Game #47
Aston Villa
5-1-1, 11 PTS
Saturday, 20 October 1888
Won
2nd (-)
Last 5: 🟩 🟩 🟥 🟩 🟩
Football League
Bolton Wanderers
2-0-5, 4 PTS
Pike's Lane
Attendance: 8,000
Bolton Wanderers
2-3
Aston Villa
MANAGER
George Ramsay | 🏴 | 1886-1899
Aston Villa
GK Jimmy Warner | 🏴 |
B Gershom Cox | 🏴 |
B Frank Coulton | 🏴 |
HB Harry Yates | 🏴 |
HB Jack Burton | 🏴 |
HB Harry Devey | 🏴 |
IR Albert Brown | 🏴 |
IR Tommy Green | 🏴 |
IL Dennis Hodgetts | 🏴 | ⚽ |
IL Albert Allen | 🏴 | ⚽ |
CF Archie Hunter | 🏴 | ⚽ |
MANAGER
John Bentley | 🏴 |
Bolton Wanderers
GK Charlie Harrison | 🏴 |
B Bethell Robinson | 🏴 |
B Fletcher
HB Peter Bullough | 🏴 |
HB Weir
HB Robert Roberts | 🏴 |
F Kenny Davenport | 🏴 |
F James Brogan | 🏴 |
F Alexander Barbour | 🏴 | ⚽ |
F John Milne | 🏴 |
F Harry Tyrer | 🏴 |
SUBSTITUTES
No Substitutions permitted in period
SUBSTITUTES
No Substitutions Permitted in Period
🟩 20 Oct 1888, Villa 3-2 Bolton, Pike's Lane
ON THIS DAY
Saturday, 20 October 1888
Villa face Bolton Wanderers for the first time in competitive football, Bolton become the 25th team that the Villa first team has played in League or Cup football.
Villa win their second consecutive game and make it 5 wins in 7 league games in the inaugural Football League. Still no League clean sheet however.
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