1913 FA Charity Shield
| Event | FA Charity Shield | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| |||||||
| Date | 6 October 1913 | ||||||
| Venue | The Den, New Cross, London | ||||||
| Attendance | "quite 15,000"[1] | ||||||
| Weather | Fine[1] | ||||||
The 1913 FA Charity Shield was the sixth staging of the
Senghenydd Colliery Disaster Fund.[3]
Pre-match
For the first time,
Blackburn Rovers was to captain the Professionals, and Chelsea's Vivian Woodward led the Amateurs.[9] The Daily Mirror thought it "a sensible idea to give Scotland's conquerors another run together", and for the amateur XI, "the forward line is about as strong as it could be made; but a lot will depend on the defence."[9] The match was to be played in the afternoon of Monday 5 October 1913 at The Den, the New Cross (south London) ground of Millwall F.C.[6] G.H. Muir of Hampshire was to referee the match, assisted by J.W.L. Windridge (Hertfordshire) and W. Burgess (Surrey County Football Association), and Lord Kinnaird, president of the Football Association, was invited to present the medals.[10]
There were a number of changes from the teams originally selected.
Match summary
Woodward came close to a goal five minutes into the game, and his side were on top for the first fifteen minutes, but in the next ten, the Professionals took a three-goal lead. First
Hampton completed his
Preston North End winger George Barlow, the Amateurs' second was touched in by Farnfield after a move involving four players brought the ball all the way down the field. It was, according to the pseudonymous 'Reflector', writing in the Mirror, "easily the best of the match."[1] Confusion between goalkeeper Ronald Brebner and full-back Thomas Burn presented Hampton with his fourth, and Holley completed the scoring late on.[1]
The Mirror highlighted the performance of Walden, who was involved in three of the Professionals' goals and who outplayed the defence on his side of the field, centre-half
Manchester Guardian thought the Professional team "an evenly-balanced side, strong in every particular" who "played a fast game without a suggestion of foul methods". Its reporter agreed that the Amateur wing halves were weak, which combined with the absence of Hunt put undue pressure on backs and goalkeeper, although the conclusion that it was "rather remarkable that the scoring did not reach double figures",[12] was in clear contrast to the Mirror's opinion that the five-goal difference flattered the winners.[1]
Lord Kinnaird was away in Scotland, so the FA chairman, J. C. Clegg, presented the shield and medals.[12]
Match details
| Professionals | Amateurs | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Goalkeeper | Sam Hardy | Aston Villa |
Goalkeeper | Ronald Brebner | Leicester Fosse
| |
| Full back | Bob Crompton (capt) | Blackburn Rovers |
Full back | Thomas Burn | London Caledonians
| |
| Full back | Frank Womack | Birmingham | Full back | Arthur Knight |
Portsmouth | |
Wing half |
Frank Cuggy |
Sunderland | Wing half |
G.H. How | London Caledonians | |
| Centre half | Joe McCall | Preston North End |
Centre half | Ernest Peacock | Bromley | |
| Wing half | Billy Watson |
Burnley | Wing half | Joe Dines | Ilford | |
| Forward | Fanny Walden | Tottenham Hotspur |
Forward | Ivan Sharpe | Leeds City | |
| Forward | Harold Fleming | Swindon Town | Forward | Dick Healey | Darlington | |
| Forward | Harry Hampton |
Aston Villa | Forward | Vivian Woodward (capt) | Chelsea | |
| Forward | George Holley | Sunderland | Forward | Herbert Farnfield | New Crusaders | |
| Forward | Joe Hodkinson |
Blackburn Rovers | Forward | George Barlow | Preston North End | |
Post-match
The Mirror estimated the attendance at "quite 15,000 people",Senghenydd Colliery Disaster,[3] an explosion in a South Wales coal mine in which 440 people were killed, which had happened eight days after the Charity Shield match.[14]
The Amateurs contributed the majority of those selected for the England amateur XI's next international matches, against Ireland and Netherlands.[15][16]
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Reflector (7 October 1913). "Professionals win Charity Shield". Daily Mirror. London. p. 14.
- ^ a b "1913/14 F.A. Charity Shield". Footballsite. Retrieved 21 January 2014.
- ^ a b "The Football Association". The Times. London. 4 November 1913. p. 15.
- ^ Ross, James (15 August 2013). "England – List of FA Charity/Community Shield Matches". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation (RSSSF). Retrieved 20 November 2013.
- ^ "The F.A. Charity Shield". The Times. London. 7 October 1913. p. 10.
- ^ a b "F.A. and Players' Union". Manchester Guardian. 5 April 1913. p. 5.
- ^ "Match No. 116 – Saturday, 5th April 1913: England 1–0 Scotland". Englandstats.com. Davey Naylor. Retrieved 23 January 2014.
- ^ Reyes, Macario (26 June 2008). "V. Olympiad Stockholm 1912 Football Tournament". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation (RSSSF). Retrieved 23 January 2014.
- ^ a b c "Amateurs v. Professionals". Daily Mirror. London. 30 September 1913. p. 14.
- ^ "Charity Shield alteration". Daily Express. London. 4 October 1913. p. 6.
- ^ "Teams for F.A. Charity Shield match at New Cross". Daily Express. London. 30 September 1913. p. 8.
- ^ a b "Professionals beat Amateurs". Manchester Guardian. 7 October 1913. p. 4.
- ^ "Counties and the split". Daily Mirror. London. 14 October 1913. p. 18.
- ^ "Senghenydd: Centenary of UK's worst pit disaster marked". BBC News. 14 October 2013. Retrieved 27 January 2014.
- ^ "The season's first international". Daily Express. London. 10 November 1913. p. 9.
- ^ "Opstellingen interland op 15-11-1913 Engeland (a) – Nederland 2–1 – interland nr. 38" [Lineups for international on 15 Nov 1913 England (am) 2 Netherlands 1 match no. 38]. Voetbalstats.nl (in Dutch). Retrieved 23 January 2014.