35 Football League and FA Cup matches played on Saturday 30th January 1937 ended in 25 home wins and 10 draws - not one away win!

On only two occasions in the history of Sunderland Association Football Club has the team lifted the FA Cup. 1937 and 1973.

On 30th January 1937, a Saturday, there were 16 FA Cup ties in Round 4. Only one tie  involved two top-ten First Division clubs, with 6th place Derby County playing a comfortable 3-0 win over 3rd place Brentford. Other First Division match-ups in the Cup included 15th place Preston North End hammering 14th place Stoke City 5-1, 10th place Everton beating 19th place Sheffield Wednesday 3-0, and 1st place Arsenal crushing 22nd place Manchester United, 5-0. Both Sheffield Wednesday and Manchester United were relegated at the end of the season. Arsenal's margin of victory was the biggest in the Cup that day, but was both matched and exceeded in Division Two games, where Blackburn beat Newcastle 6-1 and, in the day's most lopsided result, Blackpool thumped Bradford Park Avenue, 6-0.

Meanwhile, Luton Town provided the Cup's shock of the day, as the Third Division South side held reigning League Champions, Sunderland to a 2-2 draw.  Sunderland won the replay at Roker Park, 3-1.

Two other Third Division South teams provided upsets, as Millwall defeated First Division Chelsea 3-0 and Exeter City beat Second Division Leicester City 3-1. Exeter's victory looked even more impressive at the end of the season, as Leicester won the Second Division, while Exeter finished 21st in the Third Division South.

Four Cup matches went to replays, including York City's scoreless (yes 0-0) draw at Swansea. It was part of a pattern for York, who had earned home replays in the two previous rounds. But the pattern broke with Swansea, who won the replay at York, 1-3. 

In fact, visiting teams won three of the four replays for that round, with the only exception being Sunderland's 3-1 victory over Luton Town. 

Sunderland went on to win the FA Cup that year, beating Wolves in Rd 6 after  a 1-1 draw, then 2-2 and 4-0 eventually. They then beat Millwall (the first Third Division side in history in the semi-final) 2-1 and Preston North End in the Final 3-1. Preston went ahead by half time but Raich scored after Gurney's opener and Burbanks made it 3.

Preston beat Newcastle Utd 2-0, Stoke City (see above), Exeter City 5-3 at home, Spurs away 1-3 in Rd 6, West Brom 4-1 on a semi-final neutral ground on their way to the final. 

Horatio Raich Stratton Carter, who captained Sunderland, was only 23 years old and an England international, married his fiancee, Rosie, on the last Monday of April 1937. He saw her again (for any decent length of time!!) on Saturday May 1st at Wembley, when he ascended the steps to the Royal Box to receive his medal from the Queen, who was in her Coronation year. Below King George VI and Queen Elizabeth and that looks like Sir Stanley Rous (FA Secretary 1934-62), on photo, between the Cup and Raich. Rous refereed the 1934 FA Cup Final.