match as various sets of rules were in use at the time. Even after the formation of The FA in 1863, of which the club was among the founder members, Wanderers continued to play matches under other rules, but became one of the strongest teams playing by FA rules. They won the FA Cup three times in succession during the late 1870s, a feat which has only been repeated once. Among the players who represented the club were C.W.Alcock the so-called "father of modern sport", and Arthur Kinnaird, regarded as the greatest player of his day. The club took its name from never having a home stadium of its own but playing at various locations in London and the surrounding area. By the 1880s the club's fortunes had declined and it was reduced to playing only an annual match against Harrow School, the "alma mater" of many of its founders. Below the Forest Club 1863.
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