Game #23
Aston Villa
Saturday, 3 January 1885
Drew
3rd Round
Last 5: 🟩 🟥 🟩 🟩 🟨
FA Cup
West Bromwich Albion
Wellington Road, Perry Barr
Attendance: 22,000
Aston Villa
0-0
West Brom
Assist(s) | None
MANAGER
Management Committee 1879-86
Aston Villa
GK Alf Harvey | 🏴 |
B Joe Simmonds | 🏴 |
B Tom Riddell | 🏴 |
B Robert Price | 🏴 |
HB Fred Dawson | 🏴 |
HB Arthur Brown | 🏴 |
IL Eli Davis | 🏴 |
IL Howard Vaughton | 🏴 |
IR Albert Brown | 🏴 |
CF Olly Whateley | 🏴 |
CF Archie Hunter | 🏴 |
MANAGER
Unknown
West Bromwich Albion
GK Bob Roberts | 🏴 |
B Harry Green | 🏴 |
B Harry Bell | 🏴 |
HB Ezra Horton | 🏴 |
HB Fred Bunn | 🏴 |
HB Jimmy Stanton | 🏴 |
F Harry Aston | 🏴 |
F Arthur Loach | 🏴 |
F George Woodhall | 🏴 |
F George Bell | 🏴 |
CF Jem Bayliss | 🏴 |
SUBSTITUTES
No Substitutions permitted in period
SUBSTITUTES
No Substitutions Permitted in Period
🟨 3 Jan 1885, Villa 0-0 Albion, Wellington Road
ON THIS DAY
Saturday, 3 January 1885
Villa face West Bromwich Albion for the first time in competitive football, Albion become the 11th team that the Villa first team has played in League or Cup football.
A 22,000 crowd at Wellington Road - Villa’s record home attendance to date - witnessed the first FA Cup tie with neighbours Albion end in a dark, goalless draw.
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