Just occasionally I get a nudge from a friend living in Derbyshire who noted that Huddersfield Town and Derby County have been in the same division for many seasons.
The last time Huddersfield won at Derby, Denis Law scored for them. 30th November 1957 Derby C 2-4 Huddersfield D2 Att:20,566
https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/sport/football/news/fifty-eight-years-22-visits-10976135
It was 1957 when they met again in Division 2 (see Denis), the fixture staying at that level until 1969. There were a couple of League Cup games but no league meetings in between 1972 and 1983 when the two clubs met again in Division 2 in 1983-4 season and again in 1986-7. Clearly some ups and downs going on there.
They then met again in 1995-6 season in Division One on Boxing Day '95 at Town, 0-1 to The Rams and in March 1996, 3-2 at Derby. The next meet was in 2012 September 15th 2012 in the Championship up to 23rd Feb 2021 (this week) with a 2-0 win to Derby.
Overall town has won 30 Drawn 27 and lost 41 and
in the Championship Played 14 Hudd won 3 Drawn 4 Derby won 7.
On 18th April 2015 an exciting 4-4 draw at the John Smiths, Town included Surrey Boy (Farncombe Boys FC once!) Mark Hudson in their team and Derby played Will Hughes, once of Repton School, an Independent School's FA player. (in photo)
Jesse Lingard wore a Derby shirt and scored supported by Tom Ince and Darren Bent. The game went: HT first 0-1, 3-1, 3-2, 3-3, 4-3, 4-4 exciting the crowd of nearly 16,000.
Remarkably there have ony been 4 Cup meetings: 1975 League Cup DC 2 v 1 HT; 1999 FA Cup 2-2 and then 3-1 to Derby at theirs and finally 2003 League Cup HT 2 v 1 DC. Best wishes!!
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