SCORING RECORDS AND A WHITE HORSE

On January 2nd 1932, the Football League saw 209 goals scored in four divisions, 43 games.
Leicester City lost to Aston Villa 3-8 and Grimsby lost to Huddersfield 1-4 in Division One.
Bradford City put 9 past Barnsley (1) in Division 2,
Barrow scored 7 past visitors Walsall in Div 3 North and
in Division 3 South, Coventry and Fulham drew 5-5.

On February 1st 1936, with one more game (44) played; ie 11 in each of the four divisions, the League record total was equalled with 209 goals.
Chester beat York City 12-0 in Div 3 North.
WBA beat Liverpool 6-1 in Div 1,
and the following teams also registered 6 goals in their league games; Chesterfield beat Crewe 6-5 away, Coventry, Walsall, Watford, West Ham.
Everton beat Middlesbrough 5-2 in Div 1 and these clubs below also maxed out with 5 goals each;
Brentford over Wolves (in the First Div), Tottenham thumping Port Vale (Div2) Accrington (Div3N) v New Brighton, Bristol Rovers (Div3 S) and Lincoln City (Div 3N). In Div 3S Bournemouth drew 4-4 with Cardiff City.
8 other teams scored 4 goals.
12 teams managed NONE.
In Division 1 = 46 goals, Div 2= 46, Div 3N= 68, Div 3S= 49

April 28th 1923, 20 sides played in the Football League Div 1's 10 matches and there were only 10 goals scored in total.
There were no away goals.
Arsenal beat Sheffield United 2-0, Cardiff beat Oldham 2-0, Sunderland beat Aston Villa 2-0, Huddersfield beat Spurs 1-0, Birmingham won v Burnley 1-0, Everton v Preston 1-0, West Brom v Middlesbrough 1-0
Three matches drew 0-0.

The other two teams, on this day, were playing in FA Cup Final at Wembley, the first ever Cup Final played at the "National Stadium".
Bolton beat West Ham 2-0, in what was known as the White Horse Final, a match watched by over 200,000, clearly too many for the stadium. The famous mounted policeman tried to control the crowd that was pouring into the stadium with his trusty mount.



In 1925/6 the FA changed the OFFSIDE law which previously insisted on 3 players between the attacker and the goal to keep onside. By making it TWO players (usually a goalkeeper and one defender) the number of goals increased. before this only 4700 goals were scored in the season. After in 1925-6 6373 were scored. Here is the History of offside......
http://www.kenaston.org/download/KenAstonRefereeSociety/offside_history-JulianCarosi.pdf