Game #42
Aston Villa
1-1-0, 3 PTS
Saturday, 15 September 1888
Won
2nd (-)
Last 5: 🟩 🟩 🟥 🟨 🟩
Football League
Stoke
0-0-2, 0 PTS
Wellington Road, Perry Barr
Attendance: 4,000
Aston Villa
5-1
Stoke
Assist(s) | Tommy Green | 1-1 | 2-1 | Dennis Hodgetts | 5-1 |
MANAGER
George Ramsay | 🏴 | 1886-1899
Aston Villa
GK Jimmy Warner | 🏴 |
B Frank Coulton | 🏴 |
B Gershom Cox | 🏴 |
HB Harry Devey | 🏴 |
HB Harry Yates | 🏴 |
HB Arthur Dixon | 🏴 | 🟢 | ⚽ |
IR Albert Brown | 🏴 | ⚽ |
IR Tommy Green | 🏴 | 🔥 | 🔥 | ⚽ | ⚽ |
IL Dennis Hodgetts | 🏴 |
CF Albert Allen | 🏴 |
CF Archie Hunter | 🏴 | ⚽ |
MANAGER
Harry Lockett | 🏴 |
Stoke
GK Bill Rowley | 🏴 |
B Tommy Clare | 🏴 |
B Alf Underwood | 🏴 |
HB Bob Ramsay | 🏴 |
HB George Shutt | 🏴 |
HB Elijah Smith | 🏴 |
LF Tom Wainwright | 🏴 |
LF Billy Tunnicliffe | 🏴 |
RF Bob McSkimming | 🏴 |
RF Alf Edge | 🏴 |
CF Frank Staton | 🏴 |
SUBSTITUTES
No Substitutions permitted in period
SUBSTITUTES
No Substitutions Permitted in Period
🟩 15 Sep 1888, Villa 5-1 Stoke, Wellington Road
ON THIS DAY
Saturday, 15 September 1888
Villa face Stoke (Stoke City) for the first time in competitive football, Stoke become the 22nd team that the Villa first team has played in League or Cup football.
Villa record their first ever league win at the second attempt. Midfielder Arthur Dixon made a goalscoring Villa debut aged 21 after signing from Derby Midland.
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