FEBRUARY 22nd- HARRY'S WEDDING ANNIVERSARY

On this day in 1922 Billy Poyntz (below), a Welshman from Llanelli, scored a hat trick for Leeds United against Leicester City in a 3-0 win on his wedding day. Poyntz joined the club on its revival in 1919 having it disbanded as Leeds City FC in 1916. Poyntz only played 23 games for leeds and went on a tour of several other clubs in northern England until he rejoined the Leeds playing staff.

In 1928 Harry Johnson, a free scoring centre-forward for Sheffield United, became the first player to score 3 goals in a 5th Round FA Cup derby game against Wednesday in a 5-2 victory, the first hat trick since the derby started in1891.
His father, Harry, had won a Cup Final medal with United in 1902 beating Southampton, with the formidable Willie Foulke in the Sheffield goal.

Harry eventually won the FA Cup with United in 1925 and scored 288 goals in 208 appearances for the Blades.
He then went onto Mansfield Town for 5 years and for whom he scored 164 goals in 104 apps in Division 3.

A 7-0 win for Wolves against Everton was regarded as a bit of a freak because both teams were vying for the Championship title in Division 1.
Wolves had artificially watered their pitch after a long dry spell and it was soon to be Everton's downfall. As a result of this unusual behaviour, the FA banned artificial watering of pitches between November and February. When the two teams met again in the Cup Wolves won again 2-0 and went on to reach the final,losing 1-4 to an unfancied Portmouth in the last final before the war.

In 1956 Portsmouth hosted Newcastle United at Fratton Park and lost 0-2 to goals by Curry and Keeble. This was the first league match to be played under floodlights. This is a good link....shows one of the old Pompey programmes for starters;
http://footysphere.com/post/258586764/first-floodlit-league-fixture-england