Game #46
Aston Villa
4-1-1, 9 PTS
Saturday, 13 October 1888
Won
2nd (+2)
Last 5: 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟥 🟩
Football League
Blackburn Rovers
1-3-1, 5 PTS
Wellington Road, Perry Barr
Attendance: 5,000
Aston Villa
6-1
Blackburn Rovers
Assist(s) | Dennis Hodgetts | 35' |
MANAGER
George Ramsay | 🏴 | 1886-1899
Aston Villa
GK Jimmy Warner | 🏴 |
B Gershom Cox | 🏴 |
B Frank Coulton | 🏴 |
HB Harry Yates | 🏴 |
HB Jack Burton | 🏴 |
HB Archie Goodall | 🏴 | 🟢 | ⚽ |
IR Albert Brown | 🏴 | ⚽ |
IR Tommy Green | 🏴 | ⚽ |
IL Dennis Hodgetts | 🏴 | 🔥 |
IL Albert Allen | 🏴 | ⚽ | ⚽ |
CF Archie Hunter | 🏴 | ⚽ |
MANAGER
Tom Mitchell | 🏴 |
Blackburn Rovers
GK Herbie Arthur | 🏴 |
B Jack Southworth | 🏴 |
B John Forbes | 🏴 |
HB Jimmy Douglas | 🏴 |
HB Willie Almond | 🏴 |
HB Jimmy Forrest | 🏴 |
LW Harry Fecitt | 🏴 |
LW William Townley | 🏴 |
RW Nat Walton | 🏴 |
RW Robert Haresnape | 🏴 |
CF John Southworth | 🏴 |
SUBSTITUTES
No Substitutions permitted in period
SUBSTITUTES
No Substitutions Permitted in Period
🟩 13 Oct 1888, Villa 6-1 Blackburn, Wellington Road
ON THIS DAY
Saturday, 13 October 1888
Villa face Blackburn Rovers for the first time in competitive football, Rovers become the 24th team that the Villa first team has played in League or Cup football.
Villa get back to winning ways in the league and have now scored 23 goals in 6 games but are yet to keep a clean sheet. Archie Goodall made a goalscoring debut for Villa aged 24 following his £100 move from Preston North End.
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